[–] 49 points 5 days ago

I interacted with devs at several Zenimax studios and watching all the employees in other countries take long vacations, generous parental leave, etc. really threw into sharp relief how fucked the USA is. And Zenimax USA benefits were considered good by USA standards, but they were so obviously nothing compared to countries with worker protection enshrined in law. Surprise, despite all that time off, many of those international employees were still extremely valuable.

Across foreign and domestic employees, Id Software in particular seemed lean, talented, and just generally switched on. One of the best experiences of my career. Arkane Lyon, too. I was dumbfounded at the layoffs. It's like Microsoft excised the most creative and productive parts of the company on purpose.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 week ago

    The trillions they already extract are just for the regular churn, like Hegseth's lobster dinners or train loads of battle vehicles that get sent directly to a field to rot. Despite the Pentagon's repeated admonition that without a galaxy-sized budget they won't "be ready for war", when anything happens beyond the small-scale terror attacks they regularly inflict on foreign civilians then the "piGgY bANk iS brOkEn".

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  • [–] 13 points 2 weeks ago

    You ever see these people visit the set or walk around the vfx studio during post production? There is a huge herd of glazers that orbits them constantly. Laughing at their jokes, protecting them from lowly workers who want to talk to them. It's pathetic.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    So at some point there's a giant sheet of pre-nugget rolling down a conveyor belt and they have to replace their "dinosaur" cutting dies with "6 7" cutting dies, and someone has to sit down in CAD and try to solve the optimal "6 7" packing problem.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    The whole thing kind of reminds me of what happened to John Romero when he was given unbelievable amounts of money to found Ion Storm and create Daikatana. But for Star Citizen the money faucet has never turned off.

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    In this episode Butters is visiting Niagara Falls as a tourist, but he is arrested for being a foreigner. Nobody cares about his passport or the fact he was there "legally" and he gets funneled into a huge prison facility called "Alberta Alcatraz".

    After several scary experiences he is in line for a phone call. When he gets to the front the guard pretends to not understand what he is asking for.

    • Guard: WELL, what do YOU WANT?
    • Butters: Uhh I want to make a phone call, please.
    • Guard: Puh-hone call? Puh-hone? What's that?
    • Butters: I don't understand mister. I'd like to call someone on that phone.
    • Guard: Oh THIS? DO YOU MEAN-

    The guard lets out a long, trumpet-like fart that sounds like, "fooooooooooone".

    • Butters: Wha--- what?
    • Guard 2: YEAH! YOU MEAN- (farting) foooooooooooone!

    Apparently this is how Canadians make the word, "phone".

    • Guard 2: HEY THIS LITTLE YANK CAN'T SAY- (farting) ffhhhooooooone!!
    • Guard: HAHA!!! (farting) fuuuooooooooooooooone!

    All guards start laughing at Butters and farting "fooooone". They can all apparently do this quite naturally.

    • Butters: B-but, I don't have to fart right now.
    • Guard: IF YOU WANT SOMETHING YOU NEED TO LEARN TO SPEAK CANADIAN!

    Butters resolves to save up his farts to get his phone call. Several days pass. Now trembling and sweating, a pale Butters can barely stand in line.

    • Butters: Oh man... I gotta make it...

    The inmate in front of him effortlessly farts "foooooooooone" and is let ahead. Butters is up.

    • Guard: YEAH? WHAT DO YOU WANT THIS TIME?
    • Butters: I want... I want... I... uh... UH.... ahhH!!

    Butters loses control of his bowels and sprays shit in all directions, then collapses. Everyone around yells in disbelief and disgust.

    A large inmate walks up and looks down.

    • It's OK little buddy, my cousin had that same speech impediment.

    Then I woke up.

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