inexplicably jacked game developer | ex-@lolesports, @CallofDuty, @PlayDauntless, @Twitch, 🇦🇺 | dm fee $25, pay @ ko-fi.com/chhopsky
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guy asked me on a date that’s a bit out of the way
group chat asked why i wasn’t worried about the location
sent back this photo
“oh. yeah fair”
ALT woman posing in the mirror with visible arm and shoulder muscles
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you need to be close to closing. one time a woman who'd been flirting with me all night and she said she was going to leave and said she had a joke
her: what winks and fucks like a tiger?
me: what?
her: *winks, turns and walks out*
my jaw hit the fuckin floor
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doctor house is shitty, sexist, and constantly doing illegal things and committing medical malpractice, but people still like his character because it fulfills their fantasy where a doctor is willing to put in any effort whatsoever towards fixing their problems
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i worked on COD for two years as a programmer at demonware
bobby's decisions made our games worse
in my first month it came out he threatened to have an employee killed. in the all-hands that followed, no-one wanted to speak first. so i demanded his firing in front of everyone
Bobby Kotick is officially no longer the CEO of Activision Blizzard.
Today was his final day as CEO.
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there are two kinds of men in the world
men who understand why women said bear
and men who are the reason women said bear
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surely, of all things, star wars has the most valid in-world canon in which to do wuxia with no additional explanation
What in the Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is going on here. 😂 #TheAcolyte
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🌈 happy pride month 🌈
we're all bombarded with game industry horror stories so here's a happy one about transitioning while working on call of duty
i was on vacation and literally just emailed my boss the friday before i came back "hey... i have some news lol"
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denouncing NFTs is good and honorable
here are some tips to help you on your scam-prevention journey:
- 'power usage/environment' is a trap, people will goalpost move you on about proof of stake.
- try to focus on what they do, which is nothing, but badly, while scamming
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you're allowed to be friends with whoever you want
just like other people are allowed to think badly of you for it
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ha ha yeah imagine preserving the look and feel of your iconic game while also leveraging previous work, what a weird choice 🤡
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i genuinely do not even know where to begin roasting this
you announced you were making a numbered sequel in a series you don't own
why didn't photoshopping the TRADEMARK SYMBOL out of the art you stole make you think 'hmm maybe i might be violating something, but what?'
ALT PVZ3 logo
ALT stolen PVZ logo with the trademark photoshopped out and an alternate subtitle
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hot take: video game designers should at least once try designing tabletop games
not only is it a fantastic prototyping tool, but it highlights two very important game design concepts:
1. state tracking is data storage
2. rule enforcement is cognitive load
let me explain 🧵
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i've struggled to frame the paradox of tolerance when arguing with dipshits sometimes but framing it as a social contract makes it so, so clear
BREAK THE CONTRACT // NOT COVERED BY IT
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daily reminder that NFTs are shit because every single implementation depends on a source of trust outside the blockchain that either doesn't make sense or doesn't exist
Someone made $170k selling my artworks as N F T. I do not sell art on crypto places, in fact, I do not sell art anywhere, not even prints.
It's strange to see someone loving my art and paying big to own it, making a thief rich, while my hospital bills piles up.
Nice.
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the implication that sex is the only intimacy that has value and all other forms serve only to lead to sex explains a lot about why these kinds of men are so lonely
this is basically the equivalent of offering sea water to someone dying of thirst . it won't actually meet their needs and actually will make things significantly worse, but it looks like the start of what they want so they can't stop themselves from drinking anyway
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wow that's disgusting, imagine trying to pretend this is about 'life' when those same legislators will abandon those babies the instant they're born and leave the mothers in medical debt
looking forward to your support of laws forcing vasectomies to prevent rape babies 🙏🙏
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i don't really know how to articulate this but gamedev programmers are on an entire other level to non-games programmers
repeatedly needing to solve problems that have never existed before, because the world you're creating them in has never existed changes you as a person
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i can promise you that everything you think should be in white mirror should be in black mirror
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i'd already changed my name etc in slack/google and he just goes 'ok cool uhh we should probably do some comms to the team about this hey' and asked me whether i'd like him to do it in private, in public, or if i'd like to handle it
i said i'd handle it, and posted in slack:
ALT slack post: 'Hi all, probably noticed slack account and things change but long story short: found some big terrifying things in the time off. I will be going by christina going forward. Been a rough couple weeks trying to figure all this out but feel free to AMA. I don't really know how to do this part so there you go. In the mean time, enjoy the free diversity upgrade for the team, and if anyone has any good eyeliner recommendations please let me know'
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its the fundamental rule of 3d
want a dragon to explode out out of the ground in an eruption of flame, scorching all the fire touches? easy, ill have it tomorrow
want one person to take off a jacket and hand it to someone else, who puts in it? are u insane there goes our budget
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yo this sucks actually?
people not being able to add me on discord without me telling them the discriminator was a feature not a bug
so now i either get to allow impersonators, or pick a random unguessable name and have to override it constantly
truly incredible work 👍
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i forget which company it was but one company shut down a few years ago and a bunch of folks all decided to pretend they worked there which was unverifiable and listed each other as references, invented an entire business unit
baller
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respecting furries as a tech worker is like respecting the ocean as a sailor
you will prefer their benevolence to their ire, make a priority of not earning it
I'm floored that I'm feeling compelled to write this. Maybe some folks don't realize this?
Furries. The community everyone loves to rag on... they're a major player at tech orgs.
Let me start by saying I'm not a furry, and personally I don't get the scene... but I respect 'em
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the CIA couldnt make me post something this embarrassingly clueless under threat of torture and you just typed it of your own free will. incredible
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over the course of the week i got supportive messages from everyone in my team, my team lead, the engineering director and the studio head
everyone responded positively and most importantly the people with power and responsibility asked questions
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good lord this is upsetting and it will sell like hotcakes
great concept, good work
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<white guy who doesn't have a passport lecturing hideki kamiya on japanese culture> WELL ACKSHULLY
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<guy working to make trans people’s lives unliveable> this is trans people’s fault
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how does it feel to know that this thread detailing how little you know about game development is the only thing you’ll ever make that anyone paid attention to
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hey champ just so you know, men often react really poorly to women asserting boundaries and its not unusual for them to abuse attack harass stalk or try to kill us
sucks your fee-fees got hurt tho
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he realized he can't trust either of you
unfortunate. kid deserved better parents
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my laptop died that week, i needed a replacement urgently because i was traveling to dublin for the MW2 launch, and the eng director had not realized that Gender had happened and while lighting a fire under IT to get it swapped had referred to me the Old Way and later apologized
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engineering director also asked if i'd like to retro the process of swapping everything over with him, which i did, so we could write processes for 'how to handle a transition' for the studio. he was invested in helping all future transitions go better for the people having them
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but i know now, and the things about myself that i'd buried and locked away all came flooding back. for the first time in my life, i don't feel like i'm performing every second i'm awake. i feel like a real person, and that is priceless
happy pride. be yourself. save yourself.
ALT photo of tattoo on my right arm 'save yourself'
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we'd taken some team photos right before my break and my boss happily let me photoshop myself out of them and reposted them in place. some systems were more difficult to update the names of because they were tied to alternate authentication but my TL helped with that
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just one of those days
ALT simpsons barts classmates: "say the line, senior developer" bart, sad: "it depends" they cheer
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this all should have been a terrifying experience but it kind of just ... wasn't? i was afraid for my relationship (it survived, turns out she GAY). i was afraid for what this meant for my future and how much suffering i was going to go through, but work? work was fucking TRIVIAL
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like the rest of my time on COD, everything about this experience was positive. they had spent so much time building trust in the team and the org that when it came time to depend on them i had no hesitation because i felt safe
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i get that i am very loud and very annoying and that with my seniority and ease of other opportunities, that affords me certain protections and safety to do such things
but you all need to get on board this train. we all need to revolt against people like this, every time
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thats a funny way of saying 'no-one trusted me enough to tell me'
sorry you had no friends tho
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the more i talk to, genuinely engage with, and ask questions of people that are mad about gaming journalists the more i come to understand that all of their complaints are rhetoric drummed up by outrage-baiting, and have no basis in reality
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the Venn diagram of 'bosses i had who acted like they owned their employees and treated us like shit' and 'bosses who were loud about their support of controlling women's bodies' is a circle
attitudes of controlling others are deep and pervasive
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i'd never put much work into staying alive before this because i really just didn't care what happened to me. that freedom from the emotional impact of consequences allowed me to achieve a lot but life is better now
it is strange to feel attached to my life, to want more of it
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if i'd been fired i had several other companies hovering in the wings, but that is why it is on senior staff to dig their heels in
juniors will not feel safe doing that until their leaders do it first
we may not have unions but we do have power if we work together
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this is how music cds worked, it's how dvds worked, and it's how physical games worked
you don't own the games or movies on your physical media either. you own a disc containing licensed content
the only difference is that a physically-granted license can't be revoked remotely
Steam now shows customers they are buying a license for a game, not the product
Gamers don’t own their games :/
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see also: every single 'this is life under socialism' post that is actually life under capitalism
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transitioning is an awful, amazing experience. lasers burned my skin for hours, every week i have electrified needles stuck in my face, second puberty from hormones was even wilder than the first. learning how to dress, how to do makeup, how to navigate the legal/medical systems
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naw, this sucks. selling out your colleagues for attention from nerds who want to believe in rivalries is bad actually
if you can't promote your game without shitting on other developers you suck at promoting
Dude got on SGF stage, Called COD mid and said he wishes Titanfall 3 was a thing while wearing that hat then walked off.
What a legend.
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story time: the launch of Dauntless (2019) was the most difficult launch of my career
we planned for 260k ccu peak (players online). during open beta (2018), we'd hit 65k with some wrangling
it fell over at 10k ccu. took 3 weeks of 15 hour days 7 days a week to get it stable
Yes! Good idea, I will sit behind the engineers and ask them "are we there yet?".
Or... I could let the engineers work independently, towards our common goal without me as the CEO pestering them at every moment.
I wonder which one will work best? 🤔
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im struggling to wrap my head around the argument that making art is good but loving art is bad. this is mental
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a context-collapse attack is one in which an attacker misrepresents a post containing keywords as bigotry, and uses the resulting fallout to drive traffic out of context. successful context-collapser attackers usually hide behind identity or account size to avoid criticism
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thought experiment: mentally evaluate whether or not you'd do a show with increasingly worse people. start with 'milquetoast rando' go all the way up to 'nick fuentes'
if there's a point at which you say no because of who they are, then this line of argument is invalidated
We talked about the game because he's become a flashpoint of a drama around it due to another creator disparaging it. If I didn't talk to him about the issue live then there would be no voice in the room about how good the game is.
Hate me if you want but this is silly.
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- while the presence of rug-pulls is common, you will also get goalpost-moved by 'but scamming is old'. focus on how NFTs make that scam *easy* instead
- go hard on 'they require infinite expansion because ponzi scheme, and someone is always left holding the worthless bag'
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controlling the narrative
ALT Someone at an old job asked why I wanted to write up the meeting minutes for our team and I said 'i wanna control the narrative' and they were like 'what' and I pointed out that no one was gonna remember what we said in six months and so my interpretation of the meeting would dictate the assumed reality of what happened "none of you ever send corrections when I offer the draft so y'all have consented to my version" "we don't read that shit" "you must trust me implicitly to create our shared reality that's so sweet" That's how several coworkers decided I was a supervillain and how I learned several coworkers didn't understand record keeping as like a CONCEPT
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i have never in my entire career seen anyone pressure a developer to make a character more queer or less white
i have, however, seen many instances of developers being forced to change their characters to be straight and/or white
you could start a list on league alone
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being able to experience true joy is worth any price, and the cost - tens of thousands of dollars, constant harassment online, ongoing hours of intense pain, and all the other things that happen when your hormones invert - is happily paid
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i wish i'd known earlier. looking back, i knew when i was a small child. i didn't have the vocabulary for what i was experiencing. i didn't know that trans was a thing you could be. i try not to wonder what my life could have looked like if i'd had proper education on it
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it was like ten years ago and i still think about it from time to time. i never saw her again but damn did she leave a mark
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once again economists prove they are just doing coke and throwing numbers at a wall and seeing what sticks
finance.yahoo.com/news/4-mil…
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ask the loud annoying question in the all hands
make it short, direct, to the point, and leave no room for waffling in response. make it sharp, direct, and do it with clarity and without anger so they can't attack your delivery
they won't answer, but everyone will see it
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no shade to kami but this is a perfect illustration of what many gamers think of design as: knowing which mechanics are good (and which are bad)
as if you just collect all the good ones and a good game falls out
but any mechanic is only as good for the context it occurs in
The parry system in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is such a genius addition.
I want this in every turn based game from now on.
Persona 6 better step it up (if it ever comes out).
#ClairObscurExpedition33
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can you explain why the joke needed an extremely graphic description of male-male sex complete with fluids
because that seems like he added it for fun
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you know it's gonna be a bad take when the bio starts with Father but this was next level
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the bodycam game is technically and artistically very impressive but personally i've seen enough bodycam footage of cops murdering people, i'd rather not see anymore
god, why couldn't it have been a dayz type survival. or a horror game. nope, had to be cops. fuck
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- also go hard on the fact that logically it never makes any sense for any game to use them. the only way for any game to not totally fuck themselves over is to allow zero interoperability, at which point there is no point being an NFT and could just be a marketplace
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IMPORTANT SOCIAL TIPS:
if a post of yours starts blowing up badly and making people angry: go private immediately. do not attempt to explain yourself
do not post through it. it will accelerate faster than you can deal with. nope that shit the fuck out of people's hands
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early in my career, an engineering manager doing things like this caused discussions that lead to him and his entire team quitting on the same day, and going to a new company
they all got offered $30-50k more to stay and they all said no
soli-fucking-darity 💪💪💪
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how are you so bad at donuts. is your car busted or do you just not know how to drive
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