MurrayL

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Even more important context, right at the top of the article:

Asked by: Peter Thatcher, Lancaster

This was a response to a reader-submitted question to a science magazine.

Everyone raging in the comments here has just blindly read the headline and the deliberately-misleading social post attached, and they’ve decided to be mad instead of using even an ounce of critical thinking. Drives me crazy how much people seem to want to be angry.

PS2/GC/XB was the last generation where, with very few exceptions, the game on the disk was the entire game. No post-launch patches, no DLCs, no microtransactions.

I’m not blinkered enough to say those things are always bad, but it was nice to know you could take a game off a shelf and it’d be the complete product.

Mass sociogenic illness happens when a group of stressed, socially connected people are exposed to a symptom template that the brain and body can, in a real physiological sense, adopt without any conscious decision to fake anything. The symptoms are genuinely experienced. They are not consciously produced.

No need to be condescending. Stupidity has nothing to do with it, which you might’ve known had you bothered reading some of those words in the article.

on Anon is 23 · c/greentext · 7 pts · 5d

Ain’t that the truth. I’ve worked in games for about 15 years and almost every job I’ve had has been because I knew someone at that company already.

Not saying regular applications without a referral never work, but the odds against you are astronomical.

on Anon is 23 · c/greentext · 42 pts · 5d

I don’t envy anyone trying to break into the games industry right now - you graduated at exactly the time all the investment left, layoffs hit, and jobs dried up.

It’s hard enough trying to find positions right now if you have years of experience, let alone as a fresh grad with none.