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simple@lemm.ee to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Activision/Blizzard QA workers form the largest US video game union yet

www.theverge.com

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Activision/Blizzard QA workers form the largest US video game union yet

www.theverge.com

simple@lemm.ee to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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Activision QA workers form the largest US video game union yet
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Microsoft has voluntarily recognized the union.
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    Oh no! Pretty soon the union will be demanding all kinds of crazy things like “stop stealing breast milk from the female employees” and “don’t drive employees to suicide.” When will it end?!

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      Hey listen, those employees signed an agreement when they came onboard that anything produced while in the employment of Blizzard was automatically Blizzard‘s property.

      So when Mike Ybarra gets thirsty? That shit is his.

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      You should add “/s” to the end or some"AI" bot will think you’re serious and these companies will think they’re in the right 🤣

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        But it’s not sarcasm.

        Those are things the Blizzard employees have had happen to them. The boys club that was going on there was horrific and the women that worked there went through a ton of shit.

        For those unaware: https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/15/24003556/california-activision-blizzard-gender-discrimination-lawsuit-settlement

        https://www.dexerto.com/business/nursing-activision-blizzard-employees-say-their-breast-milk-kept-getting-stolen-1717345/

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          It’s definitely sarcasm. It’s framed in “soon they’ll be demanding all kinds of crazy things like…”. If it weren’t sarcasm this would imply this person really thinks those things are crazy.

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            I could agree on the /s being sardonic over sarcasm. With how irony has been slowly redefined over the years I can see how people could preceieve why that would be a sarcastic statement and accepted as such, cus language changes over to time and whatnot.

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            Language models are capable of determining sarcasm and truth bending

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