BRjohn

good and bad

[BRjohn @jinjohnW]

@SenSanders When will you actually give away your own fortune to the people you spend all day championing

[BRjohn @jinjohnW]

@isaacrrr7 Cause Elon made them look so stupid.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

> Noelia's parents get divorced
> state takes custody from parents
> sent to state youth center at age 13
> gets gang-r*ped by 3 migrants there
> suspects don't face criminal charges
> tries to kiII herself, ends up paralyzed
> state "helps" by euthanizing her at 25
> against the wishes of her loving family

This is a story that just happened Spain

[BRjohn @jinjohnW]

@drhossamsamy65 Are you dumb？

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

It’s so hard to get the moderation just right 😂

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

Venezuelans are celebrating their Libertad:

“If you haven’t lived under a dictatorship — shut up and let us be happy.”🙏

Thousands of people are celebrating in different corners of the world.

Venezuelan refugees in Argentina and Ecuador are especially jubilant.

They are also sharing their emotions on social media:

🇻🇪“We know what we’re doing, we understand each other.

But don’t do anything and don’t say anything. Thank you.”

[Sara Rose 🇺🇸🌹 @saras76]

The left right now 🤣

[BRjohn @jinjohnW]

The Venezuelan people are celebrating !, the retarded white leftists are collapsing!!, Happy New Year!!~~~

[Carlos Turcios @Carlos__Turcios]

🚨DALLAS, TEXAS🚨A Hispanic man counter protested the pro socialist Venezuela rally, which had horrible turnout, and yelled “God Bless America” and said “Donald Trump freed Venezuela.” The crowd, mostly white liberals, surrounded him and yelled at him.

Follow:
@Carlos__Turcios

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🤣🤣

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Word of the year

[BRjohn @jinjohnW]

@SenSanders How stupid you are

[Colin Wright @SwipeWright]

I experienced all of this firsthand, having entered graduate school in 2013. By 2020, I watched non-white colleagues with CVs a tiny fraction as strong as mine absolutely swamped with interview requests and job offers, while I couldn't even secure a preliminary phone interview.

I saw a non-white, female biologists with zero peer-reviewed publications receive a tenure-track job offer from an Ivy League university within minutes of defending her PhD thesis. This would have been utterly incomprehensible in years prior, as such positions are typically only given to well-established academics with a long and very high impact publication record.

To call this demoralizing would be a dramatic understatement.

Combine my sex and race with the fact that I refused to write the woke DEI statements that most universities had begun requiring, due to my strong moral opposition to DEI ideology, and landing a tenure-track position at a respectable university began to feel like a pipe dream.

I also watched many exceptionally smart and talented white male undergraduates abandon their aspirations of becoming academic scientists. They understood what was happening and chose career paths where success would still be tied to competence rather than sex and race.

[Donald Trump Jr. @DonaldJTrumpJr]

Amazing Tweet. So sad. So true.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

This unarmed man took down a terrorist in the middle of an attack on Bondi Beach in Australia.

Hero

[🇦🇪 HGS @Sajwani]

The face of a terrorist and loser

[Grummz @Grummz]

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, made for under $10M, shows just how broken AAA Gaming budgets are.

I've lead and produced many AAA projects, and adjusting for today's salaries, it breaks down like this:

Art is HUGE. It can easily be much more than this, 50% of dev budget for cinematic and movie style narrative games. But art doesn't actually guarantee a hit. It's more like the cost of entry to be visually competitive to be considered AAA. You'll easily drop 100M on the art, even outsourced to Asia.

Clair Obscur kept art costs very low, using Metahumans as a base and iPhones for motion capture.

They put the money into refining the gameplay over 5 years and innovating there instead. The result, much more bang for the buck.

But the marketing in AAA? Complete dinosaur thinking in the age of social media. TV spots, Superbowl spots, etc. just don't make sense anymore.

Riot Games CEO called me when they were just starting out. They were very worried about marketing and standing out against DOTA and HoN. They didn't have any money for marketing.

I told them not to worry about it, backing up Riot's intuition that marketing spend is the worst place to put your investment. He let me know that they had spent less than 1000 dollars so far and was glad to hear that I agreed with their strategy: reach out to players directly.

This was the smart play. The biggest factor in making a hit game is not the marketing (mobile is different, you have to pay for user acquisition or you never get traction). The biggest factor is GAMEPLAY.

Some studios are ART driven by culture. Others are PROGRAMMER driven (OG Id Software and tech), and OG Blizzard was DESIGN driven.

We also spent nearly nothing on WoW marketing for launch (5M or so, way less than War 3). Later on they spent much more because they were very worried about user churn in a sub based game (but putting marketing money into a proven success is valid to keep the machine growing).

I think the results speak for themselves. AAA is struggling because design took a back seat to art. If I had to rank the payoff strategies it would be:

Design first
Programming second
Art last

AAA should ditch their antique marketing budgets and pour the money into being Design first.

[BRjohn @jinjohnW]

@elonmusk Those who fantasize that directly seizing and redistributing the assets of the super-rich would solve any problems—why not try it yourself first? Take the money in your own pocket and give it directly to the homeless people near your home, then see what actually happens.