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[@SideScrollersPodcast]

One like = one stop closer to common sense Laura is such a breath of fresh air. Definitely check out her channel: www.youtube.com/@laurafryer6321

[@Valehass]

The same people who claim to be all about inclusion and acceptance are the same people who deliberately set out to antagonise the people they hate, and I use that word purposefully because they are all full of hate.

[@Crazycoyote-we7ey]

We need her and people like her back in gaming development

[@Shadowclaw25]

for future please link the video where its easy to find...i ll be blunt, i didnt care about your opinions that much, and some where pretty childish. Which is kinda weird..on a video talking about childish people. Would be cool if you did that in the future.

[@VampireNoblesse]

hope devs listen to her.., she's being neutral (not calling out any "politics"), but pointing out that managers are very responsible and need to man up ... (but fear, ESG bonuses make some too greedy & purposely blind to some dumb DEI choices..)

[@BrokenControllerClub]

Marketing departments, middle-management, HR, and corporate executives are in my opinion the worst things to happen to businesses.

[@npckse8508]

I mean it feels like the last few independent companies, such as Larian, are the hope for the future. I love Obsidian and hope that they can get back on track and just make cool RPGs.

[@nyomanbandarayani6830]

Nah, Larian will be the next Naughty Dog if they keep woke in Baldur Gate 3 and put it to other IP

[@NormanReaddis]

I work closely with marketing and HR. Both are always aiming for maximizing profits by appealing to all forms of people as much as possible while HR focus more on utilizing every ounce of skill workers have. They only care for the upper class praising them.

[@ToeCutter0]

Roger that! HR regularly has NO IDEA how their businesses run, but add another layer of mgmt to already top heavy mgmt stacks.

[@Orpheus063]

ESG GLOBALISTSSSS PLS STOP BEING IGNORANT THEY DONT NEED YOUR MONEY THEY DONT HAVE TO MARKET THEY GET THEIR PROJECTS PAID FOR BLACK BUDGET ECONOMY GO BRRRRRRRRR

[@Bestwick1983]

Swen's speech is the gaming equivalent of Ricky Gervais tearing apart Hollywood at the Golden Globes while the guilty parties nod and clap along.

[@JohnWood-w9n]

Yup

[@yipperdeyip]

The oracle is some kind of bigot apparently! - some 🤡

[@mr.melancholy4973]

Not only activists but corporate interference and greed have destroyed the industry too. Anytime something gets big it attracts the worst people.

[@bjcantrell1990]

Thank you. Too many people act like those 2 problems are mutually exclusive.

[@xLeeroycranex]

It's an unholy union. It ensures trash at the top and trash spread all over the places 'normal people' work at. It means the whole tree is rotten and needs to be uprooted

[@odindarkll3706]

We're witnessing this RN with the MSM attacking Marvel Rivals.

[@mattm7798]

Which was in some ways inevitable. Game budgets have ballooned out of control with hardware able to push the limits of graphics. With the NES or Genesis, you could legit have a small team put out a "AAA" game. Not any more, and with bigger budgets, come bigger risks, and the Ubisoft formula of releasing the same game again and again to avoid taking risks.

[@CincyRaz]

Laura is a rockstar and her videos need more exposure. This helps that. GG.

[@nyomanbandarayani6830]

time for Asmon's effect?

[@Mr.PR2000]

@@nyomanbandarayani6830I’m surprised Asmond hasn’t reacted yet.

[@jordanmoir1076]

So gate keeping was needed

[@Crazycoyote-we7ey]

We had it to keep Senator Joe Liberman from banning video games We won after he died Now we need to again and kick out those social political parties

[@blowmonkey51]

Always was needed in a nerds hobby made by nerds for nerds

[@Terralventhe]

​@Crazycoyote-we7ey We were always so busy fighting the radical right wing conservatives, we didn't notice that as the right became less radical and unhinged that the left started to become "the new right wing" until it was too late.

[@Starkid4590]

It's funny how Craig mentions that this woke stuff is everywhere and he is correct. It's in our schools in our businesses where we work that our cereal that we eat in the morning.

[@Bestwick1983]

And even if you have no real problem with the basic message, how it's delivered and how pervasive it is now in EVERYTHING is enough to drive any normal person over the edge.

[@jsharp9735]

@@Bestwick1983 The message is just a superficial shell to a rotten core.

[@npckse8508]

I think it probably had a massive impact in terms of the US election last month. I think that eventually the dog realizes that they wag the tail, not the tail wagging the dog. I am heartened to see folks actually fight the culture war instead of just not caring which was the traditional response. I think these small handful of crazies could end up tanking the entire industry for a while. I Just don't understand not marketing a game towards the largest percentage of the fanbase that you can.

[@nyomanbandarayani6830]

they're in a children book in the library too

[@UndertakerU2ber]

@@npckse8508 "I Just don't understand not marketing a game towards the largest percentage of the fanbase that you can." It's because the workers don't care about profits. They're Marxists, both culturally and economically. Also, it's not their personal money they'd be wasting; it's the company's, and they feel entitled to use the company to platform their ideology even if it means driving the company into bankruptcy. As for the company owners or board of directors, many of them are lied to about how poor sales was due to "racism" (or whatever) and that sales will improve as time goes on as the country becomes more progressive. They make empty promises about how injecting rainbow propaganda into their products will pay off in the long run, and keep wasting money on garbage products that no one wants to buy. And y'know what? This may have to do with Chinese/Russian influence, as it appears that both countries have been waging an ideological warfare against the West for the past few decades by exploiting the education system's openness. Just as the Soviets claimed that genetics were a "social construct", the woke mob here claims that gender is a "social construct." Things start to make sense once you compare communist ideology in Russia and China to the far left here in the west, and it's no surprise that the same far left overwhelmingly supports "socialism" to varying degrees.

[@Azuris190]

I am gladful we have someone like her speaking out

[@SeventhheavenDK]

I am glad other KZbinrs are giving more exposure to her words

[@GFlight.916]

Bruh

[@PronounsR4Pussys]

Thank heavens!

[@iamyashraj]

Save her at all cost. We need more powerful voices like her

[@zenoguy9218]

I'm sorry, but did you mean "protect her at all costs"? Or is she in actual danger currently? I agree either way but seriously you have me a wee bit concerned here.

[@odindarkll3706]

​@@zenoguy9218 I reckon she's not in danger.

[@zenoguy9218]

@@odindarkll3706 Thank you, stranger.😊

[@zenoguy9218]

@@odindarkll3706 Thank you, stranger.🫡

[@zenoguy9218]

@@odindarkll3706 *[KZbin has removed this reply because it doesn’t like @Roid385 thanking you for your comment.]*

[@madmaxmel]

Incredibly selfish people in the gaming industry, like in the case of Obsidian. You probably have a hundred if not hundreds of teammates, and you want negative attention because you personally hate some millionaire. What does it matter if Elon doesn't buy the game, think about your team and the millions of other potential buyers? Unless your own political opinions are so important that you want to add fuel to the flames, the entire game, at the expense of those who have been making it for years.

[@Terralventhe]

@@madmaxmel That's precisely it. Their political ideology supercedes everything, even basic common sense.

[@jimmythecrow]

has nothing to do with money guys. Its about politics and destroying video games.

[@keanugoldblum6137]

I hate the fact that now days there has to be like 800 people and different departments giving their "input" on creative decisions. Just let people make what they want to make without some made up "sensitivity" worker derailing the entire thing. And this goes for all forms of entertainment. I tend to like TV shows more when there's only 1 or 2 writers instead of an entire room. Or like when pro wrestling was 1 or 2 head guys and now it's an entire room full of "tv writers." That type of thing kills all creativity because there's always somebody to stand up and point out how the internet will be offended. Like who cares??

[@odindarkll3706]

We don't need a hundred people in the writers room. Hollyweird refuses to discern this just like the gaming industry.

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

This goes for all real jobs too, not just entertainment (which doesn’t actually provide a necessary product or service). In real jobs that matter, you have those people making it worse. Tanking morale and making work inefficient. I’ve worked in manufacturing for a decade now. It’s bad. Actually worthless people infect your business like a virus.

[@VectormanOverkill]

Love Laura’s channel. You can tell she loved what she did and has the experience to cut through the bs in modern game development

[@lehran2516]

Mirrors edge did great, then the sequel turned it into an empty open world with Anita consulting on the game.

[@GeovaneSanciniSR]

No. Og mirror's edge didn't sell well. Or the game would have a sequel and not a half assed reboot with the same plot points but poorly made

[@Moeron86]

She has to be the most reasonable and realistic game dev I've ever seen on youtube. Everyone, especially the cultists, need to listen to what she has to say.

[@patrickriarchy6054]

The problem is they wont. They are infantilized adults who throw tantrums when confronted with opposing viewpoints and they currently run everything in modern society.

[@erikwaag6438]

This reminds me of the meme where a CEO asks a team in a boardroom to solve an issue. Two people say crazy/useless things, and one guy says something obvious and helpful. So he is tossed of the window. Laura is too professional. The industry doesn't deserve her.

[@jsharp9735]

Woke makes more sense when you start looking at it as a new age pagan religion.....cause it is.

[@jackbrown1969]

Neo-gnosticism

[@TheMaleRei]

It is a Revolutionary Ideology with an ever-changing paradigm so that no one can "go along to get along" - it requires endless infinite egg-shell walking...

[@odindarkll3706]

The new cuIt.

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

@@jackbrown1969actual Gnosticism is great. These people aren’t gnostic. Since they deny the divinity of Christ. Gnostics are still Christian. They believe in the divinity of Christ. They think the Catholic Church and early church leaders were misguided by malevolence, but Christ is still a divine being.

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

@@jackbrown1969these people despise Christ and anything to do with Christianity.

[@blackfire3744]

The first and last question anyone should ask in the entertainment industry is: "Is this entertaining?"

[@bigjig7086]

Do you know who isn't afraid to say no to these bad apples in the industry.....gamers. That's why these games and studios are failing.

[@Orpheus063]

ESG GLOBALISTSSSS PLS STOP BEING IGNORANT THEY DONT NEED YOUR MONEY THEY DONT HAVE TO MARKET THEY GET THEIR PROJECTS PAID FOR BLACK BUDGET ECONOMY GO BRRRRRRRRR

[@jimmythecrow]

people making games arent gamers.

[@oopus4]

Well spoken Laura. The pendulum is about to swing! :D

[@overtime8392]

"How did a fun hobby get surrounded by so much anger?" Money.

[@Ravix0fFourHorn]

No its rainbow cult proselytism. They have unlimited funding.

[@Orpheus063]

ESG GLOBALISTSSSS PLS STOP BEING IGNORANT THEY DONT NEED YOUR MONEY THEY DONT HAVE TO MARKET THEY GET THEIR PROJECTS PAID FOR BLACK BUDGET ECONOMY GO BRRRRRRRRR

[@oz_jones]

*Tourists

[@ThomasPaine01]

@@Ravix0fFourHorn - Brother really knows what's up.

[@metallboy25]

The companies put a bunch of HR vvomen in charge of their hiring. Then they hired virtue signaling ideological psychos and put them in charge of the creation of said hobby. Thats how.

[@ToeCutter0]

Laura Fryer: Sound advice for the games industry, without the male rage. No one in the gaming industry can question her motives. She is both a game dev and a gamer.

[@alchemystudiosink1894]

Oh they can, and do question her. The current thing they love to say is that "So and So is failed" because of one reason or another. Like Grummz cause he made a game that lasted for a while but eventually died.

[@-Gax-]

​@@alchemystudiosink1894 It's a turn of phrase, You know that. It isn't supposed to be taken literally. You don't need to come and explain it to us. We know people still question her. The point of the saying is to express that you can't disagree with Laura without coming across as deliberately antagonistic, ill-informed or extraordinarily naive. But we genuinely appreciate your input

[@lyianx]

OOohh the professionally offended always make up reasons to be offended or hate. They'll probably say "well shes white" or has been "corrupted" or some other bs.

[@qubeh1203]

she isn't a developer, she's an executive producer.

[@Estmaraver]

I recall how Amy Hennig, of Legacy of Kain and Uncharted fame, said how being a woman never hurt her chances or her voice in the industry. She was promptly pushed out of Naughty Dog before the time Uncharted 4 came out. They are pro-women as long as she is an alleged victim or follows the message. Otherwise they will quickly attack her into submission like an abusive ex.

[@JeTTRod]

They keep saying their latest games aren't meant for me, then they say I need to get used to not owning the games they keep wanting to charge more for, even tho they're released incomplete and with multiple glitches... So I hope they can also get used to me not giving them any of my money for a game that wasn't meant for me, and that I can't own even if I pay them far more than it's worth. They made these rules... I'm just following them..

[@elidasilva5558]

Laura is the best

[@RedSkysAreOnFire]

game companies now make games so that gaming media companies will give them a high score 10/10, gamers don't exist in that equation, the games are not for gamers.

[@Orpheus063]

They don't need your money. BLACK BUDGET ECONOMY GO BRRRRRRRRR

[@ronsandahl274]

The big problem (and the reason that this keeps on happening) is that the money folks funding DEI (Vanguard, BlackRock, State Street, etc.) have also mandated replacing board members and executives with DEI ideologues. And the main two components of DEI are grifting (saying you are doing one thing when you are doing something different) and gaslighting (framing the people who oppose you as something they are not). This ideologue at Obsidian knows that he won't be fired, because DEI people on the board will protect him, and the money corpos funding Obsidian and Microsoft will defend him.

[@MikZran]

She's a better manager than I am, for sure. I always try -- but slightly fail -- at letting personal stuff go.

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

It can be hard. I don’t envy my supervisor that’s for sure. That’s a tough job. I’m much happier just working and not having to deal with leading people.

[@easportssucks4347]

We went from trying not to offend people, to trying to offend people. Spiteful trolls are everywhere in this industry.

[@MrJol420]

17:31 fee fees killed culture. Dude multiculturalism only works AS A SALAD not a SOUP.. like we still need DISTINCT cultures... Liberal nationalism + multiculturalism works if you accept the nationalism part while keeping some respect and protections for indigenous and minorities...but you don't IGNORE or DISMISS the majority of the nation's culture for it.

[@raijinmeister]

Adults are not "adulting" very well nowadays, that's the problem.

[@MissRora]

Physically they may be adults, but mentally, they're still in middle school.

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

Arrested development is the main problem with advancements in technology.

[@ryuno2097]

YT algorithm promoted her channel to my feed out of the blue a few months ago. I watched one of her videos and got hooked with her insight on the behind the scenes of the gaming industry.

[@ShyBiiteVT]

We need more people like Laura in the game industry.

[@JamezGrimm]

15:30 Reminds me of when that studio completely shuttered from social media and interviews and just fixed No Man’s Sky. Today, they’d just attack everyone and call buyers bigots or phobes for not liking their trash.

[@jester_to_lords]

She has a weirdly pleasant voice

[@hochhaul]

A soothing mother-like voice.

[@TechGamerAndHacker]

@@hochhaul i 💯 % ageee

[@heilong79]

Unbelivable that there were whiny snowflakes back then also.

[@TheMaleRei]

Always have been, they just take different shapes depending on the era...

[@mysteryman4915]

People didn’t listen to them then/ they weren’t in positions of power.

[@Segaton]

craaaaazy

[@odindarkll3706]

They never left. Only difference now is that seemingly every studio has both a cuIt and people who are doormats.

[@richardrahl2685]

She's frickin cooking over on her channel. I subscribed like a month ago!🎉🎉💪🏼💥

[@jdcyber6217]

I just subscribed to her channel.

[@davekimball3610]

I loved Mirror's Edge, parkour in a video game. Game was far too short though.

[@npckse8508]

So some of the early buzz I have seen for Avowed is that the game is perfectly fine, but this art director may have either intentionally or unintentionally damaged it with his crazy. I will simply wait and see what folks that play the game have to say and then decide if it focuses on fun, or if it intends to try and teach me something.

[@dantepizza6310]

Just remember, Larian esentially had their last act script thrown out by a very vain "writer" at WotC, Act 3 was going to be much longer and much much better than it was, and you can blame WotC for that.

[@Terralventhe]

Yup. Same as them having to toss out all the sliders for character creation, the Body 1~4 instead of male or female, etc too. Also them being forced to use the awful books that even the author of said books thinks were bad as a basis for the tie-in lore instead of the actual game lore. It's annoying that the hack "writers" at WotC who couldn't even write a mediocre to save their lives think they hablve any right to act like they're better than anyone else, like how they keep trying to slander Gygax.

[@misanthropicattackhelicopt4148]

@@Terralventhe I hope that the pronoun crap was forced on Larian by WotC and that is why they cut ties to them realising that they could damage the company with there ideology grabage.

[@Terralventhe]

@@misanthropicattackhelicopt4148 Considering it's literally now crammed into their official sourcebooks when previously they used to use Male, Female and Neutral symbols in past sourcebooks? And that Larian's last game, Divinity Original Sin 2 had Male and Female as their options? Absolutely willing to put real money on it having been WotC.

[@misanthropicattackhelicopt4148]

@@Terralventhe I hope so or else they will end up on the blacklist like all the other companies that support this crap.

[@bennygerow]

Started following her on here about a month ago. Great human being and advocate for the part of this business that us gamers need.

[@thelordakira]

she confirms everything from GG , ethics in gaming journalism is a problem.

[@evaristo_1272]

Laura just gets it. It’s refreshing hearing someone who was in the gaming industry saying what we all think.

[@crane8819]

The Avowed situation is a great example of bad leadership. All I want is for games to be fun and not come across as preachy, i.e. the "Barve" Ted Talk in Veilguard, and as long as they meet those two simple criteria I'm fine. I don't care what the characters look like and I don't even care that much about pronouns. What I do care about however is the people making the games coming about and attacking gamers and labeling us all as a bunch of bigots, chuds, gooners, etc. _THAT_ is why even though I've been a huge fan of all of Obsidian's games (especially Pillars of Eternity) I'm seriously considering not buying Avowed, not because of pronouns. Avowed was made for gamers like me but their art director has completely turned me off and that is a problem Obsidian _needs_ to fix if they want the game to succeed.

[@hochhaul]

They seem to be in support of Hansen's policy of racial discrimination.

[@Terralventhe]

The Avowed and Veilguard situation is like featuring a Honda Civic in The Lord of the Rings, and then calling everyone else an ignorant bigot for pointing out that it breaks the setting's internal consistency and lore.

[@B.H.J]

If you come home with a pack of cookies and they don't taste like the declaration says you'll never buy them again, I don't get it, It is so easy, make something most people want and don't deceive them.

[@00yiggdrasill00]

It doesn't even have to be something most people want, there are all manner of niche areas to sell to as long as you don't go over budget. The key bit...is don't lie. Customer trust is top priority in any business that actually wants survival and success. There are so many companies I hardly buy from anymore because I can't trust them to deliver. I wait a year minimum before even looking.

[@mysteryman4915]

I recently played a 2005 called Darkwatch on the PS2. Its strange how much fun I was having with it for being so simple and un-corporatized.

[@MikZran]

I've always though of Dying Light as a sort of spiritual sequel to Mirror's Edge, in a way

[@r1g0r_m0rt1s]

Titanfall as well. Mirror's Edge really raised the bar for first person movement mechanics across the board.

[@eLWacKaZ]

Yeah, Ghost Runner is pretty much the current days Mirror's Edge.

[@oz_jones]

Yup. Loved the freerunning in first Dying Light.

[@Gamer1288]

Is there even a point to having a Marketing Department anymore when everyone clearly ignore everything that they say? Any competent PR Person would know just how poorly these decisions would go and yet they are doing it anyway.

[@charlesd4572]

Yip this lady is a class act!

[@eidolusgad]

It was the great George Carlin that introduced us to the term "soft Language". Microsoft sure jumped on this wagon.

[@JoeyP7998]

Can’t believe these execs and producers doubted the OG GOW before launch. One of the most perfect, original, and technically flawless shooters ever made. That’s just insane to me.

[@ericmcmanus5179]

Being ahead of the curve means doing things the way we used to 10 years ago. Isn't that nuts?

[@ionatakenshi9483]

Explains the falloff with Gears 3 onward.

[@exterminatus_now]

You mean Judgement onward. Gears of War 3 was the series' peak.

[@eLWacKaZ]

Gears of War was the first serie where I was more intrigued about the Player 2 story than the Player 1 story loll Dom over Marcus any day of the week.

[@DeathsjesterKMNP]

The crap that happening in the games industry is the result of it nowadays being mostly staffed by ME-llenial college graduates. The most narcissistic (thanks to the helicopter parenting/participation trophy philosophy they grew up in) and progressively indoctrinated (thanks to the university programming) generation of the last century.

[@Orpheus063]

ESG GLOBALISTSSSS PLS STOP BEING IGNORANT THEY DONT NEED YOUR MONEY THEY DONT HAVE TO MARKET THEY GET THEIR PROJECTS PAID FOR BLACK BUDGET ECONOMY GO BRRRRRRRRR

[@samramg]

I would wanna work with a woman like Laura Fryer. There's a lot to learn from her.

[@conroc01]

Laura is awesome! Wish she was still in the game.

[@GoblinKnightLeo]

The lesson here isn't that controversial media projects shouldn't be made - it's that they need budgets based on the size of the known and expected audience.

[@Orpheus063]

ESG GLOBALISTSSSS PLS STOP BEING IGNORANT THEY DONT NEED YOUR MONEY THEY DONT HAVE TO MARKET THEY GET THEIR PROJECTS PAID FOR BLACK BUDGET ECONOMY GO BRRRRRRRRR

[@electriclott]

I think middle management has been invaded by activists. As of now, they are supported by upper management. But how long will that last while games keep failing.

[@metalguyver1969]

Get Laura and Jerrel from Sungrand Studios together for a thoughtful discussion on gaming

[@foxdavion6865]

If anyone is in a position to have an authority on this subject, it would be her. For 25 years it was her job to be the go between for developers and corporate. She was a person in a corridor with glass on both sides looking into each world and then declared "I know where the problem is."

[@bryanwoods3373]

Saw a post by the creator of One Piece. He realized only his female fans wrote in because boys can't be bothered. They will once in a while when they get stationary or something. So he looks to what he'd want to see in a manga to appeal to them. And you can see where other authors listened to those female fans. Entertainment is becoming like that. Most fans just enjoy it or go away. It's a portion that feels they need to reach out and be heard, so the heads listen thinking those are the fans. Until the other fans complain, then they tell them to shut up for not being real fans.

[@Terralventhe]

Yep. Fans speak by consuming and praising in public or amongst friends. Only time a fan might write an author isn't to complain but instead to pick their brain about silly ideas, fan theories or lore, which is what ends up in Oda's SBS releases. If a fan is writing to complain, guaranteed he isn't the only fan doing so.

[@Delimon007]

How simple is the logic "it is harder to acquire new fans than it is to maintain your current ones?" This is business 101 that has been known for decades. . .

[@Meh-i6b]

Is it so hard to link the original video in the description?

[@morecringe89]

We changed games for drama, and people thinks that are 2 sides, the lazy in the couch without jobs and the pink hair with cow nose rings...nah, they are all the same. Stop the drama, make games and let people decide if they want to play them.

[@ouyrtuy]

Love her!

[@ScottJackson117]

Mirrors Edge and Mirrors Edge: Catalyst are some of my favs. Especially with Catalyst, fell in love with the world architecture.

[@heretic124]

I can tell she's a great manager just from the way she spoke.

[@ARiot04]

That dude was probably crying curled up in fetal position

[@steelshepherd6843]

There's always one group who doesn't want to leave others alone... also this lady has such interesting stories...

[@BioAlpha5]

Reminds me of the thing my dad said happened to music when he grew up

[@ericmcmanus5179]

This video just shows how none of these new hires in charge of entertainment never had any positive parental figures in their lives.

[@hariman7727]

I suspect the person who thought the game was going to fail actually hated the game and was trying to make sure it would fail by demoralizing the team.

[@misanthropicattackhelicopt4148]

Someone probably shot down his bad ideas and he took it personally and wanted the game to fail so he could feel smug about it.

[@mongodellango4732]

From what she's saying it seems the industry has always destroyed creativity and censored. playing things safe to avoid offence hurts creativity just as much as external funding from firms for having social impacts forced in does.

[@MrJol420]

7:25 adding Kurdistan is WILD

[@psychodrummer1567]

6:30 In a roundabout way, they were right, since as a pilot, you are meant to target the *machine* and NOT the *person* operating it, especially if they parachute out. Deliberately targeting the crew of military aircraft is a War Crime dating back to World War One. Doing otherwise will likely get you shot by your own team, failing that - summary execution by your own command (during wartime) or (peacetime) Court Martial -> stripping of rank, dishonorable discharge + time in prison.

[@smolaether]

The OG Fallout intro brought me back for a quick second

[@oz_jones]

I see trees of green.... Red roses too

[@Desmond-Dark]

Same! I love FO1 and FO2. Heck I love the whole series except 76 and the godawful show. :D

[@xheiii]

Remember to vote with your wallet, in the end we will win.

[@Orpheus063]

ESG GLOBALISTSSSS PLS STOP BEING IGNORANT THEY DONT NEED YOUR MONEY THEY DONT HAVE TO MARKET THEY GET THEIR PROJECTS PAID FOR BLACK BUDGET ECONOMY GO BRRRRRRRRR

[@sprostongreen]

Then - People noticed issues and they got fixed (mostly) Now - They pay millions to 'DEI consultants' and games are filled with all kinds of nonsense Money well spent I guess

[@CPT_Nelson]

When they stop self-inserting themselves and their views of how the real world should look like, they will make money again.

[@10k-Noodles]

These teams of geopolitical experts are so incredible at their jobs that they mix up the Puerto Rican and Cuban flags and probably refuse to acknowledge Taiwan as a country. 🤷‍♂️

[@jesseRya]

My problem with this take is that games don't have to be multi-million dollar projects. I'm a supporter of artistic expression, meaning whatever the artist wants to put into their art I support. They can deal with the repercussions of those decisions later then decide whether or not to take any advice that comes their way. Video games do not have to be multi million-dollar projects. Some of my favorite games out there have no voice acting and we're developed by a team of like 20 people. American consumers beg to be fed. They grow fat on carefully constructed IP's designed to fit the diets of masses. The greatest artists in history were always controversial and divisive. I'm not interested in climbing to the top of the 300th Tower to collect another map fragment I want art.

[@kdog3908]

Before I even finished your vid, I went and subbed to Laura's channel. Based pixel mom.

[@RikouHogashi]

She is one of the Real Ones

[@chomskysfavefive]

Laura Fryer is the best inside look at this business on the website. A great channel.

[@MrBladeDK]

when i first saw her video thats about 2 weeks old on Hypno, and since ive been liking her videos. its actually one of their own that speaks out. and she is cooking and hope she keeps on cooking :)

[@hochhaul]

The great news is that many talented devs have left these dysfunctional behemoths and are creating fresh IP's that are not focused on selling season passes, DLC content, and DEI-infused stories and characters.

[@Scalpaxos]

This is just common sense and basic business practices.

[@datriaxsondor590]

1:33 This is quite easy. Two reasons. 1. Greed Gaming has become bigger than movies, and everyone knows where the money is, the vampires and parasites, always follow. 2. Games were hijacked by activists and activist groups, to be used as vehicles for propaganda. It's really not that difficult, and you don't have to dig all that deep to get to the rotten core of it all.

[@bartscrush5064]

Her videos are awesome

[@mattm7798]

I love Laura Fryer. She's so direct and there's nothing for the left to latch on to to discredit her. Amazing woman!

[@CarlWheatley-wi2cl]

Laura looks EXACTLY how you would expect a placeholder DEI hire to look haha but she's far from that. Very insightful of the woes of the AAA corporate machine and a great sense of humour as well.

[@kaczan3]

Yes, after ruining Gears of War, she jumps ship and parrots our words, pretending she was with us all along, and putting blame solely on guys.

[@EmoEmu]

Why did they want a running totem pole? Aren't poles kinda... stationary?

[@3ftninja132]

She ain't just cooking, she's also making a sauce and serving it up with a salad.

[@The_Primary_Axiom]

Hey man, I can’t complain. You know how much money I’ve saved from not buying western AAA games in recent years ? Most of the games I support today are 70% eastern made, and 30% older western made, Indy and AA. I can’t remember the last time I bought a game from a giant American corporation like EA Microsoft or Sony. The only Sony exclusive games I buy now are Eastern made. So I can’t complain. I’ve saved hundreds of dollars. I’m not gonna buy ghost of Yotei, I’m not gonna buy intergalactic, or anything that’s coming out of Sony America now or Microsoft. That’s money in my pocket.

[@NormLenhart-v4l]

Why feel sorry for staff when one of them or their leaders wreck it and end up getting the studio disbanded? Did they not know the mindset of the people there? We all make choices. Where to work/who to work with are among them. Some of those choices cause unemployment. Not. Our. Problem.

[@MjollTheLioness-o4y]

Agree. The attitudes, opinions, and actions of these folks are not only often known by management and co-workers but shared and supported by them.

[@eLWacKaZ]

I don't think you guys know what you are talking about loll.. You can chose where you work but definitely not with who you work loll.. and if you want a place in the video game industry the places are even more limited... You can't just decide where you'll go unless you are one of the 15 big names of the industry... And you have people on both side of the spectrum in any of these industries.. except your opinion doesn't really matter if you're a level designer, a quality control guy or a programmer.. you won't overshadow the creative director and even if you are the creative director you can't really go against the CEO or the Shareholders in the bigger places.. Even if 300 guys tell the CEO he is wrong, if he thinks he's right then that's what you get.

[@NormLenhart-v4l]

@@eLWacKaZ I had no idea I couldn't leave a company filled with psychotic activists. I was under the assumption the choice of where one was willing to work and who one was willing to work with was up to the person offering their labor. Imagine my surprise to learn America was actually Soviet Russia/China.

[@eLWacKaZ]

​@@NormLenhart-v4l What company are you talking about and you would risk your salary to go in which video game company? Are you sure they will accept you?

[@eLWacKaZ]

​@@NormLenhart-v4lare you in the industry?

[@evelynfive5684]

Product quality ❌ Childish personal emotion ✅

[@GFYKTHXBYE]

It is 10x more expensive to attract a new client or "fan" than it is to keep an existing fan happy. That is Business 101. It's like these game companies think new folks with fist fulls of cash will show up by the bus load to buy the garbage they couldn't force feed the existing fan base.

[@misanthropicattackhelicopt4148]

Disney is finding that out the hardway.

[@khatdubell]

I need to look this lady up. Like this video.

[@DCYEAH]

Smart studios will correct coarse and weed out the bad actors, sadly some are beyond saving... such is the way of life.

[@marcmata5574]

Michael Jordan once said: "Republicans buy sneakers too." If you want to save some time and money trying to get a business degree; take that one advice, and you're halfway to becoming a great business owner.

[@khatdubell]

"Mark kern" Where is my lifetime sub to firefall, mark?