[-] oscarlavi@lemmy.world 150 points 8 months ago

Insomniac, the dev team behind the wildly successful Spider-Man games just had a leak. In the leak, it's discovered that they were strong-armed by Sony (who owns Insomniac) to downsize staff despite exceeding sales targets and hitting goals. They needed to downsize to help balance Sony's books, who have acquired a slew of failing or underperforming studios.

Sony owns Studio A, and Studio B. Studio B have underperformed for the last few years, whilst Studio A has outperformed their targets. Because of the shortcomings in Studio B, Sony are now out of pocket, even accounting for the earnings of Studio A. Studio A are forced to eliminate staff roles to make up for Studio B's mismanagement. A well oiled and well performing Studio have to butcher their teams to balance their parent entity's books. It's so fucking short sighted and stupid.

This isn't just a Sony/Insomniac issue either, I guarantee this goes on throughout the industry whenever there's a parent company. It's just how it will always be in those circumstances.

[-] oscarlavi@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Seems patently anti-player, but pro shareholder. It's so clear cut.

[-] oscarlavi@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

I tend to be pretty pessimistic about these cases. Even if the UK Govt win, Google won't change anything, or if they do the change will be subtle enough to not have any impact

[-] oscarlavi@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Thing is, Trump didn't actually have a vision. He didn't think he was going to win, and he was using the whole election as a way to enrich himself. There is no Trump vision, he plans nothing.

[-] oscarlavi@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

I enjoyed Frasier, but not because of Frasier himself. I really enjoyed seeing the interaction between him and his brother Niles, along with Roz, Daphne etc.

So if this is just a show about Frasier, then I'm out.

[-] oscarlavi@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I was thinking "what the hell does social justice warriors have to do with this" and then I realised ಠ_ಠ

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[-] oscarlavi@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Holy shit, I forgot this channel existed, I loved Primitive Technology a few years ago. Thanks for the reminder!

[-] oscarlavi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Loving it. I was a longtime user of Reddit Sync, so I'm fully on board the Sync for Lemmy train.

The only thing I've noticed is that after a period of non use perhaps an hour or so, when I launch, it crashes back to my home screen. The only way I can get the app to open is by Clearing all Data then restarting.

[-] oscarlavi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Window open, door closed; window closed, door open. I do what I can to prevent unnecessary door slamming in the night caused by a draft from the window

[-] oscarlavi@lemmy.world 89 points 1 year ago

Welsh here. Not everyone speaks it, but that's because the English (even as late at the 1950's) used the school system to literally beat it out of us (look up the Welsh Not). Even with that concerted effort to force the language out, it's growing again after a few generations have passed. Being from the south, I know relatively few people who speak it fluently, but I know exactly 0 people who would actually want it abolished.

[-] oscarlavi@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Isn't this expected?

[-] oscarlavi@lemmy.world 61 points 1 year ago

Sync for Reddit was one of the best Reddit apps out there, I used it exclusively for years, I can't wait until Sync for Lemmy releases

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If I've got an account on multiple instances, where one of the instances is NSFW, is there a way for me to stop this instance from appearing in my main 'All' feed?

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