Posted January 28, 2025 by illtemperedtuna
It all starts with a young child inspired by playing some wonderous video game made by a passionate developer who was on their 5th title.
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Grow up, see games making billions of dollars, "I'm gonna get me some of that action."
Be some billionaire technocrat's spoiled as fuck child. Grow up rich as shit, have every connection, every advantage. You're surrounded by other wealthy as shit goobers handed the keys to the kingdom growing up in the epicenter of decadence, hidden behind an investment wall, micro managing from the shadows where all fallout imposes zero danger.
All of society placed on your shoulders, 0 competency developed over a spoon-fed life. Inundated with avante guard moralism, believing a bunch of commie gobbledygook from some ivy league college because it's the only thing in your inconsequential life that helps you to believe your entire existence wasn't squandered on self affirming, post modern horse shit.
Invest the millions of dollars from your trust fund into the gaming industry because you're a hot shot investor, it's a small industry, located in silicon valley, easy to bribe, blackmail, gatekeep, subvert. Copy the formula of success that seems so easy. Grab X artists, grab Y designers, grab Z coders. Crack the whip, push the team, pay streamers. Buy up all the store fronts, buy up all competition. Destroy all other platforms and developers by selectively bribing your influence into pain points. Destroy the industry outside your sphere. AstroTurf your utopia.
Everyone is the main character in their story. If you are an investor it will be your greed and cutthroat dealings that's going to make you make more money than others. If you're an artist, you're going to make that cool suitcase that the player is going to fawn over and it's going to make the game so cool to play. If you're a team lead, well, if you're a team lead you're just going to surf reddit all day and fire anyone who figures out you don't do fucking jack dick all day by amplifying the failures and minimizing their accomplishments. This mindset will grip the entire team as people subconciously wise up to the fact that the studio isn't capable of making good games, it's just a money laundering scheme.
No one has any idea WTF they are fucking doing. No one has ever shipped a game, no one has pushed a single complex gameplay system to completion and to be fun and next level. Everyone just lied on their resume, said they could make game, road the coat tails of others who knew what they were doing for the past 3 decades.
Fingers point, everyone blames everyone else. If you bust your ass and try to make things better, you will inevitably fail as you grow and learn. Others on the team trying to earn their paychecks who have no idea WTF they are even doing will point the fingers to insulate themselves, to increase their stature on the team, or simply for shits and giggles.
What is so absolutely fucking incredible is in this entire industry of tens of thousands of people, with hundreds of billions of dollars, no one has the baseline competency to see how utterly fucking useless the whole of this machine has become.
The last generation of devs that put out good games were pushing themselves to their limits after decades of being under the gun, of honing their craft, of learning best practices.
And these dense mother fuckers thought they'd just uproot the whole system, throw a bunch of boot lickers in their stead, and everything would be just hunky dory.
This world is broken. This world is weak. This world is so far up its own ass it doesn't even see what it has become.
And now the western games industry sits on their fat asses, waiting for 20 year old college students in China to make tools for them that will allow them to ask AI to make a game for them, because that's how fucking far we've fallen as a bunch of weak willed moralist asshats who care about only 1 thing in this world, being superior to everyone else, but not sacrificing fuck all to achieve that.
It's not that we've lost a generation of progress, of grit, and talent in this industry. It's that every passing year we are another fucking foot deeper into the grave. It will take that much more time to UNDO THE FUCKING that these shit stains have done to our industry.
Whew, and here I was thinking all our angry blog posts were behind us. What can I say? The world is dying, no one is doing anything.
AI is about to overthrow us. China is eating our lunch. Our children care more worried about their favorite Tic Toker than their future children (That they will never have. Our Billionaire class have stolen the singularity for themselves as they torture it in their basements.
Our culture is smarmy poison. Our food is Caffeinated high fructose toxin. Our ambitions are worship the namby and the pamby.
Our ancestors are fucking sickened.
GET OFF YOUR ASS AND DO SOMETHING BEFORE HUMANITY IS FUCKED YOU INEFFECTUAL SHITS
TIME IS TICKING
Edit: I know most who read this will have the knee jerk reaction that I'm insane and angry... Well, we can all agree that I'm agery. Many people are, you would know this is you didn't insulate the world in your echo chambers.
I want you all to reflect on history. Think about how mad and insane any culture has been in all of recorded human history. How could so many be so vile? So stupid? So petty?
If you were to travel back you would think they were totally batshit. Human sacrifices, worshiping rape crazed gods, war, famine, death.
That is the norm.
And every single generation the masses who are in power, and who suppress the other with their vile lies think that they are in the right.
Strong men make good times. Good times make weak men. Weak men make hard times.
We are in the most decadent, most coddled era of human existence. The pendulum swing has the potential to be catastrophic if we do not do something about it before it is too late.
We were given a small blink of peace and abundance and you all pissed it away for fleeting nothings.
Am I actually crazy? I feel like the entire world is fucking crazy and I'm the only sane one. But you'd have to be crazy to not be crazy in such a crazy fucking world.
/shrug
What can you do? A crazed loner, despised by all if you call it like it is, if you try to smack some sense in to people so they can save themselves, and complicit in the destruction of our collective childrens' futures if you just sing along to the soft parade. I'm genuinely envious of those who still think they're fighting the good fight and living in the Utopia and that it's just everyone else who are imperfect and that life is wonderful and grand. Must be nice.
But knowing how fucked everything is we can't just sit here and watch it all burn. So i'll sit here and self immolate hoping maybe at some point the world wakes the fuck up and we can get this shit back on track some way some how.