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xbox has been circling the drain for decades. Fuck em.

The old industry is killing itself slowly, hopefully a new industry will rise up to sweep up the mess left by this bullshit.

There's gonna be one... as soon as this travesty that's been going for over 15 years collapses. Blame all the dork that forgot to vote with their money.

we're so cooked

character designer with about 10 years of experience, and 10 as a generalist... and I'm just getting radio silence. I'm currently taking a class to find a different career path. i hate everything. :D

I'm sorry you have to deal with this shit. This shit is fucking stupid.

That is some grim news.

But, in a more hopeful note, you are a great designer and you will get a new gig. You just gotta keep going at it.

Yeah. Microsoft buys half the games industry, makes a mess, lays off about a quarter of the games industry, makes more mess by forcing all of their remaining staff to use their awful AI tools, loses the head of their Xbox division and then air-drops their AI boss in to "fix" everything. 🫤

Tech in general is cutting positions in so many different areas. 17 years experience as an infrastructure engineer, specializing in Linux and automation. Took 6 months of hard core applying to get a job. Hundreds of roles applied for, most didn't even respond.

Are LLMs the bubble to end all bubbles?

ive crashed all the way out to trying to full indie

I didn't realize you worked with metanet, that's cool! Also, I'm in this same situation and I'm gonna work on my own stuff for a bit.