Thanks for the question, Anon!

Unironically I think we might run into another video game crash like back in the day

Game creation has become another husk capitalism has its greedy little fingers in and its like. Its genuinely sucking the joy out of it all for more profit and more profit and even if it succeeds its not enough it needs to be more to the point there really isn't a reason to create games anymore if you're not an indie dev

And being an indie dev isn't easy because no one has the time anymore. Everyone is drowning in student loans and low wages. Capitalism is sucking the joy out of them and overworking them and ai art is taking away opportunities to be something unique

Games are $70 fucking dollars now. I can't afford that like. I just can't. Most of us are struggling with finances as is.

We're drowning and it's happening so fast there's not enough time to panic

This is what I mean. Games aren't enough to be good or creative or excellent or fun anymore.

It's become completely capital driven for people who only care about that capital. For anyone who's confused, the industry used to run on the devs getting royalties and bonuses from the sales. This goes all the way back to the beginning. that's how a lot of the new studios would start, someone got a good bonus and wants to strike out on their own. VC funding probably factored in somewhere, but not enough that they controlled anything in the studio. Plenty of devs and companies ended up going broke because they had no idea how to run a studio just how to spend money. but I digress.

Anyway, big companies like EA and Activision came in and started just swallowing up companies whole. The ones they didn't just close outright, they took the bonuses and royalties away and lowered everyone's pay, and then kept lowering it.

Take overs still happen today. but more and more often none of us devs has the capital to start a new company without getting VC funding from someone who just sees dollar signs and wants to meddle.

I guarantee you that every single game you played that had some stupid fucking shit thrown in or bad graphics or a bad plot that just seemed poorly put together it's because some fuck with money thinks they need to put their stamp on the game they're "paying" for.

That's where your $60 goes. To the corporation and CEOs, not the Devs. We seriously just want to make fun games. Entertaining games. Games that don't have microtransactions. Which we hate as much as other gamers play. And most of us are, or were, gamers. Unfortunately the industry kind of kills your love of games because you just see what COULD have been. What you know was intended and not this crap.

It's bullshit, it's killing games, and none of us know what to do about it because we're busy scrambling to find work and feed our families.

Cis people think trans people have this:

But honestly we really have:

talking to strangers online was the best decision i ever made reality is lemons and the internet’s my lemonade

Note from Anon:

“Please say your opinion in the tags! I’m asking cuz I have two oc ships and I’m afraid that the age differences might be a problem, the first is a 28 year old x a 31 year old the other is a 41 year old x a 46 year old.”

Anon! Anon you are okay. you really are. the 28 year old and the 31 year old are a lot closer together in maturity and priorities than say a 17 year old and a 20 year old, absolutely. when you're 28 you're absolutely an adult and you can date someone three years older it's not a problem at all. neither are 41 and 46! It's not a huge difference when you're OLD as BALLS

Three years, when the lower-end is 28, is not really an age gap. I'm serious, it's negligible. Almost unnoticeable.

Five years in the forties is similarly just about meaningless.

I met my partner when I was thirty and he was thirty-eight, and that was just right; I'd dated older and that was fine, too.

Age gaps are troublesome when one of the people involved is a child, or just barely out of childhood; there's a power imbalance between a 22-year-old and a 40-year-old that needs to be navigated carefully. But that imbalance RAPIDLY diminishes as that 22-year-old ages.

Toucan: “that there just ain’t natural”

She has a lot to say

i keep seeing people talk about their bfs/husbands weaponizing incompetence to avoid grocery shopping or purposefully fucking it up. mine doesn't do that he'll shop on his own prerogative like an actually functional adult, his issue is he occasionally brings home a Cursed Item

it is. uh. not good tasting

i am also jewish he literally brought this home specifically to offend me

I ate this for breakfast this morning. I actually didn’t mind it, but I don’t think I enjoyed the sensory experience of seeds in my noodles.

loving the way time and context has turned dracula into a comedy

Always be vague. Say I think they’re in today or not until later. If they press say it’s company policy not to give out the schedule. Most companies do have this and even if they don’t how would a stranger know. Don’t give out specifics, they can get people injured or even killed.

At my last job someone came up and asked when “Sarah” was working next. I didn’t tell him and then texted her a description, turns out he was an abusive ex who had been stalking her. Don’t do this shit please.

Do NOT say anything along the lines of “they’re not in today” or “not until later” because you are confirming that this is somewhere the person in question can be found. NEVER confirm anything!

My old boss told us a story of how, years before when she was a fairly new manager (I’m talking decades, she’s 64 right now), there was a man who came in and asked for an employee by name and said he was her uncle. She told him the employee’s shift started in a coule hours. He waited the entire time for her, and when she came in, he assaulted her and bashed her face into the counter. My boss saw everything. She can’t recall what he said, but he kept screaming until someone threatened to call the police.

She told me that story after a man came in and asked for when an employee, who recently quit, would be coming in. I told him she doesn’t work here anymore and he said to me “Okay, well I’m her dad so if you see her tell her I’ll be across the street at the gas station.” He left and my boss IMMEDIATELY came out and scolded me for it, then told me that story.

She gave me some advice on what to say or do in that situation:

Regardless of if the customer know the employee’s name, description, or daily (not hourly) schedule, even if they look like the same race and claim to be family, you NEVER confirm the employee’s existence.

The only exceptions are if the employee tells you themself they’re expecting someone to come in for them (ASK FOR A DESCRIPTION OF THE PERSON), and if you personally know who they are in relation to the employee. When anyone I know has to come in because I asked them to come in, I describe what they look like and what they usually wear. I go into deep descriptions, even including how they walk.

You could literally save a life, guys. Don’t blindly trust your gut either and think “But they LOOK innocent” or “But they said ______” because that can result in someone getting severely hurt, or killed.

I know I joked on this post before but seriously

If youre in the US it is against federal law to give out anyones personal information (this includes numbers, names, and schedules) without writen and signed permission.

Just say its against federal law and you cant give out that info without risk of termination - this will get 99% off your back the first time

so since retiring, my dad has gotten into crewel, which is like freestyle embroidery with yarn, and his stuff is pretty good, he made this one which is hanging in my office at work

and lately he's taken to putting himself and his dog into the landscapes and I just think it's! so! cute!

see the little man and the little dog!!!! that's my dad!!!!

learning that apparently several hundred people have been pronouncing 'miette' as 'mighty' has actively worsened my day

you mispronounce miette?? you butcher miette name????

this explains an uncomfortable amount actually. jail for american education system for one thousand years

Out of curiosity

And put the fandom its from in tags if you like reblog for sample size yadda yadda