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Real art has something to say.

@ImKingGinger Long winded way of saying you've never worked in the industry and you have zero clue what you're talking about.

Unions are the worst thing to happen to Hollywood. Every time SAG-AFTRA or IATSE negotiates, they come away with higher day rates, bigger health and pension contributions, stricter overtime. I get why workers want that stuff. Better healthcare, more money. Sounds good right? But someone pays for it. You do. The subscriber. Union labor costs go up, production budgets go up, streamers raise prices. Netflix went from $7.99 to $22.99. Disney+ started at $6.99 and nearly tripled. The content didn’t get three times better. The labor costs went up. A massive chunk of that is union negotiations. I’ve been building LOOR for five years. I’ve sat in rooms with producers who literally cannot make what they want to make because the second you go union, your $500K budget becomes $2M. Same script. Same locations. Same shoot days. But now you need a union crew, union rates, union overtime, union pensions, union health fund, and paperwork that gets its own line item. What happens? The mid-budget film dies. The creative risks stop. Everything becomes franchise IP because that’s all that justifies the overhead. The union system doesn’t protect creativity. It kills it. It makes filmmaking so expensive that only massive corporations can play. The future of filmmaking is a punk rock garage band. Five people with cameras and AI tools. No permission. No $350/day minimums. No forced turnaround penalties. No trust fund you’ll never see because you didn’t hit enough hours. The best music ever made came from garages. Kids who couldn’t afford studios. People the industry said weren’t good enough. Same thing is happening in film right now. The tools exist. Cameras are cheap. AI fills gaps that used to need six crew members. Distribution is a URL. The free market is doing to Hollywood unions what Spotify did to record labels. Not overnight. But slowly, making them irrelevant because creators realized they don’t need the gatekeepers or the bureaucracy. I’m not saying union members are bad people. The system itself has become a cost disease that makes content worse and more expensive for everyone. The people who suffer most aren’t the A-list actors with residual checks. It’s independent filmmakers who can’t afford to start because the barrier to entry is artificially inflated by labor rules written for a completely different era. The future is non-union. The future is small teams. The future is creators who own what they make and don’t owe a percentage to an organization that doesn’t even know their name.

@RealMarcFoxx It sounds like you want it to fall. Can I ask why? Did you feel this way about Halo or Destiny?

Marathon continues it's gradual but inevitable decline. New content didn't help the numbers.

WAKE UP: Gamers And Developers Are At WAR WATCH: youtu.be/8KMmmewfJqM

@Grummz Just think, if you hadn't pissed about on Twitter for so many hours, you might have found the time to finish your game 😏

If we had not pushed back on AAA woke slop games so hard in 2024-25, we would have had far worse today. The reason you have better games now is because gamers spoke up, were viscously attacked for it, and still voted with their wallets. You’re welcome.

@gregdalton101 @HashbrownieThem @TheMG3D Classic Greg banter

@Tapu_Pixels @HashbrownieThem @TheMG3D It’s not Greg either that was someone’s dead relative I used as an email to fuck with em 😂

I love that more and more studios are against gen ai being used in their games

@gregdalton101 @HashbrownieThem @TheMG3D Chill out Greg

@HashbrownieThem @TheMG3D Or I could’ve just spent the time cum staining your mom’s kidney stones

You know it’s bad when they say this 💀

@TheMG3D Pretty bold of this guy to attempt to bully you, especially considering his real name and location are on full display in his bio 😆 but I'm sure Greg factored that in when he decided to act like an idiot 😆

They are so obsessed with me that they made me their whole personality 🤡

@kenshii_ai Of course it was! Billionaires don't get to where they are without being greed fuelled monsters.

OpenAI betrayed us all. Ads are now live in ChatGPT. Remember when they positioned themselves as the anti corporate AI savior? Gone. Now your free chats get polluted with ads to fund their empire. This was never about humanity. It was always about cash.

@gregdalton101 @TheMG3D Looks like someone has a obsession. Maybe reflecting on your life choices would be a good idea 👍

Someone trained AI on her music, got a distributor for it, the distributor then copyright claimed her videos and music that the AI was trained on, effectively stealing her money. An absolute outrage, AI and AI powered scammers are strangling creatives.

@HoustonTexans @CJ7STROUD @Tankdell4 @kamari_lassiter

Domain Expansion… 713.

@TheMG3D Why does this not surprise me 😞

Another reason to hate OpenAI

@Grummz Folks here complaining about wokeness and DEI like it's the root cause of the issue. The issue has ALWAYS been out of touch corporate thinking, prioritising greed over innovation and simply not taking creative risks.

Yes, it is the gamers who are wrong...

@Grummz What engine are you using for Em8er?

There was so much tech in the Overwatch engine. Blizzard had one of the best engine teams around. Now they are using Unreal. What happened?

@Regular2222 @Grummz For anyone not factoring in other logical arguments, I'm sure pretty quick 😆

@Tapu_Pixels @Grummz How long until you're a troon statistic?

Yes. It's an easy lesson. AAA should learn it.

@Axsonth @Grummz You judge my counter argument, yet list a ton of games that had key issues with game mechanics and fun factor. Also, Yotei was a success. The issue with AAA games is the lack of innovation in game play mechanics in the vast majority of cases.

@Tapu_Pixels @Grummz "You are wrong, because I only listed children games! Take that chuds!" Meanwhile failed games with ugly main characters: Starwars Outlaw, Avowed, Yotei, Assassins Shadows, Ex Voto, South of Midnight, Blooming, Lost Records... The more badass / attractive, the more it sells.

@Grummz Character design is important sure, but game mechanics and fun factor rule above all.

@Grummz Your argument falls apart the second you look outside your very specific examples... Unless you think Mario, Minecraft, Tetris, Wii Sports etc etc all fit your single note point you're attempting to make 🫩

@SmashJT Sounds like a statement you might have to learn as well 😆

Bro just say you were wrong.