Changes at Blizzard

[Wunderpurps]

Sociopathic greedy pieces of shit like Bobby & co. are no worse than millions of sick fucks who give them their money and FUND them doing their rapy business.

I'm sure glad we bailed out wall street to ensure people like that can get as much free money as they want. At least until the country has herped its last derp, which seems to be coming soon.

 

[lightbane]

In before

 

[xemous]

wtf

 

[xemous]

wtf

 

[Cassidy]

Are Vault Dweller, Johan from Paradox Interactive, Cleveland Mark Blakemore and Jeff Vogel sadistic psychopaths?

 

[Wunderpurps]

Are Vault Dweller, Johan from Paradox Interactive, Cleveland Mark Blakemore and Jeff Vogel sadistic psychopaths?

They are the ones that The Man or The Jew or whatever you want to call it are suppressing. If they ever succeed to some degree Activision or EA will come along with a blank check and buy them up just to remove them as competitors.

After spending decades working on their shit and growing somewhat older they won't really have the energy to start again from scratch, especially not when they have millions to spend and a semi celebrity status as super cool successful game guys, and families to take care of. So they will just fade into history like Richard Garriot and Age of Avernum 9 will be a free to play DLC delivery device, and you will only hear about them for their rocket travel or their giant dollar shaped pool.

 

[Jaesun]

Are Vault Dweller, Johan from Paradox Interactive, Cleveland Mark Blakemore and Jeff Vogel sadistic psychopaths?

No, they are all Brian Mitsoda.

 

[Castanova]

It's an interesting question whether the system is corrupting those that try to reach the top, or whether it just favours those that are already corrupted ("Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely").

It's definitely the first rather than the second, for the majority. The people in positions of power in the video game industry act quite rationally. It's very easy to criticize AAA industry participants for making shit video games (and that criticism is not wrong, per se) -- it's much harder to actually walk the walk when, if you don't, you risk losing your entire livelihood.

If you're in Bobby Kotick's position, are you really going to greenlight an isometric, turn-based RPG? Unlikely.

It works like that for everyone as you rise up the ladder. As soon as you have some decision-making power and the associated responsibility, you're going to make decisions that support your career rather than decisions that further a disinterested fan's ideals.

 

[Destroid]

Sounds like another one we can chalk up as a failure of the free market.

 

[waywardOne]

Maybe stuff like that is more "normal" in the Kwa, but my mind is blown for a moment here.

The fuck you say. Activision is part of Vivendi, a tremendous French conglomorate full of cunts. The RIAA/MPAA have nothing on French corporate fascism.

 

[Shannow]

Maybe stuff like that is more "normal" in the Kwa, but my mind is blown for a moment here.

The fuck you say. Activision is part of Vivendi, a tremendous French conglomorate full of cunts. The RIAA/MPAA have nothing on French corporate fascism.

Most corporation would like to be able to act that way, all accross the world. But I seriously doubt that could have been done in Germany or France without serious legal repercussions. And it's not like German law favours the little guy, either, quite the opposite. So yes, seeing stuff like that without any repercussions in a would-be civilized country blew my mind, too.

 

[Gord]

If you're in Bobby Kotick's position, are you really going to greenlight an isometric, turn-based RPG? Unlikely.

It works like that for everyone as you rise up the ladder. As soon as you have some decision-making power and the associated responsibility, you're going to make decisions that support your career rather than decisions that further a disinterested fan's ideals.

I can understand and somewhat respect purely economic decisions like that, even if I don't like it.
But that doesn't mean that you have to act like a complete and utter sociopath.

I guess we all have egoistical tendencies, so the fucked up state of some aspects of our society (some, mind you I'm not one of the survivalism-fags that think we should board up and await the apocalypse) is surely not only the fault of a conspiracy of psycopaths.

Still I feel that the mixture of behavioural traits of said people and unique "opportunities" of our economic/political system will at least help to increase the concentration of them in the upper strata of society.

What can be done about it, I don't know. However it would certainly help to start turning away from hardcore-tubo capitalism and profit-maximised thinking on the scale of the society as a whole. Then again, some days I'm pretty pessimistic that we will really manage. People just behave like dicks too often for that.

Btw. anyone knows about the monkeysphere?

 

[Azrael the cat]

So, does anyone have second thoughts regarding extermination not being the only viable way of dealing with human vermin?

A possible solution would be to not base your economic and social system off of greed. Just a thought.
Killing all suits, while satisfying wouldn't solve the problem.

Sure that the faulty system that makes all shit float to the top is the main culprit here, but at this stage you might as well just exploit this fact by scooping the accummulated shit and disposing of it before overhauling the system.

So, does anyone have second thoughts regarding extermination not being the only viable way of dealing with human vermin?

BOBBY KOTICK DER EWIGE JUDE

Way to miss the point.

Why should I care if Kock-tick is a Jew or not?
How does it affect the question of greedy sociopathic fucks?

It would pretty damn lol if the world's governments suddenly put out a joint press release saying 'We kindly thank the people of this planet for their participation in our centuries-long experiment to sort the planet's greedy scum from its other residents, allowing us to exterminate as appropriate. Special thanks go to Adam Smith, for providing such a convincing fictional account of world markets, which he created for the purpose of starting this experiment by drawing the less humane classes into a war for capital, and to Ayn Rand for her literary efforts dedicated towards saving the project from premature collapse when a few Russian participants attempted to end the experiment before all of the human scum could be identified. Executions will begin with former management of Lehmann Brothers at 12pm Thursday'.

Though as the guy above said, it really isn't an all-or-nothing choice, and Kwa's greatest weakness at the moment is that it's being portrayed in that manner, as though any government intervention = full-blown communism. When you get down to it, Scandinavia is a capitalist system, as is Australia, and yet we enjoy welfare and healthcare that the US lacks for fear of 'THE COMMUNISTTS!!!!!'. Moreover, such intervention actually HELPS the capitalist system over here, by filling investment gaps that the free market relies upon, but which are uneconomic for any one company to fill privately (e.g. investing in human capital through education, welfare and healthcare). Reaping the benefits of that kind of intervention doesn't mean that you don't see the need to allow the market to allocate resources to industries that have competitive advantages while letting uncompetitive industries fall.

Oddly enough, the US (even the US right) seems really into the latter kind of intervention - bailing out the 'too big to fail' banks, subsidising their agriculture to truly insane levels, protectionist manufacturing policies, etc. It seems that they're fine with 'socialism' when it benefits companies and harms consumers/taxpayers, but rage if anyone suggests intervention that benefits consumers.

 

[Wunderpurps]

It would pretty damn lol if the world's governments suddenly put out a joint press release saying 'We kindly thank the people of this planet for their participation in our centuries-long experiment to sort the planet's greedy scum from its other residents, allowing us to exterminate as appropriate. Special thanks go to Adam Smith, for providing such a convincing fictional account of world markets, which he created for the purpose of starting this experiment by drawing the less humane classes into a war for capital, and to Ayn Rand for her literary efforts dedicated towards saving the project from premature collapse when a few Russian participants attempted to end the experiment before all of the human scum could be identified. Executions will begin with former management of Lehmann Brothers at 12pm Thursday'.

Though as the guy above said, it really isn't an all-or-nothing choice, and Kwa's greatest weakness at the moment is that it's being portrayed in that manner, as though any government intervention = full-blown communism. When you get down to it, Scandinavia is a capitalist system, as is Australia, and yet we enjoy welfare and healthcare that the US lacks for fear of 'THE COMMUNISTTS!!!!!'. Moreover, such intervention actually HELPS the capitalist system over here, by filling investment gaps that the free market relies upon, but which are uneconomic for any one company to fill privately (e.g. investing in human capital through education, welfare and healthcare). Reaping the benefits of that kind of intervention doesn't mean that you don't see the need to allow the market to allocate resources to industries that have competitive advantages while letting uncompetitive industries fall.

Oddly enough, the US (even the US right) seems really into the latter kind of intervention - bailing out the 'too big to fail' banks, subsidising their agriculture to truly insane levels, protectionist manufacturing policies, etc. It seems that they're fine with 'socialism' when it benefits companies and harms consumers/taxpayers, but rage if anyone suggests intervention that benefits consumers.

From this and your posts in the Obsidian thread I can only think you are proud to be ill.

You can't understand the idea of grasping for greatness. How many people on welfare have done something great? None of the games you love would have been completed if their makers said "bitch my time is up for today I'm going home." Same thing for any great artists or musicians, they worked like mad to become what they did.

Welfare is not a blessing, but a curse, one that leads to weakness. Put everyone on welfare, then let anyone in who wants in, sounds like a recipe for success. Now countries like England are waking up to the reality they can't live like that any longer, now you'll see the chavs out on their own, but the jobs they should have done have been taken by people glad to survive in the meanest subsistence lifestyle imaginable. Good times are ahead, baby.

 

[Gord]

You can't understand the idea of grasping for greatness. How many people on welfare have done something great? None of the games you love would have been completed if their makers said "bitch my time is up for today I'm going home." Same thing for any great artists or musicians, they worked like mad to become what they did.

I wonder if you do. The old "wellfare kills ambition" myth.

You'll always have parasites. Right now the worst of them flock together in the banks and upper management.

 

[Demnogonis Saastuttaja]

Insubordination? What is it, some kind of an army? If somebody threatened me with 'insubordination', I'd be laughing my ass off.

 

[grotsnik]

How many people on welfare have done something great?

Pretty sure Charlie Chaplin started his career from a workhouse, for one.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

Lack of welfare kills all my ambition at this point. I'm running out of work and it's just another threat of impending doom, that makes focusing on learning, working or anything creative rather difficult if not impossible.

 

[DwarvenFood]

Btw. anyone knows about the monkeysphere?

That was a very entertaining read, thanks.

 

[pocahaunted]

Sounds like another one we can chalk up as a failure of the free market.

Might wanna have a chat with the large majority of consumers, i.e. the perfectly content mouth-breathing retards that make all these rehashed, shitty games so popular, then.

If anything, it's a social and behavioral failure.

 

[kris]

How many people on welfare have done something great?

Pretty sure Charlie Chaplin started his career from a workhouse, for one.

UB40 met at a unemployment office. UB40 is one of their forms.

JK Rowling was also out of work when she started writing.

 

[Azrael the cat]

It would pretty damn lol if the world's governments suddenly put out a joint press release saying 'We kindly thank the people of this planet for their participation in our centuries-long experiment to sort the planet's greedy scum from its other residents, allowing us to exterminate as appropriate. Special thanks go to Adam Smith, for providing such a convincing fictional account of world markets, which he created for the purpose of starting this experiment by drawing the less humane classes into a war for capital, and to Ayn Rand for her literary efforts dedicated towards saving the project from premature collapse when a few Russian participants attempted to end the experiment before all of the human scum could be identified. Executions will begin with former management of Lehmann Brothers at 12pm Thursday'.

Though as the guy above said, it really isn't an all-or-nothing choice, and Kwa's greatest weakness at the moment is that it's being portrayed in that manner, as though any government intervention = full-blown communism. When you get down to it, Scandinavia is a capitalist system, as is Australia, and yet we enjoy welfare and healthcare that the US lacks for fear of 'THE COMMUNISTTS!!!!!'. Moreover, such intervention actually HELPS the capitalist system over here, by filling investment gaps that the free market relies upon, but which are uneconomic for any one company to fill privately (e.g. investing in human capital through education, welfare and healthcare). Reaping the benefits of that kind of intervention doesn't mean that you don't see the need to allow the market to allocate resources to industries that have competitive advantages while letting uncompetitive industries fall.

Oddly enough, the US (even the US right) seems really into the latter kind of intervention - bailing out the 'too big to fail' banks, subsidising their agriculture to truly insane levels, protectionist manufacturing policies, etc. It seems that they're fine with 'socialism' when it benefits companies and harms consumers/taxpayers, but rage if anyone suggests intervention that benefits consumers.

From this and your posts in the Obsidian thread I can only think you are proud to be ill.

You can't understand the idea of grasping for greatness. How many people on welfare have done something great? None of the games you love would have been completed if their makers said "bitch my time is up for today I'm going home." Same thing for any great artists or musicians, they worked like mad to become what they did.

Welfare is not a blessing, but a curse, one that leads to weakness. Put everyone on welfare, then let anyone in who wants in, sounds like a recipe for success. Now countries like England are waking up to the reality they can't live like that any longer, now you'll see the chavs out on their own, but the jobs they should have done have been taken by people glad to survive in the meanest subsistence lifestyle imaginable. Good times are ahead, baby.

Ok Wunderpups, how's that US economy going at the moment? Cause the Aussie economy is still kicking ass - no global recession for us. Plus we've got one of the smallest debts in the developed world, both in total and as a proportion of GDP. All that and good welfare and free healthcare, and essentially free university (if you're income goes sufficiently in excess of average you start paying back a total of 1/3 of the cost of the education, as part of your taxes - if you earn below the average, you pay nothing).

So, as I often say, you've got 2 possible explanations Wunderpup. EITHER you are right about welfare, and therefore the US is so crap because you are a genetically and culturally inferior culture, OR you are wrong, and despite Americans being only mildly retarded it is your right-wing economic policies, rather than your retardedness, that makes you worse off than us.

So which is it? I must say, I actually do agree with you. AUSTRALIANS can manage to have a great standard of living and minimal debt while also having good welfare, government funded universities, free health-care etc, but AMERICANS are just too damn crap to manage it. As I said in a recent post, it's like comparing ants (Americans) to people (first world countries) and expecting the ants to be able to build a statue under the same conditions as actual people.

I do feel sorry for you. It must really suck just being SO crap at everything that you guys can't even manage the basics of a first world country without going bankrupt, when you can just look across and see Australia doing it so easily.

Is it lead in the water over there, do you think? Religion perhaps? Or are you just naturally born inferior to us?

So which is it, Wunderpups? What is it about Americans that makes them so utterly retarded that they'd go bankrupt trying things that we can just take for granted over here in Oz?

 

[Icewater]

The butthurt is strong with this one.

 

[Reptilian Shapeshifter]

I love the "my country is better than yours" arguments.

We're all living on Prison Earth, dipshits. You all serve the same master. All you see down here are the prison guards.

 

[Gord]

Still, should consider emigrating to Australia if Europe goes belly up and they haven't died of skin cancer due to ozone layer depletion until then...