Reposted by Matt Clawson
[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you've never played World of Warcraft?
[JACK SMITH]: Correct
[SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you farming gold in Eversong Woods!
[SMITH]: That is Elden Ring, sir.
![The back of the Game Theory Admiral's box, which shows a diagram of the console and the following text:
1. Relevant crazy warning
When child the opertion see the TV game, emergence below condition of illness, for example faint, the sense of vision variety should immediately stop the usage.
2. On-line operation methood of TV/JOYSTICK of game machine
Confirm your (game machine) for cut offing the power supply appearance, then link the line or JOYSTICK conjunction line the TV to ineser the EXT co connect an electric outlet.
3. Relevant again anda gain labor the excessive warning
At than long-playing operation game empress, the some person may feel fatigue or not well, In spit of game empress that how your felling is, whenever operate a ho9ur to should take a rest 10 [text obscured by a sticker in Russian]
4. Announcements concerning battery with warn
When not use, cannot over along period of time or battery put enclosure inside.
WARNING
At usage (game machine ) from, please read the manual carefully and reserve to make to guide it to use.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CElE0LlHP70](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tgzch2ctf2xwntahma3ga6bv/bafkreihy7qylqybr4nqlenkhxr7vinnh7fmvwfzpmlribbluquel6tqpiy)
![“We really started mobilizing as one Blizzard unit in [the] last couple of months, and I think that really helped put the pressure on,” Paul Cox, senior game designer on World of Warcraft, told Aftermath.
"I feel like the company dragged its feet and did a lot of posturing and wasting time until the very, very last moment."
Prior to spring of this year, the WoW team, which unionized in 2024, had gotten the lion's share of bargaining time. Other units found themselves stuck in the mud. Higher-ups were effectively stalling the whole process—unfortunately nothing new for unionized workers under Microsoft’s umbrella.
"For this whole year of bargaining on the Diablo side—and I imagine on the rest of the units as well—we received so few [bargaining] dates, but we kind of had the understanding that whatever WoW was able to win would at least influence and set the floor for the rest of our units,” Diablo senior environment artist Mahreen Fatima told Aftermath. “We adopted this messaging about how WoW's wins are our wins, so we should be out there mobilizing with them. But truly, I feel like the company dragged its feet and did a lot of posturing and wasting time until the very, very last moment this last month to finally be able to say, 'OK, yes, we are willing to extend this contract to everyone.' We really did not have any indication that we could get this done until last month."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5gdejlhcswjbzraadoltdpps/bafkreih6u6gzajbd63dovnmlnc43z5g6i35d3n735rrdkopipyjopkl72e)
