Penny Arcade

[Saturnine Tenshi]

Nah uh!

[deanb]

And yet he's called Gabe ten times compared to being called Mike three times. It doesn't take too much digging to find yours or my real names either, though many still call me "deanb" and you Tenshi. Even with Goh covering both bases he still calls Jerry Tycho in his last post. Yes we can know his real name, and the real names of many people isn't overly hard to find if you go digging about, but it's still partially anonymity if only some of your audience will bother googling your name.

[Thursday Next]

It's a bit like the Tony Stark / Iron Man thing. We all "know" but Gabe is his Iron Man suit.

[deanb]

Penny Arcade are looking for an impossible person to pay an impossibly shitty wage to:

http://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/9887522?trk=job_nov\

 

There's a good write-up here:

http://cwbuecheler.tumblr.com/post/68163195864/on-penny-arcade-exploitation-and-the-myth-of-the

 

This is a multi-million dollar corporation, and they're going to try and hire one person to do four persons worth of jobs and expect this hire to be happy with being paid shit but with day to day pleasantries that'd be expect to go along with the four person worth salary.

[Mal]

You see this sort of shit all the time. At least these guys are up front about it. Still nobody should take this job if they have a brain.

[Mister Jack]

They might as well be asking for a Cowboy Astronaut Quarterback Millionaire.

[TheRevanchist]

I'm not so sure that is a good write up.  That sounds more like the rant of someone who has a bone to pick.

 

And, this is Penny Arcade.  They will have at least one thousand people wanting to be in that position, even if the job is only suited for an astromech droid.

[TheMightyEthan]

astromech droid.

Your nerd is showing.

[deanb]

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/185114/about-the-penny-arcade-job-posting

 

The guy who is leaving PA and this role behind has posted about it.

 

Job is pretty much as it came across in the posting. You'll be overworked and underpaid, but if you truly wuv Penny Arcade with all your heart, then it's okay to be undervalued.

[Chronixal]

I love the bullshit about work-life balance being a 'pipe dream'. What a moron.

[deanb]

Given it seems he left from uni and went on to Amazon (who as BBC have recently shown are fantastic employers) then straight into Penny Arcades work culture I guess he might not have ever known anything different?

[Mr. GOH!]

No work/life balance means folks with kids (who are usually older and have more valuable work experience) need not apply. 

[Mal]

The PA Report is dead.

 

I read PAR every so often and I didn't see this coming.

 

Then there is this reasoning. PATV is dead too.

http://penny-arcade.com/2013/12/06/changes

Edited December 7, 2013 by MaliciousH

[Mister Jack]

Good riddance, I say.  PAR had been taking on a rather arrogant, condescending tone.

[Faiblesse Des Sens]

I definitely feel like the quality dropped over time. That's all I can say for now. I liked it overall but I need to collect my thoughts for complete reflection.

[Mr. GOH!]

Never been a fan of Kuchera.

Edited December 7, 2013 by Mr. GOH!

[jayc4life]

Good riddance, I say.  PAR had been taking on a rather arrogant, condescending tone.

It was always going to be like that with Kuchera in charge. He's always been all high-and-mighty on Twitter, no surprise it bled over into his journalistic work.

 

Can't wait till PA hold a Kickstarter with a $1 goal to bring it back in a few months.