Tegiminis

At the meeting, I talk about Good Boss/Bad Boss/Sad Boss as the kind of menu of tactics the company will draw from. I said some version of a thing I have now said thousands of times in meetings and house calls: Good Boss is when they buy off or try to buy off workers, with favors and fixes or even pay raises, to quell the anger that drives the organizing, to make it seem as though workers don't need a union after all. Bad Boss is when they terrify or try to terrify workers through threats, like plant closure and rumors like "Wherever the union goes, Immigration follows," so that fear overpowers the driving anger. Sad Boss is when they play the strange game of pretending to suffer a deep, personal heartbreak as the result of workers deciding to organize, in hopes that the workers' anger will be confused or blunted by empathy for the boss.

Genuinely the best description I've ever seen about how CEOs and bosses respond when you try to form a union or improve the workplace.

From Daisy Pitkin's book - On The Line: Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union.

I will say there is a definite element of like, cultural contempt/animus to the way bluesky's chud staff talk about their users. They wanna say slurs SOOOOOOOoooo bad

RETURN OF COOKIE

i could see an argument being made for when programming was not easily human-readable, but that era passed a loooooooong time ago

Typing syntax into an IDE hasn't been the primary time sink for coding for actual decades lol

This graph has become every live service game

I think this is the valid core of the otherwise completely reactionary response of stuff like "lol next concord" and shit. Companies have so degraded the belief that they will continue to support something unless it shows immediate, massive returns that everyone has become a jaded gravedancer

Call me Spelunky the way I'm diving into her cave

NPC update and some sketches from Patreon

Anything can be a classic of games

Only if it's classic

"Why haven't fighting games died yet?"

I wrote about the unique strengths of the fighting game genre that have allowed fighting games to survive multiple generations of evolution intact, and why you didn't fall in love with a product. Warning: This is a long one.

www.patreon.com/posts/152148...

now seems like a fantastic time to mention that while all of the dmca shit was going down, someone put out a fully playable english translation of cookie's bustle! even runs on modern windows (as long as you install quicktime v6.5.2, which is not what the game comes with)! cookies-bustle.net

the cultist to the potential recruit: "the cult is inevitable. just give in."

Can't wait to see what stickers you put on it! Here's how mine is looking

Tobias and Lindsey from Arrested Development having a conversation: "A lot of people are investing in live service games right now" "Well, did it work for those people?" "No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but..." "...But it might work for us."

I feel that at least once a month, some video game executive has this conversation

It kept going for a while after that with okay numbers. I think the reversal on crafting and the itemization changes were the coffin's nail

I drew her a friend

Americans would rather hurt someone else than improve their lot. Seems to be the main through line of conservative thought

it says a lot about us, none of it good, that we chose a leader with not a single redeeming quality: stupid? yup. corrupt? absolutely. dishonest? to his core. violent? maybe the most violent ever. any ability to empathize with people? none. baseline level of regard for human life? not even a skosh.

I played Destiny 2 from initial launch through Final Shape, I have multiple contest raid clears under my belt, and Bungie simply designed me and all my friends out of the game. If you don't play it like a whale, they don't care about you anymore.

After several years of player-positive design that gives players permanency to their stuff, they decided to go back to the "endless treadmill" design (getting rid of crafting for seasonal items, for example) AND invalidated 8 years worth of old content with an itemization change

As it turns out, completely obliterating all reason to play old content in your game and going back on every good decision by the previous iterations of the team has a tendency to crater your CCU

Pokémon Red & Green sold poorly in Japan when they launched in 1996, only catching on months later. Apples and oranges, I know, but this is indicative of the shift in how execs at game publishers, streaming services, and Hollywood studios need instant results or they pull the plug. It's unhealthy.

IT'S REAL?!

We're smokin' that Argentinian himejoshi catgirl shit out of a puma bone pipe at an altitude of 12,600 feet, concurrent with the third Dynasty of Ur, you stupid shit.

stupid fucking milkshake won’t be nice to the meatball

Udo is Odo's brother played by Udo Kier