Blizzard dies and Bobby rides

Mist

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It's amazing when you're on the other side of the equation and watch how many white males have a job where they don't know how to do fuck-all and still somehow collect a paycheck.

80% of nearly every company is a bunch of useless fucks. Pareto principle - Wikipedia

Whether some companies choose to fill that 80% with diversity hires or not is ultimately irrelevant.

What Blizzard did was try to fill a big chunk of that 80% with as many cute little drama bombs as they could find, that eventually tic-tic-tic-exploded around the time they started being more obnoxious than cute, which is coincidentally around 32 years old or so, give or take a substance abuse problem or two.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
 
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It's amazing when you're on the other side of the equation and watch how many white males have a job where they don't know how to do fuck-all and still somehow collect a paycheck.

80% of nearly every company is a bunch of useless fucks. Pareto principle - Wikipedia

Whether some companies choose to fill that 80% with diversity hires or not is ultimately irrelevant.

What Blizzard did was try to fill a big chunk of that 80% with as many cute little drama bombs as they could find, that eventually tic-tic-tic-exploded around the time they started being more obnoxious than cute, which is coincidentally around 32 years old or so, give or take a substance abuse problem or two.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
And yet Blizzard itself was founded, made into a giant by white males.

LOL depending on job, white female ratio of good to bad is even worse. Like Ive met only a handful of good engineers in my field that were females in my 25 yrs. All other were pure garbage relegated to data entry excel bitches. Like could not engineer their way out of a paper bag if their life depended on it. Females need to stick to what they are good at, nursing and other such jobs.

But youre not wrong on the 80% bullshit though.
 
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Stop saying POC. That's a derogatory term coined by the left. Please use the more forward thinking colored people term.
 
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It's amazing when you're on the other side of the equation and watch how many white males have a job where they don't know how to do fuck-all and still somehow collect a paycheck.

80% of nearly every company is a bunch of useless fucks. Pareto principle - Wikipedia

Whether some companies choose to fill that 80% with diversity hires or not is ultimately irrelevant.

What Blizzard did was try to fill a big chunk of that 80% with as many cute little drama bombs as they could find, that eventually tic-tic-tic-exploded around the time they started being more obnoxious than cute, which is coincidentally around 32 years old or so, give or take a substance abuse problem or two.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

People act like certain professions are dominated by men for reasons other than the fact that women don't make up a significant percentage of the labor pool.

And yes, how you choose to fill that 80% is rather important because it impacts company culture, company values, company performance, and company attractiveness to job seekers. And a company that fills 80% of their staff with SJW hires is probably going to have significantly more destabilizing drama than any frat boy culture due to the fact that SJW culture is a malignant ideological cancer. These people literally wake up everyday and manifest imaginary reasons for why something needs to change because their brainwashed beliefs told them that everything connected to White Men should be abolished.

I've watched a company tear itself apart because it filled its ranks with SJWs. It was a constant competition of who could be more edgy with applying social justice, at the expense of literally everything else important in the company.
 
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These generic numbers are bullshit anyway. As Mist says, they just tuck these people into made up 'producer' roles and shit. I don't give a fuck if 50% of your staff is female because you expanded your marketing, social media or accounting depts. I want you to show that 50% of ALL departments are female. Show me 50% female network admins, core engine developers, building maintenance workers, etc. Force these people to play by their own rules and they won't be around to bother you for long.
 
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Mist

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Blizzard's real problem is that they pay garbage. When you pay garbage, you end up getting bottom of the barrel employees, or spoiled trust fund kids who don't have to pay their own rent. If, over a long enough timeline, your company becomes filled with only the people dumb enough to stay at a company that pays garbage, you end up with a garbage company.

Again, play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
 
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Masakari

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Blizzard's real problem is that they pay garbage. When you pay garbage, you end up getting bottom of the barrel employees, or spoiled trust fund kids who don't have to pay their own rent. If, over a long enough timeline, your company becomes filled with only the people dumb enough to stay at a company that pays garbage, you end up with a garbage company.

Again, play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
What demographic do you feel you fit in?
 

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The problem isn't the pay, it's the fact that working at Blizzard is viewed as "nerd cred" and that always will attract people who care more about that instead of the product they're creating/providing. This is why the lore is all kinds of fucked up, shit gets retconned non-stop, etc. The people wearing the skin suit can't hide any longer because all the people who cared about the product have left the company, one way or another. This is generally an unrecoverable death spiral for a company, and in the long-run either the game shuts down or the revenue model shifts way further into cash shop territory.
 

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The pay is a byproduct of the cred. Kind of like when the Patriots had Tom Brady, they could get top talent to sign for pennies on the dollar, because they knew it would boost their chances of being in a Super Bowl winning team and/or they could boost their own value when they inevitably left the team in free agency or what have you.

You can't pull that shit when your cred is eroded, though.
 
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Mist

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The problem isn't the pay, it's the fact that working at Blizzard is viewed as "nerd cred" and that always will attract people who care more about that instead of the product they're creating/providing. This is why the lore is all kinds of fucked up, shit gets retconned non-stop, etc. The people wearing the skin suit can't hide any longer because all the people who cared about the product have left the company, one way or another. This is generally an unrecoverable death spiral for a company, and in the long-run either the game shuts down or the revenue model shifts way further into cash shop territory.
No amount of "nerd cred" is worth getting paid literally 1/5th to 1/10th the salary you can get elsewhere.

The market for technical talent of any kind has been hot for 8+ and getting hotter year over year.
 
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No amount of "nerd cred" is worth getting paid literally 1/5th to 1/10th the salary you can get elsewhere.

The market for technical talent of any kind has been hot for 8+ and getting hotter year over year.

Supply and Demand - If retard faggots are willing to work for dogshit pay and live out of their fucking cars in the Blizzard parking lot. Is that Blizzards fault or the fault of literal fucking dipshit retards begging to be used and abused?

Take personal fucking responsibility, if you are a pathetic excuse for a human with no integrity for yourself then why should the person hiring you have any respect for you either.
 
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No amount of "nerd cred" is worth getting paid literally 1/5th to 1/10th the salary you can get elsewhere.
That's true, but a lot of idealistic people think of creating games as their "dream job." And the whole gaming industry is pretty exploitative of that fact. Or, the other way around: accounting systems, networking and databases "are not sexy."

And once you're older in the IT industry, you suddenly realize that it's accounting, databases, and networking all the way down, even in modern games. Especially in MMORPG games.
 
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Take personal fucking responsibility
You think people that see themselves as "activist on the right side of the history" on Twitter are taking personal responsibility? When they were so outraged by Jordan Petersen telling them to clean up their rooms?

"Not even my mom made me do it!"
 
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Mist

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Supply and Demand - If retard faggots are willing to work for dogshit pay and live out of their fucking cars in the Blizzard parking lot. Is that Blizzards fault or the fault of literal fucking dipshit retards begging to be used and abused?

Take personal fucking responsibility, if you are a pathetic excuse for a human with no integrity for yourself then why should the person hiring you have any respect for you either.
You're missing the fucking point, as usual. If you pay shit, the only people who stick around are workers who are shit.

The supply of good workers is shockingly finite, but if your pay scale is built only to attract shit workers, you will end up with shit workers.

So yes, it is Blizzard's fault for having low standards and low pay.
 
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