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Blake 🪑

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2 years

Male gamers have a responsibility to bully the living shit out of any dude who gets creepy when there's a fem sounding person in voice chat

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Well this got more attention than I'd like Point is call out incels If you value your gaming community then you should be trying to make it better by calling out toxic behavior This isn't being a "white knight" it's doing the bare minimum

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Working in the game industry now and making friends is the most wild shit cause I'll casually mention a game that was pivotal in my life and someone is just like "oh yeah I worked on that"

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8 months

Crazy to think about how many talented people are no longer in the game industry cause they were burnt and pushed out by the actions of this asshole and the rest of ATVI leadership

CharlieIntel

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8 months

Bobby Kotick is officially no longer the CEO of Activision Blizzard. Today was his final day as CEO.

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2 years

Some of the angry people replying really need to read up on the paradox of tolerance

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5 months

Some studios have like cool cardboard cutouts and games meanwhile Larian just builds a fuckin castle on the show floor

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2 years

@ShitpostGate I'd like to propose the Thomas Jefferson option: put the bed in a doorway

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Blake 🪑

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3 years

I'm just saying any gamer bro that harasses QA would probably cry if they had to understand Jira

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Blake 🪑

@fsfblake

2 years

Lmao the people thinking im trying to praise myself with this post This was just a random tweet I made after work about me not liking creeps in online games Never said people can't defend themselves and I definitely didn't expect this to reach thousands

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2 years

@AwhItsPichu Ya know I've seen a lot of odd and bad takes today but this might be the dumbest

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Blake 🪑

@fsfblake

3 months

Hi can I disable this. I want my friends to see all the weird shit I like because I'm not a coward

Engineering

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3 months

Starting today, Likes are private for everyone. Liking more posts will make your For you timeline better.

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2 years

"is QA a game dev?" Go ahead and try to ship a game without QA and see what happens. People use bugs in games as an example of why QA is useless when in reality AAA titles wouldn't even be playable without QA

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2 years

@Meeowphie I mean people should call out each other for doing weird or creepy shit in general but this specifically was just a comment on how men need to hold other men accountable in gaming spaces which notoriously does not happen as much as it should

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8 months

@chhopsky Lol the one time I ever "spoke out" in all-hands was when him and Kostich were rambling about shit and I realized they left chat on so I just said "man this podcast is kinda boring" and I IMMEDIATELY got many slack DMs

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3 years

@verge Ah close! Its actually "theft"

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10 months

People saying devs should just "start a studio" sound like boomers telling people "just buy a house"

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3 years

@_TechJess Imma just drop this here

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4 months

Someone asked me about the biggest misconceptions with QA

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Blake 🪑

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10 months

Teardown is truly a perfect game for ADHD QA testers. I've spent hours just doing shit like this

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Blake 🪑

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2 years

Nobody wants to admit that Guitar Hero for the DS was the peak of innovation in games

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Blake 🪑

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3 years

I joke about how much it costs to acquire me but the number is actually relatively low As a Senior QA Tester at Activision I make $38,480 a year Pretty simple honestly Pay me more than that and I'll come do QA or community management for your studio

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2 years

Gamers go feral when games are delayed but complain when games are rushed Almost like they have no concept of how games are made and just enjoy being angry

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3 years

@_TechJess I feel like the line "A union doesn't do anything to help us produce world-class games" Really shows where the priorities are here

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Blake 🪑

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1 month

If mass layoffs happen after releasing the best received content ever then maybe the C-suite folks are the problem

Bungie

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1 month

This morning, we shared an important update with the Bungie team on the difficult decision to eliminate 220 roles at Bungie. You can read the full statement below.

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3 years

Any studio that used to crunch to meet deadlines is an incorrect answer

The Game Awards

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3 years

Who do you think is the highest quality game developer or team in the world today?

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9 months

Gamers love to throw out the phrase "lazy devs" especially at AAAs but this industry is some of the most passionate people I've ever met. Theres other aspects for sure such as burnout, scoping issues, lack of training, etc etc but really there's very few actual "lazy" devs

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2 years

Game devs are hot Musicians are hot Queers are hot So if you're a queer game dev that can play an instrument congrats

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Blake 🪑

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10 months

Gamers asking why they should care about layoffs since the games are "unaffected" don't realize we will be seeing the impacts of the last few months for years to come

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@fsfblake

2 years

Damn every time I look at this the replies get weirder and worse. Im not saying to put on a fedora and shout "STAY AWAY FROM MY QUEEN" Im saying you should tell people to shut the fuck up when they get weird towards other players

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2 years

Remember like 2 months ago when people were aggressively arguing with game devs saying the future is transferring items between games That crowd seems more quiet now that the scammers are disappearing back into the sewers

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@fsfblake

4 months

Really sorry for anyone impacted by the news today. Heres an updated list of roles we're hiring at Squanch (Fully Remote) Art - Technical Artist - UI Artist - Senior UI Artist - VFX Artist - Environment Artist Design - Content Designer - Lead Designer QA - Senior QA Tester

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Blake 🪑

@fsfblake

2 years

I truly hope every decent talented person in the industry gets as far away from this company as possible

Kotaku

@Kotaku

2 years

Activision Blizzard settles sexual harassment lawsuit for $18 million:

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Blake 🪑

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10 months

I don't follow game industry people for networking purposes I follow to find out what random 90s/early 2000s game they're secretly obsessed with

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Blake 🪑

@fsfblake

2 years

Well thats a lot of likes I don't have any personal projects to promote but uh - treat QA and game devs in general better - unions are a good thing - less guns more drag queens - just try to be decent - if Steve dies in Stranger things ill cry - cheesecake is rad

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2 years

Genuinely what decrepit old nerd at Bungie saw Elisabeth over here stoked as hell to work on Destiny and decided they had such a problem with her online presence to go so far as to get her fired

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3 years

@_TechJess You could have told me this was a conservative high schooler's political science power point and I would have believed you

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6 months

The actual greatest compliment you can get working in QA is a Jira comment that just says like "what the fuck"

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7 months

Begging gamers to understand that if QA really didn't test something then the game would simply not work at all

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3 years

Gamers saying QA doesn't do their job because of the live bugs they found always makes me think of this

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Blake 🪑

@fsfblake

2 years

Yo hot take but I think any manager that makes their team work insane crunch has absolutely no business being in the game industry

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Blake 🪑

@fsfblake

7 months

Begging people outside the industry to stop telling folks impacted by layoffs to just "go indie!"

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Blake 🪑

@fsfblake

2 years

Thinking a lot about my time at Activision and I still can't get over how absurd and unnecessary the Cold War crunch was 9-14 hour shifts, working most every weekend, getting one or two days off a month All during a pandemic And it went on way longer than you'd think

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2 years

Got really lost hiking in Hawaii and it was getting dark. Only reason we got back is cause Pokémon Go had more updated maps of the trails than Google did

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Blake 🪑

@fsfblake

10 months

To make the industry gayer

Alina 🎮 Glossbird

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10 months

Why do you want to work in the video game industry if it's just full of toxicity and crunch culture? What keeps you going?

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Blake 🪑

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5 months

I think people expect QA testers to be good at games just based on how much we play but in reality my friends are shouting at me in Helldivers cause I'm spending 5 minutes trying to see if I can clip through a doorway

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5 months

hey Squanch is a great fully remote workplace and still hiring some positions - Senior UI Artist - UI Artist - VFX Artist - Environment Artist - Content Designer - Lead Designer - Level Designer - Senior Gameplay Engineer (I work in QA so probably can't answer any questions)

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4 months

Got a very rare opportunity to join our QA team here at Squanch. The team is extremely small with only 4 of us. Fully remote, good pay, good team, etc etc highly recommend This position is very similar to my own so I'm happy to answer any questions to the best of my ability

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6 months

At Squanch we're still hiring: - VFX artist - Environment artist - Level designer Studio is permanently fully remote and overall a great workplace

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Blake 🪑

@fsfblake

2 years

See this is what happens when I'm given adult money. I buy long frog

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Blake 🪑

@fsfblake

8 months

Oh man that's crazy Anyways here's how much I was paid (base pay not including the OT 1.5x) during my years at Activision

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@betterthemask

8 months

“Bobby Kotick was paid $155 million and EA CEO Andrew Wilson was paid $21.4 million in compensation packages, according to SEC filings. Meanwhile, ZipRecruiter estimates the average annual income for US game workers is $38,600, compared to $68,310 for the movie industry”

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1 year

Can't believe @BukkitBrown is in TOTK

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2 years

@XAnbuIncX "Telling me to do something will likely yield the opposite result"

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7 months

Things that make any game better: • Fishing mini game • Grappling hook • Harpoon gun • Destructible environment Feel free to add to the list

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2 years

My guilty pleasure in game design is "technically a stealth mission but if you REALLY want to just take out everyone then I guess you can"

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8 months

Hilarious how some folks are like "Kotick helped create the modern game industry" And I mean yes....that's the problem....have you seen the industry currently

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4 months

Like 50% of QA testing is just going "I wonder what happens when I-" *sounds of glass breaking*

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3 years

I've been awake for like 30 minutes but this is already the mood for the weekend

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Blake 🪑

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2 years

Honestly the main reason I'm enjoying my new job so much can be summarized by the fact that I've learned more about game development in the last 3 weeks than I did in 2 years at Activision If you work with your QA team more it benefits literally everyone

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3 years

@jasonschreier Yeahhhhhh it's not great. Also my team is working 6 days a week currently.....we're tired

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A student asked me what they could do to start learning QA stuff and my best idea was 1. Load up an open world game 3. Try to break a thing 4. Write up instructions to break the thing 5. Send it to a friend 6. If they can repro the issue then congrats you wrote a good bug

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2 years

Really tempted to start a podcast just to talk about some of the absolutely horrible people I worked with in my first year at Activision. Not talking about the projects at all so no issue of NDA just the complete shit heads that made work even more miserable for others.

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2 years

Sons of the Forest is a perfect game just look at the beautiful tree chopping mechanic

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3 years

We're tired

Polygon

@Polygon

3 years

Activision Blizzard’s contract workers say they’re ‘crushed’ by toxic culture, long hours, and unlivable wages

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7 months

No playing an early access, or beta, or playtest, or experiencing a rough launch is not even remotely QA testing

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Blake 🪑

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3 years

@CantHealz @BlizzJess Fans want better games Staff wants better working conditions Investors want more money These are all achieved by working together

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2 years

While I still have m a n y issues with Activision this is a huge fucking win for all my friends And honestly ABK has probably the biggest QA team in the industry so hopefully this sets an example for other studios

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@fsfblake

2 years

@_TechJess Oh hey look it's my pay rates from my time at Activision Start date was June 2020 and I left in March 2022

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1 month

Excited to say I'm officially pivoting to an associate producer role at Squanch. The last 4 years working in QA have been the learning experience of a lifetime and I'm stoked to be able to continue that adventure in a new role working with my friends at this incredible studio

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2 years

Here is my review of the @rainylune frog hoodie 10/10 helps me carry more jellybeans

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2 years

I just think Pedro Pascal should be the new Blizzard CEO

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1 year

@danahern96 Honestly if it weren't for the "unexpectedly became a global phenomenon" I would have assumed this was Call of Duty

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2 years

@xavierck3d Reproduce an issue that hundreds of players are seeing It doesn't matter how many reports you see on social media if you don't know what weird thing all those players are doing/have in common

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2 years

Very pleased with my new apartment First time I've ever truly had my own space with no roommates or family

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6 months

If only there was several years of data proving that remote work in games is better for the entire company

Jason Schreier

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6 months

NEW: Rockstar Games is asking all of its employees to return to the office five days a week starting in April for security and productivity reasons as they enter the final stretch of development on Grand Theft Auto VI. (Employees are not thrilled.)

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3 years

If you look at people trying to make the game industry better and take personal offense to that then you are part of the problem

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2 months

The only real advice I have for anyone trying to get into QA is that you should run if a bug quota is ever mentioned. Like I've had projects where I had the highest and lowest bug counts. It doesn't mean anything

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2 years

@_TechJess Hear me out Instead of removing the vaccine mandate let's remove Bobby and Brian

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3 years

@_TechJess I'm mad that gamers reuse the same stupid arguments every year

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1 year

Whenever people say devs need to "hire fans" or whatever I think about the many COD bros I worked with that would straight up rage during like professional daily playtests

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2 years

At Activision my "holiday gift" was a water bottle and stale kettle corn. At Squanch I got an air fryer lol

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Blake 🪑

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3 years

So my friend asked me what studios work on COD and I ended up making this to explain

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3 years

By day I am an ordinary QA tester By night I am the same QA tester only a bit more honest and upset about our working conditions

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9 months

Every time I see someone claim playtesting is exact the same as QA testing I take psychic damage

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Blake 🪑

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3 years

Rocking the classic @KenneyNL shirt today. More industry people need to support this guy for singe handedly lowering the barrier to entry for development and getting more people interested

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3 years

The lack of angry gamers is suspicious. I suspect it's cause they're still at school

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2 years

@710wonderdev Just missing "incoherent sounds cause I tried to say 5 possible responses at once"

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2 years

I relate with the testers talking about Fallout 76 sooo much Especially the bit where they talk about working overtime for literally no reason The amount of times I showed up to a weekend shift at Activision where we couldn't even do the thing we were there for was absurd

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2 years

For anyone wondering this tweet was originally about Bulletstorm

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2 years

Today in weird gamer takes. Apparently not having crunch makes a game worse?

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@fsfblake

1 year

if you're in QA and someone does the whole "yOu juSt play gAmEs all daY" just lean into it I promise they will get way more upset. Like yes that is exactly what I do while you're in a cubicle all day

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2 years

Seeing a lottttt of friends leaving ATVI QA and it's interesting. It's almost like paying Senior QA and Associate QA Project Leads absolute pennies compared to the rest of the industry results in a high turnover rate

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6 months

Sometimes I remember how I wasn't allowed to talk to devs when I first started in QA and wonder how the actual fuck I did my job.

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2 years

I'll explode if I ever meet someone who worked on Crackdown 2

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1 year

@_TechJess This is seriously some shit a bad guy in Mythic Quest or Silicon Valley would claim

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10 months

And I wish you could at least acknowledge the struggles developers have faced this year as many who worked on these nominated titles are now jobless

Geoff Keighley

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10 months

There have been so many great games in 2023. I wish we could get past the rhetoric that a game not nominated in a category is unworthy or bad. It simply didn't make the cutoff in a highly competitive year. Even if a game wasn't nominated, maybe it was #6 or #7 in voting.

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2 years

@javierabegazo yo wait the entire time i've been seeing this I thought he was being 100% satirical

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