I am, for Personal Reasons, particularly livid at the closure of Monolith. They've been a load-bearing pillar of Seattle area game design and development for decades. They have such a broad and legendary history. People very close to me have worked there. To see them tossed in the trash like this... - ThreadSky

elmore.zone • 5 days ago

I am, for Personal Reasons, particularly livid at the closure of Monolith. They've been a load-bearing pillar of Seattle area game design and development for decades. They have such a broad and legendary history. People very close to me have worked there. To see them tossed in the trash like this...

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elmore.zone•5 days ago

We are truly in the age where they're just ripping the copper out of every single wall, yanking the catalytic converter out of every single car. They're doing it to businesses, media, industry, federal governments, anything that can be destroyed for a quick and dirty turnaround, the world be damned.

elmore.zone•5 days ago

I keep """joking""" about throwing these suits in a gulag, but like, mass layoffs for the sake of greed means destroying hundreds of lives, families, people lose their homes and health care, people die this way because there's no social safety net left in this country. Throw the suits in a gulag.

zeether.bsky.social•5 days ago

Is it too much to want them hunted for sport

irrezolut.com•4 days ago

The omnicidal, rot economy driven, Welch-worshipping MBA fuckwits that have decided in favor of profits and number-go-up worship EVERY TIME instead of even showing the tiniest margin of interest in the needs of their workers OR their customers all deserve to be trebuchetted off of the planet

jaystevens.me•5 days ago

A friend of mine got laid off from WB today. He lost his home in the Eaton Fire in LA. He's still dealing with insurance and the fallout from that - and today he got the news that WB laid him off

elmore.zone•5 days ago

That's horrific, I'm so sorry.

zell2036.com•5 days ago

What makes it fraud to not work in the "fiduciary interest" of shareholders but perfectly fine to aggressively ruin the lives of hundreds of human beings doing this work?

archaeologytube.bsky.social•5 days ago

Owners of capital vs laborers. Tale as old as time.

pabastien.bsky.social•5 days ago

The worst thing is, they are so greedy or so fucking stupid, they actually have no thought to the consequences. They have no idea that you can literally exhaust money by gutting the middle class. There are hard limits to how much people can spend, but they don't care. It just feeds their beasts

elmore.zone•5 days ago

It's all just a race to not be the one left holding the bag. Make as much as you can before it's all gone, because that's what all the other psychopaths are doing. It's hideous.

pabastien.bsky.social•5 days ago

If we think of Corporations/Private Equity as autonomous not sentient entities that are a composite of people feeding it to keep it going, we can look at late stage capitalism from the model of an ecosystem.
Companies and groups that engage in this behavior are like animals with no predators

elmore.zone•5 days ago

Yes, 100%, but also: names/addresses/etc.

pabastien.bsky.social•5 days ago

Overgrown, overconsuming, grazing the environment and its resource (people/money) till there is nothing left. And when the grass is gone, every animal in the field starves to death.

smokefurandstone.bsky.social•5 days ago

Many greedy, stupid people were born into privilege and unearned power. They confuse this advantage with ability. So you often have incompetent morons in high positions and worse, because they grew up with money, they assume it's infinite. Not that this excuses them in any way.

smokefurandstone.bsky.social•5 days ago

Stupid, greedy, over-privileged twits who undervalue the talent and have never encountered consequences before. I've seen it in smaller local companies - you get an influx of "executives", they fire most of the talent to "cut costs", the company/industry collapses and they are genuinely shocked.

straycatalyst.bsky.social•5 days ago

Same, I know/knew folks there. A lot of us know each other in the Puget Sound area, or have low Kevin Bacon-like numbers to each other

nurvuss.bsky.social•5 days ago

What the fuck they closed monolith? Fucking zaslav

20xx.bsky.social•5 days ago

they made fucking shogo man. if you made shogo you deserve better than being unceremoniously kicked to the curb by some fucking suits

aurahack.bsky.social•5 days ago

my head is boiling from anger dude fucking MONOLITH

FEAR and FEAR 2, Condemned and Conemned 2, NOLF and NOLF 2, Tron 2.0, Shogo

The guys that gave everyone the Nemesis system in Shadows of Mordor only for WB to lock it up, put them in the IP mines for a decade, and flush them down the tubes

evil

aurahack.bsky.social•5 days ago

they made motherfucking Condemned 2!! One of the best of its generation!! FEAR completely revolutionized how we think of enemy AI in first person games!! Your studio should get to make games for the rest of everyone's natural lives with that kinda history!! FUCK!!!

etpc.bsky.social•5 days ago

even their off-beat stuff like Claw was so full of heart and talent. today really fucking sucks.

etpc.bsky.social•5 days ago

they seemed like a company that genuinely loved and cherished their legacy too, even the Bad Times. it was really fun when they would stream Shogo or stuff like that.

elmore.zone•5 days ago

I installed Shogo on an old mac literally last night!

etpc.bsky.social•5 days ago

it's fucked up and scuffed but man i love that goofy ass game. it's so full of heart and it's so of a time for anime in north america. first time i ever heard a vocal theme in a video game.

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