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no idea where i was going with this but i abandoned it at the most disconcerting moment possible

#one of these things is not like the other #anyways it's my low-key dream #for google to lose their trademark #it won't happen BUT #fuck it'd be funny if it did

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thinking about them a normal amount

#well hello #Hades 2

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Huh. Hopefully no one saw that. Jammed on my back button on mobile just trying to close the app and it was going "back" forever and somehow spam reblogged the thing I reblogged last?

#personal

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one time a guy i know whose girlfriend was heavily pregnant didn’t tweet anything for a whole day so i texted him ‘congrats on your baby’ and made him think i had some kind of baby precognition 

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->

#holy shit #Hades

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Maaaan. I'm so sick of dunmeshi spoilers on my dash. That would've been a great moment to see unspoiled.

#personal

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Job Title: ENTRY LEVEL TECHNICIAN FOR DUM-DUMS. JOB FOR STUPID FUCKING BITCHES

Requirements: Masters Degree in Engineering (PhD Preferred), TEM, SAED, FUCKYOURSELF and EDX, Flexible work hours, Type O- blood, Five Years Experience

Compensation: $15.00 an hour

#yo I got the SAED can I apply? #got that Super Amped Elemental Discharge on lockdown

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REBLOG if you are old enough to remember what a VCR is.

#this was 11 years ago :) #in a show I just watched #they were treated like ancient artifacts #that no one would know how to use #except thw main char had a niche interest so it was fine #ngl I was offended #and the show was aggresively mid so

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Tango were so confident in Hi-Fi Rush that they released it on the same day they announced it; hotdropped it out of nowhere with nothing but a single trailer saying "THIS IS OUR COOL NEW RHYTHM-ACTION GAME IT'S OUT NOW!" and it actually worked. People loved it, it was popular, it wasn't an AAA game but it looked gorgeous and was a complete and polished experience, just an all-around triumph for the devs at Tango Gameworks.

I cannot overemphasize how crazy that is. If you're an indie game launching on Steam (meaning you're operating on a lower budget than most games) one of your first goals is to hit 20,000 wishlists before you launch, since that's the magic number that makes the Steam algo start showing your game to people who don't know you exist. You need months of hard work and good luck to make it, and even then you're still praying that the 20k wishlists actually convert to sales (I've worked on projects that hit 20k wishlists, but with a really low conversion rate so the games still 'failed')

An AA game with a hefty budget would need way more than that to make back its money spent. They would have to compete with AAA games hogging all the attention (and the audience's budget), while not having that scrappy indie culture behind them. If they don't sell enough to make their money back + enough for a new game, that studio is toast.

Hi-Fi Rush's team really went for a hotdrop stunt that would instantly kill 90% of other studios outright, somehow pulled it off spectacularly with a completely new IP that couldn't even fall back on brand recognition, and Microsoft STILL closed them down. They had a miracle team and just fired them all.

There's really nothing you can do to survive in this industry anymore

#that first tweet made me go 'You're fucking joking' #and then it somehow got worse #fuck microsoft #fuck corporations

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not to be insensitive but some of the salem witch trials were so funny bitches like “i saw her at the devils sacrament!!!” girl… what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament 👀

#yeah hiero says this all the time

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As with the horse poll, please regard these options as sliders. The extent to which each one deviates from 1/6th of the total will determine the amount that canine aspect deviates from the "average."

I will draw the dog we make. :)

#honestly the snout voters are based #because they refused to allow #a pug type abomination #and I respect them for that

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despite your url, i do not see any dick punching

come closer

#I'm doing my part

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This isn't unique to Japan, it's the same in the UK, so maybe America just sucks actually.

in the japanese suburbs, every street is lined with rain gutters, so even during heavy rain, the streets are perfectly navigable, even on foot. in the american suburbs, there's like one drain every couple of streets, so whenever it storms, the streets turn into rivers

#I'll say the quiet part out loud #actually it's more like the loud part out loud

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the problem with autism is sometimes you want to do something (brave) but you need someone to gently walk you through each step so you know what will happen. and people don’t like doing that

#good post #autism

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obsessed with the april fools day joke from the another crab's treasure devs

#lmfao #the end #ok I have no interest in the game but #these devs go hard

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#maybe the old internet wasn't better after all

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Bouncing off of my tags on that post, but the thing that gets me about a lot of people that tell you they play gachas free to play and it's fine is that I'm pretty sure a lot of them are lying, including to themselves.

They've already justified to themselves the times that they HAVE spent money, they're MOSTLY free to play so it's fine. They're not falling for the predatory microtransactions all of the time, there isn't a problem, with them or the game.

Been there, done that.

All I'm going to say is pay constant close attention to those amounts you're justifying to yourself.

Don't let it hit triple or quadriple digits before it finally clicks.

#and again if you're playing fully free to play #then damn #those games don't respect your time #by design #but you do you