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Techland Studios (Dying Light 2 devs) apparently not a good place to work...
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I had little interest in the Dying Light games, but this is sad. this and Dead Island 2 have been on the back burner for a long time now. Every single year, I find less and less reasons to get triple a games anymore.
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The E3 2019 demo really did look too good to be true. Yahtzee said the same that it was ominously too good looking.
I really hope they succeed with it and sort their studio issues. A long time PR manager recently left the studio there...like she was there a loooong time. Now I'm more than curious what caused her to leave.
I really hope they succeed with it and sort their studio issues. A long time PR manager recently left the studio there...like she was there a loooong time. Now I'm more than curious what caused her to leave.
One might argue that's because there are less and less reasons to find
I don't know what the censored term actually is. Or how the culture reacts to said things because different countries have different political temperaments.
But yeah probably shouldn't outright insult the art, still I dunno if that makes it a "workplace hell" though.
No I meant what I said, "new money" in terms of these articles being the latest thing that generates the biggest clicks and thus the most money possible. The higher the outrage the more clicks and thus the more money. Therefore these types of things have becomes the Nouveau riche fad of article writing.
Not to mention that people in interviews tend to exaggerate, as well as reporters also exaggerating. Just watch any news broadcast.
Emphasizing the awful has always been what drives news traffic.
Nouveau riche is a singular noun that means "a person who is newly rich," and you used it as an adjective. It doesn't fit there, and doesn't make sense the way you explain it. You use the word as if to mean popular or fashionable, so to say it was 'in vogue' would work much better. But whatever, if you don't care you are using the word wrong then fine.
In Malaysia anyway.... not really. Different shades of shit, I regret entering the field and I should've just done an easy Finance degree or some shit and worked at a bank. It'd be just as mind numbing but it'd pay better and I'd get bonuses.
That is what a lot of people just do. No one learns coding to write some accounting tool. But that is what most sooner or later end up doing anyway to pay the bills.
Game developing companies tend to have a huge turnover and a lot of that is new programmers following their fream to develop games, finding that the job environment and pay are horrible and switching to some other field. Or trying to go Indie with some friends/collegues.
Perhaps not so surprising. Poland has a bit of reputation when it comes to homophobia.
That's fair enough, though I do feel like the outrage on words has gone a bit too far. People let shit get to them on a level that never happened when I was younger, I mean back in the school yard guys used to use "gay" as a term for lame or wack. We used to call each other f***ts too and it was nothing. Now in the wrong context obviously those terms have a much different meaning.
But these days someone will be outrageously offended by hearing, I guess "trigger" words, in conversations that they aren't even apart of and I frankly think that's ridiculous. And again it fair enough to not want to hear those words in the workplace, however in many tight knit environments especially in more casual work places like a games studio people become friends and around friends language always slips.
It's fine if you don't want to hear certain things, but asking the world around you to change so you don't get triggered is really kind of an asshole thing to do. As an adult, if you hear someone say something you don't like you have two choices. 1. you can ask those people to not use that can of language, 2. Be an adult and ignore it.
At the end of the day, being overly sensitive to fairly minor things ends up making you a problem.
Let's use a hypothetical miracle company, in which everyone is mostly cool and follows protocol. A small group of friends is talking about a movie they saw over the weekend, and they talk about how gay the movie was (meaning lame). Someone outside that group hears this, gets offended and rushes off to HR to report it. Hr then reports to the group and gives them a lecture, sensitivity training, the whole shebang all because someone not even a part of the conversation heard a bad word out of context (or maybe didn't even care about the context).
That group is going to know who reported on them, because those people who are easily offended are rather easy to sniff out, especially if you work together or near each other for any length of time. What happens then is conversation gets quieter and the offended person becomes the black sheep of the office. And nobody wins in that scenario.
And truthfully, what does anyone gain from that behavior? You think you stop people from changing their outlook? No it just make people hate you and what good is that. If you don't like somebody, just like if you don't like a TV show or game, then avoid it.
Yes that kind of thing doesn't technically belong in a workplace. But people aren't robots. And entire careers shouldn't be lost based off something as mundane as words unless the context of those words were used in an assault towards another person. Talking about a shitty movie is a lot different than called Steve from accounting a fucking Fig-newton.
Now Techland's situation in terms of this art situation IMO is a boss is a dickhead sure, but probably wouldn't be worth the hassle of complaining and expecting something from it. Be an adult, let the comment roll off your back, and if it bothered you enough look for another job in your free time. Don't cut your nose off despite your face, you know what I mean?
See that's the thing too, its culturally different there obviously. Who is more offended by the "homophobia", the people working there or people reading the article going "THESE MONSTERS!!".
It's the same kind of thing I put forth when people complain about anime tittie games. Japan has a much different culture that expresses sexual frustration in media like games, manga, and anime/hentai. People in the west might have a problem with the girl's designs, but that doesn't mean Japan is in the wrong for enjoying that kind of content. So i don't understand the reason to hate on it. Sexualization does not equal objectification.
Just like using terms like fa***t (which is cigarette in England), gay, etc do not equal homophobia.
Well, in Poland chances are good the homophobes would be the most offended at being called pedalski. Tho chances are also good they would voice their displeasure to your face, rather than online. With their fists.
Man I remember the good old days of just getting hit if you talked shit. Simpler times man
With the current leadership, it's not so good for women or any of the LGBT community neither, and getting worse.
Well, it's just "fag" or "fags" for a cigarettes. A f@ggot is a Scottish (I think) meaty ball type dish...pics incoming!
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You can always get these premade at most frozen food stores too.
A f*ggot is also a bundle of sticks. That said, I think it is pretty obvious what meaning is intended for the word based on context. They weren't comparing the art to a British dish or a bundle of sticks.With the current leadership, it's not so good for women or any of the LGBT community neither, and getting worse.
Well, it's just "fag" or "fags" for a cigarettes. A f@ggot is a Scottish (I think) meaty ball type dish...pics incoming!
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But the words themselves aren't solely linked to the sexuality. Words have different meanings all over the place depending on how they are used. Just because a group of people have "claimed" a word doesn't mean the other uses automatically have to be invalidated. Nor does it mean that use of the word has to automatically be offensive to anyone. Taking offense by something is an extremely personal thing, what one person finds offensive other's do not. It shouldn't be anyone's responsibility to monitor what other people find offensive. Nor should you being offended by something drive you to trying to ruin their lives (cancel culture, getting person fired, public shaming, whatever) I just don't think it's a proportional response.