"Join Barbie in her cool new career, Video Game Developing!"
Saving 50% is a good deal if you're near a store, and this doll seems to be selling out judging by some of the jackal action on eBay.
It's refreshing to see that the usually bimby Barbie has a nerd girl side, too. :)
don't worry, Barbie works for a game developer but is in the HR department.
or marketing/sales dept…
Honestly I'm waiting for a "Professional OzBargainer Barbie".
Why isn't my dream job represented? :o
@StrayfireX: JV Barbie.
Comes with prebuilt 'Any deals?' macro, FTTN connection to ensure 'frist post' on every deal and mum's basement.
Censorship sucks! Why was this comment deleted?
Sexual jokes with far more detail and vulgarity are often embraced here. See the Shower with Your Dad deal or any one of the condom deals.
If a user objects to a comment they can down-vote it and/or reply.
Stop letting the report-abusing noisy minority oppress the majority! Take political agendas out of moderation decisions!
@Scrooge McDuck: just because the majority enjoy it doesn't make it right, especially when it comes to sexual jokes given the underrepresentation of women on here. That being said I didn't see your post so can only comment generally (I am a guy for the record)
Head Reception department?
Receptionist.
@Calvin27: Receptionist, nope that's now for Ken as in the new Ghostbusters movie, they're "flipping the script"
Snuh.
What's the data on that anyhow, is that some kind of mandate "HR must hire attractive young women"? Oh and the senior HR people must be older, previously attractive women?
i dont recall any emperical studies done on the issue, I think this is just a general consensus/observation from everyone here who have worked in an office environment for years.
@homersyd: I was mostly joking - but yeah, I think in my 20 years of working over 95% of HR people have been female and at least 75% of them have been attractive, if not the most attractive in the company females. Generally skewed under 35 too.
@hamwhisperer: I was studying management at TAFE recently and we had a shared class with the marketing class and they were all attractive young females… Made me want to change courses.
@hamwhisperer: From my experience, HR is a job that doesn't need to exist. A secretary could do it before HR became so big. Hence, most HR girls are just over qualified secretaries and therefore are / were hot.
HR and Marketing are the two main avenues for attractive dummies who want to work in an office.
The dude equivalent is real estate and car dealerships.
@jjcf: Our department works with them and that's very true. Most of them just want to travel are work to fund that.
Very true. And in all cases these are people who would be on the B Ark to the sun.
HR exists because of abdication of responsibility by management, and Marketing is populated with "ideas people" who can't implement them, bringing to mind the quote "Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration".
Real estate and car salesmen are slimey and unethical.
Doritos and Mountain Dew at minimum.
Ewww - Oh, Game developer. Right.
Otherwise I would have said "Pizza and Jolt"
Jolt, now that's a blast from the past :)
Is it still available in australia?
@fenric: Haven't seen it for yonks - the Google blurb reads "Proudly NOT available at Coles or Woolworths… Support your local independent , and ask them for Jolt today! In the meantime, please contact us to buy online.
http://www.joltcola.com.au/shop/jolt-cola/
$2 a can + delivery for cartons of 15. Sorely tempted…
If you are going to aspire to be a dev, why would you aim to be a console dev? That's like shooting for the back fence instead of the stars.
Cos your IP doesn't get devalued by steam sales.
Now lets forget our troubles with a big bowl of extra cheese Doritos.
Wtf….
She needs to be more white and pasty.
I don't know how to feel about this.
Is this a precursor to "Join Barbie in her cool new career; Crushed by the Opression from Big Publishers so only makes Candy Crush Clones on the App-Store Barbie!"
More like Depression Quest.
This is more like YouTube Streamer Barbie
Perhaps Barbie can start a CS:Go gambling website and stream the rolls, while operating the back-end system. Best of both worlds. Seems to be all the rage right now.
Too skinny and the jeans are way too high.
This isn't feminist game dev Barbie though?
Her fashion sense is too hippy to be a programmer. Programmers don't wear such flashy clothing to work…
She looks more like an unemployed Twitch streamer or Youtube Let's Player..
Jeans, t-shirt, trainers. That's pretty spot-on.
I think the clothes are ok. Although still stereotyping… In my workplace we have a very smart, pretty-looking programmer who is fashionable and follows fashion trend. Doesn't look nerdy at all, just a typical mid-20s woman who likes shopping and have fun.
Are you describing yourself?
Lol I wish… I'm the nerdy type with jeans, t-shirt and glasses :D
she needs her carpal-tunnel wrist brace
DLC $9.95
…and diabetes pills and insulin syringe after all those years of pizza and coke. And she needs to weigh about 50 kgs more. She also needs a failed EA Widow style marriage.
Hair is too long, 30kg underweight and no double chin. Not very realistic…
Barbie - #gamergate edition
i hope this barbie has pretty thick skin
Yeah I was thinking the same thing - thinking the same applies to all the programmer Kens out there….
No worries, she does. Her arms are made of EVA, her torso ABS, her head, hard vinyl, and her outer legs, PVC.
Wow, really?
She is obviously lying through her teeth about her profession. I saw her behind the front desk at AAMI. She's not so lucky.
The last thing I heard, she was just some hippy chick going around the place in a camper van.
I like it - beats girls out thinking they gotta be some poolside bimbo!
Why does this Barbie have a "plastic surgery-like" face?
You've got the cart before the horse.
Plastic surgery produces a "Barbie-like" face.
Reading these comments, I'm not surprised that women say they are still encountering resistance to entering tech industries in 2016.
Yeah these comments are pretty (profanity) gross, but at this stage what do we expect from a bunch of guys in a comment section.
better…
a bunch of guys in a comment section.
Nice generalisation. ¬_¬
Gross? Really? Who even uses that word? It's like something you hear from 5 years olds in pre-school.
I agree. He should've used the word yucky, or, at the very least, icky.
Yep. Who cares about her coding skills when people can talk about the way she looks.
It's a bloody doll, based around being attractive / pretty, being shoehorned into a development role. This isn't diminishing women or diminishing developers, it's stupid to put barbie in this position
Also HOW CAN WE DISCUSS HER CODING SKILLS WHEN SHE'S A PLASTIC DOLL.
Also where's garbage truck driver barbie? Crematorium employee barbie? Sewage worker barbie? Truck driver barbie?
"It's about ethics in game developer barbies"
This is what happens when you take all political correctedness, maintain gender inequality (barbies still doesn't have to pay for her dates) and mash the lot together. Yes, My suspicions are correct, this doesn't work.
Also barbie represents everything a feminist is - privilledged upper class white female!
In that spirit, where are the similar toys for boys? There's no Computer Programmer Action Figure as far as I'm aware. Are boys going to start demanding equality and similar toys?
So true. All PC lefties are wealthy Middle Class people from stable 2-parent families. Adversity is alien to them. They were all born "with a silver spoon in their mouth".
"her coding skills"
I agree some of these comments are shitty, but to be fair… you know she's not real, right?
Please don't confuse scorn for a crappy toy line desperately trying to seem "empowering", for anything that women may experience in the tech industry.
For what it's worth, women are actually massively advantaged in both education and employment in the tech fields. Graduating high school students get an extra 5 points to their UAI for simply choosing a technology subject and being female, in major universities in Australia.
tfw affirmative action is confused for "advantage"
University != real life… in a real life tech environment, its a constant challenge to be taken seriously as female. IMHO.
in a real life tech environment, its a constant challenge to be taken seriously as female
Also the result of how they label themselves. Your own UserID is a good example.
omg really?! so much for gender equality…so what's next are they gonna give male students who chooses nursing to get an extra 5 points?
Never got that in Queensland…
That's because the rate of women in technology and science is in huge decline in Australia since the 2000s, so they're trying to incentivize it. I'm not saying it's right to offer extra points for women in tech edu, but it is understandable— I believe its less than 10% of women who pick math/tech/science careers, which is crazy. There's a huge ingrained stigma for women in any kind of STEM field— not just from men of course, women do it to themselves too— which is why the numbers are low and dropping.No, of course the Barbie isn't empowering either, its a stupid gimmick, but some of the comments here are a bit much.
Are you a woman in the tech industry? You personally feel advantaged? If not, then you really don't know whether or not women have it hard in tech jobs, so how can you say they're advantaged? Anecdotes from work about one lady you know really don't count.
And if you're a female indigenous student, you pretty much have access to all available scholarships, just because you were born a particular way.
It's actually pretty close to how the manufacturer portrays her as well.
"unwanted attention has been given to the surprisingly real book "Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer". So much so, that Mattel has pulled the book from Amazon.
The book shows Barbie attempting to write a computer game. However, instead of writing the code, she enlists two boys to write the code as she just does the design.
She then proceeds to infect her computer and her sister's computer with a virus and must enlist the boys to fix that for her as well.
In the end she takes all the credit, and proclaims "I guess I can be a computer engineer!"
https://news.slashdot.org/story/14/11/20/1557259/barbie-i-ca…
In barbies defense, seeing how the world works, it seems 9 times out of 10 you're better off outsourcing stuff to chumps who will do it for you on the cheap.
True; Programmer Barbie would be Indian.
That was a different Barbie.
https://consumerist.com/2014/11/18/computer-engineer-barbie-…
Given the back story for Computer Engineer Barbie, I think that these comments are the least of your worries.
Though that puppy game is awesome. I have it on Playstation AND Wii
The Barbie is cheap but all the Game Developer accessories cost extra.
Needs AR hoodie DLC.
I'm totally down with the Barbie range getting with the times, this seems like an odd choice though. I would have gone with scientist Barbie, or some kind of tradie Barbie first…..
Scientist Barbie has been around for a while already, iirc
Possibly. I am not a Barbie afficionado, it just seems an odd choice. The accessories could just as easily make her hipster Barbie though
What about GFC Barbie?
Barbie has crashed through the Plastic Ceiling.
50cent loves Barbie !!
Game developers don't use headsets.. unless she's playing CS:GO at lunch?
Programmers use noise canceling headphones to deal with the open plan offices that these companies invariably have nowadays.
Open plan ftw then. Not.
the jacket needs more food stains on it