Darcy Sandall
@darcysandall.bsky.social
Lead Audio Engineer @ Sledgehammer Games Makes Call of Duty Opinions are my own
When I say I'm an audio engineer I don't mean I do audio recording and mixing, I mean that I had to learn how wav file data is structured so I can write a custom parser to get the one little bit of data I need without having to sift through the entire file.
Not only has Will's partner been forced to return to Australia as well, but their two dogs have been left stranded in Edinburgh for several months. Tragically, their older dog's health has since deteriorated. She will no longer be able to make it back to Melbourne to be reunited with her family.
With what R*'s did, it's so easy to just think about GTA6 and not the real human cost that comes when people lose their jobs unfairly and have their entire lives uprooted. Huge props to everyone who put themselves forward and on camera for this, especially @willmesilane.com
Chris Bratt@chrisbratt.bsky.social · 2w agoBack in October, Rockstar Games fired 34 employees for alleged gross misconduct. The severity of these firings could have spelled the end for a burgeoning union effort that was underway, but it didn't. In fact, the union is now *bigger* than it's ever been before. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym4z...
In October last year I was fired by Rockstar Games in what we believe was a union busting move. We lost our home. We lost 2 jobs with my partner being forced to resign. We lost a community. Most importantly however we had to leave our two dogs behind, one of which will never return.
Chris Bratt@chrisbratt.bsky.social · 2w agoBack in October, Rockstar Games fired 34 employees for alleged gross misconduct. The severity of these firings could have spelled the end for a burgeoning union effort that was underway, but it didn't. In fact, the union is now *bigger* than it's ever been before. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym4z...
His wife, Yésica Alamilla López, “revealed to the paper that she had only come to learn of her husband’s death while watching television.”
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2w agoNEW INFO HAS REVEALED that the 28-year-old Mexican man killed while running from ICE last week was just visiting on short tourist visa—and already had a plane ticket to go home. newrepublic.com/post/213277/...
They should do what Aussie Rules does at halftime which is send out little kids and get them go attempt to play football
Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea@rebeccafernandez.bsky.social · 2w agoI really hope halftime show remains a US world cup anomaly and this doesn't infect future tournaments.
The police in the U.K. last night were not able to keep up with the 999 calls after women were battered by their drunk boyfriends and husbands. Children too. Because England lost a football game. You fucking weak ass fragile pieces of shit. You over emotional child men cnuts.
The only memory I have of my grandfather is him dying of lung cancer from smoking. Its killed his youngest child/my uncle too. There's no way cigarettes are worth it.
Olivia Hill@machineiv.bsky.social · 3w agoI genuinely hate the push to make smoking a thing again. I have watched so many drawn out, ugly, painful deaths from smoking. It makes everything disgusting. It enslaves us to the worst kinds of corporations. There’s ZERO positive here.
FOOTY FOOTY FOOTY 🏉 Watch the new trailer for PRO JANK FOOTY, animated by Smiling Friends co-creator Michael Cusack. Play it this August 12 on Steam, PS5, Xbox, and Switch 2. 🏆 Wishlist on Steam now: bit.ly/455PGgP
Some photographs from the 'Save Our Devs' rallies in Rockville, Montreal, Dallas, Austin, and Redmond—held yesterday in protest of the latest mass layoffs at Xbox. I'm told by a union organiser that over 150 employees turned out in Rockville alone.
We're out here in the heat and rain! ✊ #SaveOurDevs
United Videogame Workers-CWA@videogameworkers.bsky.social · 4w agoThe bosses are stealing our game industry, and we aim to take it back! We’re calling game workers, allies, and fans alike to join emergency rallies on WEDNESDAY, JULY 15th! Check this thread for times and locations as they’re established: 🧵
This is just going to end with me going for France isn't it? Anyway 🥖🥐🧀
Darcy Sandall@darcysandall.bsky.social · last mo.My allegences have changed
Someone asked if I was going for England now that Australia was out of the world cup and respectively
Fan Mexicano Animando con Sombrero
Alt: Vamos Mexico
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we are one day away from the funniest VAR offsides graphic ever
Polymarket@polymarket.extwitter.link · last mo.BREAKING: England players are reportedly permitted to use Viagra to help manage World Cup altitude conditions in Mexico City.
Well at least I don't have to be awake at 2am to watch Australia get their asses handed to them by Argentina
I gotta say regardless of how you feel about AI, AI companies getting other businesses to completely reshape their entire operations around AI, then hiking the prices is a genius diabolical move. But also, how did those businesses not see it coming? Like, no shit they were going to do that.
If you live in Aotearoa NZ please make a parliamentary submission to throw the Conservation Amendment Bill in the fucking bin! And if you're a European who has told me how much you love NZ, or would love to visit, pls share this around. www3.parliament.nz/en/ECommitte...
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Nick Young@nickofnz.bsky.social · last mo.Wow. When you zoom in you get a real feeling for what is now at risk. New map highlights mining threat associated with controversial Conservation Amendment Bill www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...
I go on holiday for one month and this is what they do
DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · last mo.First look at Nicolas Cage in ‘CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS 7’.
"Game dev is one of those jobs you only do when you really want to. It's not going to make your parents proud, you're unlikely to get rich in an industry that lays off people for making superhits, and its a demanding & confrontative job. Why would you let a machine do the thing you're here to do?"
Austin Wood@woodwould.bsky.social · 2mo agoI spent the last few months talking to over 30 game developers about generative AI. It began as a sort of interview survey but became a pretty comprehensive collection of arguments against the technology altogether. www.gamesradar.com/games/why-so...
BREAKING: Several Xbox studios, including Compulsion, Ninja Theory and Double Fine, are negotiating with Xbox as they try to avoid closure. Some or all could spin off. Lots still in flux as many studios remain unsure about what's happening. Here's the latest: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Studios in Microsoft’s Xbox Division Brace for Closures
The studios, which include Compulsion Games and Double Fine, are in active negotiations with Xbox and may be given the chance to go independent.
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There is a direct connection between Musk becoming a trillionaire and your current financial precarity. Every dollar he makes that he can’t possibly spend is effectively a dollar that ceases to exist: a dollar out of the economy, out of your pocket. He gets richer at all the world’s expense.
