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Thirty of our friends and colleagues were laid off en masse today. Not a couple or five or ten, but thirty
. The dirty details are on every American website dedicated to video games, but summarize them for the sake of news. The publisher Ziff Davis, a pioneer in publishing video games in America, long sought a buyer to deal with a heavy economic crisis. The buyer, Hearst Corp., has materialized, did her shopping and then decided to do a piece that had become his lawfully. It was therefore held on site 1UP, the most profitable of the package, and canceled a nanosecond in the video department and that of the magazines, which made it less. Obviously it was not made any attempt to save the people working in these areas. All went to the office this morning as usual and found themselves in front of the classic "good-bye and thank you." And so tonight we are all given appointment in a downtown bar: they, the victims, and we, the supporters. See them as meeting grounds for once the largest of them, it hurts. Some have already an alternative, but those who are confused, who has a wife and children, who plans to change everything and go live in Japan. There's even those who have decided to take advantage of the sudden freedom studying Italian. And suddenly I think I know how they felt the people of this city eight years ago when the bubble burst of the dot-com.
Thirty of our friends and colleagues were laid off en masse today. Not a couple or five or ten, but thirty . The dirty details are on every American website dedicated to video games, but summarize them for the sake of news. The publisher Ziff Davis, a pioneer in publishing video games in America, long sought a buyer to deal with a heavy economic crisis. The buyer, Hearst Corp., has materialized, did her shopping and then decided to do a piece that had become his lawfully. It was therefore held on site 1UP, the most profitable of the package, and canceled a nanosecond in the video department and that of the magazines, which made it less. Obviously it was not made any attempt to save the people working in these areas. All went to the office this morning as usual and found themselves in front of the classic "good-bye and thank you." And so tonight we are all given appointment in a downtown bar: they, the victims, and we, the supporters. See them as meeting grounds for once the largest of them, it hurts. Some have already an alternative, but those who are confused, who has a wife and children, who plans to change everything and go live in Japan. There's even those who have decided to take advantage of the sudden freedom studying Italian. And suddenly I think I know how they felt the people of this city eight years ago when the bubble burst of the dot-com. 
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