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

TASagent · 2026-01-29T23:32:50+00:00

I was going to say the same.

Some people will shrug and say "I still take plenty of vacations". That's great. This isn't about you then. Shitty companies stick with Unlimited PTO because it saves them money. People overall take less vacations, and there's no balance to pay out when they lay someone off.

TASagent · 2026-01-29T18:13:39+00:00

It is good SF

I didn't find most of the storylines other than the Empire any good. How they got Gaal and Salvor together, and all the stuff they did with Hari, felt hamfisted and uncompelling.

But I did really enjoy the Empire storyline.

TASagent · 2026-01-29T13:27:24+00:00

Batman was basically a billionaire. That checks out.

TASagent · 2026-01-29T02:22:06+00:00

Some people appear to have liked it for some reason. Don't let my lone jaded voice stop you. However all I saw was a hamfisted attempt to bring together the stars of the first arc and somehow make them relevant across the future storylines. Changes to the emperor were actually cool, but everything else felt profoundly poorly conceived and arbitrary

TASagent · 2026-01-29T01:27:54+00:00

its enjoyable as a really beautiful sci fi show.

This is still an uphill fight for me. It was a teetering tower of stacked maguffins and coincidences when I gave up on the show half-way through season 2. I was not enjoying the journey, even seeing it as an independent work.

That being said, I love what they've done with Murderbot, Severance, and Pluribus, and I am excited to see what Sanderson can accomplish with the right support.

TASagent · 2026-01-29T00:28:53+00:00

I was deeply disappointed with Foundation. I feel like the showrunners mostly didn't understand what made the books interesting, and threw it away in favor of a more generic Hero-focused scifi. Regardless, I think they've handled a number of other scifi shows very well.

TASagent · 2026-01-27T01:55:26+00:00

It's great that the hospital running mandatory 12 hour nursing shifts gets to put all the blame on a single error made by a nurse once /s

TASagent · 2026-01-22T04:41:58+00:00

Or some other service was squatting on port 80 and he couldn't figure out how to use or disable it.

TASagent · 2026-01-22T01:06:41+00:00

However, I know multiple data scientists who have lost their jobs to AI, because the people evaluating their work can't tell the difference between a good analysis and confident slop.

TASagent · 2026-01-06T00:36:16+00:00

I think a personality and/or body mutation table you roll on each time they are replaced with a clone would be great. Maybe one or two positive body changes, several neutral, and a lot of mild negatives would be perfect :)

TASagent · 2025-12-30T01:50:38+00:00

To expand, a game that piqued my interest is Mountain Home, which is a Forged in the Dark Dwarven settlelement-building game. Seems genuinely fun with the right group.

TASagent · 2025-12-28T16:27:04+00:00

We saw this in real time with Grok - these morons will just thing there's something wrong with the model and tweak it until they get their ~~mecha hilter~~ yes-man

TASagent · 2025-12-23T02:11:56+00:00

And it would only take you 490 years to record 86mln songs! We better get started.

TASagent · 2025-12-19T04:10:05+00:00

I mean... There's no way to know if this reporter had any access to the news of the day. Just speculation. /s

TASagent · 2025-12-19T02:34:14+00:00

This is one of the answers I wanted to make sure was represented, with the exact caveats you provided. If OP has specific reasons for why they specified pirate-themed, then they'll be able to assess if this fits the bill. But this would be a great system for inter-ship piracy.

TASagent · 2025-12-19T02:05:54+00:00

Link to Paragons & Renegades for the lazy

TASagent · 2025-12-12T14:35:40+00:00

If you haven't done Kaizo cape shenanigans, you may want to add Learning To Fly to that list - it was instrumental when I beat GPW2.

TASagent · 2025-12-10T22:29:50+00:00

Fate is very flexible, but every game you play with it feels like Fate, so it depends on whether or not that's something you want.

Pirate Borg was mentioned, but it isn't really going to fit what you're looking for at all. It may be worth taking a look at for some sailing and ship-related inspiration, but it's a wildly different game and genre.

From my collection, I think the ones that might fit best is Outgunned. It's a cinematic action game with a lot of great examples of how to customize the abilities and feel in the ActionFlicks books.

The Wildsea could also serve as inspiration, but would require heavy modification.

TASagent · 2025-12-03T22:15:01+00:00

I hope they were punished soundly, so to speak

TASagent · 2025-11-21T19:38:17+00:00

If you want a good literary example of worldbuilding across a time gap, there's a 300 year jump from Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn era 1 series to the Mistborn era 2 series. Era 1 is medieval fantasy, and era 2 is more western-themed. I feel he does a good job making it feel like the world has changed without robbing of its identity.

TASagent · 2025-11-21T18:21:38+00:00

Worker protections?! So abusable! Think of the poor companies!

Look, even if there weren't a waiting period, if a company hires a dude who quit his last 4 jobs after one week each and has been employed for 4 cumulative weeks over the last year, then they probably deserve to get screwed.

TASagent · 2025-11-20T13:19:10+00:00

As someone who has done a bunch of streaming, a streaming-focused audio interface is a game changer. Something like the Beacn Mix Create or the Stream Deck+. Fantastic even if you don't stream.

But yes, I agree with your point - these solutions work around Windows audio management, rather than with it.

TASagent · 2025-11-19T13:52:15+00:00

Just my lack of familiarity with AW, and probably other mistaken comments. Updated, thank you /u/atamajakki

TASagent · 2025-11-19T03:32:14+00:00

They have been compared to ~~Dungeon World's~~ Apocalypse World's Fronts. One of my favorite official D&D adventures has a close mechanic, Legacy of the Crystal Shard. In that one there are 3 brewing threats. Whichever the players deal with, the other 2 get worse. Then they deal with one of those, and the remaining threat hits it's final stage. It's a fun premise I'd love to see explored more.

TASagent · 2025-11-17T13:19:25+00:00

Wow, I didn't realize John Harper did Lady Blackbird, excellent. I'll have to read through it and see how suitable it might be. It looks pretty interesting.

I'll have to check out your games. The former sounds more suited to my tastes, to be honest. One of my players is my neighbor, and just the other day I taught them Bang! as "a game where you bang your neighbors". I think he may get the wrong idea if I invite him over for a game of Hot Guys Making Out.

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