In 2026, I'm looking forward to:
Commie finally realizes that companies will dump your ass if you make yourself too expensive. Womp womp.
I'm all for worker rights, but it seems if you're good at your job, you're disciplined, and you work hard, it's not hard to get ahead. I've never been in a position where unionizing is necessary. I get it if this was 1910 and you had to work 6x12 hour days, but this isn't that anymore.
I fucking hate unions because I'm a better employee than the average jackass. I can negotiate a better salary and benefits for myself if I'm doing it 1on1 instead of as a collective. In the last 20 years, I've had my wage/salary doubled by a raise on 3 separate occasions, for 3 separate employers.
Chanur
mentioning where the country has good labor laws... thats actually the direction people need to go in if they feel they need to Unionize. Not getting the government involved in that "fight" is selfish and short sighted in my book.
I think this is why smaller studios creating amazing games is such a BFD. It shows that ballooned budgets and lack of diversity doesn’t matter in a meritocracy.I've never been a fan of Unions. Mostly because Ive listened to people intimately close with the current Unions and how they work. My best friend is a Post Master at a USPS office. The guy had his front clerk, a black lady, that was literally included in a big drug bust that involved the Post Office. The Postal Inspection Officers and local government gave her a deal where she would be under probation as long as she snitched out her accomplices. She did that, and even though she was in jail for 90 days.. using the USPS office to sell drugs... The union protected her job. Never mind the constant complaints he has about his fellow (yes, he's black) black people that work under him. Using the Union to protect them when they call out "sick" for multiple days during a Holiday season. When its literally the worst time to do so for the Post Office. Im sure White people are just as complicit. He describes the Union as a bunch of entitled black women.
I'm sure many of you caught on to the fact that for a single post office, that sure does seem like a lot of Black people. Almost as if... they have preference when getting hired by the USPS. Almost as if the USPS is pushed into certain hiring methods by Unions (and similar.) Especially since the area we live in is has a low black population. Never mind the carriers that come by my house and cant distinguish between two different streets, where we have the same house number. I am so sick of trading mail with the Asian lady that lives there. She opens my mail and says "I didnt mean to" every fucking time. I'd be mad at her, but the fucking DEI hiring standards of the USPS is likely more the culprit than anything else.
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Not that a fucking gaming company needs a Union, anyways. Ive heard more than just Ghost Crawler complain about people taking advantage of "time lines" for coding. A 15 minute chunk of code that is scheduled out to take "two weeks" and then everyone wonders why a 300 person studio cant put out a good fucking product anymore. "Oh it needs 150 million to make that kind of game!" (Queue game that is made for 1/3 that and is better than anything that 300 person team could ever put out.) Literal YEARS of development, and then they complain about "crunch time." Bitch please.
I watched a video on sword and sorcery films last week and ILM basically created the basis for all dragon effects used today when they made the Dragon in Dragonslayer.
I didn't realize they had done the effects but that makes total sense. I just remember watching the movie all the time when it was on HBO as a kid, and I think I rewatched it maybe 20 years ago back in college or something until the other day. Some of the blue screen effects are a little dated but it's still a fantastic movie.
