gabriel wren
@snaildream.bsky.social
GABE trans ideologue laid off games industry worker i write about games and sometimes i even like them now in freelance! https://installgabe.com/ https://linktr.ee/focusdog
Insurance denied my claim and now I have to pay 300 gil for a Hi-Potion.
REALLY excited about the Resident Evil movie. Hopefully it's just as amazing as they've always been.
It's weird how TV gets seared into your brain. I think about the JG Wentworth viking commercial way too frequently.
Love listening to Philip Morris ads for smokeless tobacco on NY Times podcasts.
For @aftermath.site's Hater Week, I wrote about how deeply I hate Adobe aftermath.site/i-hate-adobe/
I Hate Adobe
Adobe is a wretched, exploitative company that loves generative AI. Many are coerced into paying money for their software and the software runs like garbage.
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Zero Parades has some of the best writing in games. Constantly astounded.
Taking my T-shot so I can finally be man enough to join the army
Regarding MSFT: A day or two before I was laid off (with 9000 others), we had an all hands where upper mgmt was saying that we were doing amaaaazing money-wise.
A fresh report has shed light on what played out behind the scenes last week as Microsoft laid off around 1600 people and parted ways with a number of studios. https://bit.ly/3RA4LEi
What Microsoft did to id Software this week was a tragedy -- a failure to safeguard the lives of its workers. But it was also a telling failure of vision to have *that* legacy in your hands and to discard it like so much nothing
How do you put a price tag on a legacy like id Software's?
If Xbox can't find the value in owning the beating heart of the first-person shooter, perhaps it shouldn't be in the videogame business at all.
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The Shinra Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has stopped monitoring the status effect that turns you into a frog.
I think the greatest thing my MFA gave me was the time to work and then the tools to KEEP working after the program, regardless of whether I get paid to do it
First Orioles game ever: got a free jersey, one beer was like $70, feeling a lot of Baltimore pride, priceless? The Oriole running around with the pride flag was pretty fun.
If a ton of people didn't lose their jobs, this would be funny
Polygon@polygon.com · last mo.Even after laying off hundreds of Bungie developers, PlayStation still wants to keep making live service games
Meta asked for a video of my face to prove my identity? Absolutely not.
Been unemployed for roughly a year at this point—thanks MSFT!
Read the full blog where we go more in depth with the flaws of the KIDS Act: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2.... (10/10)
The KIDS Act Would Require Age Checks To Get Online
Within the next week, Congress is preparing to vote on the KIDS Act, a sprawling package of legislation that seeks to control Americans’ web browsing and private messaging. The package includes a
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Photoshop fucking sucks on iPad, Fresco works but not with most photoshop brushes, Affinity is owned by canva now and my entire illustration process is fucked because of this. Sick of AI tools in photoshop, grossed out by the new Affinity. Fuck.