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[a b c  @ArchitecteFR]

Voilà.

[Etienne Dujardin @etiennedujardin]

"Nous vendons une énergie 42 euros le mégawattheure à partir des centrales nucléaires et nous en rachetons à 600 ou 1 000 euros le mégawattheure sur le marché européen, construit artificiellement par la Commission européenne." https://t.co/mvtMd9EYB3

[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.

[a b c  @ArchitecteFR]

@philippejeanpr1 Je dirais même plus, la liberté grossesse à grands pas !

[a b c  @ArchitecteFR]

@MarionMarechal @DamienRieu Sa dernière allusion à l’IA était pour faire oublier les claques que Brigitte lui distribuait en haut de la passerelle de l’avion !

[a b c  @ArchitecteFR]

@F_Desouche C’est l’effet Macron. Il est directement responsable. Les signaux de vide qu’il envoie conduisent à cette perte de confiance.

[a b c  @ArchitecteFR]

@F_Desouche un ex-inspecteur des impôts qui s’est imaginé une carrière de grand flic

[a b c  @ArchitecteFR]

@F_Desouche

[a b c  @ArchitecteFR]

@F_Desouche Encore un étranger qui vient brûler nos portes en chêne.

[a b c  @ArchitecteFR]

@lebrac21 Pascal Praud ce soir récitait pieusement la fiche Wikipedia sur cet événement. Il empêchait l’écrivain ex-Marianne de dire qu’il en avait assez des racontars.

[Joel Berry @JoelWBerry]

Get this miserable, stupid culture out of the West.

[a b c  @ArchitecteFR]

@zerohedge A migrant ought to suffer his early time in a new country, it always have been like that everywhere in the world, it’s a social filter, while here she promotes the opposite, she promotes a new type of country : the welfare country, interlaced with ours, and where they immigrate.

[a b c  @ArchitecteFR]

@phl43 Je rajoute la ministre de l’écologie : démission refusée.

[a b c  @ArchitecteFR]

@phl43 -Benalla: pas viré
-Directrice Louvre: démission refusée
-Cheffe sécurité Louvre: pas de démission
-Lui-même (Fessenheim, dette): pas de démission

[Wrath Of Gnon @wrathofgnon]

The burning of the Limoges City Hall was the lead item on news everywhere in Japan last night. I have never seen Mrs. Wrath's eyes filled with so much hatred as when she tried to answer the questions of our Children.

[Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630]

Most problems, as @nayibbukele and the city of Caracas have shown, are not in fact "complex," "multi-faceted," "impossible to solve."

You stop riots and crime by jailing and killing criminals and rioters.

The ENTIRE barrier to this, in the West, is leftist or generally-fringe citizens who passionately defend the criminals and rioters.

[Philippe Lemoine @phl43]

J'en suis convaincu depuis la dissolution, mais je pense vraiment qu'il est cliniquement fou. Je ne vois pas comment expliquer un tel degré de déconnexion autrement. Le mec est à 15% dans les sondages, il y a des centaines de milliers de personnes dans la rue, la France est en pleine crise fiscale et à la merci des marchés obligataires où le moindre pet de travers pourrait déclencher une attaque sur la dette française, des hordes de sauvages ont passé tout le weekend à foutre le pays à feu et à sang parce que le dispositif policier n'était clairement pas à la hauteur, mais quand le Ministre de l'Intérieur présente sa démission, ce qui est la moindre des choses, il trouve le moyen de la refuser et le pire c'est que je suis sûr qu'il doit s'auto-congratuler pour n'avoir pas cédé à la pression 🙃

[a b c  @ArchitecteFR]

@BFMTV À cause de l’ultragauchisme systémique, elle est comme un poisson qui ne voit pas l’eau dans lequel il nage. Qu’elle change de métier !

[a b c  @ArchitecteFR]

@ltdla Je ne trouve pas de photo de qualité de des boiseries. Si quelqu’un en a, qu’il n’hésite pas, sinon la perte restera trop abstraite.

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@F3Centre Il a fait barrage avec son nez.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Europe gives them free healthcare, free housing, free education, every social program, and a quality of life they could never have back home… yet they will still loot and destroy the West into the third-world.

There is no magic soil.
A nation is simply it’s people.

[Freedomain - with Stefan Molyneux, MA @StefanMolyneux]

A thousand-year nuclear-armed civilization defeated by the word “racist."