This is a bad way for the site to go out, there's no real good way but shut down on their own terms would have been better than bled to death by venture capitalists.
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Olivawgood name, isn't it?the foot of mt fujiRegistered Userregular
Giant Bomb certainly deserved better than it got the past few years
One wonders if things went differently they could have ended up some kind of massive internet institution owned by a subsidiary of a major conglomerate, like Rooster Teeth did
I guess that was sort of what CBSi was, but also not really
This is a bad way for the site to go out, there's no real good way but shut down on their own terms would have been better than bled to death by venture capitalists.
Unfortunately it was created and owned by venture capitalists from the very beginning for the purpose of being built up and sold off, that's how the crew were able to get paid a living wage back in 2008 before crowdfunding existed.
Unfortunately any plan is subject to the whims of the assholes who own the site, so
This is the biggest issue I have, tbh. Like the wind was sucked out of my sails in enthusiasm for Giant Bomb after Jess and Jason were fired. If my subscription isn’t there to support them enough to keep them with job security, what is it for?
I think if it were bad news like more layoffs, we'd just hear about it, no preamble. They're asking for questions which says to me they don't have a set agenda.
It does speak to the current dire straights that the immediate assumption is doom and gloom when 2 years ago this would just be a fun stream with no expectations.
Hopefully this is a "Here is our plan for Giant Bomb going forward" and not "we're closing up shop."
I’m assuming it’s not the latter, since during today’s grubber lang Dan and Grubb were occassionally shooting the shit about planning the next set ups for things like Blight Club, and how some of that would be after Dan gets back from where ever he’s apparently going for a bit (didn’t say if it was vacation or work related however)
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augustwhere you come from is goneRegistered Userregular
I appreciate the continued positive mental outlook from the remaining employees, but this is the same script we've heard for the last three acquisitions.
I appreciate the continued positive mental outlook from the remaining employees, but this is the same script we've heard for the last three acquisitions.
I appreciate the continued positive mental outlook from the remaining employees, but this is the same script we've heard for the last three acquisitions.
Hol' up there's another acquisition?
Whiskey Media -> CBSi -> Red Venture -> Fandom
Huh. Red Venture didn't last long.
This was last October, not recent. But that makes your point even stronger.
Red Ventures bought Giant Bomb et al from CBSi in 2020 for $500M, fired Gerstmann in June 2022, then sold everything but CNET to Fandom in Oct 2022 for $55M. CNET was originally bought by CBSi for $1.8B in 2008 and Giant Bomb was bought by CBSi in 2012 for an undisclosed sum (if it was disclosed I can't find where).
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Sweeney Tomtry The Substanceit changed my lifeRegistered Userregular
I appreciate the continued positive mental outlook from the remaining employees, but this is the same script we've heard for the last three acquisitions.
This is the part where I'd repeat "save what you can while you can" like I did after the last acquisition/the true end, but
I appreciate the continued positive mental outlook from the remaining employees, but this is the same script we've heard for the last three acquisitions.
This is the part where I'd repeat "save what you can while you can" like I did after the last acquisition/the true end, but
I appreciate the continued positive mental outlook from the remaining employees, but this is the same script we've heard for the last three acquisitions.
This is the part where I'd repeat "save what you can while you can" like I did after the last acquisition/the true end, but
That's funny I was just reading about the united states air force whats the deal with blowing up doctors without borders all the time anyway, y'all don't like doctors I guess
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That's funny I was just reading about the united states air force whats the deal with blowing up doctors without borders all the time anyway, y'all don't like doctors I guess
did our health care system not make that obvious enough?
That's funny I was just reading about the united states air force whats the deal with blowing up doctors without borders all the time anyway, y'all don't like doctors I guess
They don't like doctors treating the Other Guy. If you're lucky, soldiers begrudgingly respect the adherence to "heal all" neutrality, & regard killing enemy combatants as a necessary evil aligning with their own code, so even then, it's, "Hey, let that asshole I just lit up die! We don't need to prolong or do this again!"
But those type are, let's say, inconvenient to capitalists but increasingly rare in their nuance -- for some amount of time, US training emphasizes the appearance of decorum & adherence to institutional values like "honor", while simultaneously attempting to remove actual personal responsibility and moral questioning that would interfere with amoral, Pavlovian violence useful to the State. It's the continued commercialization of war with the thinnest veneer of minimizing harm.
Which is one of many reasons why (C-)PTSD is still an epidemic in those communities -- especially post-deployment, but most apparent in any reintegration into civilian culture.
The unhealed moral injury from dehumanising the Other results in trauma or 'degradation'; someone experiencing the former has internalized that network of responses as deliberate choice and is unable to practice self-forgiveness & reintegrate, while someone experiencing the latter is so removed from their former sense of self, they are seemingly uninterested in regaining the awareness of fellow-feeling which has been damaged by induced alexithymia & sociopathic numbness.
There are multiple cultures with even a single branch of the US military, so I will just say that they are often a microcosm of the country's social conflicts and diversity, as largely filtered through the working class & its myriad of struggles.
(source: US military brat, with contacts therein spanning between jingoistic and self-described 'ethical killers')
did our health care system not make that obvious enough?
They're simultaneously Ivory Tower Elite with expensive education (and obv no struggles, financial or otherwise, bc the symbolic representative of the medical field as a whole is a rich white guy with time for golf) and also service industry and therefore servants and therefore underclass and undeserving of any humanistic regard as equals. So, contemptible from any asshole's socioeconomic perspective.
I don't know if anyone has been watching Blight Club, but it's a series where one staff member has to play through the entirety of an awful game while everyone else laughs at them. It's good times, the Bubsy 3D series with Jeff Grubb was tremendous.
Anyway they started the newest season yesterday, and there was an intro from a VERY special guest (starts at 1:53):
Excited to announce that I've joined the team at @NullSignalGames.
Excited that I get to work on Netrunner, one of my favorite games ever, and help make it even better!
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admanunionize your workplaceSeattle, WARegistered Userregular
so how’s Null’s whole deal work with keeping Netrunner alive? I thought it was more of a fan kind of thing but this sounds closer to something in an official capacity?
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One wonders if things went differently they could have ended up some kind of massive internet institution owned by a subsidiary of a major conglomerate, like Rooster Teeth did
I guess that was sort of what CBSi was, but also not really
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Unfortunately it was created and owned by venture capitalists from the very beginning for the purpose of being built up and sold off, that's how the crew were able to get paid a living wage back in 2008 before crowdfunding existed.
This is the biggest issue I have, tbh. Like the wind was sucked out of my sails in enthusiasm for Giant Bomb after Jess and Jason were fired. If my subscription isn’t there to support them enough to keep them with job security, what is it for?
Maybe the Town Hall is to show the higher ups that they still have a community worth serving but I dunno how this is gonna go.
I’m assuming it’s not the latter, since during today’s grubber lang Dan and Grubb were occassionally shooting the shit about planning the next set ups for things like Blight Club, and how some of that would be after Dan gets back from where ever he’s apparently going for a bit (didn’t say if it was vacation or work related however)
:shrug:
Whiskey Media -> CBSi -> Red Venture -> Fandom
This was last October, not recent. But that makes your point even stronger.
This is the part where I'd repeat "save what you can while you can" like I did after the last acquisition/the true end, but
The "while you can" process has definitely been sped up
"Grubb, what does yours taste like?"
"...hot dog."
Who was that fucking dingus who started all this? Was it a comic book author or something?
Chuck Wendig who writes mostly YA and some Star Wars stuff.
I think he was mostly a useful tool for publishers to wield.
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did our health care system not make that obvious enough?
They don't like doctors treating the Other Guy. If you're lucky, soldiers begrudgingly respect the adherence to "heal all" neutrality, & regard killing enemy combatants as a necessary evil aligning with their own code, so even then, it's, "Hey, let that asshole I just lit up die! We don't need to prolong or do this again!"
But those type are, let's say, inconvenient to capitalists but increasingly rare in their nuance -- for some amount of time, US training emphasizes the appearance of decorum & adherence to institutional values like "honor", while simultaneously attempting to remove actual personal responsibility and moral questioning that would interfere with amoral, Pavlovian violence useful to the State. It's the continued commercialization of war with the thinnest veneer of minimizing harm.
Which is one of many reasons why (C-)PTSD is still an epidemic in those communities -- especially post-deployment, but most apparent in any reintegration into civilian culture.
The unhealed moral injury from dehumanising the Other results in trauma or 'degradation'; someone experiencing the former has internalized that network of responses as deliberate choice and is unable to practice self-forgiveness & reintegrate, while someone experiencing the latter is so removed from their former sense of self, they are seemingly uninterested in regaining the awareness of fellow-feeling which has been damaged by induced alexithymia & sociopathic numbness.
There are multiple cultures with even a single branch of the US military, so I will just say that they are often a microcosm of the country's social conflicts and diversity, as largely filtered through the working class & its myriad of struggles.
(source: US military brat, with contacts therein spanning between jingoistic and self-described 'ethical killers') They're simultaneously Ivory Tower Elite with expensive education (and obv no struggles, financial or otherwise, bc the symbolic representative of the medical field as a whole is a rich white guy with time for golf) and also service industry and therefore servants and therefore underclass and undeserving of any humanistic regard as equals. So, contemptible from any asshole's socioeconomic perspective.
I should probably cancel my subscription since the bulk of what I've used it to watch since 2020 has been 6 Crazy Frights...
Anyway they started the newest season yesterday, and there was an intro from a VERY special guest (starts at 1:53):
"DO THE JOB."