Get out of my trade. Unions are not your friends. I've watched as union workers fucked me over at trade shows. If you feel that unionizing is what you need, then I submit that, as a developer, you aren't capable enough keep a real job.
Pay me enough, and I'll happily GTFO of the programming trade. $50,000/year will do.
Thinking that nature thinks, and that if it does it cares at all about our survival, is pretty much the stupidest thing I can imagine.
IMO, reification is generally pretty stupid, and has no legitimate place outside of literature and poetry, where it's called "personification". It doesn't make sense to treat nature, society, government, or any abstraction as if it has a concrete existence and can think, plan, know, desire, or do anything on its own.
Now I feel like it's going to die a slow death with no interest from casual people.
Didn't your father ever teach you that your feelings don't matter to anybody else? You're not a Jedi. Don't feel; think.
I had a SNES as a teenager, and I loved it. It had Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger, Axelay, Cybernator, Megaman X, Shin Megami Tensei, Wizardy V: Heart of the Maelstrom, Secret of Mana, Secret of Evermore, Super Mario RPG, Super Metroid, Castlevania IV, A Link to the Past, etc.
I skipped the N64 because the only RPG available was Quest 64, and I didn't give a shit about Ocarina of Time.
I bought a GameCube, but the only games worth playing were Metroid Prime, Metroid Prime 2, Eternal Darkness, Tales of Symphonia, and Viewtiful Joe.
I bought a Wii, and it collects dust unless I feel like replaying Trauma Team, No More Heroes, or Muramasa: the Demon Blade.
I'm not buying a Wii U. Since Nintendo of America has no intention of releasing games like Xenoblade, The Last Story and Pandora’s Tower in the US, I have no further use for Nintendo.
"The identical is equal to itself, since it is different." -- Franco Spisani