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If an immortal caveman with no needs worked every living second for the entirety of human civilization and earned a dollar every single second ($3600/hr, which is roughly 100 times that than an engineer in a western country) with no breaks, they'd still be worth less than Elon Musk.

Being a queer trans Iranian is another level of hell. You have to fight tooth and nail just to gain basic necessities and rights that people take for granted and never give a second thought. Society hates you. Family hates you. The government persecutes you. And the world bombs you and gates you out

VV is pretty strong in the TCG but really meh in MD. Reliably getting a 4100 Atk boss monster with protection and an omni negate that pops is great in a format that lacks omni negates. Not so great in a format where going first you're expected to put 7+ disruptions and negates with Apo and co legal.

In marketing not all sources of "awareness" are created equally. There's a difference between seeing for the first time a game through a review by your favorite reviewer, and seeing it because their account followed you on social media. The social capital of the source of awareness matters.

It's why, when someone just randomly messages me after 6 months to check on me, a small spark of hope warms inside. Not because they want a referral down the line, not because they want to date me, not because I might earn them clout, but simply because they cared a small amount about my personhood.

It happened too many times this year in one form or another, online and IRL. And yeah if we get philosophical enough all relationships are transactional on some level. But to the degree that it is where if someone or some group don't see an immediate benefit in you, you're cut off, is disheartening

Perhaps the most important and cruelest lesson I learned this year is how quickly groups will drop you and how difficult it is to be accepted into one when people don't see a benefit being friends with you and nice to you. Far too many social connections are transactional masked with friendliness.

Alright, making this tomorrow

Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good (Gift Article) The gaming industry spent billions pursuing the idea that customers wanted realistic graphics. Did executives misread the market?

I took this interview in the second quarter of last year, but I will say I'm fairly proud I managed to get the industry mantra of "shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less" into the mainstream press.

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Ok why is everyone talking about AAA development costs today here? What did I miss?

the desire for cultural commentary hasn't gone away, it just got shifted onto a platform that everyone's stuck into watching out of boredom and addiction, the information may or may not be at all researched or accurate, and the actual commentary is usually secondary to the personality delivering it

2024 is almost over and I find myself kinda getting back into pro wrestling. Haven't watched a full episode yet, but watch clips off reddit and youtube, and it's all because of CM Punk. I know wrestling attracts a lot of bad people with bad politics, but Punk is so visibly different.

gladiator 2 has bad writing and character development but really hot soldiers. this is a fujoshi’s movie

Last project I was the Project Director, and it was really stressful performing like 3 different roles. It wasn't even that I didn't have enough time for it all, I did have the time (sorta), but the mental pressure of always juggling between 3-4 ontologically different issues was backbreaking.

I honestly feel if "the immigrants" all left from the Western countries that hate them so much, the entire Western world would collapse within a month. Case in point: Germany is panicking Syrians might want to go home because they're the largest group of foreign healthcare workers in the country.

Pandas are truly ADHD personified, and I love them so much

Your nightly ADHD hot tip: If you're worried about shit when you go to bed, take a second and write out every worry. Each one. I often realize I wasn't scared of the thing, I was just scared of FORGETTING IT, and now I have a to-do list.

There's not much hiding it, but I guess since my posts here reach no one it kinda still is, but I'm not well and I'm tired. I don't know why I'm carrying on for the sake of others, but I've been told to do that, so I am.

461 employees at ZeniMax Online Studios have unionized Another union has formed within Microsoft in a bid to 'create protections against layoffs and workplace exploitation.'

461 employees at ZeniMax Online Studios have unionized

MachineGames only knows how to create games with their whole chest, I don't even know how to describe it. Their games know exactly what they are, and they're designed to aggressively do that thing. They make games that are confident, borderline angry experiences and I love the whole crew as a studio

Today I learned of this. Wtf? Why is this called that?!

Yugioh's power creep has become so insane. They're at a point where they're nearing printing cards that read "When you play this card, you win the game".

The only thing we don't have is the cool aesthetics and towering skyline and neon lights. Which makes it even worse. It's a bad and uncool Cyberpunk city.

I've said it before, but Tehran is like the real Cyberpunk dystopia out there. Everyone is alienated, lots of people crammed into too little space, rent is so high and pay is so low that even a lot of specialized white collar workers can't afford a single bedroom apartment, smog fills the sky...

Luigi Mangione, who was arrested and charged with murder in the shooting death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, once belonged to a group of Ivy League gamers who played assassins, a member of the group told NBC News. In the game, called "Among Us," some players are secretly assigned to be killers in space who perform other tasks while trying to avoid suspicion from other players.

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I love how two continents get boiled down to "Donuts vs croissants".

Fall being a “season” is a fucking lie. It’s THREE WEEKS.

I eat chickpeas because they're supposed to be a healthy diet food, but they taste so bland and awful that I feel compelled to have some sweet chocolate milk and cake like a child to cleanse the palette and my mind.

Let's face it, Autumn is the best season, and it's not even close. Light rain, fog, autumn leaves on the ground, cozy cafes, warm cups of coffee, colorful trees, gothic vibes, classes in school to meet new people. Awesome