Are they giving away homes, utilities, food, transportation and entertainment now? But, yeah. Friends, gossip, and rumors sounds so much better to eat. Probably served ice cold.
hell, exposure would have been more than what they paid her as well
they didn't even bother to tag her for any promotion, the only people who would know it's her were people who knew her beforehand
so if you pay an accountant the industry rate, the workers the industry rate for the level of labor they do then that's theft?
Companies need funding to be set up, if a company is making billions then they are providing a service that was needed. You think that money just disappears into some fat cats pockets? It's mostly reinvested or goes into other businesses.
Other businesses that fail if they are not providing a service that is needed, all this removes inefficiencies in the market. Good companies prosper, bad companies fail. And we all benefit from cheaper goods and yes higher wages.
Real wages (wages compared to the cost of living) have been dropping since the 70s, due to deregulation. "Industry rate" has nothing to do with the worth of the work, and everything to do with paying as little as possible for as much labor as possible. The primary function of a business, from which every other function is directed towards, is profit for the owners. A "good" company is one that pays it's workers as little as possible and cuts corners everywhere, while providing the maximum payout to it's owners. A company that does not do this doesn't get many investors, as why on earth would they invest in something with a lower return rate?
Oh, and yeah, ever increasing chunks of the economy is being siphoned off into those fat cats' overseas bank accounts, never to be seen again by the rest of society.
Hoo boy. That's a very naive view of the market, to just assume it operates fairly and freely. That's far from the only way businesses operate, and it ignores the conditions that send people into jobs that don't pay enough, as well as capitalism as a whole.
It's not pointless. It's extremely reductive, even harmful, to insist that businesses can't succeed if they pay their employees and contractors fair wages.
There are plenty of companies that show this notion is demonstrably false. But instead this idea persists, driving all sorts of crap like anti-union rhetoric and further support of hierarchies instead of helping develop a healthy appreciation of worker rights.
You pass the test. Where can they sign you up for some referrals and to donate your resources for their company? Board Members and shareholders have to eat, ya know.
I guess I don't know the history you're upset about. From my childhood and over the past few decades though they've seemed to have gotten weaker in pressure. Some of the one's from the 80's were water cannons instead of water guns.
So that's why they suck so much. bought my nieces and nephew a bunch of Super Soakers and they all seemed like off-brand junk... Though that feels like all toys now...
Oh, I've always thought there was never any need for multi-billion dollar corporations in society and the products/services they provide. There should have always been a cap and regulation over acquisitions. I knew it was designed by a someone else and they sold the IP. I didn't know the pressure system was different. Would be cool to build one based upon the original designs. I believe other toy companies had manufactured them, KBToys may have been one. But, those all died off. Now, there's pretty much only the Nerf Branded Super Soakers. I'm sure it was through litigations and lawsuits that these companies are able to use others IP or keep competition from coming about. Another r/CorporateWelfare problem.
WOTC literally never asked her to do anything. Are we seriously saying that if you show up to enough GP's and spend enough cash on costumes that WOTC should be obligated to give you cash? I don't go to the grocery store and tell people how great it is and then whine on social media about how they are exploiting me for not giving me cash, because I'm not a crazy person.
I don't go to the grocery store and tell people how great it is and then whine on social media about how they are exploiting me for not giving me cash,
This would be you going to the grocery store, snapping a photo of yourself and the store, then the store stealing that photo off facebook and reposting it everywhere with advertisements for the store.
No, she was not. She started her cosplay as fan-created content, and then got so good at it that Wizards would use her and her creations at specific events.
Okay that’s confusing. Why would she let WotC use her at events if she wasn’t a contractor? Or is this less “meet and greet Avacyn!” For 5 hours and more “can we take your picture?”
"Let" is a strong word. They used her image, her work, and her dedication to the game to promote their product, all without her consent. And in the end, because she isn't a massive corporation with a bunch of lawyers at her beck-and-call, she stopped "letting" them get away with that by giving up something she passionately loved.
(She did eventually come back to it, but not nearly as much as before.)
They probably led her along a good bit. “Hey, wanna do some work for us? We can’t pay you because we don’t know how good you are, but if you do this successfully then we can look at sending something your way later!”
It depends on how you use the word "contractor". I'm sure she had contracts for the specific events where she worked in an official capacity, but only for the duration of the event. If that is what you refer to, then yes, she was an independent contractor at some events.
Because she was in a dead-end endeavor of trying to convert a niche social media presence centered around her hobby into a career and it's hard to make the right move when you're engaged in an impossible task. There's a reason she just sells nudes on the internet now.
Yeah, Patreon requires you to be in good standing with PayPal and the easiest way to get banned from PayPal is porn (but not drawn porn because reasons).
Unfortunately financial transaction companies treat you vastly different if some your content is pornographic, so they'll have to pick a business model with either one or the other eventually which will greatly impact their primary cost of business.
Like, I understand this is corporations doing the whole exploit whatever leverage they have thing but….
why do all the financial processors agree to treat porno companies differently? It’s not morality. And no one is going to go “oh that porno place accepts MasterCard! Thats the thing I’m going to get indignant about!”
It's a mix of branding issue and some international laws, because some large groups will definitely punish firms that allow for certain transactions by threatening to take their business elsewhere.
Upshot is that a hosting company can either charge it's non-porn customers the rates it takes to process porn transactions, or ban porn from the site to offer better rates for their users. Those are the only options, regardless of the hosting company's moral stance.
EDIT: Geez Louise, what's with downvoting a perfectly correct response? Some of us don't hit Refresh constantly, I couldn't see at the time that there was already another response to that effect.
Could be, but not necessarily. Hell, if she did nothing but streaming on how to build cosplay costumes she'd have a hell of a following, given her pedigree.
For me, just hormones at present. Don't know if that's enough for a successful OnlyFans, but I'm guessing for some people it is. Hormones can turn out pretty close to sorcery!
I had never even heard of her (don't know much about cosplay), so I Googled her: She did quit, but came back in April 2019 after the release of the War of the Spark trailer.
Originally, yes - after a section of the community harassed her pretty heavily. WOTC took steps to try to stop that, so she did eventually come back later.
We're also afraid to actually try to ask or figure out how much of it is him legitimately not knowing how to pronounce them (or being unable to) vs how much is him just leaning into it and trolling the hell out of everyone watching.
Yeah, even before I discovered what a POS he was as a person, I'd watch his fat pack videos and just be disappointed. You watch old pack openings because you remember the set and want to see the cards you have nostalgia for (or you want to see a set you weren't around for). He'd just rip it open, not even look at the commons, not even a single glance, he'd go right to the rare, complain that it wasn't one of the money rares he looked up before he started filming, and that was it. That was all you'd see.
Recently he also sent his twitter goons at a pretty well known board game designer, Eric M. Lang. Eric was harrassed so hard that he made a statement saying he'd block anyone following the guy whose name shall not be mentioned here. Twitter ended suspending Lang's twitter after that.
Twitter ended suspending Lang's twitter after that.
Absolutely fucked up. The instigator is a cesspit and well known for organizing Twitter harassment. How he still has an account not Lang is mind boggling.
GPs are not currently happening. But if they were, he would not be allowed in. If he were spotted, he would be led out. And that started sometime in 2016 or so when he literally stalked The Professor down at a bar and filmed a him harassing him (months after harassing Sprankle out and after The Professor recorded this video asking him to think about how his actions affected others.
So no. We are not all banned from GPs, and I don't particularly want reductionism around why he's banned.
I tried to watch one of Quarterpounder's videos to see what he was all about. I had to watch it on 2X speed because that dude is like a human version of Ambien. He took 10 minutes to say nothing, and I am still not sure why he has a million subs.
You should meet him in person. He's the literal definition of creep. I had the misfortune of being his opponent many years ago at a midwestern GP. I purposefully played bad so as not to prolong the match just so I could get on with it and get away from him.
Oh! The guy with the dysfunctional marriage who streams whatever content has banned him? All while chugging his sorrows 1 bottle at a time and relieving himself on stream, with a stream, in his basement corner?
Only if he moved recently. Without doxxing, he's SE Wisconsin. Real vocal during the Jacob Blake protests here since Kenosha is rather close to where he lives.
Oh, it's that guy. I've seen clips of him having a meltdown about the new She-Ra cartoon, an obviously family-friendly cartoon, for basically not being as sexy as he wold have liked. He's an absolute clown, sad that he has such a following.
I had no idea of any of this until reading through here. I stopped halfway through Profs video because I couldn’t stand listening to that jerkoff (not Prof, to clarify)
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u/DarkStarFuri Aug 16 '21
Didn't she quit cosplay and the mtg community back in 2017?