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Entire staff of game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned

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Re: Entire staff of game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned

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Post by threeseed »

InDubioProRubio wrote: post #79
threeseed wrote: post #63

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There is another way to look at this. Annapurna Pictures in Dec 2022 produced Nimona for Netflix which debuted at #9 globally and was as high as #3 i.e. it was a massive hit. So they now have the Stray IP which could be extremely lucrative and are looking at how CD Project Red handled their successful Cyberpunk integration on Netflix as a model. Which is where you cross-promote a game add-on or sequel with the movie.…

IP, content, blobs - container words - a sure-fire indicator in any conversation that , that the parties involved areunable to accurately value, evaluate, organize and produce, the valuables that should reside inside the container. So here the daily reminder, that logistics is a commodity now, but producing something of value, is not.

I can assure you that the accountants and executives at these studios can absolutely value, evaluate, organise and produce the valuables that should reside inside the "container".

It's what the entire movie and TV industries have been about ever since the idea of sequels e.g. Aliens, Terminator and worlds e.g. Marvel took off.

Re: Entire staff of game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned

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Post by AzzyHN »

PoignardAzur wrote: post #19

I hope whatever entity these people reform has the same magic. Every single game they published had something unique. Outer Wilds, Telling Lies, Twelve Minutes, Edit Finch, Neon White, etc. They didn't develop these games, but they have an eye for talent.

They were one of the few publishing companies that people liked as a _publishing_ company.

Re: Entire staff of game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned

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Post by amiga386 »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #126
dboreham wrote: post #118

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Also a nice guy. Perhaps not unrelated.

Branson is supposed to be a really decent chap. I suspect a lot of it has to do with who you surround yourself with, and how much agency you give them. One word that rich people almost never hear, is “no.” Even really nice ones don't hear it often. That means that almost any rectally-sourced, harebrained idea they squeeze out, is treated as genius, by their entourage. I know a number of fairly wealthy people, and som…

> Branson is supposed to be a really decent chap.

Do yourself a favour and read the Tom Bower biographies of him, e.g. Branson: Behind The Mask

In fact, you can a get a good understanding of him indirectly through the testimony in Tubular Bells: the Mike Oldfield story https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=877&v=UQLDGpcgNTM e.g. John Giddings says of Branson "He was a chancer. He was prepared to gamble and go for it. He was percieved as a visionary, putting it all together, but really he was importing records illegally and flogging them, right? He was a second-hand car salesman."

Re: Entire staff of game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned

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Post by thoroughburro »

FrojoS wrote: post #78
nubinetwork wrote: post #47

Every time I hear thr name Annapurna, I think about the ARM SoC maker...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annapurna Just in case anyone is unaware, it's a mountain in Nepal. The 10th highest in the world.

> The mountain is named after Annapurna, the Hindu goddess of food and nourishment, who is said to reside there.

Re: Entire staff of game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

amiga386 wrote: post #174
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #126

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Branson is supposed to be a really decent chap. I suspect a lot of it has to do with who you surround yourself with, and how much agency you give them. One word that rich people almost never hear, is “no.” Even really nice ones don't hear it often. That means that almost any rectally-sourced, harebrained idea they squeeze out, is treated as genius, by their entourage. I know a number of fairly wealthy people, and som…

> Branson is supposed to be a really decent chap. Do yourself a favour and read the Tom Bower biographies of him, e.g. Branson: Behind The Mask In fact, you can a get a good understanding of him indirectly through the testimony in Tubular Bells: the Mike Oldfield story https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=877&v=UQLDGpcgNTM e.g. John Giddings says of Branson "He was a chancer. He was prepared to gamble and go for it. He wa…

That doesn't necessarily mean he was a not-nice person.

He's actually fairly well-known for treating his employees well. One of the reasons his TV show wasn't so popular, was because he wasn't into pitting the contestants against each other, and firing the losers.

Re: Entire staff of game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned

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Post by selimthegrim »

hinkley wrote: post #154
robjwells wrote: post #29

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For those who don’t get the lawnmower reference, take 5 minutes and have a hearty laugh: https://youtube.com/watch?t=1980&v=-zRN7XLCRhc (Start at the 33 minute mark if it doesn’t jump you there.)

You grow up an Ellison, I figure you either end up just like daddy, a social justice warrior with means, or like Mary Trump, a psychologist. Just so you can unpack your fucked up family and help others.

Or like Abigail Disney

Re: Entire staff of game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned

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Post by Liquix »

sameoldtune wrote: post #108
InDubioProRubio wrote: post #79

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IP, content, blobs - container words - a sure-fire indicator in any conversation that , that the parties involved areunable to accurately value, evaluate, organize and produce, the valuables that should reside inside the container. So here the daily reminder, that logistics is a commodity now, but producing something of value, is not.

“Content” is an advertising term for whatever fills the space between all the ads

in 2024 there are so many one-click-install adblockers for your browser, phone's DNS, router... anyone still seeing a sizable amount of ads these days has to be the most complacent, easily manipulated, lucrative demographic imaginable

Re: Entire staff of game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned

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Post by ryandrake »

hinkley wrote: post #149
dijit wrote: post #48

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This is extremely well articulated, and is exactly true in my experience. People take gossip as "gossip"- an unrealiable approximation and gross-oversimplification of an individual. Thus give people with poor reputations the benefit of the doubt, believing themselves to be open minded. (which is true). When they are shown just how 1-dimensional some people can actually be , and that the gossip depicts people precisel…

I joke that Larry is from that evil Star Trek universe and somewhere in the multiverse a clean-shaven, teddy bear of a man is trapped in a universe full of assholes because he was tricked into swapping with this Larry.

It's a funny joke, but I think it downplays how much of our world is led, run, and inhabited by assholes. It's more likely that we are living in the Asshole Universe and there is a parallel universe out there where being the asshole is an outlier.

Re: Entire staff of game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned

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Post by hinkley »

selimthegrim wrote: post #177
hinkley wrote: post #154

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You grow up an Ellison, I figure you either end up just like daddy, a social justice warrior with means, or like Mary Trump, a psychologist. Just so you can unpack your fucked up family and help others.

Or like Abigail Disney

She seems to be leaning toward the sjw trope.

And then there’s Sarah Winchester, who instead of becoming the psychologist, became a case study in psychology.

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