mfinnigan

Other tweets include the delivery of sorrow.
He/him.

[mfinnigan @mfinnigan]

This is my second stint at a game company (5 years at Bungie, less then a year at Turbine ending in a layoff) but I can vouch for this. Ownership is still going to have to be accountable to accounts receivable and/or shareholders. You're a resource, you could be let go any time.

[EMC3D - Game Art @EMC3D]

As a junior, I was laid off from a 200+ person studio, it took me another year to get a job.

Management gathered us in a building down the road to announce it, whilst security attempted to lock the studio to revoke our access.

Here's my advice for folks breaking into #gamedev.

[mfinnigan @mfinnigan]

@BaldSkeptical @QuinnyPig Evil evil white boy!

[mfinnigan @mfinnigan]

@hthieblot https://t.co/zgrOxvoNvc

[Peter Bonilla @pebonilla]

I feel like no matter how many people know about the lengths senior eBay execs went to torment and terrorize this New England couple, not enough people know about the lengths they went to torment and terrorize this New England couple. Cleaning this up just cost them $56 million.

[‏ً @heisdenji]

Ben Affleck admits Chasing Amy forced him to confront his own internalized homophobia

Interviewer: Chasing Amy. How do you feel like this film has aged?

Ben Affleck: At the time, what I thought was interesting about it was that it alluded to a spectrum of sexual orientation. It looked at what a love relationship between men looks like.

We have friendships with men that we love very much, and it was a way of looking at whether there’s a continuum or spectrum. I thought that was kind of honest.

Frankly, I found myself having to challenge my own internalized homophobia because I found it so difficult to kiss Jason. I thought, “This is really embarrassing. This is clearly some internalized thing because why should that be a difficult thing to do for me?”

I still think I did a shitty and unconvincing job of it, and I feel very disappointed by that. I’d love the chance to do better, although now I’m not sure the idea of playing a gay character would be welcome. I don’t want to offend anyone in this direction.

It was a movie that, at the time, felt like it was pushing some boundaries. And in retrospect, as often happens, the world has evolved.

[Nate Sandhart (Swinehart) @unlevelednate]

ROOK'S REVENGE - A Marathon Musical 🎶🤖🎶

My animated medley to the underdogs of Tau Ceti IV, where all the Mean Girls roam.

#Marathon #Bungie #Callipeg @MarathonTheGame

[mfinnigan @mfinnigan]

@JoshKulinski Eh. Tomorrow we pick up our shit from the studio. Next week, I start a new dream

[Charlie Cummings @klaytheist11]

An insurance company is trying to kill my life partner. Felt it was appropriate to write down the rage I feel

[mfinnigan @mfinnigan]

@mishko27 @thetrompwner @ASBaird There were little bits earlier than that. I remember the Fourth Story above the Tattered Cover. Good food, first time I ever had grappa too, in 2002 or so

[jezz @JezziiB]

If men don't want their political careers being derailed by credible rape accusations, then they're going to just have to stop with all the raping.

[mfinnigan @mfinnigan]

@samikatplays Let me know if you need a code, I still have a few I can give.

[SamiKat @samikatplays]

Here’s the LONGEST story you may ever read on Twitter (like 10k characters 😅), but I’m in the mood to share it, so fuck it.

———————

TW: Grooming

When I worked at Activision in 2013, I was one of a maximum of five women at any given time in Functional QA. My first year, 10% of the team were women, my second year, when Call of Duty testing came to the office, I was one of 0.03% of the team.

I was the night shift office mom, and for the longest time, I loved it. I’d go above and beyond making sure everybody knew what they should be doing, cleaning up after them before day shift came in, and still getting second highest bug count for the project with fewest NABs (“not a bug”. I was 24, popular, and proving to my bosses I could do more and better than the boys, and I had the best interest of the team in mind. Two senior tester spots opened up and everybody was sure I’d get it. They each went to men. My project lead was a woman, so sure it couldn’t be that. I asked my manager what I could do better to progress, and he said keep doing what I was doing and try again next time if I’m invited back for another contract.

I was invited back early for another contract, this time for Call of Duty. The project I was placed on was much smaller, on PC (I had NEVER done PC gaming prior, that was fun) with no controller support, and it was all in CHINESE. I was one of two women out of 12 testers at least. It was a mess the first couple weeks because, you know, Chinese, so to help the team, I purchased a Mandarin-to-English dictionary to help translate the menus. Calling Team Deathmatch “Tree” wasn’t cutting it. I made a document and shared it with the team and management. On top of that, I reviewed bugs, installed new builds, and talked direction with my manager about issues testers were experiencing. ALL SENIOR tester level shit. At the end of that short contract, two lead positions opened up for the larger Call of Duty project coming that summer: Advanced Warfare. Two men got them, I asked what I could do to improve, I was told to keep doing what I was doing, and maybe next time.

So I could stay on at Activision between contracts, I moved to the very small Microsoft TRG (Technical Requires Group) team. I LOVED it there. I wasn’t that good because of all the technical aspects, and although I was the only woman, every single person treated me with the upmost respect and offered their help. Then a new team of four testers was opening up for Call of Duty on the functional team, and they asked if I would come back and help it get off the ground as a tester. I had respect and support in TRG, but I had the opportunity to show my worth in functional. I was going to get lead eventually, and I was going to run a Call of Duty project, and then I was going apply to work at my dream studio, Bungie. I NEEDED to work at Bungie. All of this would be worth it once I was there.

That small team under me was a brand new type of the people higher than the managers requested be formed, and I was going to help set the foundation. I was going to work directly with the High Moon devs. I was getting somewhere! To better facilitate communications with the devs, the shift was moved two hours back (CDT to PDT), although the project lead over me was still on CDT time. Our lunch breaks were different, I stayed two hours later, and I had no fucking clue what I was doing. Nobody did. So I did what I always did: I went above and beyond and pieced it together. I worked directly with the project manager after my lead went home, and he praised me and encouraged me to keep doing what I was doing. He didn’t think any lead positions would open up anytime soon, but if they did, I was on the right track.

[Mike Drucker @MikeDrucker]

The thing I keep coming back to - and I recognize this is not an original thought - is that if AI was so beloved and useful, companies wouldn’t need to fist fuck it into every program and change icons so users use it by mistake.

[Daniel Manitou @ActualPerson084]

RETURN ALL ICE AGENTS TO HELL

[alex lei @alexL_E_I]

been thinking about this Lee Marvin interview all day

[dmg04 @A_dmg04]

What the fuck are you talking about

I am not happy that people are being paid under livable wages, nor that they, along with small businesses, are hurt in the process.

I don’t think the only viable solution is to flood the streets of our country with armed federal forces in an effort to seek and deport whoever is deemed undesirable.

Why are you so desperately trying to slander and villainize so many of the American people?

Where is your compassion?
Where is your empathy?
Why are you not seeking to unite this country?
Why are you not trying to improve this world?

[nixCraft 🐧 @nixcraft]

Rob Pike co-creator of Go, Unix veteran, and a pioneer of minimalist and high quality engineering reaction to that unsolicited AI spam or slop is 100% valid

[mfinnigan @mfinnigan]

@clockyhorror @chhopsky @hausofdecline I'm a straight cis man on a mostly gay rugby team. This is my new favorite slur.

[mfinnigan @mfinnigan]

@Irken_privateer @ortegalud @pulte You know the location matters. I bought a 1960s raised ranch near Seattle in 2019 for 490k, comps are a lot higher now.

[nova 𖣠 @hillcrypt]

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked mon mothma and she said the death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil