This is from one of the former Infinity Ward/Call of Duty co-founders:
05.03.2026 09:16
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This is from one of the former Infinity Ward/Call of Duty co-founders:
Thousands in Minab, Iran attended the funeral for the 175 children and staff killed in Saturday’s U.S.-Israeli strike on a girls’ primary school.
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.
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
The numbers are staggering:
Rent is now unaffordable for a record *half* of U.S. renters.
Some 30 million jobs pay less than $15 an hour. The average wage needed to afford a one-bedroom apartment has climbed to $28.17 — nearly four times the federal minimum wage, which hasn't gone up in 16 years.
yes, we know. that's why you all keep doing this.
A list of countries that have been hit by missiles / drones in the past 48 hours:
- Iran
- Israel
- Saudi Arabia
- UAE
- Bahrain
- Qatar
- Kuwait
- Jordan
- Lebanon
- Palestine (Gaza)
- Iraq
- Oman
- Afghanistan
- Cyprus
Trump and Netanyahu have unleashed a regional war that will impact millions
The NYT style guide
hard to overstate what a dramatic escalation this is
A reminder that this is once again all about profits for US oil and arms corporations. Capitalists can’t get enough of their blood-money.
absolutely pathetic & spineless regime and also entirely expected lmao
the world has never been less safe, it makes you feel crazy watching people
cheer on war and destruction and destablization for profit and land. one day it will end
this is horrifying. this is why they say death to america. because all we bring is death to their children and people
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
No union will ever have a better slogan than this one from these Nevada brothel workers.
I once worked at an Indie Studio that was making one of the most popular games at the time. It was traumatic in a way that many of us had to go to therapy after leaving it abruptly.
You know how you learn of injustice at AAA Studios? Imagine what's happening at companies NOT being scrutanized.
If you've ever celebrated being featured in a Critical Distance roundup, please help them keep the lights on. They put in a lot of work for not very much pay (most members are purely volunteer!) and help keep what remains of the game criticism community together
Deeply evil, genocidal policy. Here are some orgs that may be able to help:
Across Bsky, many people have shared Trans Continental Pipeline. This is a grassroots mutual aid network turned based in Denver that helps LGBTQ+ individuals relocate from unsafe situations to Colorado. tcpipeline.org
31 hours left!
Border Patrol released Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a 56 yo man, nearly blind with serious medical conditions, at "an old address & his family had since moved" in Buffalo, NY in the winter. "His family was not initially notified." He was found dead. @news4buffalo.bsky.social
www.wivb.com/news/local-n...
A swirling snake made up of red location pins!
Early in designing Beast Breaker, we identified the characters that would unlock various game features. One was a "mail carrier" to deliver missions to the player.
I don't think any of us expected our humble mail carrier would end up looking like Cinnabar!
Art by the brilliant @oxboxer.bsky.social
godspeed! may we all eventually climb out of our deeply tired era (I say as I crawl into bed at 3:40pm on a wednesday)
in my "deeply tired" era
I can assure you that small/not-AAA studios are a decent chunk of casework and not immune to the bullshit the big companies can throw on workers.
Sometimes they're worse!
Miniature de vidéo Youtube. On voit Maëlle de Clair Obscur Expedition 33 à l'avant, et Renoir de dos derrière. Il est écrit : "Clair Obscur, jeu de facho ?"
Salut.
Ca fait cinq ans que j'étudie comment le nationalisme et le colonialisme ont des échos dans le jeu vidéo.
J'ai rarement vu un jeu aussi misogyne, orientaliste et inconsciemment droitard qu'Expedition 33.
🥖💀 youtu.be/Z8M8q80bTKg 💀🥖
hi, I worked in indie games for 10 years and sorry, they're also burning down. you just don't hear about it because it doesn't make the news when a studio of 19 lays off 7, even when it's 200 small studios doing that
The education system was already broken long before AI entered the picture, and it will take a lot more than moving back to in-class paper tests to fix it. We need to totally revamp our socioeconomic system, and rethink our priorities as human beings.
In capitalist societies education has been reduced to a tool for individual class mobility, and even that promise is failing to pay off, so of course students don't feel motivated. What's the point if there's no collective benefit or higher social purpose? AI is just exposing the farce.
It's true! I rewatched Pride recently with other UVW members and damn, the feels in that movie are unparalleled.
sorry apparently I'm incapable of talking about organizing without being sappy on main. I just have *feelings,* ok?
