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  • I Cast FistI I Cast Fist
    Sauce https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/foolproof-ways-to-get-laid-off-in-the-videogame-industry/
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    grue@lemmy.world
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    Almost none of this is unique to the gaming industry; it's all symptoms of under-regulated capitalism.
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      Almost none of this is unique to the gaming industry; it's all symptoms of under-regulated capitalism.
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      nocturnalmorning@lemmy.world
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      Yes, but the game industry has faced severe layoffs the last couple years while profits sour ever higher and higher and executives get bigger boats. So it's relevant.
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        Sauce https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/foolproof-ways-to-get-laid-off-in-the-videogame-industry/
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        PC Gamer usually posts good takes, shame about the comment section sometimes
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          Yes, but the game industry has faced severe layoffs the last couple years while profits sour ever higher and higher and executives get bigger boats. So it's relevant.
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          How is this not a symbol of under-regulated capitalism?
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          • K kowowow@lemmy.ca
            It shouldn't be legal to report high earnings and lay off a large portion of your staff, that feels like something a poorly performing company would do
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            Wow there. We can't go around regulating things. What do you think we are COMMUNISTS?!?
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              How is this not a symbol of under-regulated capitalism?
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              nocturnalmorning@lemmy.world
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              It absolutely is. I'm not denying that.
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              • chickenandrice@sh.itjust.worksC chickenandrice@sh.itjust.works
                PC Gamer usually posts good takes, shame about the comment section sometimes
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                I've noticed as well. Why does it seem like so many people hate PC Gamer?
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                  I've noticed as well. Why does it seem like so many people hate PC Gamer?
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                  I have no idea but if I had to guess, I'd say the audience of PC Gamer is PC gamers, and the average PC gamer fucking sucks
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                    I have no idea but if I had to guess, I'd say the audience of PC Gamer is PC gamers, and the average PC gamer fucking sucks
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                    The average vocal PC gamer also tends to have the top of the line components, so I just tend to think it's not the gaming part that makes them assholes; it's being rich.
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                      I have no idea but if I had to guess, I'd say the audience of PC Gamer is PC gamers, and the average PC gamer fucking sucks
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                      I doubt that the average PC gamer is commenting on those articles.
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                      • G grue@lemmy.world
                        Almost none of this is unique to the gaming industry; it's all symptoms of under-regulated capitalism.
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                        Unionization is also super uncommon at these game development companies. Would definitely help prevent layoffs. True for every industry again, but they are underrepresented here.
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                          I have no idea but if I had to guess, I'd say the audience of PC Gamer is PC gamers, and the average PC gamer fucking sucks
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                          Hank Green actually posted [a video relevant to this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvtEINcqc6c) yesterday. He was reading a Fox News article about a machine that can turn C02 into fuel that an internal combustion engine can use. He then scrolled to the comments and saw all the posts talking about climate change being a hoax. He says it would be very easy to assume the average Fox News reader is a climate change denier. If you were to ask him how many people in the US deny climate change is real, he'd guess around 50%. However, surveys have consistently shown it is less than 10%. It is a minority of people. His point was that people leaving stupid comments are not the average person, they're just really vocal, and try not to assume stupid comments are reflective of the average person's beliefs.
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                          • chickenandrice@sh.itjust.worksC chickenandrice@sh.itjust.works
                            PC Gamer usually posts good takes, shame about the comment section sometimes
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                            how i see it, pcgamer sometimes has high effort posts like this and other times has some really low effort posts, sometimes almost cyclical as they often use the same image pool over several topics (e.g its a meme that anything witcher related, pcgamer will use geralt in a tub as a header image) because of the less serious posts, it kinda blots out the more serious ones.
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                              So basically incompetent leadership falling ass backwards in tons of cash from your successes.
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                                Hank Green actually posted [a video relevant to this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvtEINcqc6c) yesterday. He was reading a Fox News article about a machine that can turn C02 into fuel that an internal combustion engine can use. He then scrolled to the comments and saw all the posts talking about climate change being a hoax. He says it would be very easy to assume the average Fox News reader is a climate change denier. If you were to ask him how many people in the US deny climate change is real, he'd guess around 50%. However, surveys have consistently shown it is less than 10%. It is a minority of people. His point was that people leaving stupid comments are not the average person, they're just really vocal, and try not to assume stupid comments are reflective of the average person's beliefs.
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                                You can't even assume those people are people. There's a lot of bot powered disinformation out there.
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                                  I feel that perhaps "jab" is understating it!

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                                    Unionization is also super uncommon at these game development companies. Would definitely help prevent layoffs. True for every industry again, but they are underrepresented here.
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                                    Unionization doesn’t prevent layoffs. It’s clear you have never been in a union.
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                                      Unionization doesn’t prevent layoffs. It’s clear you have never been in a union.
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                                      It does not but the game industry has a lot of parallel to the movie industry l where some parts are very unionized.
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                                        How is this not a symbol of under-regulated capitalism?
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                                        It currently applies most to the game and tech industries
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                                          Unionization doesn’t prevent layoffs. It’s clear you have never been in a union.
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                                          It doesn’t always, but it can. I have been in a union. But thanks for assuming you know anything about me douchebag.
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