Behind every "solo dev success story" is usually a partner working 9-5 for years to pay the bills.

Having corporate breathing down your neck to make sales after firing a quarter of you and threatening to fire more isn’t ideal conditions to make risky art.   Granted neither was the 18 months for new Vegas but still

Having corporate breathing down your neck to make sales after firing a quarter of you and threatening to fire more isn’t ideal conditions to make risky art. Granted neither was the 18 months for new Vegas, but the point is bother aren’t ideal or good or stuff we should be encouraging.

I love it when publishers force developers to cancel games they want to work on, so they can make something mandated by the threat of termination instead. Microsoft definitely know what they're doing.

Just cuz they were able to do it in 2010, doesn't mean they can do it again in 2026, and watch people STILL complain if its not a sequel/continuation of New Vegas and if it is, the inevitable "It's not as good as the original" will happen

Seeing stars gave the implication that Loona is very comfortable being on Earth and that she knows how things work Still reckon she’s snuck up a couple times while the others were on missions, rather than being bored in the office Love if there’s a short for it

"The artists don't make money on royalties, just commission-so we should boycott" Okay, ppl boycott, less official merch gets bought, SH loses money and ends up letting artists go, who wins? This is why you wait and listen for instruction. Listen to the Union, listen to the employees effected.

So many mobile games like Mario Kart Tour and Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis ending… It was bound to happen sadly

“I’m gonna stop supporting the official merch” That’s literally drawn by THE SAME ARTIST THAT THIS ALL AFFECTS RN??? oh don’t piss me off -

The hate and vitriol is going to reach its zenith from opportunistic vultures, so the fandom needs to step up and show its support. Now more than ever in these dark times.

"Boycott merch!!" So it stops selling, so they make smaller drops, so they don't need as many artists, so they fire half of the merch artists that y'all are supposedly fighting for bc they don't fucking need them if no merch is selling?? GROW UP

And like unless the people running under Spindle say to pull it off, don't just do shit. They're a Union now, listen to them and not that fucking Feel Good button in your head.

Also others have said it but boycotting will do jack shit and will hurt more than it will help. Remember Spindle IS still technically indie, Amazon deal or not. If you boycott, it won't hurt Amazon a dime, but it WILL hurt the smaller company they are working with.

Fandoms aren't entitled to platform people indefinitely just because their output is popular or they voiced someone in a Pilot for 30 seconds 7 FUCKING YEARS AGO

Anybody blaming Spindlehorse for this is a lobotomite. With big boy money comes big boy copyright infringement paperwork. This is the real price of hitting it big. This was a foregone conclusion as soon as the Amazon deal happened. The only question was how long it would take for the pain to come.

I'm still in shock that after TADC we're getting: - Tim Burton influenced Dark Fantasy - Corporate Dystopian Sci-Fi - Video game passion project Is just crazy to me, they're on a roll.

Preorders online is what most artist use to make sure they can do conventions.Cons look at your website before accepting you. So the whole “at least they can sell at conventions” thing is annoying to say.

Black Gryph0n has screwed over ALL SPINDLEHORSE ARTISTS because he couldn't seem to let go of a character he voiced FOR 30 FUCKING SECONDS

So because of Black Gryph0n we all have to suffer? Thank Gryph0n that was really fuckin cool of you😒🫩

It's potentially related to the fact that some spindlecrew were paid to animate a fan music video which lead to a lot of confusion about it being an actual official/canon project, on top of that the guy behind it is a known groomer and Viv wants no association with him, its really sad +

It doesn't mean that I gave up making fan merch! I'm planning to sell other fan merch for animations & games I like, and you can send me suggestions as well!💖

It would’ve been completely reasonable to stop employees claiming thing as official. I think it would even be reasonable to expect employees to pay a portion of royalties back to spindlehorse or something. A complete ban is unfair.

If I see a single one of his minions go “wElL yOu AsKeD fOr ThIs” No. We didn’t. You will be immediately blocked.

There’s no huge domino effect or anything like that. The vast majority of the fans were rightfully calling out a misleading video. People shouldn’t be afraid to complain because they’re worried it will hurt other people who aren’t involved. Thats never what fans called for.

If people are using any of what’s going on with Spindlehorse to say that we shouldn’t speak out against abusers like Black Gryph0n in our spaces, you’re just wrong “If you didn’t fight the pedo, the corpus wouldn’t have hurt us” BULLSHIT

But as i mentioned before, it was always going to be a powderkeg situation thay we werent going to know the ramifications of. Well, heres a possible outcome, Amazon brought a hammer down and forced SH into a bad situation. Because SH employees did technically help make something- (2/3)

Why are people bothering Morgana?! 😭 she doesn’t even work for SH except as a VA now? She doesn’t handle merchandise anymore for Spindle. She works on merchandise for Glitch now. 🫩 yall would know this if you’d read her posts.

No to mention even if none of this happens his racist shit from as recent as 2021 is still a thing. You making fun of the idea of people being groomed at all is still a thing. Like genuinely that alone should turn yall off from supporting him.

If people need to blame someone, blame Gabe and that fuckass animator who not only turned around to work for him to make him seem more legit but also stated that his victims were liars

his shit needed to be taken down said anything about blanket bans on fanwork. The fandom is absolutely not the problem here.

Please keep uplifting and helping spindle artists where you can. Ive seen a few saying theyll still have con merch, even if you dont buy an item, get some cash for their tip jars if they have them! Look out for their donation links! Look if they have merch from other media you enjoy!

One thing I’m never going to apologize for is calling out BG in the first place. He still intentionally made a misleading video trying to pass it off as official. It would be a completely reasonable policy to implement that fan work needs to be clearly labeled. No one in the fandom who agreed that-

I said I was gonna log off, but actually. If ur using any of this to say that people shouldn't speak out against abusers in thier online spaces, or using the fact that artists might be loosening massive parts of thier income to point fingers at people who spoke up against abusers... God have mercy

One of these days when I hear someone talk about ""brand friendliness"" I'm gonna roll my eyes hard enough to pop a fucking blood vessel. What a bland tasteless pathetic way to look at something like art which is meant to reflect the divisive and messy nature of the human soul.

At every turn, sex workers and adult businesses warned that laws that were used to regulate and suppress our speech were the exception — a carve out that couldn't be applied to other speech. Big tech groups refused to get involved in our defense (and sometimes threw us under the bus)

I want to re-emphasize one part of this Xbox story: Half of the 3,200 cuts are happening today and half are happening in the next 12 months. In other words, even people who survived today's layoffs will have to spend the coming year wondering if they're going to be next.

God, it looks like a LOT of Accessibility specialists were hit by today's layoffs at Xbox, inclusing some of their most senior accessibility folks. This feels like a REALLY bad sign for accessibility at Xbox going forward. A huge amount of skilled talent being thrown out as part of this "shake up".

"We want to have a billion people play a day!" Also Microsoft "Let's fire the people responsible for helping an underserved and represented demographic play video games"

He lied about every single thing. Everyday. He ran knowing full well who he is while presenting himself as someone else (poorly). He wasted everyone’s time & money & shattered people’s credibility. He used the political process as a vanity project to the detriment of the folks he wanted to represent

Possibility is not proof. "What if?" is not evidence. "It makes me uncomfortable" or "it looks similar" is not a substitute for actual harmful behavior.

imagine being a conservative grifter this month and you gotta pretend that an uwe boll movie is good and a christopher nolan movie is bad

I'm fucking tired of purity culture in the Furry community There is a huge difference between saying "keep adult content away from minors and respect convention rules" and saying "your private, consensual kink makes you inherently suspicious."

"No wait, that might affect my sales." Kojima....you gotta pick a lane.

Cast yourself as a villain.

because PC gaming is a much more open platform on the consumer side as well, it gives the customer more options. Even if a company removes a game from digital storefronts or removes your ability to play it, there are usually still options

the moral of the story is and will continue to be, indefinitely, "why are people still on twitter lol"

The staff at Team Asobi need to break from Sony and create their own studio.

Afternoon walk

fuck america :)