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My cat was diagnosed with lung cancer today 3/10/2024. Nothing can be done to stop it. I'm looking through photos of him this eve & found a bunch of him sitting around my desk and even on my head while I played DAO & DA2. DAI wasn't out yet. Time with someone you love is so precious. I'd give ANYTHING to go back in time and be with him while I gamed for thousands of hours. He'd even sandwich himself between my back & the chair and nap. I love my cat so much. He's even named after a minor character in 1st game. I never had much money for pc's, so I had to play DAI on my old PS3. I have pics of him laying on my bed while I played that! I don't know how to let him go. If anyone suspects their cat has a severe hairball or asthma, get an x-ray asap. Bloodwork didn't show anything. This started about 1.5 months ago, and now I have to be parted from him this week and can't stop crying.
Dear Confessor,
As a cat owner I just wanted to send you my sympathy and to let you know I 100% understand how you are feeling. I've grown up with pets my whole life and its painful to lose them. This is my cat and he's going to be 15 this year. I got him around the time of Origins. He used to bat the screen with his paws when certain scenes came up when I was playing. He still likes hang out with us when we play games and he provides a calming influence. Cry as much as you need to! There is nothing wrong with that. And keep all those memories in your heart.
So, it should be pretty obvious by now that I'm firmly against fans boycotting Bioware and Dreadwolf due to the layoffs. I'll put it in business terms. I've worked for Fortune 500 companies, and I speak from that perspective.
The people who made it are hoping, and have said, that they hope people will love Dreadwolf as much as they do. Even when they were laid off.
It would punish the creatives who made the game far more than it would punish Bioware. They likely can't even talk about it due to NDAs unless/until it's released. Can you imagine not being able to talk about a thing you loved and poured years of your life, creativity, and passion into? I can. It would be heartbreaking.
I don't want to be responsible for harming people who love dragon age enough to make it for us. If I boycott, that's exactly what I'd be partially responsible for. I'm usually very pro-boycott, but in this case, I'm not.
So here's the question... we unequivocally live in a late stage capitalist nightmare world. Do you know how many other companies have laid off employees this year?
This type of behavior has been pro forma for corporate for at least 20 years, probably longer.
So, why would people boycott Dreadwolf and Bioware when they're by far not even the most egregious example of mass layoffs?
In 2022-2023, we've had these mass layoffs.
Meat giant Tyson Foods is laying off about 15% of senior leadership roles and 10% of corporate roles, according to an internal memo shared with CNN.
Y'all gonna boycott meat? I didn't think so.
3M announced significant layoffs as part of another major restructuring plan. The brand behind Post-It Notes and Scotch Tape said in a statement it would lay off 6,000 staff around the world.
Gonna boycott tape? Ear plugs? Sticky notes?
Lyft (LYFT)âs move in November to cut 13% of its workforce, citing fears of a looming recession.
Buzzfeed announced a 15% reduction in its workforce, or about 180 employees.
David's Bridal is eliminating 9,236 positions across the United States but did not specify how many stores would be affected.
Walmart is laying off more than 3,000 workers.
And I know many people can't afford to boycott Walmart.
Meta announced an additional 10,000 layoffs across several months on top of mass layoffs in 2022.
You still use Facebook? I personally loathe it and only keep an account for marketing reasons. I can barely even make it work anymore.
Three rounds of layoffs hit Disney (DIS), announced through a March 27 internal memo to employees. Around 7,000 people will be affected by the move over the next several months.
Amazon (AMZN) said in March it would cut 9,000 jobs, bringing the total number of Amazon (AMZN) staffers eliminated this year to around 27,000.
Indeed.com announced cuts of approximately 2,200 employees, representing almost 15% of its total workforce, the company said in March.
Satellite radio giant SiriusXM laid off 475 people, or about 8% of its workforce, as part of a broad restructuring.
Zoom (ZM) said it will lay off about 1,300 employees, or approximately 15% of its staff, in a memo to employees in Feburary.
Dell (DELL) laid off roughly 5% of its workforce, the company said in a regulatory filing in February. Dell had about 133,000 employees, the company told CNN. At that level, the 5% cut represents more than 6,500 employees.
Gonna refuse to use your computer?
Microsoft said in January it would be laying off 10,000 employees, according to a securities filing.
This was only up to around March of this year. There's loads more.
Point being it's ridiculous to boycott a company and hurt the people who made a thing they love just because they got laid off.
This is what corporations do. There is 0 loyalty to the employee at a corporation. It's all about the bottom line.
Maybe all y'all haven't worked in corporate, maybe people are hopping on the 'I'll boycott too' bandwagon. IDEK.
I honestly don't care if I change anyone's mind about it all, but itâs silly. Just outright ridiculous to expect a corporation to do anything but what corporations do.
It's not right. It's awful. I hate that Bioware basically backstabbed the creatives who made them what they are. But it's not new or even remotely rare. Bioware has laid off roughly 125 employees in the past handful of months.
Every company I named laid off far, far more. And if you think I'll believe you're going to boycott Microsoft, you must have a bridge you want to sell me, too.
Here's the source, if you want it.
BuzzFeed, Lyft, Whole Foods and Deloitte all recently announced layoffs affecting thousands of US workers. They join a growing list of compa
I can still love Baldur's Gate 3 and Dragon Age at the same time. It doesn't matter who did it better or who did it first. All that matters is that my appetite for sassy elves remains sated.
Honestly I am skeptical of the next game. I mean I am glad they are making another but my guess is they will pander to those fans who can't let go of Shepard. And one option they could likely do is there will be another Shepard clone that Liara had hidden. She'll defrost the clone and while it will look and sound like Shepard, it won't have any memories of Shepard and will have to forge their own identity and that is how the developers will sell it to the fans. And the 600 year old Liara will spew some excuse on why she never revealed anything about the clones even after the events of the citadel dlc. As a society we have been brainwashed to accept and demand sequel after sequel. Ryder was not perfect but the characters had potential. I'd rather see both the trilogy and Andromeda connected in some way or a completely different story.Â
I can see Liara when finding out about the Andromeda Initiative secretly stows a Shepard Clone in there along with a recorded message for them to listen to
Also remember that âsaidâ is invisible on the page, and that you arenât ever overusing âsaidâ, even if youâre scared you are.
You could write a novel using nothing but âsaidâ to indicate that people are speaking and nobody will ever notice, complain, or think youâre a lazy writer.
It's normal and healthy for fans to have critiques of Dragon Age -- we all have things that we like or dislike. But there's a difference between feedback and blaming "lazy devs." Devs work themselves to exhaustion trying to go the extra mile for players. Often, I've learned that features that I didn't enjoy weren't easy choices -- they were just the best options available at the time. People need to be less dismissive and more understanding.
I've been a fan of every single Mass Effect game and if there is one thing I learned about this fandom is that if there was an alien character and a human character who had the exact same annoying and or negative behavior, the alien character's behavior would get ignored or excused while human character would becondemned beyond the point of no return.
For the exact same evil deed, assholery, sin committed, alien characters will ALWAYS get a pass whereas human characters will ALWAYS be crucified without mercy.Now I love ALL of the alien races but I will NEVER understand how some fans will praise a characterâs behavior because theyâre from another planet and then in the next sentence theyâll blame a Human who behaves exactly the SAME way. Its mind boggling hypocrisy to me.
iThough nobody will likely admit it, this is pretty much true. I mean if it had been Garrus with the migraines in ME1, people would have have never said anything.
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