Greg Ruddick

@pearli.to

senior sysadmin. sometimes gamedev (ex-Bethesda). drum & pc builder. metal (death / prog / Meshuggah). mtg. horror. dad. husband. fluent in spanglish. leftist. he / him. Bmore -> Bgor.

If a team makes a game that gets great reviews and doesn't sell, that's a biz failing but the silver lining is you caught lighting in a bottle -- protect that team! It's worth its weight in gold. If you jettison the team but keep the biz people, I don't know what to tell you

The Bethesda Softworks / ZeniMax I worked for ceased to exist in March 2021 when Microsoft bought them. That Bethesda never would have let go of the 15+ year irreplaceable developers Microsoft let go of today. Incredibly disappointed.

Yearly reminder that if you’re not feeling patriotic today, it’s my daughter Winnie’s birthday and you’re cordially invited to celebrate Windependence Day.

Bunch of dudes complaining *Deborah Ann Woll* isn’t attractive enough. Amazing Sony picked Pride Month to force so many nerds out of the closet.

The people in comments pretending Stephen Colbert is not a generationally talented comedian are delusional. That dude has almost never missed in his life.

Mixtape is extremely good and has S+ tier vibes and soundtrack. As a bonus you get to see Gamers™️ melt down in reviews of it.

F.E.A.R. is a horror game that features a helicopter crash and ends with an underground laboratory. Therefore, F.E.A.R. is a Resident Evil game. In this essay I will