With GDC only a few days away, I added @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social's brilliant gaming union zine/explainer to archive.org. The previous host for the PDF added a monthly subscription.
Please feel free to print and share as you wish!
At this year’s DICE Awards, Ghost of Yōtei VA @erikaishii.bsky.social used their platform to demand that video game workers are treated fairly and with respect.
If you want to be part of our fight to build a better industry, reach out and get connected with an organizer.
Congratulations, Erika! 💪
READ: Israel developed a doctrine of total societal destruction that is used in Gaza — and is now deploying it in Lebanon and Iran with full US backing.
This is one of the most important things you'll read today: mondoweiss.net/2026/03/isra...
daggerfall said houses are not investments, they are for living in 💪
At the meeting, I talk about Good Boss/Bad Boss/Sad Boss as the kind of menu of tactics the company will draw from. I said some version of a thing I have now said thousands of times in meetings and house calls: Good Boss is when they buy off or try to buy off workers, with favors and fixes or even pay raises, to quell the anger that drives the organizing, to make it seem as though workers don't need a union after all. Bad Boss is when they terrify or try to terrify workers through threats, like plant closure and rumors like "Wherever the union goes, Immigration follows," so that fear overpowers the driving anger. Sad Boss is when they play the strange game of pretending to suffer a deep, personal heartbreak as the result of workers deciding to organize, in hopes that the workers' anger will be confused or blunted by empathy for the boss.
Genuinely the best description I've ever seen about how CEOs and bosses respond when you try to form a union or improve the workplace.
From Daisy Pitkin's book - On The Line: Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union.
at some point one has to accept that the us and isreal consider children to be priority targets, and admit what that reveals about their ultimate goals
This is from one of the former Infinity Ward/Call of Duty co-founders:
I love games and so many of the people who make them. It was an honor to accept the award on behalf of the team and a privilege to be able to speak to what I believe in. ♥️
It is flatly a blight on the Scottish games industry that so many promising developers - often graduates - were swallowed up and spat out by a studio that views its own workers as scheming criminals.
Reddit comment - Cyber Boi on YouTube spoke to a former BARB employee. He claimed that the company was essentially a cult with Leslie Benzies at the head. Benzies would micromanage everything from art, to coding, to even QA. Development was heavily delayed because an enormous number of decisions (including art assets) had to be personally approved by Benzies before being allowed to proceed, leading to a lot of wasted time. Benzies would often suddenly come up with ideas out of nowhere, demand people implement them, and later on cancel them. Eventually the main priority of everyone in the company became "Keep Leslie happy". People who became Benzies' yes men shot up the ranks while anyone who disagreed with Benzies or even reported bad news, were shunned and eventually let go. Of course BARB responded to this by going "Those people are all disgruntled employees" and later stepped up to trying to discredit Cyber Boi altogether.
So Leslie is the Founder and Mark is the CEO and they both sound like nutjobs.
2026 the year of linux on the desktop
Sometimes the fight for workers' rights involves a little rebellion.
#solidarity #toronto #gwu
You asked for it! The long-awaited sequel to You Are Jeff Bezos is finally here:
YOU ARE ELON MUSK
200+ passages. 7 endings. Secrets. In-jokes. Giant robots. All with the purpose of doing one thing: SPENDING ALL OF ELON MUSK'S FUCKING MONEY
direkris.itch.io/elon
Since the topic is RPGs & cultural lenses, I'll repeat that Xuan-Yuan Sword 3 is a must-play in this sense store.steampowered.com/app/1638230/...
Set in the 8th century, you flee religious fanatics in Europe to pursue knowledge along the Silk Road. A wild contrast to the usual Europe-centric views
honestly that's why i'm very grateful for your shouting
There won't be any reporting on this in the US btw because the US / UK backs the monarchy in Bahrain and therefore their people don't need liberating and should not liberate themselves.
Only countries the US does not currently control, like Iran, deserve regime change that everyone cheers for.
really good video!!!!!!!!!!!! dives into a lot of stuff about E33 that's hard to discuss in english speaking crit because lets be honest we dont know shit about other countries
this website feels too much like linkedin somedays
you know what i'm saying?
bsky.app/profile/goth...
A quote on a black background with a crowd of cartoon raised hands at the bottom. The quote reads, "I was laid off twice in the past year, despite nearly 20 years in the industry, lots of references and contacts, and many people claiming they’re eager to speak well of me."
A quote on a black background with a crowd of cartoon raised hands at the bottom. The quote reads, "I have never been able to grow my career despite continually having great feedback from managers and coworkers because of constant layoffs and having to start over again every time, including one time I was laid off while 7 months pregnant."
A quote on a black background with a crowd of cartoon raised hands at the bottom. The quote reads, "We deserve better."
“We deserve better.”
Add your voice here: actionnetwork.org/forms/were-d...
A quote on a black background with a crowd of cartoon raised hands at the bottom. The quote reads, "I’ve been laid off 12 months after moving my family to another continent."
A quote on a black background with a crowd of cartoon raised hands at the bottom. The quote reads, "During my first games role out of college, I experienced a medical event 6 months into my role, and was let go while in the hospital."
Responses to the We’re Done Playing Petition responses are often brutal. The layoffs game developers experience are shocking, callous, and wreak havoc on their lives, and the lives of the people closest to them.
Have you signed the petition? Add your voice here: actionnetwork.org/forms/were-d...
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gonna be honest it's in moments like this that i really hate bluesky. almost no information and no way to find any serious reporting or any live posting from people on the ground or directly affected. barely any anti-imperialist analysis of the situation. only a flood of the most liberal commentary
I'll be at GDC on a panel with a bunch of amazing worker organizers talking about how union campaigns are changing the industry for the better. If you'd like to learn more about workplace organizing come check out the talk on Wed. March 11 from 3:40-4:40pm!
schedule.gdconf.com/session/figh...
this is walter benjamin's aestheticization of politics argument about what fascism is
Don’t let anyone tell you that this unhinged war of aggression the United States and Israel just instigated against Iran is justified.
they will tell you that they need to do regime change iran to liberate the women, and while you docilely repeat their propaganda they will bomb a girls school in broad daylight and laugh at how much contempt they have for you for buying their lies
seeing red at the bluesky of it all with the iran news. top reply on a post calling israel and america rogue states being "what about russia?" says it all. cannot imagine having such a worldview. all this death, all this horror, to percieve it purely through liberal pointscoring is utterly inhuman
