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me: hey maybe gamers should do the bare minimum to support the people who actually make games
a half dozen gamers crawling out of the woodwork like cockroaches: how DARE you expect us to do anything helpful. i would DIE before admitting that my favorite corporation has faults

lalala fuck white people, etc:

https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/the-malthusian-myth-that-refuses-to-die/

(this time, re population control, a bad idea that doesn't seem to be going away)

forskning.no is looking for researchers from the #GlobalSouth interested to write about their #research. They would provide translation to Norwegian.

#SciComm #ComunicaCiencia

I could talk about power structures and their required bigot/exploitive components all day. I'd write a book but my ideas are mostly from other folks in the queer community who say it better. But if I can give out one bit of unwanted advice. Listen to the black community, they kinda fought this longer than a lot of communities. And there are queer black folks who are very good at this whole ideas thing. (I am baaaadddd at it.)

We are all in this together~ ✊🏻

after Telltale fucked over most of its workforce there certainly were people talking about how abused they were who 24 hours earlier certainly weren't maybe comfortable talking about it, in part because they now had no Telltale job or Telltale boss to be concerned about. it's not like these issues are being made up by outside agitators.

i've talked to no shortage of folks involved at big-name studios this year who are like "yeah these are major problems and i hope you all come up with solutions but i can't endanger my job or the jobs of my team" and that's 100% a symptom of worker oppression. like i hate to use big dramatic words like "oppression" but idk what else to call it. "getting fucked over"? "threatened by the true precariousness of an abusive situation"?

an issue with discussing game labor issues, particularly when it comes to day to day exploitation, is that a lot of folks can't talk about it without fear of reprisal, and folks whose experience includes management/ownership will say it's just the price of doing biz, leaving people in the indie/press space to speak out most easily. which gives a false impression of the totality of who is/can be involved in it.

I was asked at work once to guess what the biggest risk to the company might be in coming years. The answer is always "That climate change has tipping points and that we're nearing or beyond some of them", but that's not really the answer they were looking for, I suppose.

Really down thinking that Rockstar's shitty working conditions are worse than Telltale's, and they're very public, they even admit to them.

But gamers will still buy that shit up and most games press will fawn over every release with no questions about the labour behind it.

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I don’t know when it happened, but sometime in the last 3 years, referring to people as “comrade” stopped feeling like a self-conscious quarter joke and started feeling like the most natural thing in the world, and I’m here for it.

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@Are0h ✊✊✊ I really hope there are boots on the ground over there getting these folx set up with IDs & proper registration. Having the right to vote is just 1/2 the battle unfortunately.

You gotta understand, I’m from fucking Maryland, bro. We check bigots here. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-felons-voting-20160209-story.html