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Wasn't the big drive for PC ports because it cost so much it could never make back its production budget on PS5 alone Especially now when you rose your prices so significantly you literally can't expand your install base. Are they stupid or something?

unscheduled reminder that piracy was found to not correlate to lower sales numbers, and then the EU tried to hide the study because they didn't like the result www.engadget.com/2017-09-22-e...

Like at least at least ask questions. 'So why don't they uplift the actual individuals who made the game rather than just 'the team' and a few folks in anecdotes?' 'Why is everyone paid hourly?' 'Is this normal?' Don't just accept everything, question the status quo on every power level not just AAA

a person who does this: Exploits workers in contract, while centralizing all praise around themselves while not really being the reason their game succeeds other than their own branding exercise amd at most providing a script or premise is deeply unethical. This is not something you should excuse

People hated this in film to the point where they structured guilds and built out complex as shit contracts to accurately determine credit (that's why film credits are so long) because movie moguls would lap up praise while not doing anything & film workers couldn't track credits for CVs to get work

This isnt like personal beef. I am from film, people like this are a dime a dozen. What's getting me is dismissing the behaviour of basically idea boiled down to dumb joke that misunderstands thing riffed on Throw underpaid contract workers at it till made while not doing anything Take all credit

To clarify how said person operates is how Shankar operates in animation. The live action shenanigans above was an evolutionary step to where he is now

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And game properties because film, tv and comics got sick of his bullshit... and the constant io theft that was his bootleg universe and well I mentioned the no immunity part

He does literally nothing. All his success is on the back of people he hires on contract while lapping up all the praise as some outsider visionary when his input is minimal. I can guarantee you his move to animation and game properties is because lack of unionization makes his exploitation easier

Shankar would Acquire a property (or with his bootleg stuff just use it without permission). If he didnt commission a script, the preexisting script would boil the premise down to a singular joke or grimdark misunderstanding. Get funding Then proceed to just get other people to do it all for him

Your industry has no immunity against garden variety huckster sociopaths. And because of this, a run of the mill asshole in one industry can operate as a big fish in a small pond in yours

I dont know what's sadder. A game dev who operates like Adi Shankar Or the fact that while Hollywood reviles shitty producers who engage in that practice and behaviour, other game devs are like 'well that's just them' or 'gotta make a living' *cue canned laugh track*

So something happened today.

I just saw a british man make falafel with Bacon... I'm pretty sure I just saw a hate crime.

Pangolins are one of the best animals

practicing my writing skills on linkedin

I dont know what's sadder. A game dev who operates like Adi Shankar Or the fact that while Hollywood reviles shitty producers who engage in that practice and behaviour, other game devs are like 'well that's just them' or 'gotta make a living' *cue canned laugh track*

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my actual serious suggestion for bond is Henry Golding

Bananas and Pineapples are meant to be eaten together Bananas in french - Banane Pineapple in french - Ananas .... Bananananas

It's fucking hilarious to see streamers and prominent accounts retweet hacked accounts without taking like 2 fucking seconds to read the @ and account bio and see if they match up

"Cat, Rat and Koi Koi" For Sparrow!

Organizing my stuff and found old mcbaroque art

"This place used to be a zoo..." New concept board from my personal project

"We call them 'Corpse Grinders.' Basically they eat dead biomass. As they digest the mass, it outputs salt and carbon particulate into the air, which rises up, seeds the clouds, and creates rain." "You know a lot about this stuff..." "We should. We bred them." New board from my personal project.

"Why do you keep fighting? You're going to join us soon..." "Come dream with us..." New concept board from my personal project.

"I'll let her go if you promise not to tattle..." New finished concept from my personal project.

More art from my Personal Project, "LE." bsky.app/profile/docs...

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I've been out of the film loop so I never knew this was going on but I have certainly seen my fair share of 'lying, smug sacks of shit spreading lies and accusations against my friend and wannabe bully losers lapping it up without evidence because it gives them an easy target to harass' in games

Nintendo goes after another fan project. smh

WTF STEAM "In this game, you will be whipping black people to keep your farm productive, If you whip your black person too much, they will die."

I just want to work. I just want to work!! Even fake job listings are drying up again and I'm no less burnt out. I feel disgusting. I'll keep chasing work and I'll keep fighting for a place to stand, but until that day comes, unfortunately we still very much need your help. I'm so, so sorry.

I still find Caillou Memes incredibly funny because one of my mentors is the original director of Caillou.

so, between landlord refusing to repair my toilet (check the email to see other repairs she's never fixed) and my doctor's visit costing $300 and landlord demanding I pay for a cleaning service, it's bad! if you like my articles and think I shouldn't be going through this shit: paypal.me/stompsite

Mind horse I guess. What is this trend about

these days a show gets picked up for a new season after a year+ has passed and the crew has scattered. Seasons used to be 20-40 episodes, and you'd likely get a pickup while you were still working and stay on the show. This constant scramble in and out of short gigs is destroying the industry.

If there is one thing I think is genuinely objectively stupid, its that Nintendo could have come up with so many better names for "female link" than Linkle and stuck with that instead. And also creating linkle and not giving us a girl link for at least one fucking zelda game.

When you're publicly a hater of anything, don't he surprised you start attracting psychos with unhinged takes. You put cynical negativity out into the space you draw people who just want to be hateful regardless of context. Being smugly negative has poisoned multiple game site commentariat

This is your reminder to working professionals that bluesky is like a post card anyone can see you liking asshole, snarky, or abusive comments. So even if you're not the person being a snarky little piece of shit, people can see you liking the post. Do you want that coming back on you?

I had to pay for physical therapy. I suspect the extreme pain im in today has something to do with my landlord failing me