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it's also worth pointing out that one of the major contributors to the petition is organising donations to the Game Worker Hardship Fund and has non-stop been pointing out the blood sweat and tears that the team at Bioware was putting into the project. So yeah sure keep saying it's about consumerism

I don't 100% agree with the wording in the ongoing petition but I think whats absurd is the idea that saving Mass Effect is being pursued from a 'consumer first' perspective. honestly if you're that jaded to not realise it's a cry for help from a community that doesn't know what else to do then idk

-you mean to tell me there are people who think this is just about handing off the IP to a different studio so gamers can be happy? there will never be a perfect and ideal vector to support everyone who lost their jobs nor complete the project they love. but at least it's a vector.

I don't 100% agree with the wording in the ongoing petition but I think whats absurd is the idea that saving Mass Effect is being pursued from a 'consumer first' perspective. honestly if you're that jaded to not realise it's a cry for help from a community that doesn't know what else to do then idk

It got worse! "this is what happens when you make bad games" = i.e. refusing to engage with historical context "they should never have released the 2020 trailer" = i.e. not understanding how marketing works "their policy is to not hire anybody who isn't left leaning" = total lack of braincells

it absolutely does not help that you have certain individuals in the dev-space (one in particular who I won't name) that definitely reads from an LLM written essay saying developers should engage with the most putrid, toxic, rancid trash on community forums when it's clear they're only there to hate

todays news about bioware sucks. what also sucks is the maddening explosion of people straight up saying shit like "well, like it or not the culture war folks had a point" they absolutely did not and i think you should maybe stop existing if you feel that way

this whole mentality of "you have to hand it to x/y/z" is fucking absurd centrist bullshit. no, you don't have to hand it to them. they're literally the most moronically evil people possible whose only reasoning is that the gays/women/trans folks have made gaming shit. this is not a stance to take.

fucks sake man

we're never gonna get a competitor to any of these fucking platforms because everyone is too busy chasing the non-existent bag instead of chasing the opportunity to create good spaces for communities to take refuge in rather than be chased by right wing skynet lovers who hate you and want you dead

like, I'm flying around in officially licensed aircraft in a game endorsed by companies that actively engage in the genocide of palestinians meanwhile the game will remind me that those engaged in corpocapitalist ventures are fucking evil and can't be trusted. it's so jarring that it warps my head

I feel like Wings of Theve is the most western (hollywood) inspired Ace Combat game in terms of it's overall storyline and vibes, but there's one specific thing that happens in it that feels distinctly NOT that and after sleeping on it I think it's maybe now my favourite part of the game.

-cause the game makes you feel like you might have fucked up, that you're responsible for something bad happening and you're punished for it. But you rise beyond the punishment, become an inspiration to your allies, and are emotionally and literally absolved for your 'crimes'. AC8 falls flat there -

I feel like Wings of Theve is the most western (hollywood) inspired Ace Combat game in terms of it's overall storyline and vibes, but there's one specific thing that happens in it that feels distinctly NOT that and after sleeping on it I think it's maybe now my favourite part of the game.

the basic gist of that First Strike story, because some folks expressed interest; mid-late 2023, I tried establishing the project in cooperation with a now defunct modding group. in that time I had my creative capabilities, mental health and overall willpower grinded into near-total nothingness.

By the end of 2023, I'd nuked the project to bedrock, walked away from the group, and then ended up living through another (albeit unrelated) emotional hellscape. But it really damaged my belief in my creative potential, and laid a lot of groundwork for my eventual disconnect from Halo overall.

the basic gist of that First Strike story, because some folks expressed interest; mid-late 2023, I tried establishing the project in cooperation with a now defunct modding group. in that time I had my creative capabilities, mental health and overall willpower grinded into near-total nothingness.

so, in-between commissioning 2D artists (or recruiting them entirely) to help concept out certain events, locations, characters, I'm receiving insults and demeaning 'jokes' daily. demeaning my capabilities, making fun of my disabilities, and treating me like everything I was doing was pointless.

the basic gist of that First Strike story, because some folks expressed interest; mid-late 2023, I tried establishing the project in cooperation with a now defunct modding group. in that time I had my creative capabilities, mental health and overall willpower grinded into near-total nothingness.