yeah this has roughly always been my stance, for all media. below the mainstream world is always a teeming, writing gestalt of low budget mass media, underground transgression, and amateur work which is almost always more compelling than whatever's popular. impossible to circumvent this ecosystem

no

I like my current job for similar reasons - really good balance and teammates - but I refuse to announce where I currently work on social media for obvious reasons

optimising every part of existence through algorithms and profit maximization is turning culture into a fucking grey tasteless slurry. its how we ended up with mr beast thumbnails: no human would do that unprompted

One thing that I think is useful for recognizing how this is used (for those who don't have AAA day jobs like you or I) is to think of it in archaeological terms. The feature is the dig, and anything you might find on the dig is an artifact.

Deliverable is something different. All deliverables are artifacts but not all artifacts are deliverables

Yes. It means any paper trail. Documentation, bug, or even a build; anything which provides context on the feature.

It's literally so good

Quake for me

This is not a process video and there's a lot of weird discrepancies that point to it being touched-up/traced AI

ohhhh the shibari wheel....