[-] Nepenthe@kbin.social 41 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

For context, earlier this week Hasbro (owner of Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering) announced that it would be laying off 1,100 employees as a way to "modernize our organization and get even leaner". Not soon after, it was revealed that an avalanche of employees from both D&D and MTG had been laid off.

In an investor meeting in October this year, Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks specifically mentions Baldur's Gate 3 as a contributing factor for a 40% increase in digital gaming revenue, alongside Monopoly Go! and Magic: The Gathering.

Well yeah, obviously you gotta fire whoever was the cause of a 40% increase in revenue, otherwise that could even raise to 50%. Where would it end?

Always safer to go with what you know: letting the ravenous mob desperate to throw money at you know just as soon as possible that you're taking steps to remove anything they liked about your product.

Do you think they can get lean enough to break even in their future?

[-] Nepenthe@kbin.social 40 points 9 months ago

Even in Japanese love hotels, I've heard it's common for men to book someone and just..cuddle for a while. Fall asleep being held. I don't have to live it to believe it.

[-] Nepenthe@kbin.social 37 points 9 months ago

You can ask him five questions, but he won't be answering any of them.

[-] Nepenthe@kbin.social 36 points 10 months ago

“I get good chat going, the AI is set up properly, very good start, like 10 messages in or so but then suddenly the AI decides I should cum and end it all,” another user said. “The thing is that the sex part haven't even started yet.”

Well, if it isn't my own intrusive thoughts

[-] Nepenthe@kbin.social 37 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Ah, but give him all your stuff and you'll experience exciting interactions like discussing his cat over a date you didn't know you were on, and understanding exactly how badly you smell and how much he openly enjoys that! He's every incel's dream husbando!

[-] Nepenthe@kbin.social 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The grotesque graffiti is just the word "fuck." I'm disappointed. You should see the stuff that ends up in bathrooms over the course of 6 hours, and people have to touch their own poop for that

[-] Nepenthe@kbin.social 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Probably 3 minutes, tops, in a neutral setting, but every reddit employee and pro-dumbass mod knows that's the first thing anyone is going to do, so they'll be up all night alongside their bots, cheating and shadowbanning like last time. Not that I'm naming names, Chtorr.

No way under god will they allow the kinds of things users are about to depict happening to spez

[-] Nepenthe@kbin.social 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Christmas carols. Being forced to come back to a retail job over the Christmas rush a little over a week after my brother was found dead on the floor outside my bedroom :)

The boss there had a very personal bone to pick with me, made it clear she didn't even have to give me any bereavement leave since I was part time, and when a customer went on a Mach 4 tirade because I wasn't smiling hard enough (not kidding), she backed them up and threatened to fire me in front of everyone.

12hrs+ of this every day. I preferred working by myself in back because people would leave me the fuck alone to do my job, but it turns out it was also useful for intermittent off-camera crying!

To this day, 13 years later, I can still tell you the exact playlist that was on the radio. That was when The Fray's How to Save a Life was still big and I used to really like that song, but I can avoid it now a lot easier than I can avoid "I'll Be Home for Christmas."

It got me forcibly stopped by the police once, when I couldn't take it anymore, ran out of the store, and the owner assumed I stole something. I really just don't leave the house after October.

[-] Nepenthe@kbin.social 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We’re looking at class warfare,” Nathanson said. “It’s become more than just about their work agreements, but also about statements they want to make about society and fairness. Working-class people are looking to take their anger out on the studio executives."

The subtle insinuation in that phrasing, that the executives are not at fault here, but merely benevolent rulers upon whose heads their workforce has spitefully misplaced the blame. AI capabilities have significantly improved, and now the human writers are demanding unnecessary expenses like money and job security. Pah!

A strike is certainly not the outcome we hoped for as studios cannot operate without the performers that bring our TV shows and films to life,” the [Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers] said. “The union has regrettably chosen a path that will lead to financial hardship for countless thousands of people who depend on the industry.”

Privately, company executives say their businesses won’t feel much financial pain for several months. Without widespread production, costs will be lower, which translates into higher profits — at least in the short term.

Studios also are expected to begin canceling TV writers’ overall deals to find more savings.

So it's just gonna be war, then.

[-] Nepenthe@kbin.social 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Eh, people kept awarding me, so I do have a couple left over from all that. Wasn't gonna use them because that would make me look like a tool, but this idea might be funny enough to sway me

[-] Nepenthe@kbin.social 37 points 1 year ago

Uncomfortable picturing Gene Wilder. Not even remotely out of character for Johnny Depp.

[-] Nepenthe@kbin.social 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't really think it's fair to pretend that, before two weeks ago, anyone under god had any idea what an instance was unless they were already heavily tech-oriented.

It took me hours of trying to read through not-my-kind-of-jargon to understand what the hell I was looking at and what kind of consequences that unexplained choice would have, and it really seems like a good number of users that initially struggled forget the learning curve extremely quickly the moment they're over it.

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