https://www.gamesindustry.biz/disco-elysium-studio-zaum-confirms-former-employees-were-fired-for-misconduct

  • Madcat [any]
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    2 years ago

    oh i 100% believe there was a toxic work environment after seeing some of the employees on twitter. but i think we know which side it was really coming from

    for example https://twitter.com/TravelSizeTrish/status/1576648773648154624 (just realised this isn't even a za/um employee they're a former blizzard employee. but there was an actual za/um employee saying the same stuff. wish i could remember their name)

    • Tervell [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      publicly and problematically been pro-Russia and Stalin state

      :based-department:

      also what the fuck does "Stalin state" mean, like Stalin's state or something? Is this some new level of smearing where we claim the Soviet Union was personally owned by :bugs-stalin:

      • Madcat [any]
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        2 years ago

        you should see the stalin net worth calculations. they try to claim the gdp of the soviet union was his net worth lol

        • Tervell [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          but you see Stalin had a kind-of nice car he got driven around on for official occasions, that means he totally was a gajillionaire who owned every acre of land and bushel of wheat in the entire USSR!

          • Mardoniush [she/her]
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            2 years ago

            Yeah, US president in Air Force One is just smol bean but Castro is evil because he had a nice desk.

            • VILenin [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              If the car was a total piece of shit they would've said it was evidence of the USSR's poverty. Can't win

      • UlyssesT
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        15 days ago

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    • Madcat [any]
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      2 years ago

      This is incredibly terminally online but here's my personal theory for what happened in the workplace environment.

      I think that a lot of ZA/UM's hiring done in the UK , and especially London, has brought a lot more middle class-first world, social democrat and "anarchist" (not real anarchists, the anarcho-NATOist weirdos) type into the company. And they've clashed with the Kurvitz's self described "We were anarchists, after all - growing into hardboiled Marxist-Leninists on empty stomachs" (I only mentioned Kurvitz because he wrote the outro. I don't know how the other two would call themselves)