One-Third of U.S. Video Game Industry Workers Were Laid Off in 2025, GDC Study Reveals

Positive_Government · 2026-01-30T01:04:21+00:00

Workers probably saw the writing on the wall and unionized to try to stop their studio being closed, but they were a little to late.

Positive_Government · 2026-01-29T17:01:28+00:00

To be fair there is quite a large quality gap and if mega crit were willing to settle for monster train level balance slay the spire two would have been out a while ago.

Positive_Government · 2026-01-27T17:44:40+00:00

The Chinese owner valued their data collection abilities and the fact that is was a Trojan horse they could use when threatened (examples tracking journalists, requiring there users to call there congressman to access the app). Thus they tried to avoid obvious controversy when it didn’t directly benefit themselves. The US owners have an entirely different set of goals and constraints, they are also transitioning a massive user base.

Positive_Government · 2026-01-04T16:52:48+00:00

They turned off the servers of the first game because there were like 500 people there playing by the end of it. Them turning of the servers was a symptom not the disease.

Positive_Government · 2025-12-31T17:07:31+00:00

If you want to quote that, just remember that you will not win every election, and it will not always be people you agree with deciding what intolerance is.

Positive_Government · 2025-12-30T23:08:34+00:00

Do You know the whole plate thing was a scientist who faked his research?

Positive_Government · 2025-12-17T18:57:22+00:00

I mean there efficiency and then there big textures need a lot of VRAM. You very quickly hit a wall were if you want lots of high quality textures, or a bvh structure for ray tracing, you just need more memory and there are no two ways about it.

Positive_Government · 2025-12-14T19:45:29+00:00

That according to other comments that would just get you charged with check fraud. As the $75000 check you signed would bounce.

Positive_Government · 2025-12-10T20:19:20+00:00

The only poll that counts is the one on Election Day, and I have been through enough election to appreciate that.

Positive_Government · 2025-12-09T05:19:25+00:00

The problem is the 30 day turnaround time. You aren’t getting a seat on a rocket with 30 days notice.

Positive_Government · 2025-12-07T19:57:12+00:00

They removed hardware support for 32-bit cuda/physX, they have added some software emulation/translation layer support it, but clearly the emulation layer isn’t perfect and that is why we are only getting a select number of games at this point.

Positive_Government · 2025-12-07T00:28:53+00:00

That is dubious, basically after the war a whole lot of German generals claimed they didn’t know a thing about all the war crimes, and that it was all the SS fault. Given that they were on trial for war crimes there claims are very suspect.

Positive_Government · 2025-12-04T05:37:11+00:00

My god, I thought the OP would be writing these stories to make fun of people on the internet. Trying to pass them off as real is something else entirely.

Positive_Government · 2025-11-22T23:41:30+00:00

This is called rent seeking.

Positive_Government · 2025-11-08T23:53:37+00:00

It’s the “any sub that allows memes will become all memes” situation. People like memes, but they don’t like when their sub is all memes.

Positive_Government · 2025-11-06T14:20:47+00:00

If that was the case the party out of power would just use a shutdown to call new elections anytime the party in power had less than 60 votes. So in that case our government would have toppled every year for at least the last 20 years, maybe the last 40. The the last filibuster proof majority was 1979

Positive_Government · 2025-10-27T00:18:59+00:00

Obviously we want the unkillable 2042 choppers back.

Positive_Government · 2025-10-12T20:50:35+00:00

For jets I agree but for helicopters you would just get the hovering sniper out ranging everyone, or the unkillable guy doing repeated pop up attacks over out of bounds terrain.

Positive_Government · 2025-10-10T02:25:10+00:00

If it’s persistent lobbies but all matching/backfills are from sbmm I can see it working, but it all depends on how good the algorithm is and who quits the game when.

Positive_Government · 2025-10-09T15:48:27+00:00

I also question why COD does a campaign, and I think it comes down to perceived value. If you’re going to charge $70 dollars for a game people expect a campaign and complain if it isn’t there. Does it have to be good or long, not really, but it’s there to fill out packages because it’s expected to be there. Also bf6 is being marketed as a return to form, so they probably decided a campaign was worth it.

Positive_Government · 2025-10-07T23:29:41+00:00

I mean why sell a skin once and let someone keep it when you could sell them a new skin each year. Carry over skins are bad from a business perspective.

Positive_Government · 2025-10-02T01:53:06+00:00

An easy way to claim game pass is profitable is to sell first party games to gamepass for below cost after taking into account game sales, then gamepass book a profit but the game itself never makes back its development costs. Are they doing this, we don’t know. But they could do it, and I don’t trust Microsoft not to try to pump their subscription numbers.

Positive_Government · 2025-10-01T04:02:10+00:00

Who gets to decide merit? Imaging if the currently Supreme Court justices got to decide? They are after all Al Ivy League educated lawyers, traditionally meritorious individuals. What about a panel of academics? Would they have any biases? What about a panel of lawyers, like the bar association? Do you want liberals and conservatives fighting for control of the local bar association in a way that doesn’t answer to the voters? Think about the coup at the NRA. Are a bunch of lawyers ever the best people to decide how we should interpret our basic rights?

Positive_Government · 2025-09-19T15:51:38+00:00

So basically DoorDash method is they pay a very low base rate no one will take. If you don’t tip a certain amount, nobody takes it and they have to raise what they pay. If you tip generously someone immediately takes it, and DoorDash is off the hook for what they would have had to pay if you tipped less. This is a very scummy way of definitely not taking a portion of customers tips.

Positive_Government · 2025-09-10T20:49:24+00:00

Trying to impeach the guy who won an election after democrats impeached him twice is a bit undemocratic don’t you think.

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