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Rowlet enthusiast

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I had a dream in which Geralt of Rivia helped the fun gang take down the Chaos King.

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@RealMikeHollow Brawl is so fucking peak.

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@SolMadness012 @RealMikeHollow Mike has done videos covering crazy left-leaning people. Wouldn't be surprised if he got called names by them too. And yet he still finds people he can get along with, and not have to resort to using slurs. Have you ever thought that you may be the problem? That u need to change?

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@SolMadness012 @RealMikeHollow If there's anything I hate more than transphobes is cowardly transphobes. Don't play dumb. You know exactly what you were doing when you used that word. But it seems Mike already schooled you on this, so I won't say anything more. Be better, and be respectful.

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@SolMadness012 @RealMikeHollow Gtfo with this "I just want to have conversations" facade you're giving @RealMikeHollow. You posted this just 3 days ago. You just want a safe space that allows you to be cruel and not having to interact people you hate.

PS: you haven't changed, you're still a hateful person.

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@itotweets_ @maximilian_ lmao!

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Emotionless calm stoic men when you joke about anything other than minorities:

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@BuffGigas Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck....

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Jesus is cool, Christofascists are not.

[orxa alt🫍🇵🇭 @orxinustfu]

this is genuinely me after i became atheist/agnostic. u just start seeing jesus as a homie

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@RyanStewartVO @ArielHck @KatieSpradlinVO @adamasenko @MeggieEliseVA "Thanks, Nav"

[Katsuhiro Harada @Harada_TEKKEN]

At least in game development, what really matters is whether everyone in the organization—from the owners and top management all the way down to the people actually making the games—can share and genuinely relate to a love for games and a desire to create something.

As obvious as that may sound, the reality is that there are workplaces where you can go day after day without feeling even the slightest trace of either.

Especially when executives and leaders genuinely love games and are players themselves, conflicts within the organization tend to become meaningful conflicts over creation—arguments that may be intense, but are still moving along the same vector. And that is often where something new is born.

When the opposite is true, however, those conflicts become nothing more than a battle against irrationality. And if, by bad luck, that continues for a long time, even a strong team can eventually be destroyed.

There are several important factors when game developers work as an organization under executives and leaders, but most important are:

(1) whether those leaders can earn respect

or

(2) whether they have a vision that people can believe in.

The first is relatively easy to imagine. If executives or leaders have an outstanding track record in the field, respect tends to come naturally.

This may sound obvious, but there have in fact been cases where leaders had not merely achieved nothing in game development, but had virtually no understanding of development or games in the first place. Worse still, there have been organizations in such a terminal state that people known primarily for sexual harassment or abusive management ended up in leadership positions through favoritism and connections among senior management. Many people have probably seen or heard of organizations like this.

Respect from developers does not simply emerge from an organizational title or rank. And yet there are still quite a few people who seem to misunderstand this, believing that hierarchy and job titles alone somehow create a leader.

That said, even someone without a track record can be a strong leader if they have a vision that people can genuinely believe in.

For example, even if someone comes from another industry and has no experience developing games, an organization can still function extremely well if that person has a powerful vision that gets to the heart of the matter—something people can understand, share, and rally around.

The opposite is when an employee asks,
“Why did you introduce this system? What exactly are you trying to achieve with it?”
and the answer is something like,
“Because as the head of this organization, I want to do the right thing!”

If nobody can define what “the right thing” actually means, there is no clear objective and no identifiable vision. The organization then wastes enormous amounts of time playing a guessing game, trying to infer what that person is thinking and somehow arrive at the answer they have in their head.

Organizations like that gradually begin to fall apart.

So if you ask me what makes a good environment for developers, one answer would be this:

There needs to be either a certain degree of genuine respect for the people leading the organization, or a strong vision that people can believe in.

Only when one of those things exists does real challenge become possible—and with it, the possibility of creating something genuinely new.

When neither exists, an organization either descends into chaos, or people simply begin treating their work as “just a job,” carrying out tasks every day that have little or nothing to do with creativity.

That difference is enormous.

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@eldiariodedross Qué triste ver tu caída. De alguien que cuestionaba y se oponía al autoritarismo a alguien agradeciéndole al hombre más rico del mundo por darte migajas. Pero supongo que esas son las consecuencias de no dejar esta mentalidad pueril de "rage baiting" atrás.

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@vantafluid @GenePark Your error is assuming Kirk memes are overtly political. The way I see it they have gone beyond their political context, and people like you are underestimating how many kids are joking about it because they want to participate. Kirk is essentially a meme mascot like Pepe now.

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Love him or hate him, Charlie Kirk got in death what he sought in life: to become popular with the youth.

[Gene Park @GenePark]

I spoke with experts in cognitive neuroscience and memes to explore why, one year after his death, we see Charlie Kirk's face everywhere.

https://t.co/UiH1ksthTQ

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@Harada_TEKKEN Happy for you, Harada-san! B*mco didn't deserve you!

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@VLONEPREDATOR The only thing that ghoul cares about is money. Of course he didn't delete.

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Fuera de broma, qué consecuencias exactamente se imaginaba Dross?

[DROSS @eldiariodedross]

La muerte de Charlie Kirk tendrá consecuencias.

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@MightyKeef I've seen more Charlie Kirk memes than Nintendo Direct memes and this should NOT be the case, man!

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@_MissClick_ He looked adult to me when I was a kid!