England. He/Him.
Just trying to make it through this life in a country that's descended into madness.
Food bank volunteer. Computer game player.
Gledster
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At this point, I genuinely believe the entire public is being actively gaslit by both the media, and Esther Ghey herself, into forgetting that Brianna Ghey was murdered, by people she knew from school, in real life, who were partly influenced by transphobia, fuelled by the media and politicians.
The key thing to understand about this is that it is completely unnecessary. This is a corporation with basically infinite money. They don't have to destroy 30+ year studios to save their bottom line. They're doing this because they are evil.
There's a common mythology that those with wealth and power must have "deserved" that wealth or power: they must have been smart, or good, or kind. But it's just that. A myth. They'll keep making bad decisions that make money hurting the lives of their own workers until we wrestle that axe BACK.
The studios, which include Compulsion Games and Double Fine, are in active negotiations with Xbox and may be given the chance to go independent.
Seems to me that @outsidexbox.bsky.social is going to outlast the Xbox brand itself at this point.
Fascinating to me that so many people at Xbox/Microsoft are paid and have spent so much money to take a POWERHOUSE from the Xbox 360 era to...whatever the hell it is now.
Jason Schreier
United Videogame Workers-CWA
Gledster
Sony, Microsoft, and Embracer have collectively destroyed the AAA games industry through sheer incompetence. It's wild that the people responsible for these decisions will likely be rewarded for "cost cutting" or some equivalent bullshit.
Looking back at this list from the 2021 era and it's hard not to be sad at this fumble of talent and potential. Xbox could have laid a solid foundation to build a diverse lineup that any other publisher would be envious of. Instead they got layoffs, closures, or survivor's guilt and an escape plan.
Liberal democracy update
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MAKING MEDIA STUDIES COMPULSORY WOULD BE MORE EFFECTIVE THAN A SOCIAL MEDIA BAN
Teach kids how to truly understand what they're bombarded; don’t pretend we can prevent them from encountering it.
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Brendan Graeber
Teaching young people how to truly understand what they're bombarded with is far better than pretending we can prevent them ever encountering it.
