questifer.bsky.social
Senior Quest Designer at Amazon Games (New World), previously Crop Circle (RIP) and World of Warcraft. Dog mom, volcano nerd, roleplayer.
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It's great practice and an opportunity to get put on their "not this time but 👀" list. A good impression isn't a waste of time
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<laughs nervously in Amazon>
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I used this recently and it is delightful. Yeet those hot takes into the sun
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Yeeeeep. They seem to be under the delusion that any unqualified cluster of mediocrity can band together and get showered with money to do their own thing.
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Cute. Read the room.
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This take is not intentionally excluding all the myriad factors that led to these closures. It's simply another angle meant to add to the conversation, not replace it. Please don't @ me for things I didn't say.
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The end goal is work camps for the mentally ill.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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I will lose all the good things in my life if I am not medicated. I was NOT well before.
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I'm also doing napkin math here but I'm also pretty sure 24k is more than I got from 7 years of profit sharing, 5 of which was working directly on WoW. Flat out unreal how little we got paid, but no, had to be some woke bullshit to cause a union instead of real fucking pain.
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Wish the media would stop giving this washout corporate dinosaur a platform.
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The most important thing to come out of those lawsuits was a collective realization that we were not individually responsible for the shitty things our male coworkers did to us. For the way we were treated. It created a collective consciousness that could only be answered with collective action!!
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Money was nice but I sure would've liked working somewhere that didn't give every single woman I worked with AT LEAST one harassment story. AT LEAST.
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The whole point of a peaceful protest is to be disruptive without violence. It's the compromise we as a society made to avoid dragging culpable individuals out of their homes by their hair.
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Was average Sunday busy still- though I can't imagine what it was like earlier today. Yiiiikes
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I'm gonna guess you haven't worked on a Star War
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The fact that my livelihood is tied to pretending nothing at all is wrong is reeeeaaally fucking with me lol
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Yeah our story just continues to feel more prescient as things unfold.
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I asked my dad 6 months ago to start thinking about a backup plan for when shit hits the fan and he told me "we survived 4 years of him before, we can do it again"
Guess who texted me last week thinking about leaving the country 🙃
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Thank you, Thunk. Some days I can connect with the outcome of my work, but if I'm being honest I haven't made anything worth connecting with in a very long time.
I know my job is to help others find respite, and that's important. But it feels particularly vapid right now.
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This exactly. Omitting people or identities is basically saying "in my perfect world, you don't exist."
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I was thinking about combinations in our fantasy world that didn't exist yet and it kinda hit me sideways. It's not much and I'm not pretending to do anything other than use our dark akin options but it was already more than what came before.
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Anything from like... Legion on starts to have our collective "stink" on it. More gays, more soft and thoughtful men, more female character who don't exist to foil male characters. Some actual moms!! I got to write a badass older dark skinned woman (not culturally black but also not pale skinned)
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Also unironically... having that many women around meant those conversations were MUCH harder to sweep aside. We reached critical mass and this is why DEI MATTERS.
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I credit the WoW quest team with an enormous push to amplify marginalized voices and then turning around and living those values when hiring. At the time the WoW quest team was the closest to gender parity on the entire WoW design team at 45%. Idk what it is today, but I'm sure it's similar.
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Blizzard was the quintessential old boys club, and I got a settlement to prove it haha. But I did get to tell those stories and others besides. I helped author the first canon trans character in WoW before I left. :) And the current narrative team is hella diverse!!
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They have absolutely no idea what it's like to be erased within your preferred escapist fantasy.
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I was once told every single character in World of Warcraft was asexual because "we don't tell sexual stories." This was after I brought up that I wanted to write more characters like me into the fiction.
You can guess the race, gender, sexuality, and age of the person who said this to me.
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yeah... I was gonna say... they already have my money, I'm just asking for some of it back that I never should have paid them in the first place. :(
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The stock market in a nutshell. Things have value because people believe they do and that's literally it.
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Yeeep. If I could just transplant this little found family of mine, all my hobbies, and my favorite restaurants to the north by about 1000 miles, that'd be perfect