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I blew the whistle on workplace abuses at ZA/UM. In return, ZA/UM tried to defame me. (medium.com)
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Posting Dora's article as the primary link since it has the more serious allegations in it, but Argo Tuulik's also written his own detailed piece here: https://medium.com/@fourhundredblows86/the-rise-and-ruin-of-locust-city-an-all-too-elysium-story-36c02da760ff

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[–] 63 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Since OP didn't mention, the pasted content is not the full article. Click through and read it if you like, as since it's Medium, it helps the author out. 😉

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    • [–] 38 points 1 year ago

    ZA/UM’s toxicity really on par with the Detective’s worst behavior.

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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Haven't finished the full write up but holy shit, it's already so much worse than I thought. Abhorrent behaviour.

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    • [–] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

    You should really define an acronym before you use it the first time.

    Edit: no hate, but I have no idea what ZA or UM is 😅

    @Stamau123@lemmy.world : sorry for the harsh tone. It wasn't intended at you.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    ZA/UM is the studio behind Disco Elysium, one of the most critically acclaimed and highest rated games of all time.

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Ya know, I feel like a jerk, and I apologize.

    They themselves don't even say what it stands for on the front of their webpage, so I guess they want to be known by that. Hey, you're allowed to be called what you want.

    Still feels weird to me, but I am stopping my judgement.

    Also, my apologies to OP.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    On Wikipedia it says it is a name of a Russian constructed language

    "Kurvitz established the ZA/UM team to create the game, using the name "za um", a reference to the Zaum constructed language created by Russian avant-garde poets in the early 1900s. Its name can be read in Russian as a shortcut for the idiom взяться за ум (vzyat'sya za um), which is similar to the English idea of bootstrapping. The use of all-capitals and the slash symbol is to present the team as "something that definitely exists and weighs eight tonnes"."

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    While I would normally agree fully with you, it's very clear from the context that ZAUM is the company behind the game Disco Elysium. What the letters stand for, if anything, is pretty irrelevant. Using IBM as an example, most people don't know or care what it stands for, it's an identifier on its own.

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    [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I worked in some fucked up places, but ZA/UM it’s a whole other league.

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    [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Note that the lemmy post is just an excerpt. The article is much longer

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