Sounds about right. 41% of game devs got laid off last year, and there have been several more big layoffs since that survey.

Statistically, this is a terrible time to try and join the industry.

It’s a commonly-used figure of speech

Or else they’ll say ‘stop’ again, but quieter

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This isn’t about you, America.

The billionaires’ various acts of performative space tourism are dumb to be sure, but they’re just a drop in the ocean for this specific issue.

No they didn’t. It was delisted from stores. The game still works if you own it, or even if you go out today and buy a used physical copy. Same goes for all of the delisted FH games.

Delistings are not what SKG is about and I wish people would stop pretending it is.

Not personally, and if a creator I follow did so I would unsub immediately. It’s lazy and insulting to the audience.

Anyone who cites an LLM or AI-generated summary as a legitimate source can’t be trusted to provide truthful or accurate information.

In that case you might remember people having similar reactions to Hootie & the Blowfish or Nickelback.

They’re all very popular, with big-selling albums, but very ‘safe’, overproduced, bland perhaps. That combined with overexposure creates a backlash and it becomes cool to hate them.

Old enough to remember the massive backlash against disco? Same thing, different era.

They’ve become quite common in the uk over the last year or so too.

I believe it’s intended to make the material easier to process for recycling. Something about very small pieces of plastic (like loose bottle caps) being tough to properly sort at the plant, so they wanted a way for them to stay with the bottle instead.

It’s not just down, it’s gone:

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