Kichae

joined 1 year ago
[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago

The case of remote work shows that the CEO class as a whole failed to pick up an innovation yielding massive benefits before it was forced on them by the pandemic, and have continued to resist and resent it ever since.

Hey, look! It's the whole of what's going on here. The bosses were forced into letting us have a thing, and, as a result, they will never accept us having it, and will do everything they can -- including destroying the business, if they're privately held -- to take it back.

They lost a minuscule slice of power over our lives, and they will never forgive us for that.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I quit my last job because they pulled us back to the office. That's going to be a lot harder to do next time becauee of BS like this.

Everyone just has to sit on their hands and strike in-office to drive home the point. Something that'll never happen in unorganized workplaces.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Mozilla trick

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 49 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What's that? I'm not spending any more money on ZeniMax games? And I'm getting a Margaret Thatcher Doom mod?

What a marvelous day it is!

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 days ago

He's Etobicoke Ralph Klein. This is his version of drunkenly throwing pennies at the homeless.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

How many muscles in his back did he rip from the bone that time?

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

On the plus side, the province has demonstrated that the work nurses do is worth that much to it. Should be fun pointing that out in contracr negotiations.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"Private" here is being used to mean "private sector", not "personal".

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Not who you replied to, but I've experienced it on both vanilla Element and on Schildichat over and over, as well as repeated logouts that require signin approval from one of my other active sessions.

That are on devices on different floors of the house, or even in different parts of the city.

Shit's jankey as hell.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

And is just an extension to their licensing nonsense and publishing deals thst came beforex

Anyone surprised by any of this doesn't care about Nintendo's behaviour, just the impact the current move is having on their current fun.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 37 points 5 days ago (4 children)

A lot of games developers don't understand trends in gaming that aren't explicitly gamist. Even as walking sinulators and cozy games have garnered audiences that make those genres viable, many in the industry have refused to actually look at them with an eye to understand who they appeal to, why, and what about them is doing the connecting with their audiences.

I worked on a mobile PvP project that rejected purely aesthetic elements because none of the director, designer, not "monetization specialist" could understand why anyone would want them, even as Fortnite was bursting onto the scene making its money on its emotes and paper doll elements.

Art driven paper doll games were also eating our lunch in the mobile space.

There are clearly some in the industry who understand the appeal, but most of them are not decision makers in development studios. The decision makers got there by coming up in a much more focused, much less casual, much less inclusive era in gaming, and have a pretty fixed idea of what a game "is" or "is supposed to be".

Because of this,aAs things shift towards more IP licensing deal, the results are going to be a lot of conflicts between tone and gameplay on these projects.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Depends on whether the Hulkster is claiming to have written it or not, brother

 

Crazy how the only one of these airing criticism that says the budget isn't doing enough is the publicly owned one.

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