There’s people that study these things as a profession.

The FBI along with others that study crime rates and methodology. Several universities have studied these homicide rates for example.

Who do you think would be studying this sort of thing?

There’s estimated to be upwards of 50 serial killers currently active in the US today.

It is much harder to be a serial killer now, but police are still not great at their jobs and especially communicating across state lines. Hell, even communicating across county lines have proven to be too difficult for police to manage or care to do. This is one of the reasons serial killers target sex workers, queer people, and people of color the most - the broader public care less about these victims and the police don’t work as hard to solve their murders.

This was a fun read! Her customizations are so cute and I love that she’s a Stardew Valley player as well.

I live in a very blue area, but most of my coworkers are conservative. I spend a lot of time at work so inevitably political topics come up here and there. I have to handle them with kid gloves when we do talk politics, but they do extend respect to me and can agree to disagree with me. Well, as respectful as they can be considering some of their conservative political beliefs.

Your knick knacks are pretty rad! Cool use of the china cabinet.

I see people struggling, but I also see a lot of money spent on what I consider to be bullshit

I was nodding along with you until this line here.

Not everyone is as lucky as we are to be in a position where we aren’t struggling as much right now. It’s not entirely their fault for struggling either. What you find worthy of spending money on, others will find wasteful.

Ok then don’t try to have a conversation here with people who have watched it.

now it’s become where everything is so coated in foam that there’s only the “approved” way to do things, which means covering the user in bubble wrap before sending them through the feel-good forests, and it’s making things very boring to play.

Is this because of HR or maybe it’s because of capitalism’s penchant for the enshittification of everything? If a product is appealing to everyone, it appeals to no one.

I think the HR issue is separate from the quality of the games. Indie dev companies are putting out really great quality games at a higher frequency than when AAA games were dominating the marketplace. Maybe there’s an argument that the smaller dev teams don’t need as much involvement from HR because they’re smaller and can police each other better about not being assholes to one another. It’s an interesting topic regardless.

I’m having a conversation with you. God forbid I reply to your points.

The video is very strongly opinionated about HR being useless now and that HR is ruining games. It completely ignores WHY HR became so involved in the gaming industry at large. I’m trying to have a conversation with you about it.

Did you watch the video?

However, the bell has swung the in the other direction now,

I’d like to see some sources on this proving that the rampant sexism and toxic work environments have been done away with in the last 5 years before being this confident about it.

There’s room to have a discussion here, most certainly. But not in a way that scoffs at the entire idea of needing to be respectful of others in a work environment.

Where’s the heat for the CEO and CFO then? Aren’t they the ones inviting HR into the boardroom?

I wish there was a transcript I could read. I’m intrigued by the topic. Gaming has long had a real problem with interpersonal issues and toxic work culture - it’s very understandable why HR became a more important part of the industry. Certainly HR is overstepping by trying to run the entire company so to speak, but I don’t want to speak too much without taking the time to watch the video.

Whoops, I spoke too soon - there is a transcript!

Edit: Oh Jesus Christ, someone in HR really fought back against the term “Senior Technical Artist” because it might offend elderly people? The pendulum swung too far smh

“You see, from my persepctive, what happened is that HR decided that the day-to-day work of actually helping people wasn’t enough. They wanted a seat in the executive meetings and they got it. Today, most executives have HR sitting in influencing decision and driving cultural change and a lot of them want to run the entire company.”

Oooooook…HR aren’t the decision makers here. The executives are. @TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca is correct on this - the directives are coming from C suites that fear controversy and risk.

If game makers don’t want endless meetings about safe spaces, maybe they shouldn’t force their women coworkers to crawl around on the floor so they can upskirt them like at Blizzard? Source

A complaint, filed by the state Department of Fair Employment and Housing on Wednesday, alleges that Activision Blizzard Inc. “fostered a sexist culture” where women were paid less than men and subjected to ongoing sexual harassment including groping. (Activision and Blizzard Entertainment merged in 2008.)

Officials at the gaming company knew about the harassment and not only failed to stop it but retaliated against women who spoke up, the complaint also alleges.

This was only 5 years ago.