Bree, Captain of The Unreliable 🌌🎮 @GDC

OH THIS IS GONNA BE A WEEK

This was honestly my fav talk of the day.
Fleur was passionate, showed the numbers, & had some fun thanks to the SFX next door. 😂

This is something that applies to every industry and discipline.
Management pro tip: If your team is happy, it will show in the work.
Don't let one person tank the team.

Also how tf did I miss this today???

Google trying to harvest our consciousness for the cloud by creating concussion swings. Smh.

YouTube video by ☆ 𝓒𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓵𝓮𝓱𝓮𝓪𝓭 ☆ YOU WON’T GET AWAY WITH THIS ‼️‼️‼️ | Invader Zim | Desc.

I have not passed there by since yesterday, but I can imagine there is also a bit of this going on:

As someone still working on building a portfolio to get into game dev... I am glad there is a talk on Thursday at GDC for Imposter Syndrome. Because the feeling is real rn.

oomf said they’re colonizing yerba buena

I consider this my official notice to keep hiding on the 3rd floor of the West building.

Someone inform me if they somehow start playing early 2000s bangers like Backstreet's Back or something.

Hasbro’s CEO on J.K. Rowling. We just published our new Decoder interview with Chris Cocks, the head of Hasbro. I asked him directly about how he thinks about author J.K. Rowling’s politics and what it’s done to the Harry Potter f...

cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch

www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...

Not going to lie. I had an eyebrow raise and a chuckle after looking to my right and seeing the Exec area too. ☠️

sell seven million copies? layoffs

Opening slide for "Billiant Jerks: The Cost of Toxic Performance" panel

We all have one...

A GDC-relevant PSA:

Kiki’s Delivery Service is screening in 4K on the IMAX screen in Metreon next door on Thursday and Friday, and that TMNT II is also playing there on Friday. Go forth.

oh good i was worried it was white supremacy and capitalism

Partial section of the face of a full-size chocolate cat being held over the face of an actual cat.

Phantom of the Opurra

PSA: a lot of people asked for an ebook edition — and we’ve been able to put one together! And with hyperlinks, of course.

When I worked at Universal I would walk in on some of my sups and managers talking about subordinates they screwed over the weekend.
I was partly a target because I rebuffed all advances.
My team really liked having me as a lead & dispatch though so I am glad they backed me up when they could.

If you work in a creative industry, you *must* read this

“If you were a man, every one of those negatives would be in the positive column.” - My first performance review in games included as negatives: “personality is too big, too confident, asks too many questions”

Yes, there’s a double standard

Photo of a small painted sign of the San Francisco mayor saying "I am proudto welcome you to San Francisco."

The past two months have been crazy, but honestly looking forward to all the talks and hopefully being able to (figuratively) pick some brains at GDC.

Tbh I am mainly here for the talks/panels & feeling out average feeling the state of the biz + vac from survival job.

We'll see who I run into. 🖖🏻✌🏻

1910 Women could wear pants 1920 White women could vote 1963 Women gained equal paid rights (sort of) 1965 Black women could vote 19 69 Women were allowed to initiate divorce 1972 Women could get birth control, without a man 1973 Women could choose to get an abortion, legally 1974 Women could buy a home, without a man 1988 Women could own their own business, without Nomesticial protection agains 2022 Women lost the constitutional right to abortion

Strong reminder: women have not been independent for as long as some folks would like you to believe. We’ve lost rights that we never should have lost.

The Outer Worlds dev team still should never have given me this kind of power...

Where is my Spectrum Gatling Gun in The Outer Worlds 2, @obsidian.net !?? I can make it work with Fizzo's vs Rizzo's!

a man in a suit and tie says that would be great while pointing at something Alt: That Would Be Great meme from Office Space

I need work, life, and the universe to chill for a bit.

Doodlebob meme feat Doodlebob as Fallout 76, Patrick as Fallout Fans/critics, and Spongebob as Fallout: New Vegas. Panel 1: *Fallout 76 holds a pencil up in the air* Fallout Fans: "He's hideous. He makes me sick, just looking at him." Panel 2: *Fallout Fans point whilst standing next to Fallout: New Vegas* "Fans": Those reused assets, that buggy launch, those bullet sponge enemies!" Panel 3: *Fallout New Veges clears their throat and Fans look embarassed* Panel 4: Fans whilst blushing: "Oh... But it looks good on you, New Vegas! Hehe!"

Watching the FNV initial reception discourse on @jesawyer.bsky.social 's page and my brain just has this Fallout Meme front and center:

nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up

The game you are about to play is a product of its time. It may depict the PS3, which was commonplace in society. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today.

I remember a handful of months back you reshared a photo you had of a copy of FNV someone *shipped* to you with a sticky note saying like "fix and send back."
The unmitigated *gall*!

It's the same w/ Deep Space 9. Glad it's your fav installment now, but def won't forget your hostility at the start.

Not surprised.
I always jokingly say when I see something getting hated on after release that I'm "starting the 10yr countdown for the 180 of opinion."
Inevitably, most things that are hated end up being "guys we were wrong about this underrated gem🥺"
Collective amnesia follows as it's rediscovered.