Hamish Zerbinati

A screenshot from a TV interview with two people, a man on the left, hunched over, looking lost, wearing a black shirt and a fascist helmet. On the right a women, roughly in her 30s, wearing a fascist hat with the insignia.

Second hand embarrassment is on another level here. That is to say the least... Sadly there's also the dangerous fascists too ☹️ This is from yesterday in Predappio, birthplace of Mussolini. The usual rally they do each year.

It doesn't account for the fact that many out there are at least bilingual.
Destroys whatever personality or vibe a creator might have replacing it with a dead-inside AI voice.

High disposable income and/or social issues, 'love bombing', etc.? There's no one size fit all but I'd assume it's a mix.

Isn't it the equivalent of whales on F2P mobile games?

Ubisoft Massive initiates voluntary buyouts Ubisoft Massive is offering workers a 'voluntary career transition program' to workers as part of its 'ongoing evolution and long-term planning.'

Can't say much but I can share news articles.
Big hugs to all my buddies at Massive.

www.gamedeveloper.com/business/ubi...

Great 🙃

Trials studio Ubisoft RedLynx is laying off up to 60 staff as it refocuses on ‘small screens’ | VGC Ubisoft has announced a “restructuring proposal” for the Finland studio…

Well, I guess there's a new round incoming...

www.videogameschronicle.com/news/trials-...

That looks so nice!

There are so many demos I want to try from this Steam Next Fest 😍😍 I don't even know if I'll have enough time to try them all 😭 in my list:

- The Last Caretaker
- The Berlin Apartment
- Cairn
- '83
- Earth of Oryn
- Tavern Keeper
- Long Drive North
- Norse oath of blood

And maybe a few more 🥰

A picture of the X Mas crest and myself giving it a middle finger

Came across panels about an Italian military op in Malta during ww2. To think that some current "politicians" praise the X Mas to this day. They were among the worst fascists.

Don't Starve: The Board Game Official tabletop adaptation of Don’t Starve. A 1–4 player roguelike adventure—explore, craft, fight, and survive together (or alone).

Only because it's GCU, I'm back to supporting boardgame kickstarters. After the fuck up and the money lost to Mythic Games 😡 and their Darkest Dungeon that never got delivered, I grew cold to Kickstarter.

But I could hardly say no to Don't Starve 😭
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gla...

Bologna, Italy, protesters sitting on the ground with a Palestinian waving a Palestinian flag while facing while facing riot police standing in a line.

3 pictures side by side of clashes with riot police in bologna. Protesters being dispersed, apprehended or hit with water cannons.

Which among the reasons why protests here in Italy are still ongoing. Just last night there were clashes and police charges in Bologna.

I was near the head, this was on the ring road around Modena, completely blocked. No idea how many people there were as I couldn't even see the end of it.

A picture taken from the head of the march. A multitude of flags - palestinian flags, union flags and a Going Merry flag from One Piece

🇮🇹🇵🇸 notice a certain ☠️ flag? Today there's a nation-wide strike in Italy. For the Global Sumud Flotilla and Gaza. I'm in Modena but this is happening all over. There's a big mismatch between the will of the gov and that of the people.

The front cover of the New York Reviewer, 22 June 1995, and the subtitle "Umberto Eco: Eternal Fascism". A heavily stylised man is in the motion of hitting a drum (like they were marching).

If anyone is wondering, the meeting the US president had with the top brass, and most of the things said during that occasion, seem to be lifted completely by the Eternal Fascism book by Umberto Eco. Funnily enough, out of all places it is based on a symposium held at Columbia University in 1995.

At this point it's just a matter of surviving somehow for 5 years or so until this bubble finally bursts completely 🙃

A picture of the street in front of the Reggio Emilia prefecture. Many people flood the street with a variety of flags: CGIL (largest union in italy), Palestine, peace, Emergency (ong).

A picture of the people starting the march along the Regfio Emilia streets. Many people flood the street with a variety of flags: CGIL (largest union in italy), Palestine, peace, Emergency (ong).

To be honest, I was expecting higher attendance but still happy to have taken part to the rally in Reggio Emilia yesterday 😁

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On top of that add the issues related to project politics (not as irl politics) in multi studio/co-dev development. Can't do a thing or improve another, or have to back down because there's a Game of Thrones-worthy subplot going on unrelated to the actual development of games. It gets exhausting.

Happy Friday everybody! I don't know why, but I feel like spilling the tea this morning, so here are some hard truths about the game industry. A lot of people who got into the industry early were terrible game developers. This shouldn't surprise people, but we used to look at numbers in the early 00's like half of all people rolling out of the game industry in the first three years as though all of those people were qualified. Hiring in this industry has almost always been untrained amateurs looking for people they like and who remind them of people they know. Most interviewers decide in the first five minutes whether they think you're worth hiring. Even the people who get training in how to interview almost never get coaching on how they do it, or real feedback on the success of their techniques. As a result, a lot of people walked in the door unqualified to do the job they were hired to do. Some of them survived for multiple cycles. Some of those were even promoted to leadership positions. There was a lot of nepotism involved - if you were friends with / had worked with the head of studio, department director, etc., then you were a known quantity and better than having to go out and find someone. Combine this with the prestige halo that comes from branding, and you have real problems. People tend to ascribe god-like powers to successful game studios - EA back in its heyday, Blizzard, BioWare. People who worked on hit games at big / known studios carried a ton of prestige - regardless of what they actually did. It's easy to say "I worked at Blizzard", and what that meant was not that you were part and parcel of the magic that made those games awesome, but simply that you were employed there; it takes hundreds, if not thousands, of people to make AAA games, and I promise you that inside every large, successful studio, there is a cadre of fuck-ups that no one has the heart, willpower, or political pull to get rid of. I've fired people with over a decade of expe…

probably the realest thing ive ever seen posted on that website

Well that's a very high amount of cherry picking for a country that shouts a lot about free speech all the time..

Amazing! Congrats! ❤️‍🔥 I'm about to start on that journey (again). Hopefully this time I'll stick with it to the very end 😁

Am I a fool if I'm still waiting and hoping? 😭

Not good :(

Sooo, indyref2 @oldfoghorn.bsky.social ?

Anche i portuali di USB e CALP Genova a bordo della Global Sumud Flottilla, la più grande flotta umanitaria del secolo Dopo anni di impegno, negli scali portuali e aeroportuali italiani, per fermare il traffico di armi e dopo aver scioperato contro la movimentazione di materiale bellico negli ultimi mesi, unendosi ai ...

I read that also the airports of Brescia and Malpensa (Milan) and the port of Piombino are ready with countermoves in conjunction with the USB Union leading the dockworkers in Genova.

Directly from the Union's website:
www.usb.it/leggi-notizi...

If the genovesi (those from Genova) really go down hard with this, that is a LOT of stuff being blocked. And I wouldn't be too surprised if another couple of major ports would join in. Trieste, Livorno, Cagliari, Ravenna.

Hoping for the best ❤️

The picture displays the stage in the background with an Lgbtq+ friendly flag across it. Two people are waving other flags while confetti are being fired towards the audience

A shower of confetti is covering the whole stage and audience while people are cheering and singing along.

On my way back from an Electric Callboy concert. Boy I enjoyed it 🥰

...I was writing, as we're now stuck on the highway with a flat tyre. Still a good gig. But I would've happily passed on this last bit

An infra-red front view of a cat sitting on a desk chair. Front paws slightly over the edge of the fabric and eyes as two big light emitting-like circles due to IR reflections.

An infra-red view of a cat laying sideways, head slightly tilted and just peering at the camera while on top of a desk chair. eyes as two big light emitting-like circles due to IR reflections.

I went out with friends and left on a Tapo camera at home to check in on Nix as she's been a bit meh lately. She's mostly been chilling on my desk chair and occasionally staring at the camera due to the IR. My little void demon ♥️

That is very solid advice ♥️ but I must admit, at times, it's tough to remind that to myself in the moment.

Still, I'd love to have the time and energy for side projects 😋

I feel stabbed, too close to home. Same + more.
Escapism generally takes the lead when low on energy 🙃