[-] oscarlavi@lemmy.world 148 points 10 months ago

Insomniac, the dev team behind the wildly successful Spider-Man games just had a leak. In the leak, it's discovered that they were strong-armed by Sony (who owns Insomniac) to downsize staff despite exceeding sales targets and hitting goals. They needed to downsize to help balance Sony's books, who have acquired a slew of failing or underperforming studios.

Sony owns Studio A, and Studio B. Studio B have underperformed for the last few years, whilst Studio A has outperformed their targets. Because of the shortcomings in Studio B, Sony are now out of pocket, even accounting for the earnings of Studio A. Studio A are forced to eliminate staff roles to make up for Studio B's mismanagement. A well oiled and well performing Studio have to butcher their teams to balance their parent entity's books. It's so fucking short sighted and stupid.

This isn't just a Sony/Insomniac issue either, I guarantee this goes on throughout the industry whenever there's a parent company. It's just how it will always be in those circumstances.

[-] oscarlavi@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

I tend to be pretty pessimistic about these cases. Even if the UK Govt win, Google won't change anything, or if they do the change will be subtle enough to not have any impact

[-] oscarlavi@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Thing is, Trump didn't actually have a vision. He didn't think he was going to win, and he was using the whole election as a way to enrich himself. There is no Trump vision, he plans nothing.

[-] oscarlavi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm glad this game is still getting regular support even though I've stopped playing. There aren't enough games like this that stick around

[-] oscarlavi@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

I enjoyed Frasier, but not because of Frasier himself. I really enjoyed seeing the interaction between him and his brother Niles, along with Roz, Daphne etc.

So if this is just a show about Frasier, then I'm out.

[-] oscarlavi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

He goes back to Emerald Grove, and he'll be at the bottom of the stairs where you had the encounter with the theiving tiefling child's parents

[-] oscarlavi@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

Nobody has trust in our government. The way they've treated immigrants (both legal and otherwise) is abhorrent. I'm not surprised that nobody wants to come here.

[-] oscarlavi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Break the task down into bitesize chunks and then just do the first one. The dopamine hit from completing the first part will help your executive dysfunction.

Example (do the dishes):

  1. Move dishes out of the sink
  2. Fill sink with hot water and soap
  3. Wash one plate
  4. Wash one set of cutlery that goes with the plate

Once you do 1, you'd be surprised at how easy 2 is, then 3, then 4 and then the rest of them.

It's a skill, so it's not something you can just click your fingers and do, so work on it, and develop the skill over time. It's tough, but doable

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[-] oscarlavi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Each to their own, sometimes a cosy game scratches just the right itch

[-] oscarlavi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Loving it. I was a longtime user of Reddit Sync, so I'm fully on board the Sync for Lemmy train.

The only thing I've noticed is that after a period of non use perhaps an hour or so, when I launch, it crashes back to my home screen. The only way I can get the app to open is by Clearing all Data then restarting.

[-] oscarlavi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Window open, door closed; window closed, door open. I do what I can to prevent unnecessary door slamming in the night caused by a draft from the window

[-] oscarlavi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Same as Elden Ring, lots of developers are pushing back against a development studio who did everything right, because they're not able to do the same in their studios

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