🍂 Natasha Evette 🍂

Snitches always think the company will appreciate them more for snitching and getting people fired. All they've done is shown their treacherous, snakey ass to them and they'll fire them too or make them wish they had. And now they'll have to lie for the entirety of their career. Stupid.

YouTube video by People Make Games The Messages Rockstar Saw Before Firing 34 Union Members

EXCLUSIVE: So far it's been unclear what proof Rockstar Games has to justify its firing of 34 union members, who it claims were leaking "confidential information in a public forum".

PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made.

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artwork of Bae-Luxe and Roxy aka Real Dimez in GTA 6

"This is a blatant, unapologetic act of vicious union busting" - Hundreds of Rockstar employees sign letter to management, demanding fired colleagues get reinstated www.eurogamer.net/this-is-a-bl...

YouTube video by People Make Games The Rockstar Workers Fired Before They Could Finish GTA 6

I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct.

That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...

Just a note to say I'm not really using/checking bluesky anymore either. I don't want to send in my ID or whatever to view my DMs and Twitter is still shit. If you need me I'm pretty much only using LinkedIn and Instagram (same username) these days.

So sorry to hear this. You've been great!

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Any info on the ticket prices?

Eating raspberries is like playing Russian Roulette and I will not elaborate.

NO

Beijing based writing roles👇🏻

Yep, and SM don't pay great either, so good luck to them living in Guildford or commuting from London because in office presence was made mandatory too.

This is outrageous. I know staff there have already been crunching for months, and now jobs are going to be lost in payment for their lost evenings/weekends? Thanks very much, management! Never fucking crunch for your company. This is your reward. Oh, that and the fucking pizza. Disgrace!

Wealth inequality is the reason for this. The wealthy are getting wealthier and can afford the constant increases in price, which drives further increases. Everyone left on the same wages for twenty years cannot.

Does Bsky log anyone else out all the time? Doing my head in.

📢 OUT NOW 📢

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Stop using WeTransfer - especially for anything work-for-hire or covered by NDA.

Do it!!

Very late to the party, but Slay the Princess is a really interesting game. I very much enjoyed it. I especially liked how they gave the 'protagonist' a varied voice through their inner personality traits depending on what happened to him. Really brought life to it. Ironically.

No, you can’t make me!!! #booksky #writingcommunity

Last night at Develop, see you at Special Effect's closing party.

Brighton, I've arrived! ❤️ #DevelopConference

Me!

a man with long hair and a beard is sitting in a truck with his eyes closed ALT: a man with long hair and a beard is sitting in a truck with his eyes closed

It's over

Portfolio, usually.

I cannot stress enough: you cannot give an inch on this issue.

The moment you start accepting media using genAI for "small" things or just tiny aspects of production, they will only start outsourcing more of the process to AI

This is how the smallest end of the wedge is driven in against laborers

My experience with making placeholder content, is you want it to look bad. You need to be able to spot it at a glance and go "that's way too shit to be finished" so you can ensure it's replaced properly. Placeholders that can masquerade as complete assets are sketchy.

Mistakes happen. But "As AI tools evolve, they present new challenges and opportunities in game development. We're actively adapting our internal processes to meet this reality." Hm. What does this mean?

Well, that's a bummer.

CEO compensation graphed next to employee compensation. 🙃