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Bofast posted:Speaking of Amazon and game development, they seem to have had some rather excessive demands if you wanted to work for their game studios Looks like a boilerplate clause they stick in their employment contracts. Makes me wonder if it's in every Amazon employment contract. Imagine Indie Jane is in college and producing a hobbyist game using RPGMaker. Because she has bills to pay, she does some part-time work at the local Amazon warehouse. Unsurprisingly, she skims over her employment contract, expecting it to relate only to the usual manual labor and accident clauses. Indie Jane eventually puts out her modest project on Steam and it takes off as one of those viral retro game sensations. Let's say something approaching the success of Undertale or Valheim. Suddenly, out of left field, Amazon breach of contract lawsuit for not licensing her "Personal Game" exclusively on their platform and collaborating with outside parties. dejapes fucked around with this message at 01:38 on Jul 8, 2021 |
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dejapes posted:Looks like a boilerplate clause they stick in their employment contracts. Makes me wonder if it's in every Amazon employment contract. according to one reply from someone who applied for a warehouse job it very well might be
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Jul 8, 2021 02:37
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Everything was made of wood but nothing on-set was more wooden than Sandi.
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Jul 8, 2021 05:43
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It makes me uncomfortable even just looking at the position of his right leg 
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Jul 8, 2021 06:02
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caleb posted:I love the movie Ready Player One. I have never seen it but it's great for just instantly knowing something is full of poo poo. Same. Never seen Ready Player One and I only have surface knowledge of the concept. But I did not notice there is a strong correlation between BS and references to Ready Player One. Bofast posted:Speaking of Amazon and game development, they seem to have had some rather excessive demands if you wanted to work for their game studios  Oh man. I love this sort of stuff. It's like a Stanley Kubrick movie - you a see a certain beauty in the horror.All those American oligarchs chimping out about "freedumz" and "the ability to choose you're own path without guberment interference." And then they come up with this sort of stuff. And the clauses mentioned above are the tip of the iceberg. You don't even get to take a piss while working at masta's warehouse. Not to mention the childish "everyone does it" comments that always accompany such degeneracy.
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That reminds me a bit of the hot minute I actually worked for Hot Topic setting up one of their lovely stores, I dont think those assholes ever paid me come to think of it. They demanded that employees not socialize outside of work and if you went to a concert, you were supposed to report on the band like some kind of unpaid research person.
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DreadUnknown posted:They demanded that employees not socialize outside of work One reason Walmart got driven out of Germany was because they tried poo poo like this. Very illegal, extremely unpopular across the board and through all social strata.
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Jul 8, 2021 11:21
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Even not being a lawyer, I think it's pretty obvious that a 'no socialization' clause would not hold up anywhere, but what's the rationale for such a clause?
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Fidelitious posted:Even not being a lawyer, I think it's pretty obvious that a 'no socialization' clause would not hold up anywhere, but what's the rationale for such a clause? The lower classes might discuss salaries or bad working conditions and get silly ideas about improving things.
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Jul 8, 2021 14:12
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Lol @ "You own your game, but by making it you give Amazon all your IP too".
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Fidelitious posted:Even not being a lawyer, I think it's pretty obvious that a 'no socialization' clause would not hold up anywhere, but what's the rationale for such a clause? Usually to prevent shenanigans. I’m sure you’ve heard it’s bad advice to date people at work, because if it goes wrong you end up with a hostile workplace. Employers like that even less than the staff, because the bad feeling can permeate the entire business and even end up affecting the customers. Either that or the staff banging each other in the changing rooms causes a queue.
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Torquemada posted:Usually to prevent shenanigans. I’m sure you’ve heard it’s bad advice to date people at work, because if it goes wrong you end up with a hostile workplace. Employers like that even less than the staff, because the bad feeling can permeate the entire business and even end up affecting the customers. Either that or the staff banging each other in the changing rooms causes a queue. I know a software company where the QA person started dating the developer they tested for. The entire company now considers both departments completely compromised, and management/HR has done nothing to address it. There is resentment with the other devs and QA team members, for obvious reasons. Now bad code is a regular occurrence, and they cover for each other. So yeah, this can completely affect clients, and it has.
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Bofast posted:Speaking of Amazon and game development, they seem to have had some rather excessive demands if you wanted to work for their game studios Wow that's pretty fun. 
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Gravity_Storm posted:Everything was made of wood but nothing on-set was more wooden than Sandi. 
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Scruffpuff posted:I know a software company where the QA person started dating the developer they tested for. The entire company now considers both departments completely compromised, and management/HR has done nothing to address it. There is resentment with the other devs and QA team members, for obvious reasons. Now bad code is a regular occurrence, and they cover for each other. So yeah, this can completely affect clients, and it has. Gravity_Storm posted:Everything was made of wood but nothing on-set was more wooden than Sandi.
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Bofast posted:
Strange women sitting in offices distributing personal grooming tips is no basis for a system of management.
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Amazon Lumberyard is dead, long live the permissively licensed Open 3D Engine posted:"Amazon Lumberyard is dead, long live the permissively licensed Open 3D Engine." quote:Throwing in comments on Star Citizen doesn't. They didn't have to use the derogatory adjectives. That's meant to do exactly what you did. Fortunately, I always archive clickbait before viewing. I'm not about to give them the clicks. quote:He was setting down what the industry wants people to agree with. These attacks are to reinforce the narrative that the big publishers wish the world to perceive. They don't like an upstart and one so successful as Chris threatens their stranglehold on the industry. If Chris pulls it off, then others might get the idea that they can succeed. They were content with half witted, or half hearted attempts, but if an independent can pull off a AAA (or as one YouTuber said, AAAA) game that will be a seismic shift in the industry. One still reeling from repeated poor launches.
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lovely boring space sim, if released, wil lchange the industry forever, by confirming that nobody actually wants to buy a lovely boring space sim
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Zazz Razzamatazz posted:Strange women sitting in offices distributing personal grooming tips is no basis for a system of management. True. You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some wooden VP of marketing threw a razor at you.
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Hey, remember Illfonic, the original developers of Star Marine? Wonder what they've been up to lately? Whatever it is, since Chris hand picked them to create part of Star Citizen, I'm sure they're pushing the future of PC gaming forward.
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quote:"Amazon Lumberyard is dead, long live the permissively licensed Open 3D Engine." While SC backers are fantasizing about how CiG will rake in billions in revenue by selling their "revolutionary" technology, back in the real world the game's licensed engine is doing so poorly that it's essentially becoming freeware. Mirificus posted:
To this day, they still believe that Chris Roberts is saving PC gaming. dejapes fucked around with this message at 00:14 on Jul 9, 2021 |
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Jul 8, 2021 23:59
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Saving gaming from what? There are more indie and small game studios than ever before, we are in a golden age of video games. I have a huge Steam library of games I've hardly touched but really want to dive into.
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Chris can't empty his loving pockets else they will see the vitamins
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dejapes posted:While SC backers are fantasizing about how CiG will rake in billions in revenue by selling their "revolutionary" technology, back in the real world the game's licensed engine is doing so poorly that it's essentially becoming freeware. In a world where Unity and Unreal exist, and not even considering the boundaries Unreal 5 is pushing, CryTek lost the engine race like 15 years ago. Trying to give it cpr in this day and age didn't work out too well. Not even having an integrated AWS backbone could help make CryEngine more appealing to anybody.
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Yeah videogames have never been better.
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I've head that Andy Serkis, Gillian Andserson and Parp Man have been recalled to imaginarium to mo-cap the handling of food for the new grip mechanics. They are strapping ping pong balls to sausages as we speak.
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The Titanic posted:In a world where Unity and Unreal exist, and not even considering the boundaries Unreal 5 is pushing, CryTek lost the engine race like 15 years ago. Definitely. I can't believe we'll go much past 2022 without an engine change announcement, with legions of cultists stalwartly defending the move. "Lumberyard was always meant to be a tier 0 implementation to prove the backend technology" "The god tech is in the server not the front end, you guys clearly don't understand MMO development" "It's not Chris's fault that the engine can't handle 8k textures"
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Has an engine change ever not spelled disaster for a game?
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Lammasu posted:Has an engine change ever not spelled disaster for a game? The Need 4 Speed series?
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IllFonic has made yet another game. IllFonic 3 - CIG 0 Arcadegeddon is a co-op shooter available now in early access on PS5 & PC quote:
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Fidelitious posted:It's funny how certain things trigger recollections of bizarre Star Citizen events. I remember way back when we were all making GBS threads on some "around the verse" video. Somewhere in it a developer was explaining to the fat one how right after citizen-con they are going to implement the damage feedback system in which "The ammo you shoot at a ship will use 'pierceability' to penetrate the hull or whatever and eventually strike a component. That component will create an electrical feedback that will cause realistic effects in the rest of the ship." It's just as loving insane as a "real" economy, or NPCs falling in love and making bad stock trades and then their NPC children not getting accepted into space college. I think that once crobear said that they had a plan for the geometry of time as ships hit warpspeed over great distances. I work in electrical power, and it's extremely difficult and sometimes impossible to predict what the 24th harmonic is going to do as it interacts with the loss of field kick as the generator is struck by a space bullet. Found it. They're gonna do it, and it's gonna be better than everything else. The guy shits on other games for "just" having animation effects. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pWIeT33C-g&t=1201s
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The Chris Roberts is stored in the balls.
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ah man, around the verse. I'm now nostalgic for the great times we had laughing at this piece of poo poo video game
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Popete posted:Saving gaming from what? There are more indie and small game studios than ever before, we are in a golden age of video games. I have a huge Steam library of games I've hardly touched but really want to dive into. Pretty sure the villains are AAA publishers like EA and Ubisoft and their evil microtransactions and paid DLC. SC saves gaming by charging hundreds of dollars for a JPG and a promise that one day owning an Idris means that you have paid to win.
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I said come in! posted:The Chris Roberts is stored in the balls. BRB castrating myself.
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dejapes posted:To this day, they still believe that Chris Roberts is saving PC gaming. He is though, by not releasing any games he's actually improved the average quality of games.
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Richie Stardust posted:I remember way back when we were all making GBS threads on some "around the verse" video. Somewhere in it a developer was explaining to the fat one how right after citizen-con they are going to implement the damage feedback system in which "The ammo you shoot at a ship will use 'pierceability' to penetrate the hull or whatever and eventually strike a component. That component will create an electrical feedback that will cause realistic effects in the rest of the ship." That just sounds like your standard hitboxes with component effects other games have had for ages. Hitting a tank in Arma simulates armour penetration, including depleting ERA tiles if the tank has them, then looks at components that might get hit, like engine, crew, armaments, ammunition, optics, fuel tanks. You can take out tracks, take out crew, disable weapons, and so on. It's really not revolutionary or hard to do and hobbyists have even expanded on it with new effects, like ammo cook off.
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how many different effects could there possibly be from hitting a ship? i don't mean something like shooting out a shield generator to knock out shields or hitting an ammo store. if i hit a ship center mass and it pierces a bunch of electronics what could possibly happen outside of power going out or, in the worst case, some manner of electrical discharge?
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