As a former union organizer, I pretty much agree with everyone you said (which is also why I don't do it anymore). It's great when employees want to band together against the company's predatory bullshit, but the reality is that most people are more than happy to watch their coworkers get shafted, and it's only when it happens to them that they finally decide their interests align with others. Consequently, they just end up getting picked off one by one. I mean, you can literally show them the statutes in the legal code the company is breaking in terms of labor law and they still won't want to do shit about it, and in most cases will rat you out in an attempt to get on the company's good side for a pittance. It is really is pathetic to watch over and over again, just no backbone or principles whatsoever, total selfish opportunism like you were saying. At some point you gotta say "alright have it your way" and laugh at their stupidity. I used to have way more sympathy than I have now.

"I'm pogging" I'm buckled.

When something bad happened to me growing up my mom would get me a Pity Patty at the grocery store. It was a York peppermint patty

Thumbnail game incredibly on point as always

Long time viewer love your work rich

Almost 2 hours of fresh RL content? God bless

RL with fire in His belly is the best content there is. Never change Richard!

Richard spitting nothing but truth. Thank you for being real and unapologetic.

The refusal to associate with evil actors will end up being one of the greatest things for guys like Rich’s career.

18:44 rich still able to bring the laughs to serious topics. Absoluteley love your videos

Had no idea who Dunc was before this video but I'm very happy I've never crossed Rich like that guy

18:44

Glad this segment of the stream got ported to youtube so I can watch it everynow and then.

I was in college for game design for 8 semesters and every one of my professors was someone had worked in game design or was currently working in the industry and they all told me and warned me about the instability of jobs in game design as an industry. They still encouraged me to pursue my passion but they warned me of this. I wisely chose to quit and now I’ve been working as a truck driver for 3 years making great money and have a 401k and benefits with my company. Couldn’t be happier. These people KNOW what the industry is like when they join it, everyone knows game design has horrible job security.

What's in the cake , ya P45! hahaha had me in bits mate.

love your content brotha

the initial "schadenfreude" at 6:03 was pretty good, the alternative versions after that get worse and worse

do not wear that shirt again, I'm tripping balls

Richard you’re making too much sense Great vid as always! ❤

Square Enix lost 180-200 million dollars on fucking the marvel game, and funnily enough layoffs came down the pipeline. In a company where we publish under them was in a team of 8 during the pandemic down to 3 now

Sooo refreshing to listen to real journalism ❤

32 minutes in and what a fucking treat

"I am not an animal!!!" my fucking sides.

The pity party article was so fire.

i would love to know where u got "the gates of diamorphis" from or whatever u said.

HEY I CUT MY TOES NAILS TODAY RICH. I HAVE SEEN MY TOES

this was a banger

I've worked as a web developer my entire life and every time these layoff events happen, it reinforces to me why I never take jobs with the big cheeses like google etc. They don't care about making people redunant, they hire you and hope you fuck off before the next lay off.

I hope they can adjust to life on the outside, but it might be hard. Remember the scene from Shawshank when Brooks gets tilted and pushes over the chair 😢

actually richard, i can see my toes in fact

One of your best written pieces for me, and thats saying Something indeed.

I would love to see sir RL to cover bungie and their lay offs It probably would be similar story with this video in terms of news But the people who covered it, aka Paul tassi, isn't reliable as RL ❤ Great video sir

In what world would you think you're likely to keep your role after a monster merge? I swear people in the games industry are too busy being passionate to actually understand how common cuts are across most workforces, especially after a period of 'false growth' layoffs are so common in the tech industry after a merger and I know this from experience, just because you can draw and animate thralls bulging frostwolf member as a contractor doesnt make you indispensable when the cuts come. I (like everyone) hate to see anyone lose their jobs, but some of these people need a healthy dose of reality.

“Fuck it, Baylife” 😂😂😂

Hell yes, nothing brightens my day like a 2 hour Richard Lewis rant

Peasant coins has to be the new gatcha game currency of the year, rich you really are a genius.

Honestly as someone who did exactly what you described when talking about overwatch 2 (i didn't buy the PvE but i was very excited for the game before release) I have never felt so scammed in my entire life by a video game company apart from those times i've genuinely been scammed by someone.

Interesting watch

This gave me a few belly laughs.

Article was great as always but the two paragraphs at 1:16:00 were straight fire.

And by da way, what does a "QA learning specialist" do?

what a banging article

19:00 had me dying. fuck.

For the algorithm

Your first version of Schadenfreude was perfect.

1:36:49 - Dunc's kids will see this when they grow up and become RL fans.

That employee that essentially stole a decade of sub time on wow is making quite a compelling case as to why they should be fired.

35:00 Not only that, after people criticized the shit out of Microsoft for Redfall and how Arkane continued an ongoing project after the acquisition, I think they learned the lesson people wanted it to learn. lol

Shadow Froods always know where their towels are, or otherwise it'll get very messy \m/

Lol, jokes on Lewis - covid is still rampant; we just stopped caring about it. To the extend there was ever anything to wonder about there still is something to worry about.

U need to add anti aliasing to that tshirt 😂

Bro you pronounced Schadenfreude basically like a German, nicely done

Riot's stories from Rich always chill me

Johanna had me until she said she was a diablo 4 fan but hey maybe she can turn this shitshow around

Ur pronounciation of Schadenfreude is correct

Live Streamers are about to have their awakening soon.

Even a South African organisation Bravado Gaming has signed with the suidis. A South African team that has not done anything in the t2 or t2 scene in any game.

Only problem with Johanna is that she stayed quiet and silenced The Flank when Huke came out admitting to abusing addy, also CDL is more successful just because CoD had a bigger fan base to begin with but its stunting the scene again and especially handicapping the amateur scene during its existence

if you work 7 hours 59 minutes in america you not garunteed a lunch break. if you work 8 hours you required to take a lunch break. some places give 15 min breaks but it's so far and few

deftones appreciator i see

1:28:45 are you kidding me, how are these real people?!?!?!? Of COURSE it is deleted oh my god.

He can REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEad

You say that CoD league exists unlike OWL but to know for sure you would have to install CCTV under every bridge in California

Sadge 💀💀

shat a fat one on dunc at the end

You had Schadenfreude on the first try

“Future tech” aka the games they are going to scrap anyways

It's unfortunate that the pandemic elevated an industry such that it fooled people into thinking they were building lifelong careers. Now they're stuck with a skillset the market no longer demands.

12:10 can someone clip that? Seriously, that's horrible and i love it. It has serious meme potential, which is great 😂Typical CEO grifter re-enactment hahahaha

At this level i only foresee maybe anders, semmler and thorin reaching out if one of you guys are in need. But that's the mental level those guys are at. Most people aren't and that's how things sadly ought to be in this rat-race ecosystem that is esports.

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I've accepted I'm a wretched gamer peon, so you can't hurt me Rich, you wretched gamer peon.

on the one hand, saudi money can be sketch. on the other, if we all boycott what they spend money on, theyll spend *slightly* less money. especially on american products. dont we want to get the money out their hands? sell them the WORD esports idgaf as long as their bag is taken from them

Going *extremely* hard on the people that have been laid off, Richard? ^^

It's Schadenfroomer

Somehow Dunc got a CEO job after getting laid off from TSM. Talk about failing upward

One hour forty? Where's the TL;DW?

As a German Its not our fault all the English speaker copy each other saying schadenfreude wrong instead of just listening to a german saying it right and copy that

I have very little sympathy for these guys. When the Government started telling people whose job was essential and who is not, all these Tech and Hollywood schmucks were given all sorts handouts and exemptions. Got to keep the propaganda flowing, everyone in fear for their lives.

Good riddance to bad rubbish. They should fire the entire big-budget 'tripple ayy' games industry.

Rich getting angry at Germans for not being able to say Schadenfreude, is peak Britishness.

WoW players are just rats in Blizzard's never ending experiment. I don't know how people keep playing. Same with Overwatch and Diablo.

1:27:14 the game IS a lie

NFL has been in decline for about oh i dunno, 11 years.

Cdl is dying bro. Brain dead take

Hate your content brotha

lel using a german word in ur vocabulary then crying about how its beeing pronouced, hilarious

Funny that you call out the normies in that article I recently got to learn a bunch of stuff about WW2 from Mark Solonin (a "gonzo" dope Russian historian) and by extension about what Soviet Union actually was People usually cry about how bad Hitler was, and if you're a "buff" by modern standards you're allowed to think (preferably without asking) about whether or not Stalin may've killed a few millions innocent people But my question is actually better - how many of those people were actually innocent It's cool I guess to point fingers at a dead despot but like is he the source of the problem or is he merely a symptom And lo and behold everyone who I knew has speedran turning into an NPC who prided themselves on "critical thinking" and drinking a bottle of wine compulsively every evening because they could afford it xDDDDs I'm a certified moron but everyone just tries to be stupider than me so I guess they're succeeding My "friend" (I don't have anyone whom I communicate with and can call friends unironically) who I talk with, for example, just doesn't accept that there even are some other ways of being than his bulletproof recipe of "taking it down the arse deeper every year" What I'm saying is that if people 100 years ago were anything like the way they are now, and I have some reasons to suspect it, it's not much of a wonder, for me at least, that someone had to start rounding them up for a creative expressionist art session in front of a brick wall xD

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