1y ago

Dwarf Fortress creator blasts execs behind brutal industry layoffs: 'I think they're horrible… greedy, greedy people'

1y ago

Dwarf Fortress creator blasts execs behind brutal industry layoffs: 'I think they're horrible… greedy, greedy people'

1y ago

Dwarf Fortress creator blasts execs behind brutal industry layoffs: 'I think they're horrible… greedy, greedy people'

1y ago

Dwarf Fortress creator blasts execs behind brutal industry layoffs: 'I think they're horrible… greedy, greedy people'

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Welcome to capitalism? The growth cannot stop or we will descend into war
- Life is just one big clicker. What is life if the numbers don’t go up?
Blasting is okay, so long as no one got slammed. Decorum demands we draw a line somewhere!
- Modern media is so savage using such language such as "slammed" "destroyed" etc.
  
  Dwarf Fortress Devs Annihilated Execs
  Typically the comments are merely somewhat critical. But it gets clicks. And ad revenue makes the world go round.
- Wow PCG article destroyed by lemmy user
  
  What grotesquerie have our hands wrought?
I just want the macOS version of DF Steam. I bought that like two years ago when it came out to support.
I love dwarf fortress, but it easy to throw stones when your company consists of two people.
- It's a bit more than that with Kitfox involved, but I don't see why that makes him wrong. Greed kills a ton of creativity in games. Not just layoffs but over aggressive monetization and fear of innovation.
- Doesn't make Tarn wrong.
  I feel it's important to note that the brothers worked on this game for nearly twenty years, giving it away for free.
All the layoffs were inevitable with the extremely obvious bubble in any computer related jobs. Same as dotcom bubble with a bunch of superfluous hires for superfluous tasks and ridiculous budgets that were not going to pan out. So yes now we'll have tons of unemployed programmers and art departments from companies overhiring for at least a decade.

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