Viri4thus @ Viri4thus @feddit.org

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Possibly. Wanna set fire to Andrew Wilson and use that to ignite the rocket to send Riccitiello to orbit. I'll bring the lighters and beverages while we watch the firework.

a case that 'they make poor games and thus it doesn't matter that they're laid off'

Oh, not at all, it does matter they're laid off. They make poor games because that's all that they know, since companies like EA churn out blueprint made after blueprint made games with no spirit or excitement, built only to leverage the IPS they own (and other EA studios the same, DeadSpace3...). They basically adopted the *FC25 strategy company-wide (except 3rd pty indie publishing) which has created a vacuum of talent and imagination. This situation has been evident for more than a decade. They acquire/absorb talented studios, get rid of those pesky expensive senior workers and milk the franchises to the ground. That's the EA MO. Sadly, people joined Bioware hoping to get a successful AAA game on their resumé to bolster their chances at pursuing greener pastures, the gamble didn't pan out. Good luck to them, especially non programming staff, since code monkeys find a much better job market than English majors. Also, it's a travesty the lady who led DAV got canned. She had worked on Sims games before and was handed a shit hand to play with. At the end of the day, the whole Institutional Knowledge schtick is a misnomer because very little of it was present in the latest round of layoffs at Bioware, they're assembly workers now. Doesn't mean they are less important, just means the larian marketing guy is talking out of his arse for clout.

That said, at the end of the day, the writing was on the wall. This goes for EA, Ubisoft, MS, et al. If you're on the bottom, your arse is out the next time line goes down. Join a private studio instead, like Larian, they pay less but pay longer!

Edit: Almost forgot, fuck John Riccitiello to the moon on a fucking rocket. Him and Don Matric are the main responsible people for the shit environment we have in the games industry today.

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Same guy who happens to be an exec.

Same guy who said "marketing is dead" is playing the CDPR startegy "we're the good guys" to endear himself with the public. It's a dangerous game, especially when he decides jack shit about game structure, engine, writing et al. He's Literally a marketeer.

Regarding Bioware, I actually went to check game release dates. Turns out the signals they were bleeding talent were there already when ME3 released, roughly 13-15 ago. Wow, ty for mentioning that, Bioware has had 15 of releasing bland crap I don't find good. Given the current state of the studio, I'm not the only one with that view, clearly.

Yes, I'm sure this 2025 article comes right on time to address the 15y old layoffs that gutted Bioware before you could speak.

What institutional knowledge? Most of the people who made the games we loved at Bioware are long gone... EA found them to be too expensive so they resorted to hiring cheaper "talent" like Heir. Now it's too late, they have the IP but none of the passion and inventiveness.

Nobody is advocating for cross burning. People need to rise against the first steps of a totalitarian government that only serves the oligarchy.

Tesla would never exist in a capitalist system. Their business model is wholly predicated on government subsidies and carbon credits. Furthermore, the hen has come home to roost and their cars, like I linked above, are just bougie expensive paper weights sold by the biggest con man in history. If I was buying electric tomorrow, I'd even look at Volkswagen before considering a Tesla. I want my cars to last more than 4y, not try to kill me, and, I don't like to pay extra for vapoware. If anything, the fact Tesla still exists, is testament we no longer live in a capitalist system but in an oligarchy where companies selling snake oil can still have high valuation because they are close to the N*%i Party party in power. Looking at Teslas's results and seeing the carbon credit weight on their fundamentals and looking at the speed BYD is expanding, only Authoritarianism can save them from bankruptcy already in 2025. Luckily, their CEO just helped bring about the 4th reich, so they are fine, just don't pretend it's because it's a solid enterprise, it's anything but.

You can stop using stupid shit like "cishet white" for starters. Statistically, most people who do not care will be cishet white. Those who care, will also mostly be cishet white. With this type of exclusionary discourse bordering on racism, no one will ever listen to you because from the start, you already sound like you have nothing important to say. There's three types of people in the US: Slaves working 2 and 3 jobs to make ends meet, middle class being pit against the slaves by the third group, the capital. By using exclusionary discourse, assimilated from bougie fake activism, you're promoting infighting within the classes that should be hunting the capital like animals, the French way!

Edit: your country has sacrificed countless children to never eschew the right to bear arms. Well, stop bitching online to make yourself feel good and use them.

When those profits come from carbon credits which means your main activity is still wildly unsustainable over a decade after the company being founded. Tesla is a massive investor bubble and their cars are objectively trash with failure rates 3x higher than the industry's worse. Tesla is garbage sustained by a massive collective illusion of US exceptionalism.

Teslas are objectively trash. 1 out of 3 model 3s didn't pass the mandatory inspection in Denmark 4y after purchase which results in tje cars becoming very expensive paper weights given how expensive it is to repair the modal issues. I'm amazed these data weren't more divulged by media since they come from the Danish state.

They're also banking on Elon staying alive for the next 4y which is a risky bet given how he immediately antagonised the MAGA crowd on H1Bs.

That "may" is lifting a lot of weight on this one.

Pedant time: That's microscale not nanoscale.

You can shoot me now, it's deserved.

Hahahahahahahaha, manufactured consent in full throttle here. Hahahahahaha

*plays the world's smallest violin

This has "freedom fries" energy all over it.

Let the FUD begin!

There isn't one, we're animals with higher brain function.

Try to ease suffering by being less savage and overcoming the animal instincts of hoarding and violence which are antithetical tou our capacity to form cohesive societies.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

US horseshoe reality. The right is anti vaccines the left is dogmatically anti-biology in medicine. I feel bad for normal people living in the US. It's like common sense and pragmatism was bred out of the gene pool.

Meanwhile in every Deepseek thread:

TiAnAmEn 1989 whaaaa

The irony is palpable