There are no good gaming companies and good progressive gaming devs are being wasted on these companies that reap from the goodwill their devs cultivate while simultaneously treating them like garbage
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Now, think of all the times employers haven’t let anyone get the time of day out of them because “you’re not a culture fit”.
I don’t want to hear chuds claim the victim when everyone is too scared to lay a finger on nazis no matter how much they totally deserve it. Like what? You think he’s going to sic 4chan on you?
If you’re lucky enough to live in a city, I am begging leftists to start making a good ol’ boy system of their own.
Glad I didn’t give the company any money
need to get global next time, World Woke 2 can’t start soon enough.
Can’t anything not suck?
: Le jeux vidéo?Crowd: À bas!
current CDPR employee
Naturally.
The capitalist is riveted to profit; and no power on earth can tear him away from it.
no power on earth can tear him away from it.
I can think of one
Hell yea
Nazi bar but for game devs.
It’s amazing how clear the straight line from “we can’t fire him just before launch, we need to finish this game” to “happy hour at the office with the heil hitler gang” is.
Also the boss’ complicity in all this as well, the boss probably knew that having an open fascist working would make the other pasty white guy devs turn fash as well, but they’d much rather that than their workers form a union.
Why are white men so weak? It’s like they get exposed to one (mildly) more charismatic man spouting hate and immediately change their world view. Or only feel secure enough to revel in the world view they always had after other (mildly) more charismatic men do the same. Either way: why are white men so weak?
A lot of white guys are told by our society, both implicitly and explicitly, that they are supposed to be “successful” when very few people actually are. People with no class analysis who have never faced the direct and brutal hand of capital will fall for the first easy answer that gives them a solution to their problem, regardless of whether that solution actually works, or whether their problems are actually even valid.
This is the same guy defending his newfound apologia for using AI slop in the concept phase.
Glad I never bought BG3. I did get D2:OS on a steep discount years ago and it was pretty great but clearly that is in spite of this fucking ghoul.
I hate how normalized this shit is still. Like casual transphobia and homophobia is something we just put up with back in the 90s and early oughts but it is depressing to see how little we have progressed and in someways backslid recently. 99% of even “libs” I know deserve to be put in camps.
Larian is a Belgian company, admittedly I don’t know what the unionization situation is like over there.
How someone grab your crotch and is not sent to a police station at minimum? Can Europe get even worse?
well if you read it they literally didn’t report it because “why bother” i guess
it’s extremely common for people not to report sexual harassment/assault because of the (often correct) perception that nobody in a position to do anything gives a shit
yeah but you can’t really expect someone to be sent to the police station for an action that you didn’t report to anyone, which is what the person above was asking, “how could someone grab your crotch and not be sent to a police station”
But they said the guy did that in the open in the middle of the office, so I assume other people saw it, no one report it?
Bystander effect and all, I suppose
they didn’t say other people saw it and chose not to report it though, just that they did not report it themself
The CEO loves AI, interviewing for a job requires countless hours of real work, and now this. Every gaming company is evil
interviewing for a job requires countless hours of real work
This is pretty standard at many tech companies outside of gaming
So is AI loving, doesn’t make it not shit.
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I dont think a company will ever stand up for minorities they have almost always only ever paid lip service to it through “company values” that everybody knows is bullshit. Where I work they go on about it all the time about being inclusive and behind the scenes the most bigoted sexist racist shits you will ever meet and absolutely no recourse. We’ve raised concerns about our own resident nazi and he isnt even useful yet no action taken even for the most egregious statements. At least nobody on the team likes him so thats a plus
Thanks, I haven’t played BG3 yet and it’s still pretty expensive on Steam, now I don’t have to feel bad about pirating it if I want to play it in the near future
now I don’t have to feel bad about pirating
ye never have to, scallywag. the secret of the seas is the materialist creed
if ye download twenty yards of linen, the landlubber who made it still has their twenty yards of linen
~ Avast Kapital Vol. 1
The only thing getting in the way of me pirating BG3 is that my pc can’t possibly run it lol.
The thing that gets on my way is i only have a 1Tb ssd and it’s full of the other shit i pirated
fuck
Transcription:
Feels like a good time to talk about when Larian employed an outright fascist and refused to fire him.
Over covid one of our engineers was radicalised. Next time we saw him he was watching Tim Pool videos in office and telling us about “cultural marxism” at work drinks, the whole nine yards
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After a while he had a little cohort of freaks that shared some of his sentiments.
Everyone was uncomfortable with this guy. Folks went to Swen and said “Hey, this guy is a weirdo fascist. He’s making everyone uncomfortable. He’s at odds with the team’s values”
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Swen’s response? “He’s invaluable to the team, it’s too hard to replace him this close to release”
Naturally the vibes got worse. Hanging out at lunch now sucks because these guys might bring their bigotry, like complaining that Aragorn is black in the new MTG crossover set.
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And there’s a lot of minorities on the team. Yet, bigots abound in the studio. Swen is happy to profit off the cachet of making a “woke” game while letting bigots endanger minorities in his studio
My worst experience, as a trans woman, was shortly after coming out in work.
4/6
cw sexual harassment
One of the other office weirdos, and sexual harassment afficionado Felix Pedulla (current CDPR employee) walked past me in the office one day.
He makes a weird remark about my tits, and then to “confirm” something grabs my crotch in the middle of the office. No fear, no shame.
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But why not report it? Well, the ship had sailed. We had unchecked fascists in the office, people taking the piss out of BG3’s gender options, multiple cases of sexual harassment, and more.
More importantly, we were told that if someone is important enough they will not be dealt with.
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W transcriber.
grabs my
Nope
Swen is happy to profit off the cachet of making a “woke” game while letting bigots endanger minorities in his studio
Where have I heard this before?
:activision-blizzard-cool:
Shit, I should have done this. I’m sorry. Thank you for transcribing it
It might be a good idea to copy the transcription into the post body, for accessibility.
no worries!
game studios seem ontologically evil to me idk
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