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Cake day: August 27th, 2023

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  • There’s jobs you can fake your way through in a week and there’s jobs that take six years to not kill people.

    The cliche example is fast food because you really can do it badly on day one. Literacy is optional. English is negotiable. That’s unavoidably distinct from jobs that require higher math or high voltage. The fact a surgeon would do worse at flipping burgers than anyone who’s worked retail does not change how people skills and sticktoitiveness are no substitute for recognizing a tumor by sight.

    We will always need a way to describe that gap. You’re welcome to suggest alternatives.





  • workplace controversies and sexual harrassment allegations

    Notably: separate. Unless I missed something. They were a handful of twenty-something dickheads who named the company after a rude insult. That went better than they had any right to… which is not to say it went well. Crunch and verbal abuse all over the place. But then independently, a decade later, the guy you medium expect did some penis crimes.

    Anyway.

    They really had every opportunity to churn out money. They were early on the Minecraft bandwagon and milked the shit out of that. They put out a weekly hour of high-stakes dicking around in GTA IV and then GTA V, and the algorithm loved them. They were relatively early to the podcast boom and absolutely understood the assignment. Later they did a bunch, on various topics, because they realized half their business was just dorks talking to one another. The margins on all that can’t be amazing, but streamers make it work… and they did also take up streaming, after pissing off a key personality who fucked off to do streaming instead.

    For animation specifically - how did Camp Camp never get picked up by Adult Swim?