sisi jiang

@six6jiang.bsky.social

they/them/他 senior games writer // former hoyoverse scriptwriter // ex-kotaku reporter // 3x award nominated game developer // forbes 30u30 // midautumn game is my baby

it’s really annoying when linkedin bros try to rationalize the layoffs in terms of who failed to do their jobs or stay competitive instead of just being honest about the fact that it’s AI. all the investment money that normally pays for gaming jobs is going to fund AI.

it’s so funny that everyone oversold the communism in disco elysium bc it was taboo, like seeing bare nipples in a video game. meanwhile what disco elysium has to say about masculinity is so much more interesting than anything it has to say about communism.

the governor of new york forgets that one of the stabbing victims is asian and then the guy who is representing two chinatowns in congress soon thinks the asian stabbing is less likely to be a hate crime 🥴 this is why so many asian communities are pro-cop despite misdiagnosing the solution.

being laid off kind of killed the vibe for a little bit but now i’m thinking about rebooting an old project. the only problem is that i know i’ll have to finish it in one sitting. i think disco elysium reconnected some old wires in my brain.

disco elysium is at its absolute best when it turns random counterculture teenagers into the best philosophers of their era. god, i managed to exhaust all of noid’s dialogue options.

it’s concerning what “anti proship” is doing to fandom culture. back in my day if we saw that shit we would just scroll and move on but now fans have to make a callout post for anyone who deviates from what teens think is pure and wholesome. how dare you enjoy things that help you process trauma.

i have a lot of probably very late thoughts about how, as a player with probably left of center politics (this is a text based rpg), it’s much easier to lean into the law and order ideology that kim represents when harry is an alcoholic hooligan who is actively sabotaged by how little he remembers

the funniest thing about american maoists opposing aoc is that the actual chinese communists allied with the warlord who was killing thousands of communists a week in order to avoid total annihilation by the japanese army. see how that turned out for them. but the libs are a bridge too far!

the new patch in hsr is pretty good but it will devastate u if u think of himeko’s backstory as a transgender arc she was never meant to become [spoiler] but she ended up becoming [spoiler] so convincingly that she even fooled asad pramad