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Sam Dobes 🩷💛💙
@samdobes.bsky.social
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(She/Her) Producer III @CrystalDynamics. I like games, books, tea, and cats. 🩷💛💙 Thoughts are my own.
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Freya survived another vet visit, receiving both a churu and a clean bill of health. She's a proper ham for the vet techs. 😂
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1am delirious motivational comic from moi #comic
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I cannot yell about this enough. So many times I've seen an idea with lots of potential get thrown out because it wasn't "perfect" initially, only to be replaced with another underbaked idea, when we could have taken the same amount of time to reflect upon, tighten up and grow the first idea more.
The reason?

Game development regularly mistakes 'change' for 'iteration'.

Iteration is a constructive process of development where ideas develop and refine over time. In game development, far too often the process is not iteration, but wholesale change, often without notice.

3/9
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September is Bi Visibility Month, so perceiving me may be easier, as all bisexuals have disadvantage on stealth rolls until Halloween 1st.
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BREAKING: Over 450 game developers behind hit video-game series Diablo have joined CWA, joining the historic fight for a better video game industry.

Hail to you, union champions 💪
Hundreds of Diablo Game Developers Join Communications Workers of America
Today, over 450 game developers behind the popular video game series Diablo have voted strongly in favor of union representation with CWA.
cwa-union.org
Thanks for reaching out! ❤️
It's been a rough 24 hours, but thankfully I was not impacted and the folks on my teams were not either.
Right now I'm just trying to boost the posts of folks who were impacted wherever I can.
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Well this is it. I was let go from Crystal Dynamics as Perfect Dark was cancelled. I am now out of a job. I genuinely dont know what to do at this moment but to frantically apply for as many jobs that are applicable. If anyone needs a Senior Environment Artist of 10+ years, please let me know.
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Being a game worker in 2025 feels like that one scene from the third season of Twin Peaks where that girl gets forcibly removed from the booth where she's sitting in the Roadhouse and then crawls to the center of the dance floor and just starts screaming
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When you take everyone on the team’s anxiety and you have nowhere to put it you just squash it deep down in your soul until it becomes a part of your personality 🫠

Also part of our job is to be good at catastrophizing so it’s a chicken and egg issue
Why is being a producer a one way ticket to extreme anxiety and depression haha
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Leave the devs alone so they can do their job?

#gamedev
I now have a bottle of Tums specifically for my desk. I can't tell if I'm just getting old, or if I've finally made it as a Producer.
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Woah. 🔥
happy thursday enjoy jinkx monsoon dragging jk rowling to the depths of hell and back
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Motherfucking wind farms…
My potato harvest!!! I'm so pleased with how they turned out given the heat we've had lately.
I also got to save one rose that wasn't fried by the sun. 🥰
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You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳
The vegetable garden is thriving! Gerik even added some rosemary a couple weeks ago and they're still going strong!
I really hope there are potatoes in there come harvest time, lol. The Radishes were disappointing and barely had any roots to them.
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But please keep telling me how games aren't political and shouldn't make political statements.
OH MY FUCKING GOOOODDDDDDDDD

MATSUNO YOU ARE THE ETERNAL GOAT
Just dropped a donation!

If you've got some funds available, please consider helping out my favorite tea shop in Seattle. They truly make the community a better place. ❤️
So this is us trusting our communitea to hold us.

Anyone who is able to contribute through the link below will get the name of their choice engraved on a plaque of SOS (Save Our Shop) Angels to be permanently installed in the tea house and a photo pinned on the discord.

square.link/u/La2AFWmg
Friday Afternoon Tea Crushing Debt Paydown Fund - Friday Afternoon
The debt we took on to stay open during the economic dip of 2022 has been slowly draining our lifeforce as cost of goods have increased and slaughtered our margins and our debt has accrued more fees t...
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Behind every @unrealengine.bsky.social fest, there are hidden and bloody stories.

#gamedev