“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
Voting Trump is the only way to save democracy”
George Orwell, 1984 Elon Musk, aspiring propaganda minister of Trump
“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
Voting Trump is the only way to save democracy”
George Orwell, 1984 Elon Musk, aspiring propaganda minister of Trump
An ex-Sony exec said laid-off employees should ‘go to the beach for a year’ or ‘drive an Uber’ Lian Kit Wee Sep 11, 2024, 7:15 AM MESZ
Chris Deering Sony Former Sony Entertainment president, Chris Deering, told recently laid-off employees to take a break for a year and wait for opportunities to return. Reuters
Ex-Sony Entertainment president Chris Deering said laid-off employees should take time off. Deering said that he doesn’t believe the recent Sony layoffs result from corporate greed. In February, Sony said it would lay off 900 employees from its PlayStation division.
Former Sony Computer Entertainment Europe president Chris Deering has a blunt message for recently laid-off game developers: They should “go to the beach for a year” or “drive an Uber” until the job market improves.
Deering, who led Sony’s European PlayStation division during the launch of the iconic game console and its successor, PlayStation 2, acknowledged the pain of Sony’s recent cuts.
The company said in February it would lay off about 900 people globally and close PlayStation Studios’ London studio, amid a slowing gaming market. Deering dismissed the notion that the layoffs were purely driven by corporate motives.
“I don’t think it’s fair to say that the resulting layoffs have been greed,” Deering said on journalist Simon Parkin’s “My Perfect Console” podcast. "I always tried to minimize the speed in which we added staff because I always knew there would be a cycle.
Fluctuations in consumer spending and recent games’ diminishing sales impact the company’s ability to “justify spending the money for the next game,” making some staffing cuts inevitable, said Deering.
Deering offered some unconventional advice for game developers affected by the layoffs. He suggested workers take time off or find temporary work, like driving for Uber, while the industry stabilizes.
“It’s like the pandemic,” Deering told Parkin. “You’re going to have to figure out how to get through it, drive an Uber, or whatever. Find a cheap place to live and go to the beach for a year.”
His remarks come at a time when layoffs have hit the gaming industry hard.
Other game developers, including Microsoft and Unity, have similarly downsized their studios this year, cutting over 3,000 jobs at the start of the year, BI reported in February.
This series of layoffs in the game industry stemmed from slumping game sales and a shrinking gaming demographic, BI previously reported. Revenue from video game sales in the US in 2023 fell by 2.3% from the previous year, and the average time spent gaming fell from 16.5 hours to 13 hours from 2021 to 2022. Related stories
However, Deering seemed optimistic about the prospects for game developers. He told Parkin that laid-off workers should take advantage of the time off to recharge but keep an eye out for any opportunities to return to the industry.
Game development skill is not going to “be a lifetime of poverty or limitation. It’s still where the action is,” said Deering.
Deering is currently an advisor for Cudo Ventures, a company specializing in monetization applications.
Sony Interactive Entertainment and Deering did not respond to a request for comment from BI sent outside business hours.
Why this expression? This guy just needs to spent a year homeless on the beach or so, if being fired: https://www.businessinsider.com/chris-deering-playstation-sony-laid-off-staff-beach-uber-2024-9 It definitely isn’t greed on side of the CEO who earnes millions for nothing while so many get fired, right? RIGHT?
I only came her for this comment, thank you!
Knowing how expensive these products are, how can a ten y.o. afford them? And on top how can parents not have a clue what she is spending her money on?
Weird moms for liberty for themselves not for anyone else.
Come on, it is not an attack on poly it is an attack on hiding anything related to gender and sexuality from kids, terrorizing them with guilt and punishment for everything related to gender and sexuality while doing what they want and need and expecting not to be called out for their hypocrisis. You know that.
Not if you have kids or cats or you will be always out of toilet paper.
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Empty the schools, fill the prisons.
I believe that animal agriculture is going to end us before I believe that we are going to end animal agriculture.
Germany: https://www.bbk.bund.de/EN/Prepare-for-disasters/Personal-Preparedness/Stockpiling/stockpiling_node.html and that’s not new. It gets updated every few years. I thought every country in the world has this. If something can be said about it then that it is true that some families in Western countries, imcluding Germany, have a hard time to afford every day food and can’t stockpile and THAT’s something governments should address too but don’t.
At that age they have no understanding what “dead” means. We do not know if the child kept quiet or if just no one took his ramblings seriously and kids that young often have no words for what happened especially if it is dramatic, the kid might have made drawings instead that went unnoticed. We also do not know if the gun owner threatened the child to stay quiet.
Please let people who know children and their mental capabilities and have experience in treating them as is needed do their job and stay away from making such brutal assumptions. It is ok to not know things, that’s why specialists exist. It is not about “believing” when it comes to a decision of life or death, feelings need to stay back. It is ok to find a child murdering someone disturbing without following a gut feeling for what should be done.
We still share and it works flawlessly because non of us uses a television, all PC/laptop only and they can’t find out as it seems.
I only read the first one. Isn’t Reacher just a swole ex-Marine turned PI?
Yes, but you have to look at whose nose he’s breaking. The typical villains in a Reacher novel are evil corporations or greedy tyrants. In “Gone Tomorrow”, the villains are the post-Patriot Act feds who represent a country where civil rights are a myth.
But the people on the right who love Reacher for his mighty masculinity are the same people who were shocked that Rage Against The Machine “went political”. I wonder how long it will take them to realise that Reacher usually kicks the butts of people they would like to vote for.
To be fair, the project was the dumbest thing I have ever seen, but it was one of the only big projects that got rid of cars completely and in that one thing it was actually refreshing and futuristic and not the same old. A walkable citiy with a fast train - I hope they keep that, but it will be the first thing to go says my cynical brain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxAJEHZDIEw Crazy Baby - Joan Osborne
It is more “stuck for a lifetime”, because this song saved my life and will stay on my “emergency playlist” forever. She sings out of my soul, when depression has me and at the same time sings hope into my soul, if that makes any sense, because it is so hard to describe.
I wish that for every human a song exists that can do that for them!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka9GALExUeo I guess this is too fast then?
Russian “Mother’s Cross” when: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hitler-institutes-the-mothers-cross
Also the fascists call everything an “ideology”, except fascism of course.
What do humans learn from the past: That humans don’t learn from the past: https://www.statista.com/statistics/896181/putin-approval-rating-russia/