Heartbreaking to see this. I wish this industry were kinder to artists and artistry. All love and support to the writers especially

Listen I know the community loves a story and a villain but everyone quoting this maliciously and having a laugh can shut the fuck up. Many incredibly talented devs have worked on this wonderful game creating beautiful memories together. Sending love to my colleagues & friends 💛

I was unfortunately impacted by this. On the upside that means I am now available to work on your game! 20+ year veteran with 9+ years of experience in leading marketing teams as a brand and marketing manager with over 50+ titles to my credit. Available for short or long term projects.

If I see any of you cheering for the ZA/UM layoffs I am gonna bite your head off

I am now OPEN TO WORK. I've been told I'm a pleasure to have in class, and also that I bring a kind of 'major freak who can also make you cry' energy to the writer's room. I can neither confirm nor deny that I was the reason we had to eventually make a 'No More Puns' rule on ZP.

Axel is an incredible, brilliant writer and a person that I am honored to call one of my best friends. They make any place better to be, and they will make any story 10x funnier, smarter, and more heartbreaking. Also, great beard. Really can’t undersell the beard.

A lot of my colleagues are out of a job now, too. This is a really awful time to be looking for a new position in the games industry, and I'm going to be boosting their signals as much as possible. They are all phenomenally talented, lovely people, and you should snap them up *immediately*.

This is just bizarre on so many levels – how could they let someone like Nyssa go? She's spectacularly insightful, talented, and skilled at her work. Hire her stat before somebody else does!

Axel's one of the best writers at ZA/UM and they have the best writers in the industry. He's also a really cool guy. Whichever team snags him will be really lucky.

The hard part about graphics programming isn't the graphics per se. It's the bookkeeping. So much bookkeeping. What's queued, what's cleared, what's no longer needed and should be cancelled, what goes first in the queue, and oh I forgot to destroy a texture and now my computer crashed

And the ones doing ЯЄD SСДЯЄ ИОИSЄИSЄ

A propos of nothing, John Maynard Keynes is quoted saying something about a sound banker being one who goes bankrupt with his peers in a way that nobody can really blame him. I think we can extend that to a range of other big business execs.

Turns out graphics programming is hard. Shocking, I know.

Hello, neighbour

Every time this tech comes around, we make it so no one wants to wear them outside, and that is good and correct and we must keep it up until it fades away yet again. And then th enext time? We do it all over again.

Specsavers with some performance art in this email. Leaning into the joke there, lads.

I have a tendency to overengineer, and I would be lying if I said I didn't think "I bet I can get this to a million" once or twice. That would be just silly though.

Bluesky, meet Välkky. He's very clever, very cuddly, obsessed with swimming and his collar, loves people, is picky about other dogs, and has a phobia of babies. We adopted him a couple of years ago and are all very attached to him at this point.

Hello millennial retirement home. GenXer here to join the party.