Inside Annapurna Interactive's Mass Walkout
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#2I confused Annapurna Interactive with Annapurna Labs. Was lost for a bit there reading the article.
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#3"You need to think of [Megan] Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it'll chop it off, the end. You don't think 'oh, the lawnmower hates me' -- lawnmower doesn't give a shit about you, lawnmower can't hate you. Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don't fall into that trap about [Annapurna]." -- Bryan Cantrill, on the sins of the father, heavily editorialized.
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#4Related:
Entire Annapurna Game Team Resigns
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41526074
Entire staff of game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned
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#5Doesn’t seem to be much information here except maybe that the next “Runic Games” but with Annapurna alumni will be called Verset.
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#6"You need to think of [Megan] Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it'll chop it off, the end. You don't think 'oh, the lawnmower hates me' -- lawnmower doesn't give a shit about you, lawnmower can't hate you. Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don't fall into that trap about [Annapurna]." -- Bryan Ca…
This seems like a very different scenario -- don't be part of a hobby business that's so low on the owner's radar that they aren't willing to bleed for it.
Because if they lose interest and everything explodes, you're out of a job and they're still a billionaire.
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#7I confused Annapurna Interactive with Annapurna Labs. Was lost for a bit there reading the article.
Annapurna is a mountain in Nepal. "Only" tenth highest in the world, but with the highest or second-highest fatality rate.
That makes it an attractive company name, I guess.
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#8There is more content being produced than there are eyeballs and time to consume it all.
How does such an industry survive? In a very round about manner that has nothing to do with what they say they do.
General rule in life - Don't focus on the drama a fucked up environment produces.
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#9Unfortunately, with the recent coverage of Concord by IGN, I don't think any content they put out is to be taken seriously.
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#10"You need to think of [Megan] Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it'll chop it off, the end. You don't think 'oh, the lawnmower hates me' -- lawnmower doesn't give a shit about you, lawnmower can't hate you. Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don't fall into that trap about [Annapurna]." -- Bryan Ca…
This seems like a very different scenario -- don't be part of a hobby business that's so low on the owner's radar that they aren't willing to bleed for it. Because if they lose interest and everything explodes, you're out of a job and they're still a billionaire.
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