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Elizabeth Sampat Profile picture
@twoscooters
Sep 18, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Here's the thing that really strikes me about the “But if you don’t buy the HP game you’re hurting game developers!” argument:

Do you have any idea how many video games I don’t buy EVERY SINGLE DAY? By that measure I’m one of the worst things to EVER HAPPEN to game developers!
Sometimes? People don’t want to buy games? Because there is something they find unappealing about that game??

It is never a moral requirement to purchase a fucking video game, and certainly not one that puts money in the pocket of the most visible TERF in the world.
I have excitedly retweeted and celebrated with friends when they have shipped games they worked incredibly hard on, and then I have NOT PURCHASED THOSE GAMES because they weren’t my thing.

It’s… fine? You can just not buy things?
If you TRULY WANT to support game devs, you could try organizing a large-scale boycott of games that are made using exploitative workplace practices, or throw your annual AAA budget into the Patreons of marginalized indie devs.

But we’re probably not ready for that conversation.

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Jan 29, 2023
My most gatekeeper-y opinion about the game industry:

If you think you want to make games for a living, seriously ask yourself if that's true, or if you just wish you had a time machine so you could once again experience your favorite childhood game for the first time
I've worked with too many dead-eyed engineers and designers who can't believe no one wants to pay them to recreate their favorite entry in the Final Fantasy franchise.

This is also why it's so important to CONSUME ART AND MEDIA THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH GAMES!!!
Games are cool and fun and I enjoy playing them, but if you never open yourself up to artistic experiences outside of your medium, you're massively limiting the ideas and emotional experiences you're opening yourself up to.
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Feb 11, 2021
Chess variants I made up because I can’t sleep: a thread.

HOPPY CHESS: knights now move like pawns. Pawns now move like knights.
SUICIDE KINGS: the goal is still to checkmate your opponent’s king, BUT ALSO, you control your opponent’s king instead of your own.
LIFTING CHESS: this is just chess but the pieces are very heavy. Pawns weigh ten pounds, kings weigh 60. You can’t take a piece unless you can lift it. You have to pick up your opponent’s king to checkmate
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Sep 27, 2020
Do you want a thorough core loop breakdown of either of the two most recent games in the Candy Crush franchise?

I’ve been working in mobile games for almost a decade and you have no clue what you’re talking about.
This is why I say F2P mobile game design is like pop music. Aspiring pretentious indie musicians think any idiot can spew out a top 40 hit, but it turns out making something millions of people dedicate millions of hours to is more complex than you think!
I’m going to bed soon, so I’m not going to go into detail about Candy Crush in particular, but here’s a quick breakdown of the last few years in mobile gaming, for people who think games *like* Candy Crush are more casual than, say, CoD.
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Sep 23, 2020
With the horrible injustice done to Breonna Taylor and the death of RBG, I’ve talked to a lot of (white) friends whose spirits are struggling.

If you grew up inside a family and/or faith tradition that didn’t prepare you for social justice work, this thread’s for you.
It’s vitally important to remember that odds are excellent you will never see the results of the work you do in your life.

For a lot of white ppl, even when you’re not looking for “ally cookies,” there’s a reasonable human part of you that is motivated bc you want to see CHANGE.
And if you’re in this because you want to SEE Black liberation, the end of the carceral state, whatever your goal: realizing the enormity of your task will likely crush your will to continue.

Don’t do it because you want to SEE justice, do it because it’s THE RIGHT THING TO DO.
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Sep 6, 2020
Kids have started going back to school. There is no remote learning. Children are required to take off their masks during class for some godawful reason. This is going to be a disaster, and no matter how bad it gets, they’re not going to shut the schools again because “economy."
I can’t actually express how fucked it is. Here are pictures: one from my youngest’s mandatory orientation, where bringing a parent was required. The other is of the masking rules, which also stresses that wearing masks is occasionally permissible, but never mandatory. ImageImage
Parents weren’t allowed into the classrooms on the tour as part of the hygiene requirements(?), but we WERE shown that our kids will literally be sharing desks. Image
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Aug 20, 2020
This is the most incredible story in the history of game development, and there are SOME DOOZIES out there.
And it’s not even over yet!!
I know some people don’t think it’s real, but the fact this HONESTLY SOUNDS PLAUSIBLE to so many of us says… a lot… about the lives we have chosen
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