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@the_bmusic @tanyaxshort To follow the thesis management games are one of the common intuitive, non-combat paradigms for gameplay. I do think management games are an interesting edge case to this. The conflicts there are *very* abstract yet they have been ever present in gaming landscape.

@tanyaxshort Frostpunk is an interesting game without combat, unless you included combating the cold.

@RyanThinker There definitely seems to be a strong policy shift to in-person teaching. I would hope it would be done responsibly. I demanded remote as a contractual requirement and it's clearly not desired at a institutional level. Can feel a lot of passive systemic resistance against it.

@Anodesu So if you spin a tale of boards being the one true art that the worthless computer monkeys imitate, well, that just sets the stage to undervalue them, doesn't it? And there are a LOT more cg artists to undervalue than board artists, 2d, stop motion, physical effects, etc.

@Anodesu I'd hazard there's a bit of an underbelly to that if you wanted to draw unflattering conclusions. In 2d boards carry waaaay more weight than 3d. There is also a very strong societal bias against 3d, viewing cg as a tawdry, lesser form of art, put up with out of necessity.

I have written out and deleted so many things to say about this. Don't crap on the animators of these studios when it actuality, It's YOUR studio that doesn't give us the time or money to do our best. You already make twice as much as a Canadian animator before conversion.

@Anodesu After the better part of the week I got to tell the director. "what I did is not editable or reversible. There will be no notes. I'm not doing this again and I don't think anyone else here can." Feels good.

@Anodesu The shot had characters feet visible but also *couldn't* be planted for technical reasons. Characters arrayed like on bleachers. Impossible layout requirements. Had to hack the crowd tool, manually key Time node, animate disruptive camouflage to hide floating etc. Sheer madness.

Animators, do you have any nightmare shots you had to do that made you want to scream or cry in a bathroom? A shot that you only finished in a spite-induced trance?

@Anodesu "treat sheet" I like all my foods in sheet form.

Dad got me a rice krispy square. Banana for scale.

@Anodesu ... What?

I feel like i was April Fool'd so hard this morning. Like I literally got woken up and there was a pomeranian and she pooped on the kitchen floor and I walked her using a bandana and a purse strap and we found her owner all before 9:30 AM. Fuck.

@Anodesu Cause if so I *have* seen more women than men use it, but that's anecdotal and doesn't change the fact it's all hogwash either way. "for dudes" still stands though because it's less cloying to toxic masculinity, making it unique compared to more traditional hocus pocus...

@Anodesu Is that the INFJ-q-quarter-moon-over-nottingham one?

Myers Briggs is just just star signs for dudes.

@RubberNinja Whether its coincidental or malicious, a lot of angry degens are even angrier than they were before. And boy, them stonks gonna fly.

I'm reading all about this wallstreetbets/Gamestop/AMC stuff right now. This is so wild. Now they're trying to shut them down? Their discord, reddit and everything is gone but they still seem determined. I feel like we're about to see what we call the 'Streisand Effect'..

@Anodesu Though I legitimately think my favourite children's entertainer when I was a kid was Count Floyd...

@Anodesu Boneparte is where it's at. Working in children's TV certainly does have some wild moments though!

I don't even know what I'd place myself as, I'm just mad I knew what most of these are. Also EXTREMELY weird to think that some of the people who produced these shows are now people I've worked with.

@Anodesu That's never a bad idea. I could do with the same...

So I'm rewatching Space Dandy

@RyanThinker Sorry. I... Basically did that some years ago to pick up a second animation diploma, and was told by academic advisor there was an emergency council-in-session at Queen's Park to change some laws and close the loophole that allowed me to do it. So probably not?

@JosephJBroni @ExtraLife4Kids Youve probably heard of Atom Zombie Smasher but that's a good pick. Legions of Ashworld is pretty obscure, a strategy game that has a distinctly Arabian flair and is fully 1st person. Not sure if it'll play well for a streaming audience though...

@RhealxDoyle My deepest condolences, Rheal. Losing a parent is an incredibly difficult thing, let alone under those circumstances. If you need anything let me know.

My Dad passed away today. We found out he had COVID on Sunday. Feeling immensely guilty I havent seen him in over a year and his funeral is on Saturday and 5000km away. I'll miss you, Dad. Rest in peace.

@Anodesu What's all this about? All I know about Mulan is it's about ethnically Mongol Chinese citizen fighting for freedom whats been remade pandering to a regime cracking down on ethnically Mongol Chinese citizens. I'm all about clowning on toxic masculinity though. What's the goods?

The shit happening with Mulan is the reason a good chunk of Love Death and Robots is beyond infuriating. This is how you got a short about to white boys being shunned by their fellow soldiers because they were -checks notes- extremely strong werwolves.

@Anodesu Yeah I think I have, like, 2 credits. Maybe 3 I haven't checked. Out of... 4 (or 5 depending how you count) tv shows, some game and game adjacent projects, countless movies, and lettering a comic. Yuuuup. :(

I got some confirmation that I will actually be getting my second named animation credit of my career. For the record, I've been an animator on 5 TV shows and two video AAA games in 5 years. And this will be only my second official named credit.