War of Rights is a game about unions.
A gaming union is an easy thing to want, but a hard thing to accomplish. I am proud of the folks in the UK working to make it happen. Brave souls stepping up to the line and taking a shot. It's gonna be a funny feeling for them when they look back and no one else is behind them, but everyone is giving them heart emojis from the safety of their jobs.
Because that is life right now in the video game industry, everyone knows it is fucked up, with the overtime, zero-hour contracts, lack of inclusion, systemic misogyny, and all of the rapes, but that is just, like, life to most of these folks. The squeaky wheel gets the grease and all of that.
Publishers and developers are gonna fight for the southern way of life, global corporations are gonna fight, the tech industry is def gonna fight because that is what gaming is at the end of the day, a sub-sect of the big bad.
And the people, they are gonna fall in line, because no matter how tired of the status quo they are they are more tired of fighting and losing to the status quo because no one helps them when the chips are down.
Back in the day unions got started because it was a life or death thing, people were being worked to death, pay was horrible-bad. Whole families were being affected, no one respects video games enough to even understand the problem, let alone devote energy past "thoughts and prayers" to fix it. Right now it's like unionizing against mass shootings in the states. Who wouldn't want to, but also who would want to risk getting mass shot over it?
I care about this particular issue, especially for my QA family in the States. Maybe I should put my money and network where my mouth is on this one. But then again I have been banished to the island of broken toys, so what can I do? Good question.
Shouts to information, rest in peace TC, rest in peace Tall T. Love is wise hatred is foolish, the UK is out there doing great things, we should all take notice. Also Jerbz.
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