Shadywack
@Shadywack@lemmy.world
- Comment on Microsoft Closes Redfall Developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda 1 week ago:
I never played Hi-Fi rush, Redfall, Mighty Doom, or The Evil Within. That said it looks like Tango hit their sales and quality strides. Alpha Dog and their Mighty Doom shit-ware deserves the dust bin and closure.
As cold and callous as this all sounds, I read about the Redfall development and it was leadership start to finish on that disaster. The employees, even at Alpha Dog, don’t deserve this treatment. Dinga Bakaba from Arkane Lyon stated it perfectly
Don’t throw us into gold fever gambits, don’t use us as strawmen for miscalculations/blind spots, don’t make our work environments darwinist jungles. You say we make you proud when we make a good game. Make us proud when times are tough. We know you can, we seen it before.
Fuck me, this part hurts the most, and I highly recommend anyone who didn’t read the article at least look at what was said here. Everyone knows damn well that the corporation has the ability to flourish in keeping all the talented workers who got fucked by shitty leadership, instead the leadership will fail upward and keep ruining projects. Companies have so many chances to really disrupt and show the world a better way and they continually take shallow short sighted routes to cheap monetary victory, discarding humanity along the way. Fuck companies.
- Comment on Union leader endorsing Biden: ‘We’re not gonna waste a lot of time’ on Trump supporters 3 weeks ago:
I’ve seen this too, the ones who bitch the most will trash the union and the company, but seldom if ever actually show up at union meetings. It’s inherited from a culture of apathy, and this “give nothing in return” is a big issue.
Usually the democrats at least show up to the meetings, conservatives bitch and do nothing.
- Comment on 70 percent of devs unsure of live-service games sustainability 4 weeks ago:
Underrated comment honestly. That’s nailed on the head, greed drove billions in investments to compete for whales and now it looks like a wasteland…compounded by the fact that the whales were always unsustainable users in the first place. Sometimes rich people were whales but the majority of the time they were users who didn’t have a pot to piss in, in the first place.
- Comment on Star Wars Outlaws Requires The Internet To Install It 5 weeks ago:
Ummm, so do most other games???
- Comment on All billionaires under 30 have inherited their wealth, research finds 1 month ago:
Maybe if you weren’t dismissive to facts and cherry picked timeframes that support a narrow point of view, you wouldn’t be such an unpopular ass. (Oh shit I can link stuff too, oh man, fuck, that means you might have to look at information too).
- Comment on All billionaires under 30 have inherited their wealth, research finds 1 month ago:
How do those boots taste? That kind of shit right there is exactly how we backslide. Life expectancy is also higher than it was 1000 years ago. The only reason we left the first gilded age was a whole lot of legislation that’s been dismantled in the last 40 years, that if we go uncorrected we’ll be more impoverished than we were in that time period you referenced. “LOL” - as if to say it’s great that two generations can’t own a home, pay for healthcare, or retire. Real funny shit, asshole.
- Comment on All billionaires under 30 have inherited their wealth, research finds 1 month ago:
Oh so medical bankruptcy isn’t a thing? Decline of ownership isn’t a thing? The unwinding of worker protections isn’t a thing? Shove off, bootlicker.
- Comment on All billionaires under 30 have inherited their wealth, research finds 1 month ago:
It’s not their stuff that’s wanted overall, to me it seems like hope is what’s in question here. They stand in the way of hope, voting doesn’t work, so I wonder if violent removal would.
- Comment on All billionaires under 30 have inherited their wealth, research finds 1 month ago:
not a single person’s (poor or not) bank account would get bigger as a result
Likely not, but I’d like to think the social reforms with an attack on the wealthy would bring some of our rights back and help with our standards of living issues our poor currently face thanks to the wealthy systematically disabling the things that brought prosperity and protected people.
- Comment on All billionaires under 30 have inherited their wealth, research finds 1 month ago:
I wonder where all that wealth would go if they suddenly died from accidents, and any potential heirs or next of kin also died.
- Comment on Take it from a former banker: the budget is for ordinary people. The mega-rich look on and laugh 2 months ago:
What I mean specifically is the Gilded Age, vs the period of middle class growth during and post WW2. Concepts such as the Public Trust became important during these periods due to the Gilded Age itself and the postwar priorities emphasizing we lift up the nation instead of just the rich. I mean that capitalism is just the tool, albeit with heavy regulations, that generated a great deal of prosperity from the late 50’s through to the 70’s.
That’s the time period a person could graduate from High School and then earn enough to purchase a home and viably support a whole family.
- Comment on Take it from a former banker: the budget is for ordinary people. The mega-rich look on and laugh 2 months ago:
“How old are you, mate? Does this look like Jackanory to you?! I know you’ve lost a lot of money, but you won’t find a penny of it in them books. If you wanna know what’s happening in the world, take a look at the world. Go take a walk down the high street. See all the shops closed down. Look at the homeless people under the bridge. Go home, and ask your mum about her financial situation. Ask your friends, ask your friend’s mums. The time for books is over, mate. You’re here now. Look at the world with your fucking eyes.”
That’s pretty damn sobering, and accurate. We’re so use to being told what to think, and my whole takeaway from this, apart from “Eat The Rich”, is to look for yourself. What he wrote after that paragraph is something we all should be doing. Looking at housing prices, looking at where real people are squeezed, and to act based on that. We’re just cattle.
I look at the US primaries and caucuses and I see nothing but bullshit, “cute moments” as described in this article that won’t help us at all. I look at Bernie Sanders’ bill about the 32 hour workweek and I think about the weak willed moderate Democrats who won’t vote for it, and all the scumbag Republicans who are not even hiding that they’re part of this exact problem of enriching the rich while removing wealth from everyone beneath them.
Capitalism can work, when its heavily regulated with active oversight and robust enforcement. We haven’t had a free market in many decades, the joke is on all the BS Republicans are peddling.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I like a short commute, and companies like to have their offices in expensive places that are unaffordable.
- Comment on Best of Steam 2023: The Year's Top Games measured by Gross Revenue 4 months ago:
I like JK Rowling, and I think the trans activists who harassed her are fucking nut jobs that are just as bad as Trump supporters. Flame away.
- Comment on Best of Steam 2023: The Year's Top Games measured by Gross Revenue 4 months ago:
Oh, well, clearly many other people enjoyed it and don’t care about the TERF wars. Looks like Rowling got her “fuck you” money too, so I wouldn’t expect any social justice activism to sway anything for a while.
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 4 months ago:
It’s funny that back in 2009 Gabe Newell was talking about the focus on the customer, and making the DRM be above all useful and do things that benefit customers instead of just benefitting the developer/publisher…and here we are today where people really don’t give a shit about the revenue split, but the fact that Steam is an extremely convenient and useful platform that does a lot of legwork for the end users that people don’t even think about anymore.
Epic is trying to wave a banner of revolution, where we the end users just want our shit to work and run nicely. Obligatory mention of Linux here as well, where it seems Valve is truly trying to foster an ecosystem that benefits customers as opposed to fucking them over. That’s in lieu of the Polygon hit-piece polygon.com/…/valve-gabe-newell-sales-origin-dest… where they point out the scummy things Valve has done…but if you take Valve away you’re left with a barren landscape of shitty publishers that actively treat customers awful with none of the good things Valve does.
- Comment on Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick departs in just a few days 4 months ago:
Good riddance to that fucking scumbag.
- Comment on Starfield End of the Year Update 4 months ago:
They could have also put in an “days of player disappointment” metric to go along with the rest. What a shit game.
- Comment on Hits me right in the feels 4 months ago:
Just be born rich, and use Daddy’s money to start a business. It’s so easy, anyone can do it.
- Comment on The 4-day workweek was a longshot. The UAW isn’t giving up 4 months ago:
I’d be happy if I could just retire on time, which I don’t think is going to happen. I look at many people and still feel lucky that I “only” have to work 40 hours. People are compelled to work 60+ just for their subsistence and even they won’t have enough to retire.
- Comment on The 4-day workweek was a longshot. The UAW isn’t giving up 4 months ago:
This right here, I get the bulk of my responsibility completed in about 20 hours, where the rest of the time my particular role is that I’m compensated for “being available”. As for completion of my duties and helping the mission of the company is concerned, 32 hours for the same pay would actually save the company money. The “optics” though is what companies fear, and they don’t want to lose their leverage and power over workers.
- Comment on The 4-day workweek was a longshot. The UAW isn’t giving up 4 months ago:
Being stuck on a 40 hour work week, but just doing four tens, I can say the 32 hour concept needs to continue having traction. More and more people are waking up to the reality that work is just work. There’s life to live and we have the means nationally to allow for a meaningful life. When considering employment, only getting two days off is a dealbreaker.
- Comment on God of War Creator Is Unhappy With New Games and Kratos' Story 4 months ago:
As someone who has played from the beginning, and seen the entire storyline unfold through the multiple directors, I was so disappointed…in nothing absolutely at all whatsoever about the new games.
I thought it was really cool how they stitched the story back to GoW3 and developed the new character so thoughtfully. Christopher Judge seemed to take the character much further while adding depth, and being thoughtful too.
If Jaffe doesn’t like that Kratos isn’t a mindless rage machine, different strokes I guess. He’s definitely in the minority and I think every subsequent game director did an overall better job than he did in GoW 1. *shrug
- Comment on Epic is giving away 17 games as part of its holiday sale 5 months ago:
I should only hope so.
- Comment on I know it's one of you guys 5 months ago:
There was a head out alright.
- Comment on Epic is giving away 17 games as part of its holiday sale 5 months ago:
Until Bungie gives me back the content I already paid for, that company can rot in hell. I feel for the devs who point stuff out to leadership and tell them exactly what they need to do to fix their reputation, but the leadership saying “player’s still love us” means Pete Parsons can go get dry fucked by splintering balsa wood.
I won’t play the Legacy Collection, not even when it’s free. Fuck you, Bung-hole.
- Comment on After earning $544 million in its most recent quarter, Unity says even more layoffs are 'likely' 5 months ago:
That’s really well said and an underrated comment here. In a sane world, Unity would “make a living” just fine. Another user commented on where they spent their margins, and my bet is that it’s on bullshit. Executive compensation should be first to get slashed, and if anything they should concentrate on keeping the “golden goose” or core development team alive.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
The best games more often have the best soundtracks. That taste for great audio ends up permeating the thoughtfulness of the rest of the game. If Stardew didn’t have good music it would’ve died on the vine.
Everyone remembers when they first played, and that catchy optimistic springtime song is playing, and then the hooks just set in.
- Comment on Maybe AI won't be taking all of our jobs after all? 6 months ago:
And butger frosting
- Comment on Maybe AI won't be taking all of our jobs after all? 6 months ago:
I can say something similar, if I had a penny for every time the next big thing was pronounced and hyped, but didn’t take off, I could probably afford a Rivian.