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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[–] 61 points 8 months ago*

current CDPR employee

Naturally. poland-cool gamer-gulag

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  • [+] 59 points 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 50 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Nazi bar but for game devs.

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  • [–] 59 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    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. thonk

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  • [–] 45 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 34 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    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?

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  • [–] 31 points 8 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 27 points 8 months ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 39 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    How someone grab your crotch and is not sent to a police station at minimum? Can Europe get even worse?

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    [–] 38 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    The CEO loves AI, interviewing for a job requires countless hours of real work, and now this. Every gaming company is evil

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    [–] 36 points 8 months ago

    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

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  • [–] 34 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    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 big-cool

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  • [–] 54 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    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 pirate-jammin

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  • [–] 31 points 8 months ago
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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.

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  • [–] 29 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

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    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

    1/6

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 21 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    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.

    3/6

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

    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.

    5/6

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  • [–] 22 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    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.

    6/6

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  • [–] 26 points 8 months ago

    game studios seem ontologically evil to me idk

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  • [–] 24 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    No more video games. They arent worth it

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago

    no more games until we can figure out what the heck is going on

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago

    Glad I didn't give the company any money pirate-jammin

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    So are there any newer RPGs based on DnD mechanics that I should be playing instead of Divinity? Kind of getting sick of adding game companies and bands to my boycott list along with corpos that support thhe 4th Reich.

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    Gameplay on Solasta is fantastic--closer to tabletop by far than BG3--but hooooo boy the writing leaves something to be desired. Hopefully they put a little more into that for the sequel. Still very worth playing if you're a CRPG sicko though.

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago

    need to get global next time, World Woke 2 can’t start soon enough.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    Can't anything not suck?

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