Game Devs begin rejecting DEI employees

[@Not_interestEd-]

They're finally getting PINNED for their crimes.

[@Not_interestEd-]

I'm not sorry.

[@kevinmorgan7085]

Noooo, I thought I'd get the pin... It should have been me, not him...

[@alexandrefillot9600]

​@@Not_interestEd-Nah Nah, you cooked.

[@Entification]

Haha, i got one of the first replies on the pinned comment (i need not even say anything funny or informational for unlimited likes)

[@alexandrefillot9600]

@@kevinmorgan7085 it is what it is.

[@homunculi0408]

It's like the body finally beating out the virus. The gaming industry is slowly healing.

[@jamesneese7663]

Stay vigilant though. If Trump wins, 200 new Dustborn games will be made in response

[@DDRWakaLaka]

IT ISN'T HEALED UNTIL MISSING LINK COMES OUT

[@broden4838]

Seems that way. The road to recovery starts now

[@AszkalonOfVerra]

*BUDLIGHT** SW BABY INC !!!

[@jinkazama2555]

i dont think so

[@Barinthos]

Your past work experience proving that you won't have the companies best interests in mind? Pikachu is indeed surprised.

[@jer1776]

Work experience with SBI is like applying for an Accounting job with a theft charge lol.

[@lunasakara7306]

Your past work experience proving you're an activist pariah that will drag down profits, and always fight against anything that would create it... Your past work experience proving you're incompetent, incapable, and were never hired on merit for the job... Your past work experience proving you hate the consumer, the company, and will make everything about you... I can't possibly imagine why you aren't getting jobs. 🤔

[@marcelzed1154]

It must suck for anyone who worked for SBI only and only because it was the only offer they received from someone in the vg industry. The kind of job you only accept because you have to build experience somehow

[@AszkalonOfVerra]

*BUDLIGHT** SW BABY INC !!!

[@Neil.02]

Imagine being surprised that people who make video games don't want to hire someone who HATES video games and gamers , and then wanting empathy from the people you constantly patronize and demonize. Their logic is flawless.

[@denis-florian_0.57]

devs finally having spines? The timeline is healing

[@the.dandy.man2]

be warned these activists aren't going away merely going into hiding

[@FelixRaycher]

Can't wait for an easter egg with mocking SBInc. reference being found in some game, indie or AAA, whatever.

[@coolcatred4922]

​@@FelixRaycher 💯 in future

[@oxydoxxo]

They intend to regroup, rebrand, and reinsert. Keep a keen eye.

[@arandompasserby7940]

Between the failures of Concord and Dustborn, the failing stock prices of Ubisoft, and the growing success in the indie sphere give me good feelings that, even if it's small, gaming is healing. ..... Unfortunately, seeing Anita Sarkeesian return retroactively makes that Star Wars 9 quote "Somehow Palpatine returned" feel much more realistic lol

[@Larry]

Tainted by the Sweet Baby Stink!

[@wontonschannel]

based guru larry

[@YouMissedAgain2024]

I love you Guru Larry!

[@nojuanatall3281]

Leeeerrrrrr

[@sungrandstudios]

Hey Larry! How's it going?

[@AszkalonOfVerra]

*BUDLIGHT** SW BABY INC !!!

[@Splitter4416]

It seems the blackrock money no longer has as much value as consumer money

[@linusgustafsson2629]

Apparently shutting down studios is no long term plan, despite all the blackrock money.

[@Dovawhat]

The irony.

[@lordomacron3719]

Good old greed will win out in the end. Or to put it diplomatically The profit motive will take precedence once again.

[@Theprince034]

Yeah because it was likely a loan not Blackrock giving them money and due to the failures they aren’t getting profit and are likely losing money so now they’re trying to revert to before they made a deal with a discount devil

[@jamesneese7663]

Nah. They just find more obscure ways to launder their cash and push their DEI agenda. This is just a speed bump to Blackrock

[@supimzazz]

Drinking game: Take a shot for everytime they say "Like".

[@rogaldorn3525]

No thanks, I'd rather not end up in hospital for alcohol poisoning

[@KarateGirl999]

Ugh, I'd need a horse's liver.

[@tysonvienneau1830]

@@KarateGirl999 I think you'd need more than a horse liver Maybe a whale

[@rpamungkas13]

Joke one you. I only drink water.

[@cjtheman2985]

Shaggy: Are you like challenging me mortal?

[@dantespicysausage9615]

Hopefully this is true because it'll mean theres finally some progress can be made towards healing

[@DiabolicCrusher]

The actual healing will begin once AAA crashes, still, this is a good thing.

[@jamesneese7663]

Depends. Still too soon to tell for certain. Plus if Trump wins in November then industry will make 209 new Dustborn games in response

[@DiabolicCrusher]

@@jamesneese7663 By all means, i hope they do, let them waste money

[@AszkalonOfVerra]

*BUDLIGHT** SW BABY INC !!!

[@MelRetro]

*I don’t understand how these people don’t understand business and yet operate a multibillion dollar industry* *Every product has a target demographic. You can’t come into an already established market and expect people to fall in line with your self-righteous idealisms*

[@RealTanku]

Higher management is 90% nepotism, 10% competence. And that's across all companies.

[@Tony_409]

They usually believe that the established market won't leave because they are in the love of the brand too much.

[@RambleOn07]

​@@Tony_409if they still believe that, their investors will have a slam dunk lawsuit against them.

[@cygnusghedepereu6885]

@@Tony_409 "too big to fail bro"

[@zmortis111]

@@Tony_409 They need to learn the hard lesson that brand identity can make money from brand loyalists, but that pissing off brand loyalists and making something specifically designed to drive them away is a route to failure.

[@evokerzz]

imagine having an employment history so toxic, companies refuse to hire you on the basis that it'd be a PR nightmare if they did hahahah

[@jayl5032]

Hire people based on skill and merit. Forced diversity is the weakest shit ever. You can be mono- ethnic, mono-culture, etc etc, and still make outstanding work. Not every one needs to be mixed. We all have our own cultures and heritages, and there's nothing wrong with that.

[@RambleOn07]

In fact, most every company was built under such conditions.

[@jamesneese7663]

If companies hired on skill and merit, none of these activist and consultants would be in gaming/comic/movie industries in first place!

[@sped325]

and each place, country, town village had its culture and history. Deciding to make a game on a country and its history then make things fit your agenda that's "dIvERsiTy & InCluSiOn" is disrespectful erasure of that country history and cultures in order to push your own fan fiction nonsense of how the world should be instead of how it actually is.

[@StratumPress]

Companies like SBI posit that it's everyone else's fault that a certain group isn't up to par with everyone else and when they are "Represented" they prove exactly why they weren't hired in the first place.

[@alexandrefillot9600]

Finally, some good fucking news!

[@EddieHawkinsII]

Why did I read this in Gordon Ramsay’s voice?

[@Ability-King-KK]

I'm so glad that this is finally happening. Hopefully this means games will be going back to the way they should be and NOT what the tourists want them to be.

[@DeadFishFactory]

The SBI detected curator has a hand in this. The moment one of these employees' or ex-employees' names pops up in a game credit, someone will alert Kabrutus and we all know it's a game to be avoided due to having the taint of DEI.

[@NoOne-ev7vj]

I love how they strive to have people lose their jobs or the opportunity to get jobs do to their beliefs of genders, and they think its good and funny. but then goes on to rant about how now its happening to them it is bad. You have to love it. I say good, I hope you never work in the entertainment field ever again, go get a factory job and see what a normal "plebs" life is like and suffer doing it.

[@Mugman896]

Good, because these ppl never change they’ll just rename themselves and go back to ruining games, and they only have themselves to blame for their failures

[@MicahTheManiac]

I agree that you need to protect the employee - TO AN EXTENT. A company asking "will we be harassed if we hire you?" is honestly not only trying to cover their butts, but their other employees too. Also, not saying everyone from SBI is gonna be a bad employee, but if you aren't being hired based on your work at a company like that, then yeah why would they wanna make their games worse?

[@lyravain6304]

Frankly, if the employee himself is THAT stupid and antagonistic, what can the company do outside try to keep the ones that are NOT actively pissing off their client base safe? By not hiring Hashimoto, they ARE protecting their employees by keeping them out of the line of fire.

[@gobalbucs]

@@lyravain6304The company is also protecting its employees from potential workplace drama and harassment that these types always seem to bring with them.

[@zmortis111]

@@lyravain6304 you are too logical and not emotional enough. These people don't care if what they do puts hundreds of other people out on the street without jobs as long as their marxist identity politics can ruin another bastion of escapism for gamers to enjoy themselves.

[@miguelguillermo6159]

I believe you are mistaken. There's no real politics involved in all this, the only reason why they do this is for the money. They don't care about minorities or inclusion, they just care what looks better for the outside.

[@justanautomaton]

The fact Ubisoft is likely going to be ending up in several different lawsuits from Japan is so vindicating. They can't hide the fact Japan is mad at them forever.

[@bioncledudes4life]

So, what was the hashimoto and Kim Belair article's point? Because it seems like it was just letting them say "like, um, you know" along with word salad. Not to mention, every company has to balance risk and reward when hiring someone, so if you came from a company that is attributed to failures and controversy, and you're not some kind of Golden Talent, why would anyone take you over the safer option with no baggage?

[@MisterGreis]

When you're used to failing upwards, just simply failing is scary.

[@talkingtakotaco8611]

Complaining about not being hired, complaining companies arnt catering to their interests without thinking about what they would even contribute to the company, complaining people are not buying their lies anymore.

[@Shredder1400]

Well, can’t say that failure after massive failure, game devs aren’t waking up and feeling the lack of money in the pit of their wallets.

[@Asrael-xy7uk]

The worst part is, I can't really say they are waking up. At last the only thing the video mentions is that they don't want to hire ex-SBI because they might get harassed. Not because forced diversity makes games worse, not because people don't like games that focus more on the message than on gameplay, not because it makes them lose money. No, just because they might get harassed on social media. I really hope that the game devs are finally waking up and try to make money again, but just from this video alone I can't say, they actually do.

[@AnkardTan]

who knew actions have consequences

[@plumaDshinigami]

Let's thank the SBI Detected push to bring awareness to the cancer.

[@Entification]

As the abstract thought of game development, I can confirm that the abstract thought of game developers doing this is the abstract thought of something being truly disappointing to me.

[@Xadaj127]

We can only hope the madness is truly ending...

[@davidanttila9305]

Wasn't there a video leaked from Sweet Baby where the head of Sweet Baby outright said if you reject our suggestions to terrorize them?

[@zmortis111]

That was talking to the woke pukes in companies telling to to go to their marketing departments and claim if they don't pay something to the tune of $7 million for an SBI like consultant to DEI-ify your workplace and product, they will go complain to all their gaming journolista buddies who will then write a bunch of bad press about your game. See: Black Myth Wukong and all the "sexism" articles that started coming out about their developer Game Science after they rejected hiring consultants to DEI up their game based in ancient Chinese literature. Straight out blackmail attempts, and they didn't fall victim to the ploy.

[@ARandomRobloxianGamer]

Its a shame what people do nowadays

[@maxmustermann8247]

"mimimi i'm the victim, please pity me mimimi" well, he/she/it had the choice to work for SBI...now he/she/it has to live with the consequences. Pity is out of stock.

[@zmortis111]

Not just work with SBI, but continue the trend of pushing marxist identity politics after they left SBI as a fervent adherent to the cause. They expected to be elevated and protected by the corporations and journolistas, and now that their house of cards is falling down along with their backers, they are right mad about it.

[@Mosheven]

bro literally said "yea there's too much diversity in the team and it's not my fault they can't communicate" wtf??? no dude, no. nah. Not even. I highly doubt it was the teams decisions anyways.

[@Sr_Chickon]

I hate when people say the same damn thing over and over again it’s so annoying and unnecessary.

[@justinbuddy56]

I wouldn’t be too hopeful that devs are rejecting DEI. I’d say the more likely case is that they’re rejecting those who have worked for Sweet Baby because they’re seen as a liability.

[@Asrael-xy7uk]

Yeah, at last from this video it doesn't seem like they understand what makes people dislike SBI and thus makes the companies lose money. They just don't want to have the bad press from SBI directly. So far there is no indication that the companies understand why gamers hate SBI. So if another company with the same values and goals as SBI would get involved, they would, at last as far as this video shows, treat them completely normal, not realizing that SBI is just a really recognizable sympton and not the actual problem.

[@zmortis111]

@@Asrael-xy7uk SBI is just one DEI grifter among a bunch of them. When the DEI itself becomes toxic to employers, they will all simply rename, rebrand, and attack once more on a different tract to push the marxist agenda.

[@BudFriesel]

that Hashimoto must enjoy using the word "Like", doesn't he? anyway, another good sign of the blowback against DEI company's taking place.

[@ComposedSage75]

Believe it when it happens folks. You’ve seen how these companies and devs change their minds all the time and pretend they didn’t know things were this bad (even though they can see the writing on the wall like everyone else).

[@IDESTROYER236]

If you are a game dev planning on hiring an SBI activist, here's a tip: Do it, reject each and every suggestion, watch the tears flow.

[@zmortis111]

The problem is the first thing these grifter consultants and former grifter consultant types do is seek positions where they can find ways to hire as many like-minded buddies as possible into positions that make decisions. Then they continue the grift soaking the investors for every dime, and leaving ruin in their wake. They are not about creating a good product. They are about milking a position for everything they can get, and then fading into the woodwork like cockroaches when it all catches fire and starts to burn down.

[@Onkoloinen]

Game devs - we want to make a great game and make money. DEI - Best we can is blackmail you for money, ruin your game and keep your game up for 12 days

[@dylanvodden1369]

These employees should have lunch with their potential new bosses. And scare the shit out of them by telling them what could happen if they aren't hired. That's what they did in the past right? It's worked well for them so far.

[@FrancisFjordCupola]

Just like wearing a mask during the pandemic was needed to stop the spread of one disease, so is the rejecting of SBI and co needed to stop the spread of another disease.

[@TheCrazyOne2]

Through this long fought battle, we have finally emerged victorious. Rejoice as the gaming industry, and possibly the world begins to heal

[@BIGFELLAH26]

On a completely different note, there’s a Yakuza Pirate game coming out early next year. It’s about an amnesiac Majima becoming a Pirate and fighting other pirates.

[@AnxMa]

Even Ubisoft can be salvaged. I recently made a John Wick style action montage using Splinter Cell Blacklist stylish takedowns. Looks really cool. If only we got a proper John Wick game that way, Ubi could license and stay afloat. They have all the right tools already. No more taking real gamers for granted.

[@missilecarrier]

could have been salvaged.

[@zmortis111]

. . . shouldn't be salvaged. They need to become the object lesson to corporations of what happens when you pursue ESG investor money over product customer money.

[@TheKing_1986]

It’s about God damn time!

[@planescaped]

The amount of times this tool says "like" is insufferable and unsurprising...

[@leandrobenitez292]

good, every single person who has ever worked in any of these consultants needs to be black listed from the entirety of the tech sector, i would even go as far as to boycot a gas station that hires them as janitors

[@jayd.doubledubs]

I am losing braincells from hearing "like" so many times

[@AlvinFlang69420]

So this freaking sucks. Not because they're not being hired, but rather because they could get harassed. They do not see them as danger for their incompetence, unprofessionalism, or how almost every single game they work on being a failure. They clearly agree with them and the concern is any harassment at execs.

[@lyravain6304]

Ah, yes, the Ubisoft way of defending yourself; "Well, we DID steal some copyright, but it's alright when WE do it, but don't you DARE say anything negative, or you're a russian troll bot!" And they wonder why the people buying their trash are fewer and fewer with every release.

[@DosonTheGreat]

Westerners critical of the game don't use translators. They want Ubisoft to know their discontent. It's the people defending this game who have tried to push the narrative that the Japanese love this, to discredit western critics. I've noticed a few Japanese comments that are clearly machine translated, and those were defending the game. This is projection, as usual. They take these false accusations from their own playbooks.

[@stanknight9159]

It only took 100 other developers to bankrupt, to learn; Who said these companies are stupid?

[@joncooke158]

We're protecting our employees by not hiring people who deliberately antagonize our customers.

[@Ivotas]

The irony of "It was people in the West who did it" actually being an argument to be used against Hashimoto is just *chefskiss*

[@No_Sleepee]

People finally taking the right notes from Concord's failures

[@Epicboy099]

And do NOT forget to add dustborn's failure as well.

[@talkingtakotaco8611]

An update to that, it's been noted that Concord had cost Sony about 400 mil over the 8 years.

[@Epicboy099]

@@talkingtakotaco8611 400 mil just for it to die before week 3 at minimum, that's gotta sting for Sony.

[@Bakuganluver23]

@@Epicboy099 god knows they need a good dose of reality.

[@jasonwilson3420]

Lies openly to the public and is surprised no one wants to hire/trust him? hmmm lol

[@zmortis111]

It's not lies when you are promoting the proper marxist agenda. It's propaganda, and it's all good comrade. Trust them to hold your wallet too.

[@theopeneyes]

Take a shot everytime Hero Hei has to say "like". (please don't)

[@zmortis111]

Call it the alcohol poisoning game. . .

[@greaseball9537]

dude, the guy cant even talk how is he a consultant for anything

[@harkbelial]

Walmart is hiring

[@ExceptBacon]

I hope Kim Belair doesn’t quit doing presentations. I want to see her try and reel off those same lines, after causing all her friends to lose their jobs.

[@nashdash6404]

She wants to be more important than the consumers. They really think they're special.

[@Aman_Mondal]

Devs finally realised how horrendous these mfs were now only one more enemy exist Denuvo those mfs need to get lost

[@netcat22]

SBI is the kiss of death. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes!

[@HentsSauce]

It's like deciding to hire someone with a criminal record. It's better to just choose someone else and remove the hassle of deciding whether to hire them or risk it. "Ex-Sweet Baby Inc. huh? Alright, next..."

[@zmortis111]

Hire a known conman or grifter at your own risk. My assessment is that is a bad risk that will never work in your favor.

[@Hravokh]

the amount of "like" in an article of a major publication is AAAAAARGH

[@b.r.52]

Summary of the details of the interview gave me the image that he was treated like a passed around bad waffle flavor.

[@62swordsmen]

I'll take this as a sign that the gaming industry is taking it's first step in healing. If the game devs are gatekeeping these political, corpo, brainwashed psychos then we might finally start seeing some quality games that focuses on having fun instead of trying to push a warped agenda

[@nathanmcclung3564]

He says like as many times as a stereotypical hippy from the 70s. When I read it I got bad shaggy rogers impersonator flashbacks.

[@BloodrealmX]

She's an American woman, that's why she speaks like an American woman.

[@AchillesOnYT]

Theres also the fact they ILLEGALLY STOLE that religious statue that isn't allowed to be put in video games. I forget the name of it though.

[@blackfire3744]

Right, who wouldn't want to hire former employees of companies that train them to blackmail their desired client companies?

[@GeekyDolphin46]

I hate that people say"far right Japanese politics" like it means something Japanese politics is so unbelievably different from American politics. And unlike hashimoto, I've done my research

[@zmortis111]

They really can't comprehend what living in a monoculture like Japan is like.

[@Disqord]

It's almost like hiring activists instead of developers looking to make good games is a bad idea for their bottom line.

[@DarkFrozenDepths]

Only took them like a good decade along with tons of body counts (games, devs, and even a company or two) in the gaming industry

[@zmortis111]

Yep, they've been pretty successful at destroying a number of former IPs once enjoyed by men. As far as many of them are concerned it's mission accomplished. Just like when they destroyed nuclear families in the West through promiscuity, divorce, and abortion.

[@Danosauruscrecks]

The amount of times this guy says like is insane. When you're quoting him it's similar to listening to a teenager

[@zmortis111]

Typical CA San Fernando valley speak at work.

[@Sajgoniarz]

RISE BROTHERS AND SISTERS! We will pull DEI weed out of our space!

[@DubbedJey]

Sadly, many people do fall for tricks like that.

[@daviddesrosiers1946]

Uh, oh. Those wouldn't happen to be the real life consequences of your life choices coming back to bite you, would they?

[@outerlast]

those consultation groups, what they will do is give you a score that you can use to either receive some money from blackrock or similar, or receive protection from harassment whether online or offline, or even from legal issues related to your past "mistakes" like sexual harassment, power harassment, etc

[@kopiseduh9767]

'Hey are we going to get harassed for hiring you?' Are there actually harassment, or they're talking about their bad product getting ridiculed and avoided?

[@rick-oc7tb]

Naturally, this SHOULD BE the case. Why wouldn't companies prefer that SWEET money from the consumers than just getting a fraction of consumer profit by DEI. They definitely shouldn't take precedence over passionate people than "inclusive" people. Honestly if this is true and some gaming companies finally grow a backbone, the AAA industry might be revived until then, there suould be no support for the major companies.

[@idol_wannabe]

go ask for a job and TERRIFY THEM for the posibility of what is gonna happen if they hire you

[@BloodrealmX]

Wow. She's really making the excuse "we got everything in the game wrong because it's just too much effort to bother", huh? She's conveniently ignoring that SBI has literally bragged about being a protection racket and advised other consultancy firms to do the same. No, they don't "just pull you in, ask for suggestions, and it's up to the director". "trying their best to get someone that sounds Japanese enough" Exactly this. Reminder than Kazuma is not her real name, male is not her real gender, she's only half Japanese, and she does not live in Japan.

[@zmortis111]

Japanese genetics, but culturally 100% marxist.

[@moderndayvampire1469]

If they really want to shave off responsibility, they can just consult the other way around. But I never see them claim such, and thus, yes, responsibility falls on them. "It's their fault for listening to our advice" one crazy hill to die on.

[@zmortis111]

"Our advice was good think. They just screwed up the proper implementation of the marxist agenda." - DEI consultant

[@degrengolada2360]

Every time you say Hashimoto i think about Hashimoto's thyroiditis

[@rustymustard7798]

It's like looking outside and seeing your neighbors all buying 'Diverse and Inclusive' branded rat poison flavored chocolates from a sketchy traveling salesman, eat it, and drop dead before he comes to your door with the sales pitch. Nah, we're good.

[@zmortis111]

Shouldn't that be chocolate flavored rat poison?

[@leomagus2813]

Lil bro got a lot of self-hatred... He hates that he's Japanese... It's sad really...

[@meltdown6165]

Nobody hiring you if you have a bad track record? Shocking!

[@mindlessmeat4055]

I love Kurosawa films and that was why I played all of Ghost of Tsushima in that mode. The world felt right somehow.

[@megamaxuiama]

It was about a FUCKING time.

[@F0xdash]

our mothers always say: "stay away from drugs" We say to developers: "stay away from Sweet Baby Inc" i don't have kids, but this ignites my father instinct, in a way! XD

[@TacticalGoldfishy]

Of course. It takes a special kind of toxic parasite to seek a job at SBI. Putting something like SBI on your resume is a massive red flag; it clearly states what your priorities are in game development. If it was just a job to put food on the table, I'd rather just replace bit on the resume with working at an ice cream stand. SBI work is literally worse than unemployment as far as work experience goes.

[@zmortis111]

See also: working for a games journolista company soon as well.

[@GamerLightWarrior456]

Nice to see gaming companies reject Sweet Baby Inc and other DEI consultants.

[@kamikaze00007]

You'd be fooling yourself if you believe that companies are actually "rejecting" DEI. They're simply moving these people around, out of strictly DEI-ESG departments that are obvious, and sneaking them into actual vital departments within the company, so there'd be no easy reason to get them fired or removed. This is exactly how the BRIDGE strategy is intended to function to keep ESG and DEI deeply embedded into all industries.

[@zmortis111]

Also recognize at the root of this is marxist ideology of destroying productivity and living standards in the West. It continues to be successful.

[@Dorian_Scott]

It's about time they started avoiding those companies. Imagine paying a lot of money for someone to make your game 10x worse.

[@missilecarrier]

a dude pretending to be Japanese: "Those hateful comments are made by those who pretend to be Japanese" much projection, such cringe

[@zmortis111]

They may be genetically Asian/Japanese, but culturally they are 100% marxist.

[@anthonybarrera2155]

This man uses the word "Like" so many time. Usually when someone says "like" alot, they are mostly trying to hide something, or don't want to tell the truth.

[@zmortis111]

Or they were raised in San Fernando Valley CA. I would bet on that one.

[@notfallingforthat13]

Wow people don't want to hire people that are only headaches that complain and are a huge lawsuite risk. They don't want to be called every name in the book and have an employee that tries to gather an online mob to harm their reputation in hopes of forcing changes that will lose the company money. It's almost like businesses want to make money and not be harassed by crazy oeople.

[@RichardHardslab]

Why is the New York Times interviewing a California valley girl?

[@BloodrealmX]

Because they are. "Kazuma Hashimoto" is an American woman from LA.

[@zmortis111]

That is ?girl? isn't it. Gender undeterminable.

[@EbenezerEibenhardt]

SBI confessed to being soulless extortionists from pretty much day 1. Who *would* want to work with them??

[@zmortis111]

Cynical bastards that know putting a DEI consultant cost in your quarterly earnings call does wonders for your Environment Social Governance score to sucker stupid ESG investors into pouring money into your rathole company so they can virtue signal to their elitist friends. That's who. The gig will be up when the investors finally catch on to the scam, and the new scam will come along.

[@BongChile]

Well I guess their DEI funding stopped considering the companies only hired them for extra bucks

[@Dukep6]

The DEI backlash is a very recent thing. I think he wasn't hired because he is shit!

[@dogdie147]

That dude hashimoto or whatever he called himself is a guy larping as a Japanese while living in America, his name is taken from a Japanese character “literally”

[@zmortis111]

Also a female LARPing as a guy too.

[@Wasthatapuffin]

Consultants are hired with clear results in mind. "More Inclusivity", "Higher Employee Retention", etc. It is fair to say that the director/producer has final control, but if they follow your advice and it results in a loss your future as a consultant will likely be short.

[@zmortis111]

Like all marxist failures, the excuse always is: "the wrong people were doing it that time. Marxism works, it's just the people doing it messed up." Compare it to the answer they gave with the "wrong people" being the Directors and Producers in their excuse.

[@lesewing]

You don't hire pests.

[@Kamina.D.Fierce]

You mean people don't want to be associated with those who threaten, bully, and extort devs in order to force their politicized agendas which tend to turn customers away and have been proven to lead to numerous flops and even entire studio closures? I'm shocked. And by that I mean not one bit surprised.

[@michaelhall736]

It seems reality is finally sitting in and people are waking up to this DEI nonsense. Sweet Baby has already caused two developers to shut down. Maybe what happening with Rocksteady was a wakeup call.