The games industry sucks
The games industry sucks
Same title as the video. Game dev writer Alanah Pierce offers her POV on the recent layoffs from Epic Games.
This is one of the few industries that consistently and continuously posts record profits while also firing everyone who put in the work to make the success possible.
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I'd really love to see this type of outrage for people with PdDs getting laid off from universities who make shit pay and teach lit classes living out of their cars. Cry me a river, tech professionals. Not that I have anything against tech professionals, etc. But, you know, it would be really nice for people to get a view of the world as it is. I'm a humanities professional, and, thankfully, doing quite well today. I was laid off in the stock market crash of 2008 because I was working at a private, Catholic university in Worcester, MA with investments. That year, they laid off 1000 workers. All of us working our asses off for a fraction of the salary those guys were making that were laid off. Sorry, but my heart strings aren't pulled. I'll tell them what they might have told me at the bar or something: "Sorry, bro. A door closes, another one opens."
The solution is not for you to show contempt or lack of empathy to these people, it's for them and you to demand better treatment from the owners and executives.
The system is fucked and it is skewed wildly against anyone who is not at the top.
I'm not showing contempt or lack of empathy. I'm showing that people on here don't care about other workers other than the ones that work in computer-related industries, which salary-wise can afford to be laid off. Cry me a river. Your nasty response shows me that you have no compassion for workers in other industries or professions that are, on average, overqualified and make less money when they are employed. You're the type of person that got an F in High School English class and just like video games. Nothing intelligent here in your comment. I made a real argument about things how they are about the job market. Your response is weak and not convincing me. Most of all because science is always favored over humanities in the world at large. You don't care about anything else except the industry you are into. You're into the video game industry. You only care about the workers who were laid off in the video game industry. Other workers that were laid off, it seems to me, don't matter to you. You're attentive to this news story not because of workers, but because of video games.
Boy howdy, you sure are committed to your idiot perspective aren't you?
What's my idiot perspective here? My perspective is stupid. I am too dumb to understand why my perspective is dumb. Please, explain. My point of view from my perspective looks crystal clear. Tell me, please, in plain English, where I am erring.
Me hurt from lack of other people caring about bad things happening to me. Me hate people who care about other people having bad things happen to them.
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With due respect, you’re projecting. No one has brigaded you, and the only nasty replies itt are your own.
Perhaps a qualified clinician can help.
Please learn about paragraphs. Thank you.
So you have difficulty with reading comprehension and don't know what a paragraph is.
By your own admission you are punching down or sideways at best. Punch up. You see what you want to see, you aren't the only person in the world who's a card carrying union member here nor are you the only person who cares about workers in any non-tech industry here. Class infighting is about the dumbest thing ever.
Well, look at you! You brigaded against me and my comment, and now you're reconsidering. I think that's the right thing to do. You're a good person and I just want to let you know something: Welcome to the fediverse, where brigading isn't really a thing. You figured that out when I didn't stand down, right? That's fine. In my heart and my mind, nobody has to carry a particular card. What they have to do is be true and honest in their words and actions. I LOVE VIDEO GAMES by the way. I play them all the time, in co-op even. So, ummmmmmmm, what? I know what kind of fucking card I've got. Just got one. 12 GB NVIDIA 4070. Just so you know, we humanities people sometimes got more buying power when we get lucky, too.
I don't think you realize that video game developers and other related jobs are pretty badly compensated for the job they're doing. Those devs are among the most skilled ones and could probably earn 5 or 10x what they're getting now by going to work at some FAANG or big banks. They're working here because they love video games and want to create something fun, so it sucks when you just get fired like that.
Also, it's not because you've had it worse that their situation is okay, it's fairly easy to always find a worse situation and just dismiss any issue.
I didn't have it worse or better. I just think you only care about video games, not workers.