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I certainly hope so, and preemptively any company that cannot survive its employs unionizing is a company that should not exist.
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imagine the herculean task it will be to instill a fraction of class consciousness into these people
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Mar 23, 2018 18:06
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Nier Automata is not even close to AAA, it's a low-mid budget game that was elevated by being a total labor of love.
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Mar 23, 2018 18:29
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Is that game still total labor to play on the PC?
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Mar 23, 2018 18:33
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Is that game still total labor to play on the PC? No, no - the machine is the one that goes into labor.
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Mar 23, 2018 18:36
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achillesforever6 posted:I'm just glad that Game Devs are starting to rumble about unionizing which would would solve a lot of problems in this godawful industry. Pretend I posted the screenshot of Jon Bois listing why you should be for or against unions. Inspector Gesicht posted:Is that game still total labor to play on the PC? I think there's a mod that fixes the port by now?
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Mar 23, 2018 18:37
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Film Brain has a review of Ready Player One out. I think his reaction to the film will probably closer to the one most people here will have compared to Angry Joe. Tl;dw: visuals are great, characters/dialog blow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D0JuFBECx8
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Mr.Radar posted:Film Brain has a review of Ready Player One out. I think his reaction to the film will probably closer to the one most people here will have compared to Angry Joe. Tl;dw: visuals are great, characters/dialog blow. This is about what I expected. All of the trailers are very pretty Spielberg shots of references happening while the awful main character fuckboi monologues over them. It’s gonna be a movie that everyone knows for being the source of all the montage material on YouTube and nothing else.
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Spark That Bled posted:What games that have come out last year have you played? not very many as i am both really busy with and don't have a lot of money because of college. i think subnautica, slime rancher and forza 7 (ugh) are all. e: oh if you include early access, i also have played astroneer, stationeers and empyrion. Puppy Time posted:There's really not a lot of good well-known engines for non-programmers, especially if you're starting with a small budget. Hopefully the Indie Utopia and the imminent decline of AAA publishing will lead to more options, or at least better-known options. i'm not at all making GBS threads on unity, it is a real great engine in fact. however, all engines have limitations and bugs inherent to them and some indie games like subnautica are reall cool but did not have staff good enough to address or work around those bugs, which was more my point. DEEP STATE PLOT fucked around with this message at 19:45 on Mar 23, 2018 |
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Mar 23, 2018 19:42
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New vid by Poparena about ITV's Doctor Who knock off Primeval https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lUJeEnvIzg "The anomalies are conclusive proof that the past exists" Its worth a look if you're unfamiliar. It was really something.
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Mar 23, 2018 19:47
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I really wish Film Brain would just chrome dome, that hairline is getting dire.
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Mar 23, 2018 21:08
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financially racist posted:i'm not at all making GBS threads on unity, it is a real great engine in fact. however, all engines have limitations and bugs inherent to them and some indie games like subnautica are reall cool but did not have staff good enough to address or work around those bugs, which was more my point. Oh yeah no, you didn't seem to be making GBS threads on it at all! It's just definitely a problem that the software right now is mostly made with the assumption that users are going to be coding competent, probably because programming was the only way to make video games happen for years (and because the people who make software are generally mostly around people who know programming). Unity is a really cool engine, but it does have a pretty steep learning curve.
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Arcsquad12 posted:I'm hoping that there are better platforms for Indie games to come out for than Steam, which is just a bloated wasteland due to Valve's aversion to doing actual goddamn work. itchio isn't perfect but it's pretty great ime and really deserves more attention than it gets
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Lightning Knight posted:This is about what I expected. All of the trailers are very pretty Spielberg shots of references happening while the awful main character fuckboi monologues over them. yea I'm gonna HBO it after getting high and just enjoy the pretty visuals.
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Augus posted:Nier Automata is not even close to AAA, it's a low-mid budget game that was elevated by being a total labor of love. Whatever, it would still have been out of reach of just about any indie studio and needed the resources of major publisher to be created at all. khwarezm fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Mar 23, 2018 |
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Mar 23, 2018 22:28
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Yardbomb posted:I really wish Film Brain would just chrome dome, that hairline is getting dire. Dang. It's been a while since I've seen a Film Brain video, so the difference is jarring.
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Mar 23, 2018 23:00
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Serf posted:imagine the herculean task it will be to instill a fraction of class consciousness into these people
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Serf posted:imagine the herculean task it will be to instill a fraction of class consciousness into these people It may not be as Herculean as you think! https://twitter.com/john_brindle/status/976586686770700288 (click through for thread) As for engines for non-coders, the big ones I know of are GameMaker and Construct 2/3. People can get pretty far with them.
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Movies with Mikey, Thor Ragnarok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrxqRoB7EyI
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Mar 24, 2018 02:37
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Absurd Alhazred posted:It may not be as Herculean as you think! All the anarchists I know (real ones who live collectively) are programmers.
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business hammocks posted:All the anarchists I know (real ones who live collectively) are programmers. There are many types of real anarchists. Syndicalists would be all in on a video game employee union. The discussion the twitter thread reports on seems to show more of an interest in trade unions and/or trade guilds like in the movie industry, though. Which syndicalists are really not fans of.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:There are many types of real anarchists. Syndicalists would be all in on a video game employee union. Real anarchists as distinguished from American right-libertarian/reactionary capitalist “anarchists” (don’t ask: we’re a bad country) who also infest parts of the American programming scene.
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I know this was mentioned here when it first happened, so I guess the latest (and I guess final) development in it should be posted here:quote:The Fader Deletes Anthony Fantano Article Amid Settlement Agreement https://www.spin.com/2018/03/anthony-fantano-needle-drop-fader-settlement/ Corek fucked around with this message at 03:13 on Mar 24, 2018 |
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business hammocks posted:Real anarchists as distinguished from American right-libertarian/reactionary capitalist “anarchists” (don’t ask: we’re a bad country) who also infest parts of the American programming scene. I'm not entirely a foreigner, you know. I've been exposed to American internet culture most of my life, and I've been living here for almost 8 years straight now.
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When I worked as a game tester for years, there were maybe two or three of us who wistfully wished for a union knowing it would never happen. If it happens, I'll loving party all day, even if I'm not in that line of work anymore.
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Mar 24, 2018 05:13
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Every type of job should be unionized.
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Mar 24, 2018 05:57
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Absurd Alhazred posted:There are many types of real anarchists. Syndicalists would be all in on a video game employee union. Do you have a resource on the different types of unions and how different groups advocate/criticize them? I've always had some critiques of the way some of the Hollywood-style unions did things and their effects on minorities or the disadvantaged especially, but I wasn't aware that there were such distinctions and only ever hear it phrased in a blanket "pro-union" or "anti-union" way..
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Linear Zoetrope posted:Do you have a resource on the different types of unions and how different groups advocate/criticize them? I've always had some critiques of the way some of the Hollywood-style unions did things and their effects on minorities or the disadvantaged especially, but I wasn't aware that there were such distinctions and only ever hear it phrased in a blanket "pro-union" or "anti-union" way.. I haven't read up on this stuff in ages, to be honest, and personally I've only belonged to "trade" unions in the US. But basically the idea is that if you have trade unions, you're splitting up the working class in a way that makes it easier for capitalists to play divide-and-conquer. One union-based counter to that is industrial unionism like the IWW engaged in, where the idea is that it's much harder to d&c if an entire industry belongs to a single union which works as a unit. That can be taken towards revolutionary unionism (the source of IWW's notoriety), where industrial unions come together to form One Big Union which brings about working class rule through a general strike. And that's aside from unions which are also bosses, effectively yellow unions, like the Israeli Trade Federation which at some point was also the major employer in Israel, so the leadership had a clear conflict of interest (and now is basically beholden to some trades at the expense of others).
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Well, it's that time again, where I come back to this thread after a long absence because I feel the need to post something I found, despite it going against my better judgement. A while ago there was some discussion related to Night in the Woods, and I picked it up while it was on sale (I think it was during its release anniversary or something). I haven't played it yet, but I've been meaning to (currently distracted with Bloodborne for the time being). However, this article is apparently getting some attention: Night in the Woods: A Rebirth of Graphic Adventure Games, and Trumpian Propaganda In Disguise Again, I'll say that I haven't played NitW yet, but calling it Trumpian propaganada seems...inaccurate. EDIT: https://twitter.com/transgamerthink/status/977226772252123137 Max Wilco fucked around with this message at 07:56 on Mar 24, 2018 |
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Mar 24, 2018 07:47
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"I'm not an elitist, I despise white Middle America because of legitimate grievances"
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Max Wilco posted:Again, I'll say that I haven't played NitW yet, but calling it Trumpian propaganada seems...inaccurate. Yeah, that's a mind blowingly stupid read, there's so much poo poo wrong and  -y there it's nuts.
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Yardbomb posted:Yeah, that's a mind blowingly stupid read, there's so much poo poo wrong and
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Corek posted:I know this was mentioned here when it first happened, so I guess the latest (and I guess final) development in it should be posted here: At the very least fantano is still an alt right enabler who hides behind the excuse of "its just a joke!"
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Mar 24, 2018 08:55
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Max Wilco posted:However, this article is apparently getting some attention: Night in the Woods: A Rebirth of Graphic Adventure Games, and Trumpian Propaganda In Disguise If such a thing as "ruralism" exists making an incredibly strained and forced reading of a game that advocates demystifying and taking action against fascism as being in favor of fascism because it might possibly be sympathetic to the inhabitants of small rural towns is a pretty good example of it.
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The way to make an anti-fascist Lovecraftian story is to make the monsters the good guys. This is why Bloodborne is much better than NitW's watered down cosmic horror.
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Max Wilco posted:Well, it's that time again, where I come back to this thread after a long absence because I feel the need to post something I found, despite it going against my better judgement. I didn't know J.D. Vance had a Medium account.
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Mar 24, 2018 11:42
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That take on why dead coal towns are racist seems reductive. Maybe if the author had spent more than four years in a coastal metropolis she would realize that those places are also racist.
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The German version of Shaun, Three Arrows, has a new video up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfHXJRqq-qo Its about guns and Nazis so it should be good for the whole family.
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I've only started watching a moment ago, but I think Contra just won the high profile guest of 2018 contest. Chelsea Manning.
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Manning doesn’t do many appearances like that, right? I haven’t really seen anything circulated aside from her twitter. Good get, Contra. Dark Mother exclusive interview for 2019?
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