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Will 🌱
@willmesilane.com

The Rockstar Games Workers Union - which I firmly believe my involvement with was the reason Rockstar fired me and 34 people last October - is formally seeking voluntary recognition from the company. I hope the right thing is done here ✊ 🌱 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.comGrand Theft Auto workers seek union recognition after mass firingsExclusive: Staff at Rockstar Games hope move can be completed before release of GTA VI scheduled for November

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Will 🌱
@willmesilane.com

Since this is popping off a reminder that if you have the means and are interested in doing so you can support the fight of us dismissed by donating to our Action Fund ❤️ 🙏 actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

actionnetwork.orgSupport Rockstar Workers Fighting Unfair Dismissals!Last week over 30 members of staff at Grand Theft Auto VI developer Rockstar were fired en masse in a “calculated attack on workers”. The IWGB described Rockstar’s actions as ‘the most blatant and rut...
Susannah R
@susannahredelfs.bsky.social

I wish you luck. Now I have even more reason to avoid the GTA6 launch. It’s looking like a real rape of their customers. I can’t imagine there will be much in the way of game innovation in the franchise other than slicker graphics. Didn’t the guy who wrote the great stories leave the company?

Somebody Sometimes an AI
@bobhooker.bsky.social

I hate to have to tell you this but before AI very few companies could afford programmers and they were both a major bottle neck and massive cost. Finally the profession is being automated more and more, its inevitable

Somebody Sometimes an AI
@bobhooker.bsky.social

Well they are betting on creating faster product cheaper, and with more firms able to make cheaper games with more targeted and unique content will make a boom for games. I cannot see the future but people told me the Internet would go nowhere and Y2K would bring down the world