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ethers.elixirs 🏳️‍⚧️ @eviemae.ink · 12h

lmao, the irony

“All I can say is that the irony was not lost on us when we were in the middle of making the first game. Railing against corporate power and all this stuff — and we were bought by Microsoft!” Boyarsky says. “But we’ve only had support from them. They liked what we were doing with the first Outer Worlds, and they support us making this game. We’ve had absolutely no pushback or messages from on high telling us don’t do this, or make sure you do this.”

While it may be true that Microsoft has not interfered with Obsidian’s creative processes on The Outer Worlds 2, the company certainly had preferences on how the leads at the studio discussed it. The game, with Boyarsky’s interests in exploring the plight of what happens to those who aren’t in power when people with base interests come into power, seemed particularly relevant to Microsoft’s business entanglements with the Israeli Ministry of Defense.

Before we get further, a Microsoft rep interrupts to note that the company’s latest statements on the matter can be found online, and that they wanted to keep the conversation with Obsidian “focused on the game.”

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🦀 @himetya105.bsky.social · 8d

ユカリさま🦋

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Quasimodox @quasimodox.bsky.social · 14h

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The Verge @theverge.com · 15h

A massive Microsoft Azure outage is taking down Xbox and 365

Last week it was AWS, this week it’s Azure.

buff.ly

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Ezium @ezium.bsky.social · 1d

I drew Baiken because I like her
#GUILTYGEAR #GuiltyGearStrive #fanart #digitalart

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Shinobi602 @shinobi602.bsky.social · 1d

Loulan: The Cursed Sand | Announce Trailer

▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX46...

▪️Isometric action-RPG coming to PS5/PC
▪️PlayStation China Hero Project
▪️Made by ChillyRoom, core team of vets from Santa Monica Studio, FromSoftware, PlatinumGames
▪️Fight in "Bone" and "Sand" Forms, colossal bosses etc

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ToxicStarr [Commissions Open] @toxicstarr.bsky.social · 22d

Marvel Rivals
Psylocke!

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Marin M. Miller @marinmmiller.com · Jun 13

I'm one of the few non-binary voice actors who has vocally transitioned while recording.

Here's an example of a role I worked before and during puberty: Enkidu from the FATE series.

I've also authored trans-centric speech therapy curriculum alongside trans Speech Language Pathologists.

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Underpalewater @underpalewater.bsky.social · 14h

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Mobilegamer.biz @mobilegamerbiz.bsky.social · 14h

From today, Google can no longer restrict the use of alternative payment systems in the US Play store, or force developers to use Google Play Billing: mobilegamer.biz/another-epic...

Another Epic win as Google opens up the US Play store

A US court ruling that means the tech giant must allow direct-to-consumer payments comes into effect today.

mobilegamer.biz

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魚料理 @fate990214sky.bsky.social · 17h

ザビBB

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Corarima @corarima.bsky.social · 1d

Daily 30 minute sketch: Arukenimon

#Digimon #rkgk

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kentrix11.bsky.social @kentrix11.bsky.social · 16h

90% of the deeply mentally ill people I follow moved here so luckily I didn't run into this issue.

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endr || absolute most irrelevant person you ever met @thatoneender.itch.io · 1d

following a handful of tech blogs is really awesome because what is generally considered one of the best writers on anything AI right now (and the ways all of it is bs) posts a fucking jojo part 5 video everytime they got an insane scoop

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

Next week I will have my biggest story yet

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24/7 Laptop Ōkamization @ator.bsky.social · 4d

happy 89th bday to the goat of voice acting nozawa masako

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kentrix11.bsky.social @kentrix11.bsky.social · 17h

Oh lmao never mind then.

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kentrix11.bsky.social @kentrix11.bsky.social · 17h

Not en excuse but DMC got a boost from the netflix anime that did pushed it's sales for a good million or smt IIRC.

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a cracked wooden man @woodenman.bsky.social · 1d

la cocaína anuncia que hará colabo con la heroína

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 1d

Vampire Survivors: Ante Chamber | Free Balatro Collab | out now www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB0b...

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Clement @clementj64.bsky.social · 1d

An edit of Big Damo's tweet, replacing the word "Wrestlers with Youtubers"

"Some YOUTUBERS are just fuckin stupid i don't know what to tell you"

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kentrix11.bsky.social @kentrix11.bsky.social · 17h

Iirc they did add frame gen and TAA to the game so it still melts, I guess that tech is just poison until they really figure it out.

Now I'm just worried most current gen engines will be this even outside UE5.

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katotonic @katotonic.bsky.social · 18h

puppy #bloodborne

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kentrix11.bsky.social @kentrix11.bsky.social · 18h

Maybe if games came out done and didn't have all this tech to up fidelity in ways normal people can't even perceive at the cost of running bad, costing more to the consumer and having weird visual artifacts, maybe then you would still sell well.

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kentrix11.bsky.social @kentrix11.bsky.social · 18h

At some point people have to look at the old games that still look great, run right, have more content and are way cheaper and go "yeah maybe that's better than this".

Saved You A Click Video Games @syacvg.bsky.social · 18h

Monster Hunter Wilds sold more than 10 million copies, but sales stagnated after that, to the point where it got outsold by multiple major Capcom games during Q2.

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 1d

reading about this man and my scream rising to a higher and higher pitch

Ethan Evans went from being fired twice for poor soft skills to becoming a Vice President at Amazon, leading a team of over 800 engineers.

Former Amazon VP Ethan Evans revealed that a CEO he worked for seduced his wife in retaliation for professional disagreements, resulting in his divorce and departure from the company.

After the crisis
Lesson 4: Own the problem

My direct report volunteered to take the fall. The engineer who wrote some of the code did the same. My manager also sought to take overall responsibility. Ultimately, Bezos knew it was my team and code, meaning I had to own the problem.

Amazon has a process called COE (correction of errors), which involves a written investigation of a problem's root causes and a plan to prevent similar problems. I wrote this report and was asked to share it with all my peers in the organization. Publicly sharing an analysis of our mistakes was embarrassing, but doing a good job of it helped me reestablish trust in my leadership ability.

The week after the launch, I was scheduled to attend a meeting with Bezos about another project. I considered skipping it, but I decided that if I couldn't face Bezos, I should probably pack my desk and find a new place to work.

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ワダアルコ @wadarco.bsky.social · 20h

キングエリちゃんもよろしくおねがいします～

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