Reminder: if you're buying from amazon, you're a strawberry floating scab

Lex-Man wrote:Oh, looking at Wikipeida they got bought out by Euro Gamer and Kieron Gillen has left. Kieron Gillen was the main talent in 90's PC gaming journalism, there wasn't anyone better than him in the space and I really mean NOBODY. So that where the loss of talent comes from IMO.

Gillen hasn't been a games journalist since the early 2010s (he's a comic writer now) and the last of the original RPS staffers left in April. It's still a decent read but nowhere near the gold standard it used to be.

Kieron Gillen also suffers from the new problem that, despite all his many talents and positive attributes, he will never be able to beat Karen Gillan in my affections. He has been replaced in my internal K.G. love spot.

Jenuall wrote:Kieron Gillen also suffers from the new problem that, despite all his many talents and positive attributes, he will never be able to beat Karen Gillan in my affections. He has been replaced in my internal K.G. love spot.

You've probably got more chance with Kieron though

(Also his comics are really good)

Hexx wrote:

Jenuall wrote:Kieron Gillen also suffers from the new problem that, despite all his many talents and positive attributes, he will never be able to beat Karen Gillan in my affections. He has been replaced in my internal K.G. love spot.

You've probably got more chance with Kieron though

(Also his comics are really good)

I've only checked out a couple of his Star Wars comics and wasn't massively impressed (ironically these were free offerings on Amazon Prime a while back ) but then I'm not really a comics or Star Wars person so I only checked them out on a whim and wasn't necessarily expecting to be bowled over!

Also I could have either KG any time I wanted. I hear Karen has a thing for big hands

Apologies for the delay in replying, I do sometimes actually do some work at my job

Karl_ wrote:For someone so concerned about insisting they're a leftist you sure do like to come into threads about industrial action and sneer things like "is this a joke?", "customers aren't technically scabs", and "the strikers are not my comrades".

1. The "is this a joke" comment wasn't about the strike action, it was about Knoyleo labelling anyone who used Amazon as a scab. Shaming people for something they shouldn't be ashamed of isn't something I'm mad keen on. Not everyone can afford the luxury of buying from more expensive or less-convenient retailers. I wouldn't criticise someone for shopping in Primark despite their iffy working practice. Life is hard and telling someone they're a bad person for trying to save some money isn't going to make it any easier.

2. Customers aren't scabs, I don't care if you disagree.

3. The strikers aren't my comrades - they're just people. But just because I choose not to call them "my comrades" (because I'm not in the Soviet Union) that doesn't mean that I have no empathy or compassion towards them - I hope they get what they're after, and I'm sure they eventually will. But I'm not going to criticise or lambast anyone for still using Amazon, I don't think that's helpful.

Karl_ wrote:I don't know what impression you were hoping people would get of your posts in this thread but it's not of someone compassionate.

Considering I wasn't expecting anyone to gauge my compassion levels I guess I had no expectations in that regard.

Karl_ wrote:It baffles me why you can't use a tiny fraction of that energy to not be so strawberry floating dismissive and reactionary online, but there you go.

It baffles me too, but there you go.

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Preezy wrote:

Karl_ wrote:For someone so concerned about insisting they're a leftist you sure do like to come into threads about industrial action and sneer things like "is this a joke?", "customers aren't technically scabs", and "the strikers are not my comrades".

1. The "is this a joke" comment wasn't about the strike action, it was about Knoyleo labelling anyone who used Amazon as a scab. Shaming people for something they shouldn't be ashamed of isn't something I'm mad keen on. Not everyone can afford the luxury of buying from more expensive or less-convenient retailers. I wouldn't criticise someone for shopping in Primark despite their iffy working practice. Life is hard and telling someone they're a bad person for trying to save some money isn't going to make it any easier.

People should absolutely be ashamed about crossing picket lines. Fight me.

Serious addendum: one of the many travesties of so much digital commerce is the way it has destroyed physical means of protest, by simply existing outside of the physical world. It means thousands of people will have found themselves crossing a picket without even realising, something that wouldn't be possible with a physical picket outside a bricks and mortar retailer. People who crossed this picket unknowingly don't need to be ashamed.

Native content is the the Internet in the bad timeline.

I've changed my mind I think you should all be turned into equisapiens and sent to Worry Free.

Jenuall wrote:

Knoy is my new mancrush

On the subject of veteran games Journalists.. whatever happened to Lee Nutter?

He was my favourite writer in Sega Saturn magazine.

Tafdolphin wrote:Knoy is my new mancrush

I'd start a union with you any day

Solidarity with my warehouse brothers. I worked in the same role but for John Lewis, must have been around 7-8 years ago now. Worst period of employment in my life. Flashbacks when I watched that undercover Amazon documentary a while back.

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:Solidarity with my warehouse brothers. I worked in the same role but for John Lewis, must have been around 7-8 years ago now. Worst period of employment in my life. Flashbacks when I watched that undercover Amazon documentary a while back.

I thought John Lewis was all swanky and stuff. I thought they'd treat you well.

LewisD wrote:On the subject of veteran games Journalists.. whatever happened to Lee Nutter?

He was my favourite writer in Sega Saturn magazine.

Went on to edit PSW (awful magazine), then Official Nintendo Magazine, and then a Group Publisher for Future. Not sure about currently though.

Lex-Man wrote:

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:Solidarity with my warehouse brothers. I worked in the same role but for John Lewis, must have been around 7-8 years ago now. Worst period of employment in my life. Flashbacks when I watched that undercover Amazon documentary a while back.

I thought John Lewis was all swanky and stuff. I thought they'd treat you well.

Monotonous, exhausting labour for hideously low pay, surrounded by awful people (I know I called them my brothers earlier, but the people I worked alongside were mostly a horrible bunch of racist, homophobic, criminal all-round nasties).

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:

Lex-Man wrote:

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:Solidarity with my warehouse brothers. I worked in the same role but for John Lewis, must have been around 7-8 years ago now. Worst period of employment in my life. Flashbacks when I watched that undercover Amazon documentary a while back.

I thought John Lewis was all swanky and stuff. I thought they'd treat you well.

Monotonous, exhausting labour for hideously low pay, surrounded by awful people (I know I called them my brothers earlier, but the people I worked alongside were mostly a horrible bunch of racist, homophobic, criminal all-round nasties).

But what were their Bradford scores?

Moggy wrote:

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:

Lex-Man wrote:

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:Solidarity with my warehouse brothers. I worked in the same role but for John Lewis, must have been around 7-8 years ago now. Worst period of employment in my life. Flashbacks when I watched that undercover Amazon documentary a while back.

I thought John Lewis was all swanky and stuff. I thought they'd treat you well.

Monotonous, exhausting labour for hideously low pay, surrounded by awful people (I know I called them my brothers earlier, but the people I worked alongside were mostly a horrible bunch of racist, homophobic, criminal all-round nasties).

But what were their Bradford scores?

It was 90% agency staff (myself included) who didn't get paid if they were sick. Funnily enough, absence was pretty much unheard of.

Several people got sacked for trying to steal items, though. There were detectors everywhere and we would be searched around 3-4 times a shift, but still every other week someone would get pinched for trying to smuggle perfume out .