🪏Ed n'Stuff

Truth seeker, gamer, guitar player, health nut. #Cardano $ADA community member since 2018.
Occasionally funny.

[🪏Ed n'Stuff @EdnStuff]

1) I was close friends with Clifford for the last 10 years of his life. He was one of the kindest people I've ever known and the real deal. He was part of #UFO crash retrievals. He had the largest private collection of official gov. documents on this matter. #UFOtwitter #UFOX

[Vicky Verma @Unexplained2020]

Just Remembering.. Sgt. Clifford Stone claimed he participated in missions to recover UFOs that crashed on Earth."The US Government Has More Than 50 Alien Species Cataloged!"

#UFOtwitter #UAPtwitter #UAPs #UAP #UFOX #uapX

[🪏Ed n'Stuff @EdnStuff]

@ericweinstein @NSF @myles_boylan The shut down needs to be extended beyond h1b.

[🪏Ed n'Stuff @EdnStuff]

@TheRealVerbz So has the SEG research actually made any real progress over all these many years?

[🪏Ed n'Stuff @EdnStuff]

@ItsDave_ADA They got their adoption and marketcap though through that TPS/transaction deceit. Seems to be the lesson in crypto. Fake it till you make it.

[Xerberus @xerberus_io]

what is your token? https://t.co/2wdvwieWUE

[🪏Ed n'Stuff @EdnStuff]

@nillion 👍

[Daniel Friedman @DanFriedman81]

BioWare is not, like, a guy. BioWare closing is not like Steven Spielberg or Quentin Tarantino getting fired or cancelled.

BioWare is a business entity that existed for 30 years. During that time people — including lead creatives who were responsible for the great games — came and went.

Some video game studios manage to maintain a culture and a sensibility around excellence and the key creatives either stick around for a long time or pass the reins to handpicked successors who share their values and preserve the culture and standards of the studios.

What has happened in the game industry over the last 15 years is that there came to be a widespread belief that the cultures that incubated excellent games were exclusionary racist, sexist, homophobic boys clubs that needed to change in order to welcome in different kinds of people.

Instead of hiring people who shared their values and sensibilities, the people at these game studios were pressured to push their workforces toward being 50% female while achieving racial equity. The staff of the studios changed dramatically, the cultures of the workplaces changed dramatically and the games changed dramatically.

The pandemic sent a lot of people into their homes to play video games, which seemed like it was going to drive an era of growth for the industry. At the same time, the new generation of gaming hardware required more detailed assets, more animation, and therefore more people to make these massive games.

So there was a huge hiring boom at the precise moment that there was an overarching focus of the demographics of the industry, which means that nearly every Western game studio’s workforce was completely transformed. Over 40% of games industry workers under the age of 25 identified as LGBT or nonbinary on recent surveys.

Additionally, some studios have had unique pressures that have driven a lot of turnover. At Rocksteady Games, for example, a lot of the people who made the Batman: Arkham trilogy were not interested in building the live service game Warner wanted, so most of the principals on those games left the studio during the production of “Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.”

The studio cannot pivot back to what used to be its strength at making single player titles after that failure because all the people who are responsible for the classic games are gone. They no longer have that strength. They no longer have the institutional capacity to make great games because great games are made by great people and the great people are gone. A similar thing happened to BioWare during “Anthem.”

They couldn’t just pivot back to making great “Dragon Age” or “Mass Effect” games after the failure of “Anthem” because too many people were gone and the culture had changed. They weren’t the same studio and they weren’t a great studio anymore.

The BioWare that was shuttered today is not the studio that made “Mass Effect 2” or “Knights of the Old Republic.” That studio hasn’t existed for many years. It was just the “Dragon Age: The Veilguard” studio.

[🪏Ed n'Stuff @EdnStuff]

@astroboysoup The team that built those early games died a long time ago, and the current one was a completely different animal churning out slop.

[🪏Ed n'Stuff @EdnStuff]

@IGN Indeed https://t.co/vc3wZH3Azo

[Cyael @Cyael]

This is how it happened. This is how the Bioware died.

[🪏Ed n'Stuff @EdnStuff]

@bioware I was around for the very first Baldur's Gate. The studio that made those vaunted games was dead long before this closure. https://t.co/vc3wZH32JQ

[Cyael @Cyael]

This is how it happened. This is how the Bioware died.

[Lars Brünjes @LarsBrunjes]

1/10
After years of work on Genius Yield, I am sad to see its operations winding down, and I am sorry that users have been left worried about accessing their assets. My immediate priority is to help you withdraw from staking vaults and claim your available rewards.

[🪏Ed n'Stuff @EdnStuff]

@mdawes2 @gmiller

[🪏Ed n'Stuff @EdnStuff]

@garrygolden A lot of it is importing cheap labor and offshoring to GCCs.

[🪏Ed n'Stuff @EdnStuff]

@CleansedTweets Guess they all need to just show up illegally on a boat. That seems to work.

[RealFi @realfi_co]

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[🪏Ed n'Stuff @EdnStuff]

@IGN No DEI-Files. Leave it alone.

[🪏Ed n'Stuff @EdnStuff]

@rvcas Human centered skills, higher order judgement, sitting between different functions as connective tissue will be what's valuable.

[🪏Ed n'Stuff @EdnStuff]

@CleansedTweets Same is happening in America and much of the west.

[Sebastian Nagel @ch1bo_]

Welcome to the 🔥 phase of the Musashi Dojo!

Tomorrow we will have a distributed load testing day on https://t.co/A2Noxnnpqn testnet

This is slightly different than our normal load duty cycle because the load will be fully crowd sourced by the participating SPOs!

[🪏Ed n'Stuff @EdnStuff]

@IOHK_Charles I'm excited to see where RealFi goes. It has the potential to be a real financial anchor for Cardano, which is critical in such a volatile industry.