Span_Wolf
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Span_Wolf
@Span_Wolf
Gay bork-dork, 20y+ Game Industry Vet - Note: This is my private personal account. Understand that I will say unprofessional, possibly even NSFW things here.
Katılım Mayıs 2013
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@GreenTextRepost My ex did this to me and then broke up the next day.
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Here are five things I learned spending 46 years in the game industry.
1) if they say "we don't need a contract", you NEED a contract.
2) if they say, "don't you trust us?" DON'T trust them.
3) never let an upper-level manager see a game with unfinished art. They won't understand, will make you change things, and throw off your schedule.
4) never, EVER, sign a deal with Electronic Arts. They can and have openly betrayed even the most iron-clad contracts, even when it goes against their own interests. At Satan's command, I assume.
5) focus groups, at least for games, are completely valueless. They're just there for the free sandwiches.
I suspect most of these rules apply outside the game industry. AND I suspect you guys can add more useful rules to my short list. Have at it!

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@Adam_Karpiak I see this all the time on LinkedIn, and I wish you could report them, but there is no option under the report feature for reporting this kind of fraud specifically. They need to add a reporting option for misleading/deceptive job descriptions.
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@LinkedInLunat1c I had an interviewer confuse me for another candidate, reject for a mistake the other candidate made during their interview, then double down when I pointed out that they were confusing me with someone else. He admitted he was wrong, but said he was rejecting me anyway.
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@americanmcgee I thought that the game dragged a bit, and was longer than it needed to be. I always felt that if each chapter was a bit leaner that I would have enjoyed the overall game much more. It's refreshing to hear you confirm this. I absolutely loved the first Alice though.
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It would be fair to say that there was a fairly big disconnect between the game I wanted to make and the game EA Marketing wanted me to make when we were developing Madness Returns.
The marketing team felt strongly that a Hard M title focused on gore, horror, and featuring a "psychotic" Alice was what audiences would respond to best.
I did NOT want portray Alice as a psycho, cover her in blood, or "make things more sexy" (yes, that was a request). Famously, I pasted dildos onto the head of a giant snail in response to the "sexy" request and emailed that to the Marketing team.
They stopped making those requests 😂
That I was even able to say "no" to any of this was a function of the finance deal that underpinned the project. It wasn't EA that funded the project - it was a bank in Los Angeles. And the deal was structured as film production deals are structured, via something called bond finance.
This meant that so long as we stayed on schedule and budget, we maintained complete autonomy in relation to the design, story, and production. We had to stick to the original design and script that we submitted after the end of pre-production.
And we did. For the entire project, we never missed a milestone. And as a result, we could say "no" to any and all requests or demands from EA.
This setup was fantastic until it wasn't. When we got to end of the project, I knew we needed another 30-60 days for polishing (the game felt overly long in some places - editing was needed).
EA, probably a bit out of spite, said, "no." Fair play.
And so, we delivered the game precisely on budget and schedule without interface from EA. But also without the ability to request and receive a final month or two of editing.
We made history in relation to all this. Madness Returns wasn't just the first AAA game fully developed by a Chinese team. It was also the first ever game to be bond financed in China. We were also the first team ever to tell EA gyf and (kinda) get away with it 😂
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Alice: Madness Returns (2011)
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@scifiwizardman @MissCryptidArt This was two separate jobs years apart. One was at a fast food place, and I think the guy just wanted to cry racism and get free food. The other was a whole family in an electronics shop saying I acted racist towards them, I'm thinking to try and scam a free TV or something.
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@Span_Wolf @MissCryptidArt Same thing happened to me once. The tactic is that if just one person makes a report, then it’s more likely to be written off, but if two separate people make two separate reports, then that’s a pattern that management has to look into.
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We've teamed up with @Hali to give away a signed custom GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition! 🔵🟡
Want it? Tell us what multiplayer PC game you and the squad have put the most hours in to enter to WIN!

NVIDIA GeForce@NVIDIAGeForce
Now entering the GeForce Garage ring...it's @Hali! 🟡🔵 To celebrate Wrestlemania weekend, 2x NBA All-Star and Olympic gold medalist Tyrese Haliburton builds his first PC and gets a surprise worthy of a big gold belt. Watch the full build: nvda.ws/4ctWPuy
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PRAGMATA has launched with #RTXON, featuring path tracing and DLSS 4!
To celebrate, we are giving away this custom wrapped GeForce RTX 5090 featuring Hugh and Diana, perfect for the adventure that awaits on the moon.
Want it? Comment "PRAGMATA RTX" to enter!

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American “hasn’t been to Burger King in a long time,” he went and is shocked by how small the items have gotten
He ordered a Double Cheeseburger. He shows it’s now basically as small as a slider
He puts a French fry across it to show a single small French fry is now bigger than the Double Cheeseburger in length
People started noticing this new drastic decrease in size of the Burger King double cheeseburger in late 2025, early 2026
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@nocontextmemes This is why I didn't get to sleep until 6AM this morning.
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