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Sam Houston @samhouston.bsky.social · 2d

This week is my one year anniversary at my job

This is the best manager/org structure situation I've had in a long time as a Community Manager, possibly best ever. I'm happy with my role and the impact we make on the biz

Hopefully for many more years to come!

Sam Houston @samhouston.bsky.social · 5d

Posted something negative about the Trump admin on Twitter, instantly got a bunch of replies calling me trans and a fag...because my profile pic has orange hair in it? IDK

Also, every single one of them had those usernames with a bunch of random characters at the end. Or a random avatar pic.

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 15d

[email protected] spoke to a number of industry analysts to get their read on what the EA buyout portends:

kotaku.com/ea-saudi-ara...

What Saudi Arabia Buying EA Means For Battlefield 6, Sports Games, And More

Industry analysts weigh-in on how Saudi Arabia's leveraged buyout will impact one of gaming's biggest publishers

kotaku.com

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Giant Bomb @giantbomb.bsky.social · 15d

If you missed the HUGE news today: EA is set to be sold for 55 BILLION dollars.

Grubb and Mike break down the whole story in today's episode of Game Mess Mornings, available on YouTube 👇 and your favorite podcast app!

youtu.be/4JzYPQ9O1fw?...

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 16d

Fun fact: One of EA's new owners, Affinity Partners (investment group founded by Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner) has a similar logo to fictional Templar-run evil Assassin's Creed gaming company Abstergo Entertainment

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Sam Houston @samhouston.bsky.social · 16d

Jared Kushner presents: The Sims 5

Sam Houston @samhouston.bsky.social · 16d

feels very weird to see EA taken private by Jared Kushner and the Saudis

Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 16d

It’s official: EA is going private.

The leveraged buyout will be financed by a staggering $20 billion of debt, which likely means some *aggressive* cost cutting is ahead for EA in the coming months and years.

www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

www.businesswire.com

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Sam Houston @samhouston.bsky.social · 16d

They will have a big influence on the priorities of the business and they'll likely push the company even harder to adopt AI.

You'll probably see them cut a decent amount of stuff (Bioware), level out investments in some other things (Apex Legends??)

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 16d

Content creators tend to think any spectacle is defensible if they can say health and safety concerns have been attended to behind the scenes, but that’s not really it imho. Mr. Beast’s whole thing is that his subjects’ desperation for cash allows him—a wealthier person—to indulge his sadism.

@KillaKreww
MrBeast had a contestant TRAPPED inside a BURNING house to win $500,000 in his new video [link]

@MrBeast
This blew up, if you're curious obviously we had ventilation for the smoke and a kill switch to cut off the fires. We had professionals test this extensively and the guy in the video as stated is a professional stunt man. I take safety more serious than you could ever imagine.

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Sam Houston @samhouston.bsky.social · 27d

For more about me:

I enjoy live music and I'll be going to Aftershock Fest in Sacramento in a couple of weeks, primarily to see blink-182 and Turnstile.

I've got a two year old son. I like gardening.

I've hosted a couple of Reddit meetups in Vallejo in the past few months

Sam Houston @samhouston.bsky.social · 27d

I need more friends in the Bay Area/ #Vallejo and I'm feeling so unsure about what to do about it

A lot of my friends and old colleagues left the Bay during the pandemic.

Making friends in your 30s/40s is so difficult, especially if you don't want to hangout at a bar all night

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 27d

Just a tiny leap from “broadcasters have to use their spectrum in Trump’s interests” to “AT&T and Verizon have to manage content on their wireless networks in Trump’s interests because they operate on public spectrum”

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Sam Houston @samhouston.bsky.social · Sep 15

Probably the best explanation of the assassin's mindset

youtu.be/qcMYjtFWE7U?...

the assassination was a s**tpost

YouTube video by Aidan Walker

youtu.be

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Sam Houston @samhouston.bsky.social · Sep 10

i miss old twitter

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Sam Houston @samhouston.bsky.social · Sep 5

I miss Forums and Google Reader

Take me back to 2008

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · Aug 28

(Borat voice) MAI-Voice-1

Techmeme @techmeme.com · Aug 28

Microsoft unveils MAI-Voice-1, a speech model that can generate a full minute of audio in under a second on a single GPU, and a text model called MAI-1-preview (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Sam Houston @samhouston.bsky.social · Aug 27

Can everyone stop wearing ASICS onitsuka tigers?

I've been wearing these shoes for 15 years and they're now impossible to buy / crazy expensive.

I miss the days when they were $60 on eBay

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · Aug 25

Regarding the liberal fantasy of saving X by posting on it more — @pbump.com has it exactly right www.pbump.net/o/the-power-...

Nor was it compelling. The central argument was that Twitter — which is no longer the Twitter of five or ten years ago both literally and figuratively — is an important element of the national conversation and that leaving it to the fringe-right and to trolls was ceding important terrain. But this idea that others could swoop in and collectively shift the conversation, beyond imposing an odd job requirement on all of us, misunderstands the nature of the change from Twitter to X. It is owned and directed by a far-right actor who bought it specifically to elevate and amplify right-wing messaging. You might as well argue that people should join the Republican Party in order to redirect it to less extreme terrain; that ship sailed a long time ago and you’re going to encounter some systemic obstacles that are beyond your persuasive powers.

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Sam Houston @samhouston.bsky.social · Aug 20

Sad to see more layoffs at a Bay Area game company

Novato is in a far flung part of the Bay that isn't easy to get to. I feel for their staff that now have to try to find a new gig in the industry

Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · Aug 20

NEW: 2K Games laid off more than 80 people at BioShock 4 developer Cloud Chamber this week, about 1/3 of the studio.

This new BioShock has been in the works for more than a decade across multiple studios.

Here's the story behind its development hell: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Take-Two Guts ‘BioShock’ Studio After a Decade of Development

Thirty percent of the studio was laid off this week, adding more years to the game’s production

www.bloomberg.com

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Sam Houston @samhouston.bsky.social · Aug 5

I don't post about work because I mostly spend all day tweaking websites in Salesforce while trying to keep a little toddler boy happy as he rampages around my house

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Sam Houston @samhouston.bsky.social · Jul 28

Today my #Reddit account is 17 years old 🍰

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · Jul 9

two incredible years of enabling

Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · Jul 9

X CEO Linda Yaccarino says that "after two incredible years, I've decided to step down"; X hired Yaccarino in 2023 after running NBCUniversal's ad business (Sara Fischer/Axios)

Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Sam Houston @samhouston.bsky.social · Jul 9

Hanging out at my mom's house in Ohio and I noticed that it smells like glyphosate and cow manure out here

Like the fertilizer aisle at Home Depot

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Sam Houston @samhouston.bsky.social · Jun 29

New #Bioshock art just dropped

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