I didn't watch it but going by Danielle Riendau's tweets it wasn't completely awful
It did fairly well until the last 15-20 minutes or so. Portrayed the harassment from GG pretty accurately (some of it was direct quotes from tweets and emails to Brianna Wu if I'm not mistaken), explained doxxing, explained swatting. Generally did a good job of getting the message out there of what a lot of people have been dealing with since this whole thing started.
But then they had the Zoe/Anita/Brianna analogue get kidnapped and raped and quit gaming forever. Pretty damn shitty to do when the women they've based that character on are still being attacked today.
I guess the one bright spot is that it gets the story in front of a lot of people who probably never would have heard of it otherwise.
I didn't watch it but going by Danielle Riendau's tweets it wasn't completely awful
It did fairly well until the last 15-20 minutes or so. Portrayed the harassment from GG pretty accurately (some of it was direct quotes from tweets and emails to Brianna Wu if I'm not mistaken), explained doxxing, explained swatting. Generally did a good job of getting the message out there of what a lot of people have been dealing with since this whole thing started.
But then they had the Zoe/Anita/Brianna analogue get kidnapped and raped and quit gaming forever. Pretty damn shitty to do when the women they've based that character on are still being attacked today.
I guess the one bright spot is that it gets the story in front of a lot of people who probably never would have heard of it otherwise.
I would have been fine if she would have left the industry without having been kidnapped. There are plenty of women who have left so far because of GamerGate, and while it's a shame every single time, it's also a very real thing that's happening.
It's that they decided to go the route of playing out the worst fears of those being targeted. That's fucked up.
So today I saw Magicmaker on Steam and checked it out. It's pretty badass, you can combine spell elements and create custom spells. The store page says a little over 2 million combinations are possible for your spells, and you use the same system to customize your robe's effects too so it also has that many possible combinations. I've only played an hour and I have 3 spells I'm currently using: my basic one is a laser beam that can pass through walls and siphon mana from enemies, the second spell is a bouncing lightning ball that arcs to enemies and also sets them on fire, and my third is a homing spell with two projectiles and it leeches health from enemies and gives it to me. Nothing like the crazy shit you can see in this trailer though.
edit: wait, the 2 million possible spells is their number from the game's launch. They've added more materials to the game that brings that number up to 3.5 million (you can combine up to 4 things at a time), and they also added a New Game+ mode that makes the game harder but lets you use up to seven slots, which they say means there over 200 trillion possible combinations. I am not good with the maths so someone else will have to verify those numbers. Regardless of what the actual number is, that's a lot of possible spell combinations.
I got this and played it and it's really cool but for some reason none of my spells shoot anymore. They just sit where I cast them like little mines. I have no idea what I did because they were the first spells I made.
So today I saw Magicmaker on Steam and checked it out. It's pretty badass, you can combine spell elements and create custom spells. The store page says a little over 2 million combinations are possible for your spells, and you use the same system to customize your robe's effects too so it also has that many possible combinations. I've only played an hour and I have 3 spells I'm currently using: my basic one is a laser beam that can pass through walls and siphon mana from enemies, the second spell is a bouncing lightning ball that arcs to enemies and also sets them on fire, and my third is a homing spell with two projectiles and it leeches health from enemies and gives it to me. Nothing like the crazy shit you can see in this trailer though.
edit: wait, the 2 million possible spells is their number from the game's launch. They've added more materials to the game that brings that number up to 3.5 million (you can combine up to 4 things at a time), and they also added a New Game+ mode that makes the game harder but lets you use up to seven slots, which they say means there over 200 trillion possible combinations. I am not good with the maths so someone else will have to verify those numbers. Regardless of what the actual number is, that's a lot of possible spell combinations.
I got this and played it and it's really cool but for some reason none of my spells shoot anymore. They just sit where I cast them like little mines. I have no idea what I did because they were the first spells I made.
Have you tried erasing the spell and remaking it? Or using different combinations of elements? Otherwise, I dunno
So today I saw Magicmaker on Steam and checked it out. It's pretty badass, you can combine spell elements and create custom spells. The store page says a little over 2 million combinations are possible for your spells, and you use the same system to customize your robe's effects too so it also has that many possible combinations. I've only played an hour and I have 3 spells I'm currently using: my basic one is a laser beam that can pass through walls and siphon mana from enemies, the second spell is a bouncing lightning ball that arcs to enemies and also sets them on fire, and my third is a homing spell with two projectiles and it leeches health from enemies and gives it to me. Nothing like the crazy shit you can see in this trailer though.
edit: wait, the 2 million possible spells is their number from the game's launch. They've added more materials to the game that brings that number up to 3.5 million (you can combine up to 4 things at a time), and they also added a New Game+ mode that makes the game harder but lets you use up to seven slots, which they say means there over 200 trillion possible combinations. I am not good with the maths so someone else will have to verify those numbers. Regardless of what the actual number is, that's a lot of possible spell combinations.
I got this and played it and it's really cool but for some reason none of my spells shoot anymore. They just sit where I cast them like little mines. I have no idea what I did because they were the first spells I made.
Have you tried erasing the spell and remaking it? Or using different combinations of elements? Otherwise, I dunno
No not yet. I just wonder what's making them ALL do it since they don't share an element in common.
It's because HR is there for the company's interest, not the employee's, and is in actuality run by the corporate lawyers. They are there to minimize damage to the company's bottom line both directly and through potential reputation scandals. There are a lot of soulless tests and graphs to determine how to fire people in a way that is best for the company, not the person being fired.
It is pretty terrible and you shouldn't really trust your corporate HR with anything genuinely personal unless you are sure it won't be used against you.
But Speed, unions will destroy all businesses and murder capitalism!
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Game developers lean heavily towards libertarianism, so I wouldn't expect that to happen anytime soon
Also if a publisher ever got a whiff of unionization becoming a thing, they'd just send everyone packing, because there's always a fresh group of college graduates ready and willing to be ground up in the gears of the industry for a chance to work their dream job
I was lucky, I got my high school dream job of being a tester at <local big video game company> while I was going to college, and while I liked all my coworkers I hated the work itself and all the supervisors were the worst people i've ever personally met, then got fired for BS reasons though not quite as BS as anything in that article. I got that disillusionment out of the way quickly, and didn't suffer through trying to make it work like the people in that last story.
Loving video games is exactly the reason why I never want to work in that field again. Working on what you love just makes you hate what you love.
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That's pretty much the problem everywhere now a days. It's cheaper to hire and train a bunch of new people that are desperate for work than it is to treat the people that are already employed decently.
One of the grocery stores in town constantly rotates employees so that no one ever qualifies for any kind of benefits. I know people that have worked 3 different 6 month stints at that place because there's nowhere else to go.
Game developers lean heavily towards libertarianism, so I wouldn't expect that to happen anytime soon
Also if a publisher ever got a whiff of unionization becoming a thing, they'd just send everyone packing, because there's always a fresh group of college graduates ready and willing to be ground up in the gears of the industry for a chance to work their dream job
It doesn't really have much to do with libertarianism
Political beliefs aren't a big factor one way or the other
It is just the way corporations work, and game developers are largely owned/run/beholden to corporations.
Honestly, that last story... I don't really get it. After it has happened so often and so regularly why did they keep looking for jobs with video game companies? Sure, maybe if it's just the two of them they should go for it and try to keep their dream jobs regardless of the difficulty, but they have 5 (I think I counted right) children. At some point you just have to stop putting yourself in situations were the terrible people in charge of these companies are going to 100% take advantage of you, guaranteed, because it happens literally every time.
Honestly, that last story... I don't really get it. After it has happened so often and so regularly why did they keep looking for jobs with video game companies? Sure, maybe if it's just the two of them they should go for it and try to keep their dream jobs regardless of the difficulty, but they have 5 (I think I counted right) children. At some point you just have to stop putting yourself in situations were the terrible people in charge of these companies are going to 100% take advantage of you, guaranteed, because it happens literally every time.
The story did say they looked for other jobs, but with the husband having no experience in anything but video games the chances of finding a different job with the salary they need is pretty low.
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Honestly, that last story... I don't really get it. After it has happened so often and so regularly why did they keep looking for jobs with video game companies? Sure, maybe if it's just the two of them they should go for it and try to keep their dream jobs regardless of the difficulty, but they have 5 (I think I counted right) children. At some point you just have to stop putting yourself in situations were the terrible people in charge of these companies are going to 100% take advantage of you, guaranteed, because it happens literally every time.
Yeah. I don't want to be mean, but after the third or so time that shit happened that dude should have been looking for a job in a different field.
I guess it's possible that whatever training/qualifications he had precluded him from anything else that payed as well, but I dunno.
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For a lot of reasons.
It did fairly well until the last 15-20 minutes or so. Portrayed the harassment from GG pretty accurately (some of it was direct quotes from tweets and emails to Brianna Wu if I'm not mistaken), explained doxxing, explained swatting. Generally did a good job of getting the message out there of what a lot of people have been dealing with since this whole thing started.
But then they had the Zoe/Anita/Brianna analogue get kidnapped and raped and quit gaming forever. Pretty damn shitty to do when the women they've based that character on are still being attacked today.
I guess the one bright spot is that it gets the story in front of a lot of people who probably never would have heard of it otherwise.
I would have been fine if she would have left the industry without having been kidnapped. There are plenty of women who have left so far because of GamerGate, and while it's a shame every single time, it's also a very real thing that's happening.
It's that they decided to go the route of playing out the worst fears of those being targeted. That's fucked up.
This is also pretty fucked up.
Like Mars. Where men are from.
Actually slightly clever play on words with the names of the sites.
I got this and played it and it's really cool but for some reason none of my spells shoot anymore. They just sit where I cast them like little mines. I have no idea what I did because they were the first spells I made.
If you have Android and you don't get 80 Days you are a DUMMY
I just looked and they aren't free. I think that was for yesterday only.
Have you tried erasing the spell and remaking it? Or using different combinations of elements? Otherwise, I dunno
No not yet. I just wonder what's making them ALL do it since they don't share an element in common.
I too can confirm they are currently free on Amazon.com.
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that requires integrity on the part of the employer y'see
I guess because HR can't be bothered
All the moving and stress of white collar work, with the pay and lack of job security of blue collar work!
Also sometimes crazy people will send you death threats because your game doesn't have enough "sexy" ladies in it!
That doesn't make sense. Employees aren't people.
It is pretty terrible and you shouldn't really trust your corporate HR with anything genuinely personal unless you are sure it won't be used against you.
HM I wonder why
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But Speed, unions will destroy all businesses and murder capitalism!
Also if a publisher ever got a whiff of unionization becoming a thing, they'd just send everyone packing, because there's always a fresh group of college graduates ready and willing to be ground up in the gears of the industry for a chance to work their dream job
Loving video games is exactly the reason why I never want to work in that field again. Working on what you love just makes you hate what you love.
One of the grocery stores in town constantly rotates employees so that no one ever qualifies for any kind of benefits. I know people that have worked 3 different 6 month stints at that place because there's nowhere else to go.
It doesn't really have much to do with libertarianism
Political beliefs aren't a big factor one way or the other
It is just the way corporations work, and game developers are largely owned/run/beholden to corporations.
I briefly wanted to be a games journalist but changed my mind pretty quick
The story did say they looked for other jobs, but with the husband having no experience in anything but video games the chances of finding a different job with the salary they need is pretty low.
Yeah. I don't want to be mean, but after the third or so time that shit happened that dude should have been looking for a job in a different field.
I guess it's possible that whatever training/qualifications he had precluded him from anything else that payed as well, but I dunno.