Gareth Lewin's Blog

Last week at the gdc I noticed two themes. The first was "how to make money in your game by fucking your players over", the other was a pretty strong push against sexism, racism, misogyny, etc. In one of the better sessions the talker called for zero tolerance in games. The game I play the most is valve's amazing dota 2 . It's a very hard team game and people get very emotional in the game, which turns to the typical gay bashing, sexist and racist outbursts from players. Most of the time if it is not directed at me I used to just ignore it, but no more. As a community, industry and most importantly as human beings we need to put a stop to this. Valve have an excellent reporting system and from now on I plan on reporting anyone using racist, sexist, queer-ist and other bigoted language. Everyone. Zero tolerance. Additionally I am going to point out to people that they are being douche-bags. I doubt the latter will work but maybe if everyone did it then it would hel...

I have been thinking a lot about the  Swiss Unconditional Income  idea and this post is a dump of my thoughts on the subject, hopefully when all put together will make a cohesive overview of where I stand. In the world we live in, having a job is one of the most important things you should do if you wish to sustain yourself alive, this is emphasized with  every   politician  talking about job creation as the solution to every problem. Why are pipelines in BC a good idea? J obs . Why are the oil sands good for Canada? Jobs . How do you encourage growth in the USA?  Jobs . Why do rich people get tax breaks, because they create Jobs  (well that's the excuse anyway). The question is, is this really true? How do we define a job? I define it (for the purpose of this post at least) as the way you generate money to buy the necessities (and possibly more) of life. So we (most of us) don't have a choice, we either work or we don't have a roof over our h...