'Everything Is a Story' Inside Wyrmwood Gaming's Narcissistic Funhouse

[Teo Twawki]

'Everything Is a Story' Inside Wyrmwood Gaming's Narcissistic Funhouse

A culture of unprofessionalism and disrespect at Wyrmwood Gaming goes beyond allegations of sexual assault.

gizmodo.com

Curiouser and curiouser. We had very minor dealings with this company a few years ago. Tried to buy some gourmet dice from them. They never shipped the dice we bought and after a few emails, stopped replying to us. We took it up with our bank and after a few months, got a refund from the bank, but never heard back from the company.

A friend once told me: How you do anything is how you do everything.

Seems that might be true of Wyrmwood.

 

[darjr]

The actions and behavior of wyrmwood management is horrific.

@Morrus

 

[billd91]

Effing yikes!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

That’s…just wow.

 

[Malmuria]

What a sleezy, deeply unethical company. The executives are sexual harrasers who underpay and exploit their employees, promote based on nepotism and favoritism, and maintain an extremely unsafe working environment on many levels. Will backers care, or is it just about more conspicuous consumption for them?

The Wyrmwood customers who know all this and decide to purchase anyway are not rebels; they are simply rewarding bad behavior. This machine grinds up hardworking, blue-collar workers and spits them out, bloody and traumatized.

 

[Riley]

I backed one Wyrmwood project before the earlier reports arose; I won’t back them again.

EDIT REGARDING THIS NEW ARTICLE: YEESH.

 

[Tun Kai Poh]

Yikes. Even beyond the harassment, yikes. Speaking as someone who has worked in manufacturing, the stuff with the dust, spray room, branding machine and fire safety is all terrifyingly unprofessional and reckless.

 

[Umbran]

I've already seen a couple of videos of woodworkers teaching people how to remove the branding stamp from their products. Basically, sand the thing down, and apply a new coat of finish.

 

[darjr]

Linda also stated the employees are going to attempt to unionize

 

[Umbran]

Linda also stated the employees are going to attempt to unionize

Sounds like they could use that collective leverage, so I wish them good luck.

Unfortunately, I fear that won't go easily. Hopefully I'm wrong about that.

 

[Emberashh]

I don't think anyone was the good guy here including the journalist writing prose instead of just reporting the facts.

Companies run by morons and the dude at the center of this is a huge red flag unto himself.

 

[Malmuria]

I don't think anyone was the good guy here including the journalist writing prose instead of just reporting the facts.

What do you mean? To me it read like a typical investigative journalist piece. I would expect to see a similar reporting style in any major newspaper

 

[Emberashh]

What do you mean? To me it read like a typical investigative journalist piece. I would expect to see a similar reporting style in any major newspaper

Theres a thin line to tread where making prose more interesting to read crosses into just being embellishment, which I feel happened with this article. And to be frank I levy the same criticism at any news or journalism source that writes like this.

The truth does not need embellishment or moisture. Keep it dry and let the truth speak for itself, because then you just make it harder for skeptics to take you seriously.

 

[humble minion]

Theres a thin line to tread where making prose more interesting to read crosses into just being embellishment, which I feel happened with this article.

If you think the article has 'embellished' the truth beyond what the facts support, then can you specify in which specific areas? I mean, if there's misleading claims or falsehoods in the article, they should be called out.

 

[grankless]

Theres a thin line to tread where making prose more interesting to read crosses into just being embellishment, which I feel happened with this article. And to be frank I levy the same criticism at any news or journalism source that writes like this.

The truth does not need embellishment or moisture. Keep it dry and let the truth speak for itself, because then you just make it harder for skeptics to take you seriously.

I remember you ranting about how nobody should believe Linda Codega's reporting on the OGL situation on Reddit for similar spurious reasons. Did a newspaper kill your family?

 

[Teo Twawki]

If you think the article has 'embellished' the truth beyond what the facts support, then can you specify in which specific areas? I mean, if there's misleading claims or falsehoods in the article, they should be called out.

Completely agree. I've been a story and line editor in my time (for fiction, journalism, and academic articles) and this piece reads wonderfully. Unless something can be pointed out specifically, the complaint sounds more like someone soapboxing a defensive gripe than offering legitimate criticism.

 

[Emberashh]

If you think the article has 'embellished' the truth beyond what the facts support, then can you specify in which specific areas? I mean, if there's misleading claims or falsehoods in the article, they should be called out.

I don't know the facts to comment on them. Im commenting on the presentation, as explained.

 

[Teo Twawki]

The truth does not need embellishment

I don't know the facts

These two comments seems incredibly incongruous. If you don't know the facts, what makes you think the truth is being embellished?

 

[Emberashh]

These two comments seems incredibly incongruous. If you don't know the facts, what makes you think the truth is being embellished?

I already explained that.

Im not going to be going back and forth reexplaining myself ad nauseum.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Did a newspaper kill your family?

Mod Note:

Did you forget the rule about not making it personal? Do better going forward, please.