Samit Sarkar
@samitsarkar.bsky.social
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✊🏾 formerly & forever Vox Union | 📝 past life: @polygon.com, next thing: TBD | ⁉️ proud @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social loser | reading, writing, playing, watching, sleeping | he/him
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I asked about lessons learned from Arkane to hopefully help lead Black Pony to a better fate, and Smith said, "In my mind, that's a tricky, emotional question. I loved my time there with Raf, Ricardo, Ben, and everyone else. I worked at Arkane for 16 years. Part of the company is still around, in Lyon, where it started. During my years there, we went back and forth between Texas and France. The company released Dishonored, Prey, Dishonored 2, some great Dishonored DLC, Death of the Outsider, Mooncrash, and Deathloop. We worked on a few other projects too, including Redfall at the end. You say, 'a better fate.' But honestly imagine if, like Arkane, our new studio lasted 27+ years, and released at least 4-5 absolute bangers, on top of being a super fun, interesting place to work, a place that experienced what I can only describe as electric fan support. If that happens again, I will absolutely count myself as blessed. I would feel lucky in the extreme to experience that again. And I don't know of many places that get to that much joy and creative success. It's just so rare. Very hard to pull off."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fx3fhjmycoch4eaebv5jczmy/bafkreiaurw6lwefwrahjv3owgbhpgafdcif2xsxizi4v2y5wk2hx6te4su)
![a screenshot of a Twitter.com post published at 4:30 PM EDT on Aug. 17, 2017, by brandAn is good (@LeBearGirdle):
[Dentist waiting room]
Me: [chanting] teeth, teeth-
Other patients: teeth, TEETH
Secretary: [pounding her clipboard] TEETH, TEETH, TEETH!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fx3fhjmycoch4eaebv5jczmy/bafkreia2ljurs6bxoqn23b4prqnvt2ofbyi37kefkrjrgxk7xspdeznszq)
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If there is a question to ask, then, it is this: Why does Musk get a pass? Why do politicians, journalists and commentators treat his far-right racist radicalism as a sideshow rather than the core of his political, ideological and industrial project, seen in everything from his deep support for Donald Trump in the United States and Restore Britain in Britain to his decision to construct a massive pollution-generating data center in predominantly Black Memphis?
Musk spends a large part of his free time fomenting violence and spreading the same hateful ideology that motivated some of the deadliest shootings and attacks ever to happen on American soil. It is that fact, and not the cars he builds or the rockets he launches, that ought to define his place in public life.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fx3fhjmycoch4eaebv5jczmy/bafkreih4s774fs7vvdqp6e7txki2kpww6csvjg27dy6zzqdngz5rn4ucgq)
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Val Giordano
Val is a freelance writer and editor with 10+ years of experience. He's been writing about book data management, publishing, technology, and other subjects.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fx3fhjmycoch4eaebv5jczmy/bafkreigmhfviz667ujzcnltmkserpzzbx4f7xl2tpik34t3ay4pivqepea)
![Ocean Quigley (art director): One of the journalists who covered [the GDC talk] said, "This is either the most amazing game design of all time, or an act of bold chicanery." It was B. It was an act of bold chicanery.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fx3fhjmycoch4eaebv5jczmy/bafkreic4j6qcsd3yp52ngirhiwjdptygghuszaowb7qaiyuicl3wfylonu)
![Chris Trottier (gameplay designer): I needed to have a stress level that was appropriate. [...] Will, once a train is runaway, he'll just kind of shrug and be like, I'm sure it'll be fine. [But] that was not a good fit for my life at that time, so I did not see the last year of Spore.
Jenna Chalmers (gameplay designer): Will got distracted, as he usually does near the end of a project in general, let alone his specific distractions for this project. He is more new idea and big vision. So once you're down in the weeds, tightening all the little nuts and bolts, that's not the part that's interesting to him.
Will Wright (chief designer): I got a divorce. I was distracted by that, for sure.
Guillaume Pierre (gameplay producer): Will disappeared for the last year of the game. […] He got a new girlfriend, and he would spend more time with his new girlfriend than time in the office. He would come in once every few weeks and play the game a little bit, and then disappear again.
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