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Re: United Wizards of the Coast

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Post by northern-lights »

satvikpendem wrote: post #168
northern-lights wrote: post #162

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It does not limit hiring in any way. As for what solutions union provide - I have already explained. They exist to protect workers' interests. They do not exist to solve company's problems. That is the job of the company.

For hiring, I meant it in terms of a chilling effect in that companies will not hire as many people as they are much harder to fire. You said "It is to make sure that the company has done its absolute best to find another solution to the problem," and I am asking, what solutions have unions "made sure" that the companies have done instead of layoffs? I am looking for concrete examples as I often hear this claim but I…

Then, I suggest that you educate yourself on how unions function and what they do. It's not my job to educate you. You can also ChatGPT this by the way.

Re: United Wizards of the Coast

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Post by northern-lights »

satvikpendem wrote: post #170
xboxnolifes wrote: post #157

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I don't think they're bots, since I've seen the sentiment on HN for a long time. Instead, it reminds me of the idea of people seeing themselves as "temporarily embarrassed millionaires". If you see yourself as being part of the capital class in the future and think strong unions hurt the capital class, one might be against them.

I mean, many on HN are actual millionaires who've made fortunes from tech money. They are the capital class, so unions hurt them directly.

How many?

Re: United Wizards of the Coast

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Post by satvikpendem »

northern-lights wrote: post #181
satvikpendem wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For hiring, I meant it in terms of a chilling effect in that companies will not hire as many people as they are much harder to fire. You said "It is to make sure that the company has done its absolute best to find another solution to the problem," and I am asking, what solutions have unions "made sure" that the companies have done instead of layoffs? I am looking for concrete examples as I often hear this claim but I…

Then, I suggest that you educate yourself on how unions function and what they do. It's not my job to educate you. You can also ChatGPT this by the way.

I see, looks like you don't actually have any examples to give despite you yourself making such a claim, on a discussion forum and thread to discuss a topic, so lead with that next time, because that's all that the phrase "It's not my job to educate you" means.

Re: United Wizards of the Coast

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Post by JRandomHacker42 »

tanjtanjtanj wrote: post #179
JRandomHacker42 wrote: post #169

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I'm a judge and have seen barely any discussion around Prepared (mostly just clarification around the interaction with. Rule 722 is the rule for "Preparation Cards", so I fail to see how it could not be relevant. The text "its spell" only occur in reminder text, which is not rules text and would not be included in template language.

Ah, I have I guess an old version of the CR downloaded from when I was a judge and TO where rule section 722 is "Controlling Another Player," weird reorganization there. Are you active in judge forums or social media at all? Huge threads on prepared with these arguments (I didn't come up with the idea as I now longer play or judge). Regardless of whether you think this one example is confusing, WOTC came out a few ye…

I'm specifically talking about the use case of "can we use natural-language tools to parse oracle text and produce functioning game objects in Arena". For that use case, it's completely sensible to look at the actual rules text and not reminder text.

Looking back further, there was confusion during preview season when people were looking at "fake/leaked" mockups that had incorrect text on them, but this also isn't a problem for the issue of "WotC themselves writing systems that can parse card text".

Re: United Wizards of the Coast

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Post by satvikpendem »

northern-lights wrote: post #182
satvikpendem wrote: post #170

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I mean, many on HN are actual millionaires who've made fortunes from tech money. They are the capital class, so unions hurt them directly.

How many?

You can do the math yourself if you so choose. If you don't want to or disagree with the results, well, it's not my job to educate you, as you've said.

Re: United Wizards of the Coast

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Post by satvikpendem »

drusepth wrote: post #176
northern-lights wrote: post #142

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This thread is filled with so many anti-union takes that you have to wonder if they are paid bots. If you assume that most of the crowd that visits this website works in tech or tech-adjacent fields, how can you be against an entity whose main objective is to safeguard and work for your interests over your employers? Unfathomable that people are willing to do so much against their own best interests. Or...they are bo…

I would wager that a high % of the HN audience are the employers, not the employees.

Or just highly paid or now retired employees. Which makes sense, why bite the hand that feeds.

Re: United Wizards of the Coast

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Post by bluefirebrand »

nonethewiser wrote: post #95
bluefirebrand wrote: post #87

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I think on the contrary somewhat If everyone at a game developer goes on strike, there is basically no amount of outsourcing or scab labour that can replace them. This is actually probably true of basically all software Just refusing to share passwords into key systems would be enough to significantly halt any attempt to bring on an entirely new development team

Yes but what happens? The video game is not maintained or released. Society doesnt care that much. It's not critical and there are millions of alternatives.

The point isn't about what society cares about. The company loses its investment entirely unless they bargain with the union

Re: United Wizards of the Coast

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Post by bluefirebrand »

charcircuit wrote: post #138
bluefirebrand wrote: post #87

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I think on the contrary somewhat If everyone at a game developer goes on strike, there is basically no amount of outsourcing or scab labour that can replace them. This is actually probably true of basically all software Just refusing to share passwords into key systems would be enough to significantly halt any attempt to bring on an entirely new development team

Doing that would nuke your career. What company wants to hire someone who sabotaged their previous employer?

What worker wants to work for an employer that pays them bare minimum and treats them as a replaceable cog?

Re: United Wizards of the Coast

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Post by xienze »

qq66 wrote: post #135
xienze wrote: post #131

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That's all labor that can only be done "here and now." Can't just have Indians do it over the internet. And replacing the workers at a moment's notice is usually complicated by the striking workers harassing and attacking the replacements. Again, hard to do that when your replacement is on the other side of the globe.

You cannot simply transfer Magic the Gathering to overseas workers and expect any kind of usable result. It will be from an entirely different cultural framework.

> You cannot simply transfer Magic the Gathering to overseas workers and expect any kind of usable result.

If you fed all the lore into an LLM and trained diffusion models on all the artwork I bet you could keep the train running from India until the end of time. The only thing that would derail it is if customers _knew_ it wasn't "authentic."

Re: United Wizards of the Coast

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Post by ryandrake »

satvikpendem wrote: post #177
ryandrake wrote: post #149

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Salary is only one of many workplace issues that organizing can help with. Those US tech people who make $400k, that's great for them! But how is their mental health / burnout? How good is their health insurance? Are they getting enough vacation time or time with their families? Are they regularly expected to work 12+ hour days? Do they have their weekends? Do they want to Work From Home but can't get it? What about…

Generally big tech workers have very cushy jobs with excellent insurance and working conditions with many barely working over 30 hours a week, much less 40. It is why many do not see the benefits of a union because what could a union possibly give them?

This is far from the norm. If it's true for a small number of employees at a small number of companies in a small number of regions, that doesn't mean it's true for everyone. I don't know a single employee who thinks absolutely nothing could be made better at work.
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