Shayna MoooOOOooon (she/they)

Shayna MoooOOOooon (she/they)

@themoonis.gay

Senior Technical Producer Previously: Asgard’s Wrath 2, Gears of War, Unity, God of War, God of War: Ragnarok | Forbes 30u30 2020 | 🏳️‍🌈✡️ https://ko-fi.com/qorquiq

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This is fucking tragic and the work of clowns. I am 100% serious about trying to acquire the Dragon Age IP, so if anyone has an inside connection, please reach out.

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social

BREAKING: Electronic Arts is cutting 400 jobs and shutting down BioWare, the legendary development studio behind Dragon Age and Mass Effect. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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I’m working on a project where I’m looking to reach out and build connections with individuals, teams, and organizations on the continent and abroad to spotlight/represent the African #gaming & #esports market and its influences in video games, gaming culture and more.

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One of the most important things a scenario writer learns from playtest is which entirely throwaway details players obsessively latch onto and spend a ton of time and thought on.

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Replying to @kerrblimey.bsky.social

It's mentioned in the article, but EA developers across multiple studios are being heavily encouraged (though, not mandated) to use generative AI technology such as Claude. This is not going down well with staff, but management is adopting a 'get with it, or get left behind' mentality.

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NEW: I spoke with current and former EA employees to understand how the latest layoff round played out and the realities of daily life at the U.S. publisher. The short version? EA is controlled by an executive class that "cannot fail, only be failed." Workers, then, will always pay the price.

Vertical Slice@verticalslice.news

"I don't want to work at this place anymore:" EA workers decry mismanagement and corporate greed after mass layoffs Current and former EA employees paint a bleak picture of daily life at one of the video game industry's most prominent publishers

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Real art isn't meant to coddle you. It's also not meant to challenge your preconceptions or evoke an emotional response. It's meant to be annoying

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Replying to @jannouna.bsky.social

We don't need to disprove bigotry. We don't need to argue that he's wrong or cite history for examples. The only way you kill racism is the same way you put out a fire: deprive it of oxygen.

I think the average person has no idea how a video game is made and so it makes sense they would focus on wanting to save an IP and not the devs behind it. Being on an AAA team means there are a handful of chosen speakers at the top, and the average worker can’t speak out or risk losing their job.

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Replying to @rincewind.run

I was a Mamdani voter. Then I found out some NYPD cadets had to postpone their badminton match because the mayor wanted to hoop

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As someone whose first shipped game as a writer was Mass Effect and is now using Yarn Spinner, knowing that the team was inspired by a game I was a tinny part of is pretty cool. Here's to more stories, wherever they come from.

Yarn Spinner Tool@yarnspinner.dev

On the loss of BioWare 💔

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Hollywood did the same thing in the wake of the Great Depression about a hundred years ago. And what happened? The workers unionized. And then game studios are SHOCKED when game workers follow the same playbook they are. Spoiler alert: we win in the end!

Max Nichols@maxnichols.bsky.social

I THINK one of the things we're really seeing is a continent, maybe industry-wide shift away from full-time employees and towards gig/codev work. And that transition looks like layoffs across the board even from studios that just had big successes.

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Help us reach our goal either because you want a zine, or because you want to torture me by forcing us to make a zine, as I am a man who still carries the trauma of nights surrounded by envelopes

Nathan Grayson@nathangrayson.bsky.social

with another inside baseball week comes another subscriber drive! 5,800 is imminently achievable and unlocks a goal I’m extremely excited about: an annual, physical zine of our best stories aftermath.site/aftermath-su...

I need to point out that a bug part of mamdani’s on the ground volunteer organizers were trans people, and it was really critical that he explicitly expressed support of them during the campaign.

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JUST TWO HOURS LEFT TO BUY IT WHILE ON LAUNCH DISCOUNT!

Christine Love@christinelove.bsky.social

LADYKILLER UNLEASHED, our massive DLC expansion pack to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Ladykiller in a Bind, is NOW AVAILABLE on Steam and Itch! Seduce new characters and learn new sides of old favourites! store.steampowered.com/app/5127290/... loveconquersallgames.itch.io/ladykiller-u...

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The news from Brazil and Serbia are great and show that you don't defeat the far right by copying it or trying to appeal to their supporters You do it by being uncompromising, showing the danger they pose and offering something different to the many crises people suffer from

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Are you looking for a virtual phone banking opportunity for the US election? Advocates for Trans Equality is organizing phone banks to connect with voters in states with anti-trans ballot measures on the ballot, including Amendment 3 here in MO- an abortion ban also targeting care for trans youth

mobilize.usVoter Outreach National Phonebank · PROMOThis October, A4TE is partnering with incredible organizations—including the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center (BISC), the National LGBTQ Task Force, and more—to host weekly virtual phonebanks support...

This isn’t even killing the goose to get the gold eggs from inside, they had a potential gold egg and threw it all in the garbage.

Chris Hepler@theotherhepler.bsky.social

Just FYI 'cause she's not on social media, Jennifer is kind of stunned by this. We're big fans of the N.K. here. Edit: obvs, I'm not speaking for Hale here, who is awesome but I don't live with her.

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I have students who will now immediately and openly drop a class if the professor uses or encourages AI. They do not want it. They know it lies. Colleagues, please. Stop this. You fail us all by brain rotting on this slop.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

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On this, the day of my birth, I feel you all deserve a treat. Presenting: a *grand reveal* of the Season of the Witch cover, painted by Martin Mottet, with a sneaky preview of one of the book's creatures designed by Cory Trego-Erdner! ✨Preorders remain open on the kickstarter. ✨ witchstarter.co.uk

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Today is Intersex Awareness Day. I am intersex – and did not find out until I was 26! Intersex people are also impacted by the decision in FWS, but this is much less talked about. Intersex people continue to be subjected to non-consensual medical interventions. Intersex rights are human rights.

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I love that you can show a dangly toy to a kitten for the first time and they instantly understand What Must Happen

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People are sharing all sorts of stories of Bauza on the picket lines fighting for artists and standing up for the craft of animation but I just keep thinking about the time he went to Tara Strong’s birthday and stopped by 6Point on the way home with a tray of cakepops for the artists working late

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People abroad don't understand the level of interference Meta & bots had in these elections. 5 days before the election a far-right politician posted a fake news video that got 157 MILLION views on Instagram in 24hs. For reference, GTA 6's reveal trailer got 90 million views on YouTube in 24hs.

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Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

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Not only an incredible talent, but a rare talent who also thought it was funny to just voice random memes every once in a while

Ken Plume@kenplume.bsky.social

Unbelievable loss. An amazing talent, and just a really, really good person. www.instagram.com/p/De8RFy4pyov/