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Just so you know, the local health official who declared masks mandatory was sent death threats en masse. She resigned, and they immediately removed the mask order.
COVID is going to surge because we lack solidarity and scientific literacy.
Stay home.
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We're walking out tomorrow to demand changes which will protect and promote women and other marginalized devs.
We are fighting for Blizzard, because we know it can be better.
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ngl this is the masculinity young boys should be taught.
there's toughness here. kid got nailed, and he is still there trying to play.
but there is also kindness, empathy, vulnerability, and bravery for breaking the flow of the game to go let this other kid off the hook.
"Hey, you're doing just great"
Oklahoma little leaguer gets hit in the head and then comforts the pitcher who is shaken up afterward
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laid off alongside a whole host of wonderful events designers
pretty gutted but doing what i can for friends
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@catacalypto
junior: so this triangle goes in the triangle hole, right?
senior: ngl I don't remember the last time I used any hole but the square one
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i know a lot of the coverage is focused on what isn't happening, but there is stuff we actually get to ship and i hope we earn some excitement back from y'all once we do
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"We're making a revolutionary new kind of game with NFT's" is the new "we're building an MMO with six people."
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some small personal overwatch news alongside launch today
i'm taking up the lead pve design role on the team
our team is full of fun ideas and i can't wait for them to show off starting today
hopefully a full spectrum of more chill to properly sweaty pve in y'all's future :D
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So... lots of big news today.
Robyn is pregnant.
And I got permanent remote status so we can move to Georgia, where we can be closer to her family when the baby comes later this year.
We're heading out in early July.
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this is the last thing my team was making before the layoffs
we playtested this and had a lot of laughs together
grab some friends and have fun with it, we definitely did <3
oh and if you have any design jobs for folks involved, please hit me up. i have some folks for you!!
We’re diving tentacles first into the all-new co-op event, Cosmic Crisis 🐙☄️
Uncover what secrets lurk in the shadows and hop into Cosmic Crisis today 👁️
📖
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We can't build great games without veteran QA. We can't have veteran QA unless analysts can stick around a while, and earn enough money to focus on work.
Games are getting more complex, and QA helps us manage that complexity.
We cannot do this without them.
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glad my last day on overwatch was spent playtesting with good people
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there are plenty of reasons to be frustrated and maybe a bit cynical about ow sometimes but this pride stuff is just unmitigated joy from the team
i hope y'all can enjoy a good moment :)
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Overwatch owned me from the start, as the game hoping to sit atop the design legacies of TF2, Quake, and Unreal Tournament.
It really bummed me out, as a player and fan, how long we went with no content. No hype. Fans and creators left hungry.
It is time to feed y'all again.
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My new role has me looking for experienced game devs who know Warcraft deeply, and would be interested in working out of our Boston office.
We need more people to make dungeons and raids, as well as creatures for the outdoor world!
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aaron ain't lying about the editor
the overwatch tools are stupid good
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Today is my last day full-time on WoW. I'm spending it with a beer, listening to a stream, and adjusting a laser that will murder raiders *just so.*
A few days here and there to test and polish this last raid boss, but starting Monday, it's Overwatch time!
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Still can't believe how awesome
@Faebelina
was in doing a very special gobbo for a Blizzcon badge!
Very good chance Rixxa's gonna melt your bones.
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Been enjoying a bit of reflection on the last six years now that this raid boss I'm working on is likely to be my last for WoW.
I'm moving to Overwatch on the 12th, and my god am I excited for it.
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Y'all need to realize how mad game developers have to be to take a full day not making games. Our jobs are really, really fun even when they're stressful.
The fight is worth it. Women deserve to make games without fear or disrespect.
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I don't want to go super deep into it here, but Robyn and I lost the pregnancy.
I was mulling over not posting at all, but at this point I'd rather not have a dozen individual conversations explaining why I've been so anti-social the last few weeks especially with us moving.
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Not changing my twitter bio but I flexed pretty hard the last two years and earned a promotion to Senior II.
I have clarity of purpose with what I'm building and what I want the team to be.
Big responsibility on my shoulders, but every day is fun, and rewarding.
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my colleague just told me that i have a "solved skill tree" and they have a "deep skill tree" so they're banned from path of exile until i can figure out what is going on
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I know people are weird about mobile gaming in the west but the thing being revealed next week is rad and y'all will love it.
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The
#ActiBlizzWalkout
started with women at the studio who were over this shit. They roped in collaborators, and in under a week, we turned out hundreds.
The organizing was anxious, but driven by consensus and feedback.
I am so proud of my colleagues.
We're gonna do better.
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The last day of Overwatch 1.
NGL I'm pretty emotional, even knowing first hand how good the game is when we
#SeeYouOnTheOtherSide
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Maybe a storytelling and highlight dumping thread?
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@heyjulesfern
I’m a designer. You might know me from my greatest hits “what are you trying to do?” “I think we need an adult” and “I know it’s a hack but it’s really really cool”
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The last six years of Overwatch have been some of my happiest playing games.
Met some really fun people, had a big breakthrough in preventing my own tilt, and learned a lot about how to intentionally improve at a game.
OW2 is what we need, but I'm gonna enjoy this final week.
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Nvidia: "This will do 8k at 60fps"
Gamers: "yea yea ok" *sets graphics to low, refresh at 240*
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Top tier players know the score when it comes to interacting with devs.
I wish the noisy few weren't so nasty, because in a perfect world y'all would get to see how much we love you nerds and the games we work on.
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i was angela's lead and you could not find a more joyful and capable person for your team!!
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In case anyone doubts the importance of Blizzcon… I am up before 6am to get to the show to make sure y’all have a good one.
Should be a fun day! :D
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@simonbelmonts
@RainofTerra
LOL
the game literally begins with "the rich live on a disk that blocks us away from the sun and its probably fucked please join our guerilla movement"
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i love my coworkers and the dumb games we get to make
days like today make me wonder if i should leave, but the games i've worked on at blizz (and their communities) are my home
i'm just sick of the demoralization cycle
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The ghoulish public statement is absolutely not speaking for me, nor for the peers I've heard opening up since all this came out.
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I don't have a soundcloud to link but Black Lives Matter and Trans Rights are Human Rights.
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i'm glad that the majority of nerds pinging me about the news are upset but not weird to me or my colleagues personally.
that's appreciated, and your frustration is super reasonable.
if you do get weird i'll probably block though.
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Playtested something new with live humans for the first time and it went well.
The brain chemicals are good.
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Every game developer you've yelled at on the internet has cared about their game to the point of exhaustion, for longer than you know.
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@GeeDee215
Oh, this apple has a sticker on it?
That sticker is going on the counter right above the trash. Why? I can't explain it.
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a key lesson is that the only thing that matters in this business is what you ship, everything else isn't real
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I got a commission of my Goblin to commemorate my total loss of sanity during Ny’alotha development.
I am in awe of
@sparehorn
’s work!
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Heartbroken but not surprised.
The women I’ve learned from in games deserve so much better.
Squash this behavior when abusers think so little of you that they’ll admit what they say or do to women thinking you’re ok with it.
It absolutely must end.
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NGL if returning to the office was optional, but everyone who did return had to be vaccinated, I might get it.
But actively removing the vaccine mandate and telling people RTO is good for us is totally braindead.
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Get in losers, we're eating the rich.
The richest could lose hundreds of billions under Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax
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Dropped off my PC to have Blizz ship it to Atlanta.
Bonus visit with Tall Tracer!
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Wrapping up a 12 week stint with the WoW team today. I thought I'd made my last thing on WoW with Fatescribe, but I'm happy to work on a second dungeon.
Eager to get back to Overwatch, but the WoW Encounter team is always a pleasure to work with. :)
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I finally got around to commissioning an artist to do a Goblin x Overwatch crossover, and I'm super happy with her! :D
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We should probably outlaw corporate ownership of housing, and expropriate all of the houses they already own.
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The Horde have acquired the Alliance in an all-gold deal, roughly equivalent to an entire mythic tier of BoEs.
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the overwatch narrative team right now is absolutely incredible
every one of them
the deeper we let them go in storytelling, the better!!
I talked with Kyungseo Min,
@Trouvai11e
and
@bethbryson
about the
𝑶𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝑫𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑺𝒊𝒎
and I cannot impress upon you enough that they are all geniuses who should be put in charge of Overwatch lore immediately.
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Come work with me, building a deep and replayable content system for OW2 PvE.
My DMs are open if you have non-NDA questions.
Especially eager to take apps from women/poc/lgbtqia folks with shooter experience! <3
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The nft/blockchain gaming thing coming from suits in the industry is proof that they do not understand what makes people love games.
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I saw a tweet last night about "reverse gatekeeping" where you go around enthusiastically telling your friends about shit you like until they come join you in liking it and this is my entire adult life.
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There is such a stark contrast between the shadow of corporate life and the brilliant light of my team.
The people who make Overwatch for a living are fantastic, and the more I get to know them, the luckier I feel to be counted among their numbers.
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My lasting thought from Alpha is that toxicity is near zero when the entire set of people playing are accountable for their actions.
Salt without nastiness.
It was a group who would lose their livelihood if they were shitters.
But that low-tox environment has to be the goal.
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learn to see women in the industry as your creative peers and not a dating pool or get the fuck out of the industry
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