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Solo indie developer. Strategy/RPG/Horror games freelancer at IGN, PC Gamer, and others. Producer: Three Moves Ahead. Lover of languages, folk metal, and history. she/they sic semper tyrannis
We're up to more than 1/4 at this point. Definitely good for spending less time doomscrolling, I'll say that.
So it turns out if I take a hardline on unfollowing for sharing NYT links that's nearly 1/6 of the people I was following within the first 24 hours or so.
In 2025, I am, once again, saying that it's insane for any writing-focused position to not be open to remote work.
In the four years I've been at IGN I've watched its staff shrink and shrink, all while those who remain are asked to do more and more. I see colleagues skip lunch, stay late day after day, and burn out.
IGN staff are passionate and love their work. But we can't keep letting that be exploited.
Ziff Davis and IGN routinely decide that work done by our laid off colleagues is not important. But inevitably, that crucial work falls onto those who remain.
Not this time. Not anymore.
"Slowly open your mouth"
This will inevitably lead to what you could call the Procrastination Singularity at which point I either have a complete emotional breakdown and beg for forgiveness/possibly to be taken off the assignment, actually do it, or resolve to try to avoid you for the rest of my life.
You can't ever leave it in the subjective realm for me to decide, "How big a piece of shit am I for putting this off one more day?" That's a real boiling a frog situation. I will feel very slightly worse about it every day, but never so much worse than the day before that I suddenly leap into action
You can let me set my own deadline, but it needs to be an actual deadline. You need to get me to say by X time on X day, and I will not waver.
If it's just, "Whenever you think you can get it to me," the stars will burn out first. My shame at not turning it in yet will need to become overwhelming.
Give a writer a deadline, and it can be written in a day.
But let a writer set a deadline, and it will not be written for a lifetime.
Ziff Davis and IGN routinely decide that work done by our laid off colleagues is not important. But inevitably, that crucial work falls onto those who remain.
Not this time. Not anymore.
"I just like them" is the only real reason to do anything in this game in my humble opinion.
In 11th I'm sure we'll have Primaris Long Fangs but in the interim it's kind of like well just advance and charge buddy, those bolters are mostly for decoration.
