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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • Insomniac, the dev team behind the wildly successful Spider-Man games just had a leak. In the leak, it’s discovered that they were strong-armed by Sony (who owns Insomniac) to downsize staff despite exceeding sales targets and hitting goals. They needed to downsize to help balance Sony’s books, who have acquired a slew of failing or underperforming studios.

    Sony owns Studio A, and Studio B. Studio B have underperformed for the last few years, whilst Studio A has outperformed their targets. Because of the shortcomings in Studio B, Sony are now out of pocket, even accounting for the earnings of Studio A. Studio A are forced to eliminate staff roles to make up for Studio B’s mismanagement. A well oiled and well performing Studio have to butcher their teams to balance their parent entity’s books. It’s so fucking short sighted and stupid.

    This isn’t just a Sony/Insomniac issue either, I guarantee this goes on throughout the industry whenever there’s a parent company. It’s just how it will always be in those circumstances.







  • Break the task down into bitesize chunks and then just do the first one. The dopamine hit from completing the first part will help your executive dysfunction.

    Example (do the dishes):

    1. Move dishes out of the sink
    2. Fill sink with hot water and soap
    3. Wash one plate
    4. Wash one set of cutlery that goes with the plate

    Once you do 1, you’d be surprised at how easy 2 is, then 3, then 4 and then the rest of them.

    It’s a skill, so it’s not something you can just click your fingers and do, so work on it, and develop the skill over time. It’s tough, but doable






  • Welsh here. Not everyone speaks it, but that’s because the English (even as late at the 1950’s) used the school system to literally beat it out of us (look up the Welsh Not). Even with that concerted effort to force the language out, it’s growing again after a few generations have passed. Being from the south, I know relatively few people who speak it fluently, but I know exactly 0 people who would actually want it abolished.









  • It’s a different ‘feel’ - a souls world is supposed to be lifeless so it’s designed purposefully to be that way; desolate and lonely.

    Open world games that compare their world to say Elden Ring for example are missing the point; their worlds aren’t ‘supposed’ to be lifeless so the entire game structure doesn’t support that loneliness, whereas Elden Ring is and does.