Jackson Miller

I have yet to meet a single European who has not given some variation of the “you don’t understand what it’s like having to live with these people” rant when the Roma come up. It’s kind of astonishing how universal the loathing is across such a diverse region

I took a class about Chinese religion in college and a big topic was how in china folks approach religion somewhat “transactionally” EG you go to a Buddhist for a funeral and a Taoist if you need an exorcism, unlike monotheistic religions it’s not “my way or else” but persecution still happened

I’m so mad we missed the timeline where Hasan, destiny, and vaush were put in a room with Joe Biden by just a hare.

I have been told by a Chinese American friend that the quintessential china experience is having out with a bunch of old guys smoking behind a dim sum place.

There are a few groups (Hooded Horse my GOATs) making sure money keeps moving, but not enough to hold the industry up themselves. My hope is that more indies who make it big will follow outersloth’s example and pay it forward.

Or put more succinctly, it feels like these directors and studio heads have know idea what consumers want because they’ve spent the last 15 years in the Call of Duty mines and are two busy with work and coaching their son’s soccer team to play more than maybe 4 games a year.

I saw a AAA vet suggest “maybe we shouldn’t keep putting the people who drove the last round of studios off the cliff in charge” IDK how true this is, but with a lot of these VC funded studios founded by ex AAA devs it feels like the creative decision makers are completely out of touch.

Lovecraft was scared of basically everything- cool air is about his fear of Air conditioning. Even his bigotry came from a place of fear I think. The man was terrified of anything he didn’t understand. It’s one reason (among Many) I’d be willing to bet good money he was autistic.

I was “separate art from the artist” about Rowling until she started posting video lighting cigars when anti trans stuff gets passed. I legitimately believe she holds the trans community responsible for her not being near universally loved anymore and has a deeply personal anger towards them for it.

My rulebook came in the mail yesterday and I’m really digging the “what if Wayne Barlowe’s inferno was owned and operated by Krupp” aesthetic they have going on.

I’ll also say, as a French company subject to France’s pretty strong labour laws, Ubisoft is definitely the right battlefield to pick. Every victory helps build momentum for the next one.

Wishing the best of luck to the Ubisoft employees currently striking. The last several years have proved we NEED union protections if we want this industry to be a place that doesn’t chew people up and spit them out.

I love watching my favorite twitch streamers go through all five stages of grief in under a minute as they lose 100k on a bad short.

Hold it! If you’re experimenting with tinctures and concoctions, you better be Wearing your government mandated plague doctor outfit!

From one of my discord friends: “ I am not giving this stupid company my face or ID. If they don’t accept a picture of Jeffery Epstein, I’m submitting goatse till they block Canadian IPs”

Finding work as a narrative designer is really hard as it turns out, so I’m currently toying with a career pivot to “guy who tortures the Omelas child”

You see,if she’d actually bothered to read at any point in her life, she might have read this one story I know about a tortoise and a hare.

New character dropped I guess

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Also BioWare doing a multiplayer game was not (quite) as out of left field as everyone thinks if you remember the SWOTOR MMO (few do). The problem was that game was made by a second office in Austin and everyone up in Montreal treated them like dirt, so their input was ignored.

I would be absolutely livid if I lost an opportunity like that. Such an insane degree of ignorance. I hope they were at least apologetic when they realized they’d cost you work.

“Wait, you mean we can inflate quarterly earnings if we exsanguinate half the programmers?” ~EA executive

Hopefully this will change as younger screenwriters who played games like dishonored in their formative years start to take the reins.

It’s almost like when nobody wants to be the one to tell the people in the room old enough to remember Elvis on the Ed Sullivan show they need to fuck off to a beach in Florida, you end up with leadership fundamentally incapable of understanding the modern world or the people living in it.

Yeah, that tracks for kid rock.

Dr Langdon on Adderall.

Yeah, they literally lampshade trump’s propensity to over-exaggerate his playboy status in the email chain.

Alright, ya got me.

The fact Epstein was sending people to the Yuri board back in 2011 raises the dark possibility that Epstein was doomed yuri posting about Madoka and Homura.