lisalisa.bsky.social
Writer, Narrative Director, Indie Dev, and Twitter escapee.
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If companies aren't going to be loyal to workers, they at least need to eliminate their "no moonlighting" policies that leave people without any side-hustle back-up plans.
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To succeed, creative-skill unions need 1) the solidarity of nearly all experienced people in a craft, 2) the threat that a strike will shut down a business. The WGA was SO CLOSE to unionizing game writers but they dropped the ball.
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100 percent. I once declined a job where the game designer wanted to put the story in a pre-game crawl "so the players can get on with the gameplay." A story needs to unfold -- that's where the player engagement is narratively.
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Junior roles exist, but yeah. They're rare and wildly competitive. Most successful junior applicants have gamedev experience already through indies, game jams, and personal projects
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Papo and Yo
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Call them on it. They need to know it's not okay.
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unless it's a rave...
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My daughter is OBSESSED with Just Dance. We talk about it almost every day.
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Thank you for posting this. I worked at Gartner back in the day and am constantly having to correct people who call Y2K a "hoax."
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100 percent this. My day job is what used to be called Experimental Fiction.
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I suspect that birth order plays a role in this. Only children watch what their parents watch (I saw tons of R rated movies in grade school). Third (or later) kid is probably in a kid-centric family that watches talking animal movies.
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Thank you, yes. It ruins a game when you have to use your strategic brain to avoid harassment rather than plot strategy.
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Sounds amazing.
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Such a good film. Tragically, the bar across the street from me was pumping out a disco beat while I watched it.
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Bamboo and blackberry bushes if he doesn't change his ways.
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Thank you. This is great. I'm writing a visual novel for an indie studio (for the first time), so this is super helpful.
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Most vegetables are actually fruits, as I explain in this 900-word footnote.