Jason Skiles

Better pay. Better working conditions. Far less stress. More stability. Wish I'd bailed on games way earlier than I did. As bad as it looked while I was in it, it looks way worse in the rearview.

Sure. That'd be great. But the fundamental problem is that there simply isn't enough money to do that because game sales doesn't rake in enough money.

I did games for 20 years, and the wolf was ALWAYS at the door. Then I went to big tech. Life is just way better when your company has money.

IIUC, Paradox is both a publisher and a developer, and self-publishes (or self-develops) most of their signature franchises.

From this great distance, however, that looks like a complicated arrangement and I'm not certain I'm understanding it clearly.

And even this gets complicated. It's not unusual for a publisher to move a franchise from one studio to another. Fans often become aware of this kind of move, and often resent it.

If the game you were looking for got shipped before it was ready, that was probably the publisher. If the team that made the game you love got broken up and scattered to various other projects, publisher. If the game you were looking forward to got cancelled because the publisher took on 20B of debt

Publishers are often very intimately involved in the development of the games that they eventually publish. It's seldom an arm's length transaction, especially with the expensive games. Publishers are often funding most or all of the development and exercise as much control as they want.

Many times I've been surprised at the interests that catch me. But I've never had much luck willfully choosing them.

Back in the early 90s when I was working on the game that became WWF WrestleMania I really tried to appreciate wrestling. The whole team did. We thought it was important. Some succeeded, or seemed to, more than others. I tried hard but never really got there.

YouTube video by J0nTheKnight A Superb Case of Villainy

Thanks for everything, Harris Yulin, and Godspeed.

He was so good in so many roles, but the one that really sticks with me is

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Normie lib here.

He's a soulless, calculating, third-way asshole and always has been.

I don't trust him and I don't trust his instincts. But he's taking it to DT, and that counts for a lot. Contrast him with, say, Adam Schiff, a serial disappointment who never delivers.

Give em hell.

Huge disappointment that @schiff.senate.gov voted for this. How hard is it to be no wronger than Rand Paul?

And then you go and vote for the bill on the floor?

Fair play to her. She saw that prosecution through, from the first warrant to the closing argument. She deserves to take a bow.

It'd be so nice to get out of the first inning without giving up multiple runs. Just, like, one goddamn time.

Child endangerment.

Charges. Jail.

It's gotta be a cousin of the effect whereby Oscar voters don't respect comedy.

My first concert. The Dare to be Stupid tour. Tiny little venue in Merrillville, Indiana. Great show.

God damn. If that man talked half as much, he'd seem twice as smart.

He is, and always has been, a soulless, calculating, third-way asshole. I'm looking forward to voting against him in the 2028 primary. Gonna do my bit to help him lose his home state.

Fair, and well said.

On the subject of Trump's corruption, well done on blocking Trump's stablecoin grift. I was disappointed when you voted to advance it out of the committee, but you got on the right side in time.

The people I know who will drink the stuff don't exactly claim to "like" it. It's complicated. They sort of enjoy how awful it is, but that's not quite the same thing as liking it? If that makes any sense?

Feeling action-star badass because I swung the fridge door to close it and walked away not quite sure that I'd given it enough of a shove, and then it snicked closed and I didn't turn around to look.

Give us hell.

If I hear that they've become the kind of network that makes shows like Deadwood, Rome, or Veep, I'm open to re-subscribing.

But it sounds like they've still got some hard thinking to do. And I won't easily forget the fact that they ditched the HBO branding specifically _because_ I liked it.

Very disappointed to see @schiff.senate.gov among the perpetrators.

I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but the orcas now have two F/A-18 Hornets

This raises the question of what exactly it means to 'read' the assignment. When the trap prompt is between lines and in white text, it's clearly intended to be read by machines and to go unnoticed by a human reader. It may be reasonable to expect a human who discovers such text to disregard it.

A Soviet emigre explained to me that this was part of the USSR's pitch: they have more stuff, but we have more virtue.

More stuff won.

When Floyd died in Planetfall.