Sorry if this has been said already, but important correction on the Riot investigation: they were already investigated and are currently being SUED by the same group that is now suing Blizzard. There was some confusion going around when those claims initially came out.
Unions only really work when firing literally everyone and rehiring everyone isn't a viable solution. Also, it's just a temporary bulwark until the union becomes sufficiently detached from the workers and does nothing but collect dues and threaten to strike whenever the company does something that threatens the union's existence regardless of how that impacts the workers.
@@dudere A costly temporary solution that leaves you worse that you were at the beginning is worse that no solution at all. Government intervention and people just not supporting games from companies that do this crap is a much more effective solution. And it is exactly what is happening in this case, this things are not new, workers have been complaining for years, but the second there is a investigation from the government you get the BIG "oh SHIT" from the companies, and if players don't buy the games then any company that is not a front of money laundering will go down. An union will cost a fuckload of effort from the workers to create, and even after that it will have little to no power to improve their situation.
@@hawkemesa The Cosby allegations go back to the early aughts, it's just that nobody really took them seriously until Hannibal Buress' stand-up routine in 2014. Considering Bliz' internal 'culture', there's no real way that it was just about sweaters.
@@Maakyo Moreso as if you told that Blizzard would effectively self-immolate and no one would care to so much as piss on em to put it out back in the 90s? You'd be laughed at.
game devs need to unionize. They literally control the production of the games and have full control on the profits of those companies. The sooner devs realize what they can do and how to protect themselves the better. Blizz/Act without their devs are literally nothing
@@zombieplasticclock exactly this. I used to work at a small studio and we tried to unionize. They fired everyone who tried on the same day. At least they made us able to collect EI, but they still targeted us.
And what a joyous coincidence, just a few days ago the big cheese himself, Mr. Kotick, has been confirmed to be complicit in this whole fiasco! I don't see any future where any branch of Activision emerges unscathed from this, the whole blasted company is probably going to be pulled out by the roots.
Pinkerton's or Union busters from the early 19th century and if you were a communist they had more reason to beat the shit out of you they were based and necessary.
@@mikecampos1193 engaging in wrongthink? A sudden and irrevocable absence of their kneecaps ought to fix that! Edit: changed your to their so as not to sound like a threat.
What I want to know is what the fuck was even being seen by that camera given it literally said in the article that you couldn't even see underneath the partitions because it was underneath the sink.
@@SapphicFurry Were these in the male bathrooms to? Why this wasn't reported to the police either since people would want to just leave that company as soon as possible and setup a job hunt before hand to then just leave.
It's not unusual that Pat could not find when DICE employees unionized, because, well, in sweden, employees forming a union is nothing news. It would be bigger thing if they chose *not* to unionize.
Literally everywhere should have a union. Its not a debate its common sense. A buisness is a a relationship of two parts the worker and the owner and that relationship is irreconcilable so a union must be created to stop workers from being atomized and exploitated. I don't understand how this is a debate in America and Canada at all.
@@yodabaki970 Literal fucking propaganda to convince people unions are lazy parasites that do nothing but leach money from them played non-stop. It's disgusting. Companies are not your fucking friends, and Business Daddy will do anything he can to fuck you dry. After all, lube costs extra. Unions are an equalizer to an inherently imbalanced power relationship. Are they perfect? Hell no, but they're a step in the right direction and you're a fucking idiot if you think otherwise. Business shills blow me away. They really think if given all the power, somehow, a company will treat them humanely. Rather then bleed them dry. The Gilded Age happened. We *know* what happens. This isn't up for debate. Quistlings, the lot of them. People bled and died for those labor rights. And they want to offer them up on a platter because 'Unions bad!' Fuckwads.
Actually, they couldn't even not unionize. Swedish labour laws are so strict that even foreign nationals who explicitly do not want to unionize are still covered under collective bargaining in their field, as the supreme court have ruled on a case where a shipping company tried to use non-unionized eastern European workers to circumvent/undermine the union but were still forced to use the union contracts.
@@RazgrizStraitz both sides are very against unions cuz it would cut their bottom line and only unions that ever formed is because the mob had influence on them to do it in the first place.
I disagree with Pat’s statement about locks on breastfeeding rooms. Why? Because he’s unintentionally being way too NICE to shitty studios and management. $300? Hell, to do the absolute bare fucking minimum for the cheapest of cheap skates you’d need like $5-$10 and 20 minutes to put a cheap crappy bolt or chain on the inside of the door. This is so bad that even his attempt to say how awful it is is actually still too charitable for the people at companies like ActiBlizz.
There is so many layers to that. First, it's not that the lock was broken and they were too lazy to fix it; there never was a lock to begin with. And then there's "Hey, cool, you don't want to put a lock. Could you at least tell those creeps to cut it out?" "Sure, we are looking into it....... someday"
I don’t think he was trying to explicitly refer to bad management. I think he was saying GOOD management would pay to have it fixed ASAP, including buying a lock and paying someone to install it properly and professionally to ensure that it would not happen again.
"There must always be a Cosby Suite" has the *exact* same energy as "He MUST win" from MK Woolie was very right to make that comparisson. That little Zangief high five at 09:55 made me happy though so that's nice.
I've had bosses that were blindingly incompetent in the past. One to the point that I swear she was borderline illiterate. Would refuse to actually read anything. Would delegate most, if not all of her work. I remember one time she called me to her desk, repeatedly pointed to an email on her screen and told me to 'take care of it'. I told her I had no idea what 'it' was because the email was too vague, so she printed it out. I took the paper to another higher up, who laughed and said 'I'll take care of it. This has literally nothing to do with you.'
Another fun fact. Ion Hazzikosts (the current game director for WoW) was an associate at WilmerHale (the law firm Bobby Kotick said they were hiring to investigate themselves) before he was hired to work at Blizzard. Ya that's totally not a conflict of interest at all lol. Also, iirc the spit emote is still in classic. They just made it so that you can't use it on players. Gotta protect the pay pigs' fee fees.
@@miguelnewmexico8641 "Defend harssment" please. It's an emote. Anyone crying about it needs to grow up. You can /ignore players to block their chat and emotes from appearing for you. There is no need to change how the emote works. The game already has a built in system to counteract that. Also, even if I were to agree that it's a problem, the bigger issue is that blizz did this ONLY because people who were buying boosts and mounts were being harassed. People have been spitting on each other for one and a half decades in WoW but only NOW did they disable it on other players, and ONLY in classic. aka they only did it because they didn't want whales' feelings to be hurt. They couldn't care less about harassment as a whole. If they did you'd be able to report people and get an actual response in a reasonable time frame and the harasser be punished accordingly. But they don't because blizzard is too cheap to keep enough customer service reps around to handle it.
If racism wasn't important they wouldn't be trying so hard to stamp it out. If homophobia wasn't important they wouldn't be trying so hard to stamp it out. If capitalism wasn't important they wouldn't be trying so hard to stamp it out.
Its almost like creating a us versus them mentality does nothing but make everything worse for everyone and encourage people to even further exploit the power they have to protect themselves and become even more corrupt than they already are. Its almost like instead of making everyone hate eachother based on stupid communist bullshit that we should instead change the laws and fight corruption in a meaningful way that isn't posting a hashtag and whining on twitter or creating these stupid hatemobs that never do anything beyond hurt random people for random percieved personal slights or stupid political shit. Almost. I can promise you, the people you claim to hate so much absolutely love the way you're acting right now, because it gives them every excuse in the world to be even more evil and even more greedy than they already are.
@@Zach0451 The dude's rant was incoherent. Is "nuance" when someone disagrees with something you also dislike? Yeah, I'm sure that global capitalism loves class consciousness, because they love needing to bust unions and lobby harder against labor rights.
Just as a general advice for all the young people now entering the work force. NEVER. and I mean NEVER. Trust a companies hr department. They are not there for you. They are there for the company. Always go 3rd party. Trust me. I've experienced a lot of bs and the hr dept is the last place you wanna go. They will snitch. They will mention who said what
@@zombieplasticclock The power of unions is in their ability to collectively bargain. This is why unions are (rightfully) aggressive towards scabs, and people that refuse to join the union, since it ultimately undermines the power of collective action. Ideally you would want every subsidiary of EA to bargain as ONE union, rather than one per studio. This will prevent EA from selling off the studio or shuttering it in the future.
The fact that game companies are so afraid of their workers unionizing, and hire people who specifically make it their business to make sure that the workers do not unionize, is a sure sign that they should definitely unionize.
I'm not entirely sure, but I think that if they actually deleted tweets that could be seen as trying to destroy evidence, which would make things even worse for them, legally speaking.
I'm definitely not giving Riot a pass, but to be fair... I literally didn't know shit about the Cosby stuff until the big knowledge bomb dropped about it
I was fired from climax games on a Friday just after lunch time with no warning or reason given, I was told to leave now & that I wasn't allowed to talk about it to anyone. I later found out my manager didn't know I was going to be fired & asked around the office for what happened to me. This was on the 17th of May 2019 & I've never talked about it publicly before.
You have to wonder what happened to these people. Like what leads to unironically comparing themselves to Bill Cosby and such. Where did the introspection go?
George Rockall Schmidt has a video about how getting rich makes you evil according to research data. It's pretty eye opening about WHY rich people are scum.
I want Blizzard to burn to the ground and all the CEOs/Bigwigs to be broke, sued, and incarcerated. I also want the employees to find better, well paying jobs where they’re NOT r-ped and abused, more than anything, but MAN it’d be great if everyone involved in the abuse got THE WORST possible outcome.
Buscemi is a good egg. He used to be a firefighter, and apparently he suited back up on 9/11 because he was in town that day and it seemed like the thing to do?
I think they did find a way around the emote ban, but yeah, better protect their dear paying costumers. Can't let this TOXIC harrassment continue a second longer! The N word what, what is that, it doesn't exist, just don't spit on paying costumers, ok?
and it has come to pass in the fall of Blizzard empire burning in ash and ... the land of WOW has lay in a wasteland and its inhabitant have fond a new home in final fantasy 14
_From this seal shall arise the doom of men, who, in their arrogance, sought to wield our flame as their own._ _Blindly they built their kingdoms upon stolen knowledge and conceit._ *_Now, they shall be consumed by the very flame they sought to control._*
There is no huge law firm that's "for" union busting. These are gigantic groups that handle all sorts of law. It's understandably pretty sketchy when you see groups like that involved but that isn't how this works. These firms have tons of lawyers across many departments for ENTIRELY DIFFERENT law practices. If they were hired for one thing that does not mean the union busters in the firm are involved necessarily. It doesn't mean they aren't either, but yeah a lot of people are showing a lot of ignorance of how law firms work. I promise that once you get on the scale of company even remotely the size of ActiBlizz every single law firm they employ for any reason will have parts of their practice that does shit you won't like.
If you don't want your employees unionizing, treat them well enough that they don't even think about it. You know, do the bare minimum and maybe a little more and keep working on it. If you're good at software development, please work in anything but game dev. You'll make more money and have less crunch.
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"We here at Blizzard fully endorse the N-Pass Plus"
That sounds like a vibe. An experience, even!
N-Pass Premium coming soon to World of Warcraft Wrath of the Lich King Classic
We support it so much that you have a chance of getting a subscription when you open a loot box.
EVERY VOICE MATTERS.
Blizzard shoots some female employee with a gun: “we are working hard on finding out who was potentially responsible for these allegations”.
"Who Killed Hannibal?"
"why would feminism do this"
"And that is why the evils of whistle-blowing must be snuffed and smothered like a babe in the crib, a corruption to be rooted out leaf and stem."
@@FishSkeleton- blizzard: “don’t expose us we’re your friend”
China does that all the time and no one complains.
"I don't wanna watch these ditch diggers use any vulgar emotes"
-Blizzard
"There's no censorship on the chat?" Woolie asked, eyes full of joy
Sorry if this has been said already, but important correction on the Riot investigation: they were already investigated and are currently being SUED by the same group that is now suing Blizzard. There was some confusion going around when those claims initially came out.
The first time your boss should know you’re forming a union is when the whole shop serves them a demand for union recognition. Loose lips sink ships.
Unions only really work when firing literally everyone and rehiring everyone isn't a viable solution.
Also, it's just a temporary bulwark until the union becomes sufficiently detached from the workers and does nothing but collect dues and threaten to strike whenever the company does something that threatens the union's existence regardless of how that impacts the workers.
@@NotAGoodUsername360 A temporary solution is better then no solution at all.
It's because of departments like HR creating the illusion of the company caring. People are too quick to forget and forgive.
@@dudere A costly temporary solution that leaves you worse that you were at the beginning is worse that no solution at all. Government intervention and people just not supporting games from companies that do this crap is a much more effective solution.
And it is exactly what is happening in this case, this things are not new, workers have been complaining for years, but the second there is a investigation from the government you get the BIG "oh SHIT" from the companies, and if players don't buy the games then any company that is not a front of money laundering will go down. An union will cost a fuckload of effort from the workers to create, and even after that it will have little to no power to improve their situation.
@@Adser261 As a member of a useless union, yes. This.
I feel like admiring Cosby for his sweaters would be like making a Hitler lodge where you talk about landscape paintings.
Or a Kim Jong-un fantasy basketball league
Tbf; before the Cosby is a rapist thing, Cosby sweaters were a decently notable fashion trend.
Or just putting a Swastika Pin
@@hawkemesa The Cosby allegations go back to the early aughts, it's just that nobody really took them seriously until Hannibal Buress' stand-up routine in 2014.
Considering Bliz' internal 'culture', there's no real way that it was just about sweaters.
@@hawkemesa Charlie Chaplin mustaches
Blizzard will never stop burning, and no one will ever stop to put out the flames.
"We didn't start the fire, it was always burnin' since the world's been turnin'..."
We just need the blizzard head staff to kindle the first flame then everything will be okay
The Blizzard has become a Firestorm
@@Maakyo Moreso as if you told that Blizzard would effectively self-immolate and no one would care to so much as piss on em to put it out back in the 90s? You'd be laughed at.
They'd believe Activision would do it because Activision was doing it throughout the N64/PS1 era.
game devs need to unionize. They literally control the production of the games and have full control on the profits of those companies. The sooner devs realize what they can do and how to protect themselves the better. Blizz/Act without their devs are literally nothing
This!!!!
i'm sure they've tried. you think that wasn't the first thing they tried?
Especially now that more and more indie devs are showing you can thrive on your own with a solid enough team
@@miguelnewmexico8641 Not necessarily. There's such a stigma against unions that you risk getting fired if you try to start one
@@zombieplasticclock exactly this. I used to work at a small studio and we tried to unionize.
They fired everyone who tried on the same day. At least they made us able to collect EI, but they still targeted us.
Let's not forget the Activision part of this. Just as a reminder this stuff happens in the cod teams and as pat said Activision Bathroom Camera
Activision using the blizzard name as shield (not that both are blameless) and it's easier to say the "Blizzard" half of the combined name
And what a joyous coincidence, just a few days ago the big cheese himself, Mr. Kotick, has been confirmed to be complicit in this whole fiasco!
I don't see any future where any branch of Activision emerges unscathed from this, the whole blasted company is probably going to be pulled out by the roots.
"Will be hiring the people who will beat you up from now on. It will no longer be fellow employees, but Pinkertons"
-Bobby the yachtman
Pinkerton's or Union busters from the early 19th century and if you were a communist they had more reason to beat the shit out of you they were based and necessary.
@@mikecampos1193 Bruh, imagine calling fucking Pinkertons "based"
@@mikecampos1193 engaging in wrongthink? A sudden and irrevocable absence of their kneecaps ought to fix that!
Edit: changed your to their so as not to sound like a threat.
To me the camera in the female toilet was just mind blowing. Theres no recovering from this.
For me it was them posing around a portrait of Cosby, smiling and laughing. But yeah, I feel you. A lot of bad things.
I didn't know about that. But I'm also not surprised. This is insane.
What I want to know is what the fuck was even being seen by that camera given it literally said in the article that you couldn't even see underneath the partitions because it was underneath the sink.
@@RavenCloak13 unfortunately, I can think of several fetishes that could be "fulfilled" just with bathroom audio, let alone basic voyeurism.
@@SapphicFurry
Were these in the male bathrooms to? Why this wasn't reported to the police either since people would want to just leave that company as soon as possible and setup a job hunt before hand to then just leave.
Can’t wait for Blizzcon, again.
For real, there will probably never be a in-person Blizzcon again after this shit.
In the words of Pat: "Blizzcon's gonna be SICK!" (With a large amount of sarcasm)
Maybe it really was an out of season April Fool's joke all along
@@TheJamacaneseNerd04231996 I dont know, this unironically sounds sick. I cant wait to see.
"Don't you guys have phones?"
I hope the cops show up to arrest the guy on stage in the middle of the show.
24:45 damn, I can believe woolie is that shook up about losing out on potential n-pass customers
*Local Canadian Black Man Realizes the Mistake He Made*
People don't want changes to the classic experience!
Woolie: "I will never financially recover from this."
Damn it. Cosby got to that market first.
It's not unusual that Pat could not find when DICE employees unionized, because, well, in sweden, employees forming a union is nothing news. It would be bigger thing if they chose *not* to unionize.
Yeah, pretty common in the nordic states.
I was thinking to myself as he was looking 'Probably unionized as the company was founded.'.
Literally everywhere should have a union. Its not a debate its common sense. A buisness is a a relationship of two parts the worker and the owner and that relationship is irreconcilable so a union must be created to stop workers from being atomized and exploitated. I don't understand how this is a debate in America and Canada at all.
I'd honestly take a guess that EA probably tried to close down the union when they bought them, only for the Swedish government not to let them.
@@yodabaki970 Literal fucking propaganda to convince people unions are lazy parasites that do nothing but leach money from them played non-stop.
It's disgusting.
Companies are not your fucking friends, and Business Daddy will do anything he can to fuck you dry. After all, lube costs extra.
Unions are an equalizer to an inherently imbalanced power relationship. Are they perfect? Hell no, but they're a step in the right direction and you're a fucking idiot if you think otherwise.
Business shills blow me away. They really think if given all the power, somehow, a company will treat them humanely. Rather then bleed them dry.
The Gilded Age happened. We *know* what happens. This isn't up for debate. Quistlings, the lot of them.
People bled and died for those labor rights. And they want to offer them up on a platter because 'Unions bad!'
Fuckwads.
Actually, they couldn't even not unionize. Swedish labour laws are so strict that even foreign nationals who explicitly do not want to unionize are still covered under collective bargaining in their field, as the supreme court have ruled on a case where a shipping company tried to use non-unionized eastern European workers to circumvent/undermine the union but were still forced to use the union contracts.
Between the spitting and the fallout 76 debacle I kind of just want a full on video game class war.
Why stop at video games 👀👀👀
We're already in a full on class war
Yup and we the poors are losing big time.
Blizzard will (unfortunately) endure...
The company is basically a bloated, maggot-invested corpse at this point. Just burn it already.
All will be forgiven and forgotten when Diablo 2 Remaster comes out.
@@travissloan9411 you talking the company or the us gov as a whole ?
They're going to have a bloodbath before they move it out of state.
'YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL COSBY SUITES.'
-Blizzard probably
5:07 Zangief goes on the mike and starts preparing a speech on how the squirrels have had it too good for too long.
Can't have them unionize! Bobbys yearly bonus might only be 2 million and not 3 if the workers had rights.
you missed some zeros off the end of those numbers dude
I think his latest bonus was 500 millions. Game industry NEEDS to unionize.
we would have to kill all the republicans in office first. like, all of them. and 40% of democrats.
@@RazgrizStraitz both sides are very against unions cuz it would cut their bottom line and only unions that ever formed is because the mob had influence on them to do it in the first place.
Pat grooming Zangief is just about the cutest fucking thing I've seen in my entire life.
He good doge.
I disagree with Pat’s statement about locks on breastfeeding rooms. Why? Because he’s unintentionally being way too NICE to shitty studios and management. $300? Hell, to do the absolute bare fucking minimum for the cheapest of cheap skates you’d need like $5-$10 and 20 minutes to put a cheap crappy bolt or chain on the inside of the door. This is so bad that even his attempt to say how awful it is is actually still too charitable for the people at companies like ActiBlizz.
There is so many layers to that.
First, it's not that the lock was broken and they were too lazy to fix it; there never was a lock to begin with.
And then there's "Hey, cool, you don't want to put a lock. Could you at least tell those creeps to cut it out?" "Sure, we are looking into it....... someday"
I don’t think he was trying to explicitly refer to bad management. I think he was saying GOOD management would pay to have it fixed ASAP, including buying a lock and paying someone to install it properly and professionally to ensure that it would not happen again.
The blizzard that burns would be one hell of a manga chapter 😛
"Blizzard on Fire" is really such an anime name
Maybe the answer is Co-owned game studios, also known as:
"Every worker, a member of the board"
If you meet Bobby in person, your actual inner monologue goes: "Dios Mio! (Draws a cross) A LIBERAL!"
O so failure.
Pat was Channeling a bit of mark Hamill joker energy in that last bit
I want woke Joker who just points out everything politically wrong with Bruce Wayne. The Woker.
@@Horatio787 “yes is this Wayne industries yes?! Oh good! I’d like for your workers to unionize!” *manic laughter!!!!*
"We don't want to form a union, we just want this behavior to stop."
You know how you stop that behavior? BY FORMING A FUCKING UNION.
"There must always be a Cosby Suite" has the *exact* same energy as "He MUST win" from MK Woolie was very right to make that comparisson.
That little Zangief high five at 09:55 made me happy though so that's nice.
I've had bosses that were blindingly incompetent in the past. One to the point that I swear she was borderline illiterate. Would refuse to actually read anything. Would delegate most, if not all of her work. I remember one time she called me to her desk, repeatedly pointed to an email on her screen and told me to 'take care of it'. I told her I had no idea what 'it' was because the email was too vague, so she printed it out. I took the paper to another higher up, who laughed and said 'I'll take care of it. This has literally nothing to do with you.'
Another fun fact. Ion Hazzikosts (the current game director for WoW) was an associate at WilmerHale (the law firm Bobby Kotick said they were hiring to investigate themselves) before he was hired to work at Blizzard. Ya that's totally not a conflict of interest at all lol.
Also, iirc the spit emote is still in classic. They just made it so that you can't use it on players. Gotta protect the pay pigs' fee fees.
What the story with the spit emoji?
@@Canadish People used an addon to auto spit on people who paid for a boost and/or mount in classic tbc.
Blizzard being the bad guys doesn't mean you have to defend harassment. but no, keep up that good fight.
@@omegaxtrigun That's actually fantastic.
@@miguelnewmexico8641 "Defend harssment" please. It's an emote. Anyone crying about it needs to grow up.
You can /ignore players to block their chat and emotes from appearing for you. There is no need to change how the emote works. The game already has a built in system to counteract that.
Also, even if I were to agree that it's a problem, the bigger issue is that blizz did this ONLY because people who were buying boosts and mounts were being harassed. People have been spitting on each other for one and a half decades in WoW but only NOW did they disable it on other players, and ONLY in classic. aka they only did it because they didn't want whales' feelings to be hurt.
They couldn't care less about harassment as a whole. If they did you'd be able to report people and get an actual response in a reasonable time frame and the harasser be punished accordingly. But they don't because blizzard is too cheap to keep enough customer service reps around to handle it.
Didn't know DICE is a Swedish game studio. Makes complete sense on why they're unionized, since by law in Sweden they have to.
Yeah but they're European and Europeans are very liberal and not conservative not saying there aren't.
If class consciousness wasn’t important they wouldn’t be trying so hard to stamp it out
If racism wasn't important they wouldn't be trying so hard to stamp it out.
If homophobia wasn't important they wouldn't be trying so hard to stamp it out.
If capitalism wasn't important they wouldn't be trying so hard to stamp it out.
Its almost like creating a us versus them mentality does nothing but make everything worse for everyone and encourage people to even further exploit the power they have to protect themselves and become even more corrupt than they already are.
Its almost like instead of making everyone hate eachother based on stupid communist bullshit that we should instead change the laws and fight corruption in a meaningful way that isn't posting a hashtag and whining on twitter or creating these stupid hatemobs that never do anything beyond hurt random people for random percieved personal slights or stupid political shit.
Almost.
I can promise you, the people you claim to hate so much absolutely love the way you're acting right now, because it gives them every excuse in the world to be even more evil and even more greedy than they already are.
@@Insanefishinguy Nuanced takes find no ground here or in the minds of the college-age communist zombie
@@Zach0451 Those things are important, what do you mean?
@@Zach0451 The dude's rant was incoherent. Is "nuance" when someone disagrees with something you also dislike?
Yeah, I'm sure that global capitalism loves class consciousness, because they love needing to bust unions and lobby harder against labor rights.
"Aww man, we can't spit on people anymore, how do we express our displeasure with cash shop mounts now?"
"Gentlemen, I have a solution"
*inhales*
"N-"
Lmao
Every worker a part of the board!
Congrats on your N-Pass+ Server Packs getting off the ground, Woolie!
In the show Drawn Together they straight up had a parody of Bill Cosby and had him say "I'm a sexual Predator"
They knew.
The sky remains blue.
And it burns burns burns.
The Ring of Fire.
The Ring of Fire...
I haven't seen Pat's dog in months and wow, what a difference!
Zangief's diet consists of eating scrubs at your local Fighting game Tournament.
Just as a general advice for all the young people now entering the work force. NEVER. and I mean NEVER. Trust a companies hr department. They are not there for you. They are there for the company. Always go 3rd party. Trust me. I've experienced a lot of bs and the hr dept is the last place you wanna go. They will snitch. They will mention who said what
Unions don't protect DICE from EA, they protect the WORKERS of DICE from DICE so long as DICE isn't worker owned.
Still, Dice higher-ups still answer to EA. So in a fashion it's a safeguard. More than nothing at least
@@zombieplasticclock EA can always find another scapegoat dice knows it.
@@zombieplasticclock The power of unions is in their ability to collectively bargain. This is why unions are (rightfully) aggressive towards scabs, and people that refuse to join the union, since it ultimately undermines the power of collective action.
Ideally you would want every subsidiary of EA to bargain as ONE union, rather than one per studio. This will prevent EA from selling off the studio or shuttering it in the future.
This just in, Blizzard is still on fire.
5:15 Zangief taking over the stream for a second. Lol
I always knew it was only a matter of time before Zangief became more powerful than Pat.
5:16
I sure am glad Zangief was able to put his dog input on the Activision-Blizzard situation.
Whod of guessed with a name like Blizzard, itd burn so well
Gotta keep them indents in their place, can’t stop the number from getting bigger
Pat's joy in the final minute is beautiful. 24:30 or so, with the jazz hands!
I love how much joy Pat is taking in this.
Woolie´s reaction when he learns that the n-word has been totally legal in Classic chat the entire time is priceless.
Blizzard seeing the fire tries to cover the fire with corrupt officers to try and push everyone apart
So Bobby's paycheck is at risk.
Everything new that comes out about this situation just sounds more and more cartoonishly evil and stupid the more stuff is added
ActiBlizzard would rather ban an emote aimed at Whales instead of the N-Word... god that describes so much about Kotic & the Torture Club's mentality
"He's on FIRE! NO, HE'S *LITERALLY* ON FIRE!"
The fact that game companies are so afraid of their workers unionizing, and hire people who specifically make it their business to make sure that the workers do not unionize, is a sure sign that they should definitely unionize.
I hope they add Ubisoft to their hit list....
It's in French so no.
Unfortunately DFEH is American, not French.
Listened to the podcast, came here to see Woolie's face at 24:43. Expectations exceeded
Pat really reached a crescendo here didnt he
This so sad. Alexa play "Blizzard in Summer"
Blizzard of Ozz
Dice doesn't get enough credit. They're pretty dope. wish they did weird cool shit like mirrors edge more often
when it rains, it blizzards
I wanna see a video where it's just Zangief in pat's shirt and woolie talking. Pat you can retire and switch off with your son!!!!!!
I know you did it Minh.
I live for Pat's energy at the end lmao
It's truly poetic irony that a game company that won't stop burning is called Blizzard
"Listen guys we are working on Warcraft 4!" former founding member of Blizzard yells as he is thrown into a paddywagon.
Thanks for covering this dudes
At least pats dog is cute
Pat getting to happily rant about the /spit fiasco was 11/10
Jeez Zangief grew quickly
I'm not entirely sure, but I think that if they actually deleted tweets that could be seen as trying to destroy evidence, which would make things even worse for them, legally speaking.
Gief is so cute.
I'm definitely not giving Riot a pass, but to be fair... I literally didn't know shit about the Cosby stuff until the big knowledge bomb dropped about it
I love animals zangif was perfect
I don't think they're legally allowed to delete the tweets at this point if they're this deep in the investigation
I was fired from climax games on a Friday just after lunch time with no warning or reason given, I was told to leave now & that I wasn't allowed to talk about it to anyone. I later found out my manager didn't know I was going to be fired & asked around the office for what happened to me. This was on the 17th of May 2019 & I've never talked about it publicly before.
5:16 for Zangief face
Woolie's life is being drained by pat in this one lmao
Holy hell that last bit about the spit emote is insane.
Come for the Wool, stay for the dog.
2:33 I remember there being a joke about Bill Cosby in Drawn Together back in like 2004.
24:55 Woolie's expression is something that cannot be summed up in words
The N Pass, now sponsored by Blizzard
Blizzard should probably just rename themselves "Rain" at this point.
I lost it at Woolie walking off
“This entire company must be purged”
You have to wonder what happened to these people. Like what leads to unironically comparing themselves to Bill Cosby and such. Where did the introspection go?
George Rockall Schmidt has a video about how getting rich makes you evil according to research data. It's pretty eye opening about WHY rich people are scum.
as a gamer "of a certain age" all I can really do is echo Woolie's sentiment and say -- classic~
I want Blizzard to burn to the ground and all the CEOs/Bigwigs to be broke, sued, and incarcerated. I also want the employees to find better, well paying jobs where they’re NOT r-ped and abused, more than anything, but MAN it’d be great if everyone involved in the abuse got THE WORST possible outcome.
Damn, WoW gives you the Npass on chat, now that's a selling point to their players :D
Other MMOs: Season Pass
WoW: NPass
Buscemi is a good egg. He used to be a firefighter, and apparently he suited back up on 9/11 because he was in town that day and it seemed like the thing to do?
Has there ever been any good company that avoided unions?
I think they did find a way around the emote ban, but yeah, better protect their dear paying costumers. Can't let this TOXIC harrassment continue a second longer! The N word what, what is that, it doesn't exist, just don't spit on paying costumers, ok?
i dunno, both sides sound like they're in the wrong.
@@miguelnewmexico8641 yep that's pretty much the point!
Clearly the N Pass is absolutely essential to truly immerse players in the classic wow experience
“I have faith in three game companies, the Three Bs.”
and it has come to pass in the fall of Blizzard empire burning
in ash and ...
the land of WOW has lay in a wasteland and its inhabitant
have fond a new home in final fantasy 14
_From this seal shall arise the doom of men, who, in their arrogance, sought to wield our flame as their own._
_Blindly they built their kingdoms upon stolen knowledge and conceit._
*_Now, they shall be consumed by the very flame they sought to control._*
There is no huge law firm that's "for" union busting. These are gigantic groups that handle all sorts of law. It's understandably pretty sketchy when you see groups like that involved but that isn't how this works. These firms have tons of lawyers across many departments for ENTIRELY DIFFERENT law practices. If they were hired for one thing that does not mean the union busters in the firm are involved necessarily. It doesn't mean they aren't either, but yeah a lot of people are showing a lot of ignorance of how law firms work. I promise that once you get on the scale of company even remotely the size of ActiBlizz every single law firm they employ for any reason will have parts of their practice that does shit you won't like.
Burn, Baby, Burn!
The Centralia of company fires 🔥
If you don't want your employees unionizing, treat them well enough that they don't even think about it. You know, do the bare minimum and maybe a little more and keep working on it.
If you're good at software development, please work in anything but game dev. You'll make more money and have less crunch.
Blizzard never stopped burning after when they denied a person human rights....
Burn! Burn! Rage of the heavens!
Burn! Burn! Death from above!
Die! Die! Merciless killing!
Burn! Burn! Death from above!