BARBIE "I Can Be a Game Developer' Doll @ Myer $9.95 (Was $19.95) Free C&C $9.95 Delivery
"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. :)
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don't worry, Barbie works for a game developer but is in the HR department.
Honestly I'm waiting for a "Professional OzBargainer Barbie".
Why isn't my dream job represented? :o
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@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!
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@Calvin27: Receptionist, nope that's now for Ken as in the new Ghostbusters movie, they're "flipping the script"
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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?
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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.
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@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.
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@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.
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@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.
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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.
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@jjcf: hahaha as bad as this sounds I think this is spot on :)
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@jjcf: Our department works with them and that's very true. Most of them just want to travel are work to fund that.
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?
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.
Now lets forget our troubles with a big bowl of extra cheese Doritos.
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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!"
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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.
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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..
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Hair is too long, 30kg underweight and no double chin. Not very realistic…
Yeah I was thinking the same thing - thinking the same applies to all the programmer Kens out there….
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No worries, she does. Her arms are made of EVA, her torso ABS, her head, hard vinyl, and her outer legs, PVC.
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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.
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I like it - beats girls out thinking they gotta be some poolside bimbo!
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You've got the cart before the horse.
Plastic surgery produces a "Barbie-like" face.
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Reading these comments, I'm not surprised that women say they are still encountering resistance to entering tech industries in 2016.
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Yeah these comments are pretty (profanity) gross, but at this stage what do we expect from a bunch of guys in a comment section.
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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.
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Yep. Who cares about her coding skills when people can talk about the way she looks.
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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?
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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!
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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?
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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.
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University != real life… in a real life tech environment, its a constant challenge to be taken seriously as female. IMHO.
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?
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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.
The Barbie is cheap but all the Game Developer accessories cost extra.
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…..
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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
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Game developers don't use headsets.. unless she's playing CS:GO at lunch?
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Programmers use noise canceling headphones to deal with the open plan offices that these companies invariably have nowadays.
Shouldn't game developer Barbie come with just her clothing? All other accessories that make her cool needs to be bought via in app purchase? :)
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You should tell barbie a stripper outfit is far more realistic than Game Developer outfit.
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Pretty cool. Just picked up one for my cousin who is studying game development. Admittedly, it will be the lamest present he has ever received, but for $10 I'm willing to wear that.
easy fix mate…just do this:
1. cut the hair short/add wax/clay
2. wrap barbie with bubble wrap to cover the girly bits
3. chuck on some loose fit jeans/pants
bonus points: add some fake mo stickers…
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Whilst you all focus on gender let's not forget the statement made by barbie being made of plastic derived from oil. Big oil is primarily Middle Eastern and is misogynist. By buying this Doll you are supporting female suppression and funding terrorism.
That's ridiculous. are you saying people buying this doll funded for the Baghdad, Saudi Arabia, and Nigeria bombings yesterday and today?
I think the linkage is too far to form that conclusion. how sure are you the oil companies finding terrorism? don't terrorists bomb the oil pipes?
Coloured hair and problem glasses. She certainly fits the bill for some indie game developers…
the jacket needs more food stains on it