lauren | storyboard artist

20s • she/her • More active on Insta

[Return of the Psychic: A Psych Zine @aPsychZine]

First the Muppets, now Rabbids too? Who will the Psych crew stumble into next? Find out this Saturday in Return of the Psychic: a Psych Zine!

[the thicc husband & father @lukeisamazing]

well yeah, I don’t want to be rude

[lauren | storyboard artist @lolacucaaa]

@VazVersionExten @xX_Kuri_Xx @psykit @oliwerwieze AMAZINGGG I love it thank you!!!

[Return of the Psychic: A Psych Zine @aPsychZine]

And thus, the zine countdown begins! Please welcome our first round of amazing contributors!

[Demonic Tacos @toastynomnoms]

@TwistedMindInc A gem from back in the tumblr days 🤣

[lauren | storyboard artist @lolacucaaa]

@VazVersionExten Omg that’s so sweet!! Excited to see them 👀

[domiti titis/*commissions open @domiti_o]

HI GUYS
I need money so I’m opening commissions which deadline is 2days!!
All you need is to send me references ❤️🥹
payment via lavatop!

ll be glad to repost 💗

[party at joking universe @althea123567]

“he was even sexier than garrus” let’s not get too hasty now

[lauren | storyboard artist @lolacucaaa]

@Wistful_Wolf @Perrincapybara Thanks for clarifying. I’m gonna look into it a little more because I was excited to play it. Still not too happy about genAI use in any part of the pipeline.

[lauren | storyboard artist @lolacucaaa]

:( #MassEffect

[Gray @Spectre_Gray]

Veilguard did not kill BioWare. Private equity killed BioWare. Money killed BioWare. Corporate greed killed BioWare. Shut the fuck up about wokeness and Veilguard for fuck’s sake. Holy shit

[Mapocolops @Mapocolops]

Reminder:
- EA cancelled the Single Player Dragon Age 4 in development from 2015-2017

- Pushed them to create a live service Dragon Age because of trend chasing. They considered multiplayer the future of gaming, "nobody plays single player games anymore" except then Jedi Fallen Order released with huge success and they pivoted again.

- After 3 years of development on Live Service Age from 2018-2021, EA & Bioware decide to remove the Multiplayer component but instead of rebooting a second time they gave them 18 months to rip out all that live service work and have them make it a single player game AGAIN, at a significant disadvantage to meet expectations.

- Six years of wasted development now, when a lot of the series veterans had been laid off or quit out of frustration with EA along with numerous management and staff changes. Among these names are David Gaider, Mike Laidlaw, and later before Veilguard's release Mary Kirby. Her departure was an abysmal sign for the future of DA before this next game had even released.

- This resulted in the announcement of Dragon Age Dreadwolf in 2022, later renamed Veilguard which retained the scars of it's live service development when it released in 2024 and was never the true game Bioware would have given us if they hadn't been constantly fucked around.
We could and should have had the intended Dragon Age 4 before 2020, instead it took almost a DECADE for the follow up.

The worst things these companies do is trend chase something, with zero foresight on temporary trends. By the time you release that game public opinion has shifted. Rocksteady's Suicide Squad as a clear example of this too.
Just let creative people make something they are passionate about and stop putting them in boxes. Let developers make something real by giving them time and resources to deliver something memorable with a clear goal, not a post mortem example like Anthem on how not to develop a game.

EA has been fucking over Bioware basically since they acquired them. Issues with Andromeda, Anthem, Veilguard aside as yes all three have their issues and you'll even have people going back to Mass Effect 3/DA2/Inquisition with issues as well; a lot of this comes from a long long period of EA pushing Bioware into a corner and then watching them be a punching bag for it. It also comes from internal schisms within Bioware where there was a strange Mass Effect vs Dragon Age rift and David Gaider said they may as well have been two different studios with how the culture was different, plus the writers getting fucked over at every turn.

People taking the lowest hanging fruit possible and are gonna just say it was Veilguard, it was Anthem, it was Andromeda etc that sealed their fate when in actual reality it was a long list of issues going back 15+ years that led to the issues within those games in the first place.

[𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔟𝔬𝔴𝔢𝔢𝔫🕸️ @livinlargetimbo]

what is mamdani going to do about bioware?

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

EA is shutting down BioWare, the studio behind ‘Dragon Age’ and ‘Mass Effect’.

The next ‘Mass Effect’ game has been cancelled as a result.

(Source: https://t.co/26yWpyozyo)

[lauren | storyboard artist @lolacucaaa]

@McDuckyArt 🤩

[lauren | storyboard artist @lolacucaaa]

@orange_capybara I didn’t know about burlap either 😭 I think I used a pencil skirt and a corset top

[lauren | storyboard artist @lolacucaaa]

@pistashxo This was such a problem in my classes that didn’t have participation requirements and even ones that did struggled with this! I tried to tone it down so others could talk but the profs had to give up and it was just us speaking 😭😭

[lauren | storyboard artist @lolacucaaa]

Oh and to clarify I meant the minimum yearly earnings. My first year working I knew I wasn’t going to work enough hours to hit that benchmark so I waived my taxes to save time and not have to wait for my tax return.

[lauren | storyboard artist @lolacucaaa]

@chrollogay If you’re going to make less than the minimum amount you should be able to waive your taxes (USA) federal is easy but state taxes might be harder to waive. You might be able to get that money in your tax return but I’m not 100% sure