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#christopher meloni is one of my favorite memes

#me talking to my uu sis in law #i am plenty stupid but jesus loves queers and queerness. this is irrefutable. dare i say his love is queer.#there is nothing like sitting in a church knowing you are--your very body is--PROOF that everyone around you is wrong and dumb #one of the most powerful and evil institutions in human history is a demonstrable fraud whose catechism crumbles around your holy queerness #revealed to be pathetic and sinful specifically bc of how very indisputably fundamentally WRONG they are ABOUT YOU! the power!#wrong wrong wrong! i'm here eating the flesh and blood just like you and jesus would high five me for being a queer you absolute doorknobs #like the raw crackling energy in my veins knowing i could anoint myself and take communion and then be like HAHA I'M GAYYYY SUCKAS #and those nerds would combust? they held hands with my gay hands during the our father! they told gay me i was loved and cherished!#being a perverted sadomasochist rules. i love church in part bc i sit there smiling internally like the grink having a horrible awful idea

bettydraperlookingpissed

#me #ok it's #hashtagelaboratesnackplate

basedhighsenberg

#i made this very joke (wouldst thou like to live mas?) to someone who didn't get it #i think i tweeted it maybe. like i'm sure many people have independently come up with this joke #it's a good one #i wouldst

smash-or-pass-objects

Smash or Pass: Pilot Precise V5 RT

smash

pass

Voting ended onApr 3, 2024

#if these were .7mm... i might have passed. but .5? there's a reason they call that extra fine #especially this rainbow multi pack? hell yeah brother #i got enough for all 8 of yall #i mean i prefer a .4 but you gotta order those. these just be in grocery stores among all the less sexy writing instruments

fieldsarebreathing

Does he mean anything to you

phoneticmeow

flareonfloof

#yes he means so much to me #the sacred texts

devsgames

Just this week in games:

- EA laid off 700 workers

- Sony laid of 900 workers

- Rockstar announces in-person work mandates for all employees (a 'soft layoff' that will force some staff to quit, which likely means that actual layoffs are forthcoming)

In 2023 6,000 games workers were laid off. Now in 2024 over 10,000 workers have been laid off, and there's still 10 months to go.

Not to be hyperbolic, but I think this is perhaps the worst year for video games ever if we're measuring by number of layoffs.

PlayStation, Electronic Arts, and Microsoft are the latest companies to announce cuts

devsgames

I really feel the need to make it abundantly clear to people who are like "yeah this could get really bad" or "could this be a crash?".

I need to emphasize: This is currently incredibly bad and not normal for the games industry. This is currently a post-pandemic crash.

Rolling mass layoffs at every major studio is not standard video game industry behaviour no matter how bad the industry sounds.

The population of an entire town's of people in video games has lost their jobs in the span of two months and that number is growing every week. As a reminder, job hunting in games usually takes upwards of 2 months, depending on how lucky you are, so most of these people are likely still without jobs and may not ever work in games again.

My LinkedIn Feed is a near constant churning of new "I am seeking employment because I just got laid off" posts, by people I know who have worked all over the industry and have plenty of experience. Every week someone I recognize loses their job for no reason.

It's not the end of the world or games or anything, but I need people to understand this is currently a very huge and not normal game industry problem. It's a crash and it's happening.

misseffieb

Not meant to derail, but to underscore how bad it is: this is the entire US tech industry. My LinkedIn feed is 70-80% about layoffs on any given day. And not only that, tech employees are being laid off en masse in other industries. The likes of Nike and Vox Media are laying off designers, engineers, product folks, and other tech-related workers.

These games industry employees are being dumped into a market where it will not only be difficult to find jobs in their field, it will be difficult to find a job in a related sector where their skills are relevant. And that's happening basically anywhere there are tech workers. Jobs for non-tech workers in the tech industry (eg marketers, customer service) are also drying up very very fast.

I know full-stack devs whose unemployment has run out and former C-suite folks having to submit their resume to temp agencies. Mass layoffs of white-collar workers on this level should be an economic red flag, and we are not panicking enough about it. Yes, these folks are still better off than the average hourly service employee getting laid off, but in terms of what it says about the economy, I feel like the government is trying to keep this looming crisis quiet so The Job Numbers can continue to be favorable for the President.

And in terms of what it says about culture, it's also bleak: it means companies are leaning into AI, automation, and third-party tech (as opposed to a bespoke tech stack built and maintained in-house). It means technology is going to get worse and less secure everywhere, and there will be less incentive to try to improve it.

The way this will be felt in the games industry is catastrophic for people who love video games. It's going to be like the film industry, where a few big studios continue to churn out unchallenging, derivative, boring content using the same visual effects and the same predictable writing as everyone else, bc that's what sells reliably.

As op said, this is a crash. As with every other industry right now, tech is consolidating around a few giants and a few ways of generating revenue, and everything else is getting shut out. Not to be that guy, but this is what Late Capitalism looks like. The bottom is falling out of the economy, and it feels like gaslighting every single day to have to stare at stuff like this and pretend we can go on as normal.

#i'll probably delete this i just needed to vent

serial-unaliver-deactivated2024

"how was work" carries the same energy as "how was school"

andrasandreas

This is my favorite meme thing I've seen for that:

#'how's the job search going'

cryptonature

Vultures are holy creatures.

Tending the dead.

Bowing low.

Bared head.

Whispers to cold flesh,

“Your old name is not your king.

I rename you ‘Everything.’”

#crei evry tiem #already hearted rule

nikkiitalks

drtanner

Just unmute. :')

#answer the fuckin question julia

kushblazer666

serial-unaliver-deactivated2024

#(; _;)7 #i'm doing my part

lobelee

keytomind

🖤🥹

#what if the mountains you're carrying were meant to be climbed

doyoulikethissong-poll

Do you like this song? #112

Yes I like it, I've heard it before

Yes I like it, first time listening

No I don't like it, I've heard it before

No I don't like it, first time listening

Voting ended onFeb 6, 2024

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Please reblog the polls to make them reach out to as many people as possible, but KEEP IT SPOILER-FREE to make people listen to the music with an open mind 💖 Artists and titles will be revealed after the poll's conclusion ✨

#hell yeah babey #gonna go listen to the whole thing #i love this blog concept btw