Incline Chris Avellone Appreciation Station

[Alienman]

He could become a sailor.

 

[toro]

He could become a sailor.

Or a cabin boy.

 

[toro]

Chris, you can't even find work for yourself. Admit it, the time has come to make a Twitch channel and play Arcanum for donations.

He's working for WolfEye and [still unrevealed]. His options are severely limited, but he still has some.

This is your conclusion after 1 tweet?

 

[ds]

Rioters

Every company that uses "cute" labels like that for their employees deserves to go under and everyone that accepts it deserves to lose their job.

Chris, you can't even find work for yourself. Admit it, the time has come to make a Twitch channel and play Arcanum for donations.

He's working for WolfEye and [still unrevealed]. His options are severely limited, but he still has some.

Severely limited, really? Just because dangerhair companies that would have cut 99% of his writing anyway don't want to be seen working with him?

 

[Butter]

Not sure why Riot needed that many people to begin with. How many people does it really take to maintain League of Legends? Sounds like typical HR bloat.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Not sure why Riot needed that many people to begin with. How many people does it really take to maintain League of Legends? Sounds like typical HR bloat.

It's a worldwide live service that has to be up 24/7, with servers all around the world, and potentially millions of users at any given time. A substantial crew is needed imo.

 

[Roguey]

This is your conclusion after 1 tweet?

Severely limited, really? Just because dangerhair companies that would have cut 99% of his writing anyway don't want to be seen working with him?

I might have some contacts that could help those out of work. (There's a few in the industry that didn't rush to judgment.)

"I might have some" "There's a few"

Vast majority of the gaming industry is liberal. If they're not true believers of women themselves, then they're people who don't want to rock the boat and risk the ire of true believers. One hopes that after Avellone's name appears in the credits of WolfEye's next game and the unannounced project with no big controversy, the latter will feel more confident in hiring him for their projects. It'll take time though.

 

[Sinder Velvin]

I can't believe I have to hear about this new podcast with Chris from sources other than this thread.



We need to figure out a way to get Fairfax back so this doesn't happen again.

 

[normie]

the codex goty debacle is hogging all the attention resources

 

[NecroLord]

I can't believe I have to hear about this new podcast with Chris from sources other than this thread.

We need to figure out a way to get Fairfax back so this doesn't happen again.

Interesting.
I assume he talks about stuff like Planescape and Kotor 2?

 

[Sordid MCA/Prosper Hybryd]

He looks relatively well. Not ideal, but definitely less fat and miserable than a few years before.

 

[Roguey]

Amused how he blurred out the background details of his house. Also heard his wife in the background for a bit.

Gushing over Rat Queens was very pleb, but that's on brand.

 

[Takamori]

Much better, hope he fully recovers and go back to writing for RPGs
Its an absurd that company fire people or cut ties without a sentence from an actual court, should be grounds for a lawsuit that sort of troglodyte behavior.

 

[mediocrepoet]

Much better, hope he fully recovers and go back to writing for RPGs
Its an absurd that company fire people or cut ties without a sentence from an actual court, should be grounds for a lawsuit that sort of troglodyte behavior.

He's an independent contractor not an employee. If he didn't have a solid contract in place or there were severability grounds, etc. then that's it.

 

[Late Bloomer]

Much better, hope he fully recovers and go back to writing for RPGs
Its an absurd that company fire people or cut ties without a sentence from an actual court, should be grounds for a lawsuit that sort of troglodyte behavior.

He's an independent contractor not an employee. If he didn't have a solid contract in place or there were severability grounds, etc. then that's it.

You know perfectly well what he meant. The contrarian role doesn't suit you. Keep to your corny quips and painful japes.

 

[mediocrepoet]

Much better, hope he fully recovers and go back to writing for RPGs
Its an absurd that company fire people or cut ties without a sentence from an actual court, should be grounds for a lawsuit that sort of troglodyte behavior.

He's an independent contractor not an employee. If he didn't have a solid contract in place or there were severability grounds, etc. then that's it.

You know perfectly well what he meant. The contrarian role doesn't suit you. Keep to your corny quips and painful japes.

Do I? The point seemed to be that a company should keep ties with someone they really don't have to when it could hurt their business and reputation. Good luck with that.

 

[Sinder Velvin]

Amused how he blurred out the background details of his house.

This is hardly uncommon. For instance, out of the three developers Tim Cain has had on his talk show, one blurred his background and another one replaced it with a spaceship.

 

[NecroLord]

He looks relatively well. Not ideal, but definitely less fat and miserable than a few years before.

I was just about to say that.
Here's to hoping he goes back to writing good games.

 

[Roguey]

This is hardly uncommon. For instance, out of the three developers Tim Cain has had on his talk show, one blurred his background and another one replaced it with a spaceship.

He never did it before.

 

[Takamori]

Much better, hope he fully recovers and go back to writing for RPGs
Its an absurd that company fire people or cut ties without a sentence from an actual court, should be grounds for a lawsuit that sort of troglodyte behavior.

He's an independent contractor not an employee. If he didn't have a solid contract in place or there were severability grounds, etc. then that's it.

You know perfectly well what he meant. The contrarian role doesn't suit you. Keep to your corny quips and painful japes.

Do I? The point seemed to be that a company should keep ties with someone they really don't have to when it could hurt their business and reputation. Good luck with that.

How? Those people that spent their entire day on twitter have the attention spam of a goldfish. New drama rise up they move to it, they are not there for ideals they are there to feed their lack of social interaction.
The fundamentals of society is the due process, when companies can trample this with the excuse of reputation is pretty easy to leave someone without a job if you got enough influence to do so.

 

[Hellraiser]

Contractor or not losing out on a job solely because of nothingburger accusations (he was what, awkwardly flirting using his status of a famous game writer at conventions or something?), made years after said events even took place is just plain unfair. Character assassination of such kind is incredibly easy and there are good reasons why libel/defamation laws exist, to prevent very low-effort high reward attempts of such kind.

If they had other reasons to drop him (that weren't Feargus being butthurt or something, unless it went into constant arguing and thus caused project-related issues) I can understand it, contract over, fuck off we don't want to work with you since you bring negative value added to the projects. But AFAIK this was solely because suddenly some woman had regrets from some situation years earlier, one that wouldn't even fly in court.

 

[ropetight]

Contractor or not losing out on a job solely because of nothingburger accusations (he was what, awkwardly flirting using his status of a famous game writer at conventions or something?), made years after said events even took place is just plain unfair. Character assassination of such kind is incredibly easily and there are good reasons why libel/defamation laws exist, to prevent very low-effort high reward attempts of such kind.

If they had other reasons to drop him (that weren't Feargus being butthurt or something, unless it went into constant arguing and thus caused project-related issues) I can understand it, contract over, fuck off we don't want to work with you since you bring negative value added to the projects. But AFAIK this was solely because suddenly some woman had regrets from some situation years earlier, one that wouldn't even fly in court.

All those cunts that acted like they suddenly don't know MCA after some petty chick talked shit about him ended up with stinkers that were full of bugs and sold poorly.

Curse of Avellone is real.

 

[NecroLord]

Contractor or not losing out on a job solely because of nothingburger accusations (he was what, awkwardly flirting using his status of a famous game writer at conventions or something?), made years after said events even took place is just plain unfair. Character assassination of such kind is incredibly easily and there are good reasons why libel/defamation laws exist, to prevent very low-effort high reward attempts of such kind.

If they had other reasons to drop him (that weren't Feargus being butthurt or something, unless it went into constant arguing and thus caused project-related issues) I can understand it, contract over, fuck off we don't want to work with you since you bring negative value added to the projects. But AFAIK this was solely because suddenly some woman had regrets from some situation years earlier, one that wouldn't even fly in court.

All those cunts that acted like they suddenly don't know MCA after some petty chick talked shit about him ended up with stinkers that were full of bugs and sold poorly.

Curse of Avellone is real.

Chris just wanted to explain to the bitch his third wheeling exit strategy like the big dick game writer he is.

 

[motherfucker]

Not sure why Riot needed that many people to begin with. How many people does it really take to maintain League of Legends? Sounds like typical HR bloat.

It's a worldwide live service that has to be up 24/7, with servers all around the world, and potentially millions of users at any given time. A substantial crew is needed imo.

Somehow, I don't think it's the actual techs that are getting axed en masse. Just a hunch.

 

[Moink]

A lot of these companies expanded due to the uptick in demand during COVID and are now having to downscale since COVID stopped being a thing, it's mostly all on the e-sports/streaming side of things.