Interesting perspective and nice comment from Savvy underneath.
The main problem beyond the ideological that comes with these consultants is that you deprive your in-house talent experience in creating their own stories and become heavily reliant on outsiders to make them.
Its a trap and it's better to make your own stories even if you lack the experience than forever be dependent on the assistance of outsiders.
It definitely is a trap. Those DEI consultants don't suffer the consequences at all. They get paid and are onto the next grift by the time the product goes to market and nobody buys it.
That's a problem with consulting in general too. They get paid to insert themselves in your project with little context, implement exactly what you tell them to, then leave once the contract is up without giving you any documentation. During their contract they will constantly delay because they have other clients they are behind on, so what you are delivered is a rushed mess. When it sucks, they don't care because they got paid and you're too cheap to hire in house, so you'll come crawling back anyway. When you go out of business because the thing you counted on them to build was late and not fit for purpose, they move on to the next sucker
Consultants that are "masters of their craft" when such crafts are an integral part of your media (and you can't be expected to have those sorts of experts on your dev team) is reasonable.
There is no reasonable time for DEI/ESG consultants. And a researcher of ancient Japanese gay pedophilia is not a historian.
Its modern sense of "agent appointed by a sovereign state to reside in a foreign place to protect the interests of its citizens and commerce there" began with use of the word as appellation of a representative chosen by a community of MERCHANTS living in a foreign country... https://www.etymonline.com/word/consul
always demand they're paid only a percentage of net revenue
Funny thing about that. It's standard in the oil industry. The mineral rights owner gets a 1/8th, the geologist consultant gets 1/32nd, the refiner gets 1/8th, and the operator gets the rest, but has to maintain it.
I was talking to someone who is suppose to be a creative director who insisted he didn't think people could write "authentic" stories without having some lived experience.. it was very strange and I thought, my goodness how can characters ever be created then by this person? I don't know who imposed these restrictions on people or the idea that someone can't write a type of character without some "consultant"....the free market determines success, but i really do believe every single person is capable of telling a story...
We know precisely who imposed this. This dialectic is built into the Social Justice Racket to force over-hiring of dependent upper-middle class theater kids who make a large majority of the newest generation of "entertainers" in the entrainment industry. They are also an ideologically captured client group to Leftists. "You can't write a story unless you personally experienced it", means that the bigotry of low expectations is at it's strongest, allowing the least meritocratic people of all to enter into the creative arts by force. You are being required to hire low IQ individuals and/or individuals with Narcissistic Personality Disorder that do not have the intellectual capacity to pass a fucking Theory Of Mind test.
And since you will have not experienced many things in your life you're going to have to hire dozens of these people. Your artistic work will be turned into a make-work project for a committee of delusional idiot ideologues that don't have the ability to rotate an apple in their own head. This will be considered the only way to run a profitable company in CURRENT_YEAR + 10 by the Marketing, Public Relations, and Human Resources departments. And if you don't like it? You get the ice pick treatment for being a counter-revolutionary that Trotsky got.
This is why you call it out and kick it in the face the moment you see it the first time.
Interesting perspective and nice comment from Savvy underneath.
The main problem beyond the ideological that comes with these consultants is that you deprive your in-house talent experience in creating their own stories and become heavily reliant on outsiders to make them.
Its a trap and it's better to make your own stories even if you lack the experience than forever be dependent on the assistance of outsiders.
It definitely is a trap. Those DEI consultants don't suffer the consequences at all. They get paid and are onto the next grift by the time the product goes to market and nobody buys it.
That's a problem with consulting in general too. They get paid to insert themselves in your project with little context, implement exactly what you tell them to, then leave once the contract is up without giving you any documentation. During their contract they will constantly delay because they have other clients they are behind on, so what you are delivered is a rushed mess. When it sucks, they don't care because they got paid and you're too cheap to hire in house, so you'll come crawling back anyway. When you go out of business because the thing you counted on them to build was late and not fit for purpose, they move on to the next sucker
Never hire consultants.
Consultants that are "masters of their craft" when such crafts are an integral part of your media (and you can't be expected to have those sorts of experts on your dev team) is reasonable.
There is no reasonable time for DEI/ESG consultants. And a researcher of ancient Japanese gay pedophilia is not a historian.
I've yet to work with a consultant that was worth the money, and I was one for the early parts of my career
Its modern sense of "agent appointed by a sovereign state to reside in a foreign place to protect the interests of its citizens and commerce there" began with use of the word as appellation of a representative chosen by a community of MERCHANTS living in a foreign country... https://www.etymonline.com/word/consul
If I had a multi-million dollar game studio, I would hire them just to tell the development team to do the opposite on what they suggest.
Funny thing about that. It's standard in the oil industry. The mineral rights owner gets a 1/8th, the geologist consultant gets 1/32nd, the refiner gets 1/8th, and the operator gets the rest, but has to maintain it.
Take a page from Hollywood and make it net profit. Then keep stacking "expenses" so they'll never see a red cent.
We know precisely who imposed this. This dialectic is built into the Social Justice Racket to force over-hiring of dependent upper-middle class theater kids who make a large majority of the newest generation of "entertainers" in the entrainment industry. They are also an ideologically captured client group to Leftists. "You can't write a story unless you personally experienced it", means that the bigotry of low expectations is at it's strongest, allowing the least meritocratic people of all to enter into the creative arts by force. You are being required to hire low IQ individuals and/or individuals with Narcissistic Personality Disorder that do not have the intellectual capacity to pass a fucking Theory Of Mind test.
And since you will have not experienced many things in your life you're going to have to hire dozens of these people. Your artistic work will be turned into a make-work project for a committee of delusional idiot ideologues that don't have the ability to rotate an apple in their own head. This will be considered the only way to run a profitable company in CURRENT_YEAR + 10 by the Marketing, Public Relations, and Human Resources departments. And if you don't like it? You get the ice pick treatment for being a counter-revolutionary that Trotsky got.
This is why you call it out and kick it in the face the moment you see it the first time.
Explains why i've seen so many bald black women in media. It all comes from the same rulebook.