Yeah, this feels like correlation vs. causation. I don’t doubt the figures, though.

We are all God’s dream. At least, that’s what I believe.

Thank you for writing and making content.

In this era, I feel like I’m in the Good Place: it’s impossible to make “good” ethical choices while engaging with modern world. Every day, some platform or artist is found supporting blood money, genocide, unfair labor, treats other artist/collaborators like shit, exploitation… Then we all have to pivot to some obscure alternative with its own issues, lest we be immoral internet users.

I’m so tired of all this shit… /rant

There’s a term in art called “authorial control.” Roger Ebert used the term to attack video games as art, saying they lacked “authorial control” and hence invalid for art.

The claim I hear in this is the AI taking away the control of the author. Yes, videos are edited, but there’s a bunch of choices made in that process. If some robot came in & started mucking around with my edits or lighting, especially without my knowledge, that’s a major red flag. YT, as a platform, already has enough problems. Invisible robots “enhancing” videos is perhaps one of the worst features they can add. Unwanted help is not help.

Somewhat irrelevant: omg, this is peak “corporate art sucks.” It’s like corporate art combined with fascist content, more than usual.

The architecture of Doom was specifically designed for portability. If you’d like to learn more, check out this video. For those that don’t know, tl;dr, the game’s structure is compartmentalized with specific connections (interfaces). The game logic runs separate of engine logic. If you write the specific engine hookups, the game logic should then run. Also math & clever level design implementation.

The moral compass bit is hilarious. Large swaths of tech haven’t had morals in decades when it comes to business, if ever. See google’s canary “do good” being gone. People have fully drank the “greed is good” koolaid for years.

I’ll say this: when I go to the doctor, I’m listed as “not smoker.” But, I have my medical card, and it gets lots of use. When I go to ask, the doctor always seems to wave me off, like “It’s not tobacco, so it’s fine.” I definitely feel like I’ll get lung cancer with the amount I vape/toke at the moment 😬

This feels like a grave mischaracterization of what I wrote. I don’t think you’re a good faith actor. Have a good one.

https://www.definefinancial.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/giving-by-income-group.png

The pattern is poorer & richer people give more. The poorer people understand hardship & help one another. The richer people have more to give (and financial incentives to do so, such as tax write-offs).

The middle class gives the least, likely because they feel the most pinched on maintaining a quality of life that’s often becoming more expensive.

The poor, In my opinion, have the MOST empathy. They give a lot as a percentage of income & have the most to lose.

Your intuition is pretty much the opposite of the statistics.

Yeah, this reads like someone has some internal problems to investigate… She literally has a bag over her head as some sort of breathing system? It looks terrible & creepy, not in a good way. The trailer seems to keep this trend of female fashion, whereas every dude is in full battle regs.

Also, it reminds me of the Peter Molyneux game from 2012 with a giant cube.

Yes, edited now. Thank you.

Yup. For most kids, it can be exploitative because of the restrictions around withdrawing funds, the super vast majority of the audience is under age, many games have gacha models (gambling). I did get to make & work on games relevant to my kids, so that was very cool.

On the whole, I’m glad I’ve left that area of the industry for now. I’d prefer not to go back (only did about a year / 12 in my career). There are great companies in that space trying, but it’s not easy.

I’ve worked at a professional studio (+100 employees) that specializes in Roblox.

It’s very strange how that side of the industry works. Some people can make a killing just on the marketplace side, like providing assets for others (e.g. someone told me they made $200k/yr independently creating assets).

However, the vast majority of games & creators make nothing, or they make Roblox but now enough to withdraw funds into real money (something like 95% of creators fall into this category). It’s also hard to design for Roblox, because it’s like TikTok for games. What works there is somewhat unique to Roblox itself.

It could have changed since I worked in that field, but it’s a very topsy-turvy side of the industry.

Out of the games I’ve been fortunate to work on, 1/7 require internet, and the 1 was my first industry job as QA. Everything else has been mobile, online required. 5/7 are no longer playable / removed from the internet.

It makes me sad because my kids will never play a bunch of things I made. I can’t revisit them nostalgically. If I had made something in the 90s, it would be preserved still.

I played the cards dealt to me to follow a dream and make a living, but I wish the industry wasn’t like this. The money has always been a role, but nowadays, it’s distorted so badly.

Storytelling & oral sex.

Maaaaan… can we please just work together for fucks sake?

It’s almost like reality has a liberal bias. 🙃

Because those groups were right wing and funded by political agitators, multiplied by manipulated media. The people on the ground did believe in the issues, but it was a concerted effort of political theater as a show of force.

Everyone else is now debilitated by wage theft that they can only care about the economy. When the market crashes harder and full recession hits, that’s when people will take to the streets because they’ll have lost jobs and freedoms. That’s when the martial law will start.

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