Author: zingay

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Worked on this girl for 9 months. Now this new music video comes out and she’s immensely popular, arguably one of the most popular characters in the LoL universe.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m really glad she’s a huge hit, it’s super exciting to see so many people love the character design and the gameplay, and know that I contributed directly and significantly to the behind-the-scenes engineering that makes it all work. It’s validating.

But it’s also so fucking melancholy to know I did so much work and put in so much time for such a shitty company, run by shitty people, and the reward I got for it was unemployment. 

I threw a lot into this character. I cried at work. I started getting panic attacks, which I’ve never gotten before. I developed persistent heart palpitations from the daily overwhelming stress and had to go to the hospital (this is true, seriously.) I basically dropped all my friends outside of work. My manager (and his manager!) lied to me constantly to keep me working. They said I was doing a great job but to keep it up. Don’t worry, it’s going to turn out great, and it’ll all be worth it in the end – recognition, a raise, probably a promotion in short order. They promised me the world. When she was finally finished, I didn’t even get to go to the release party, they just walked me out. 

I remember a quote from my last day, it sticks out in my mind: “I know you realize this is really hard for me,” my manager said. Yes, in the end, when he awkwardly informed me I didn’t have my dream job anymore – or any job at all – and then stared back at my shell-shocked face, my thousand-yard stare, the only thing he felt was sorry for himself.

She launched with no major bugs and was considered a technical success. Doesn’t matter. Get the fuck out.

I don’t know how I feel. A weird sensation of pride and intense bitterness. I did a good job; at least, I think I did. Unfortunately, internal validation is the only kind I’m going to get.

Everyone reposting KDA should see this. Riot has successfully distracted everyone into forgetting their culture of sexism, exploitation, and toxicity mere months after it was all revealed.

Look, I get it. Akali is EXTREMELY my type. It’s obvious how much love and care was put into her development. But it makes me furious to see all the free advertising that Riot is getting from people who I thought would know better. 

And now? One of the people who is arguably responsible for all that free advertising? Who’s work is undoubtedly making Riot hundreds of thousands of dollars a day? Who was overworked to the point of near breaking? They get nothing. WORSE than the scant bit of credit that most devs can get in a big company like Riot. They got let go.

Fuck Riot Games.

One thing that I thought really sucked a lot is that the production company who made the KDA video isn’t even credited. They credit a lot of other people on their videos, usually, but the actual animators of the video are hidden; almost a lie by omission. At best it’s a honest mistake, at worst it’s sneakily trying to pass off the video as something made in-house when it’s not. 😦

I have been asked before- “Is JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure actually that bizarre?“

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Here’s a sampling of some of my favorite things that happen so that you may judge for yourself, and while they may be spoilers, you will likely still be just as “what” as you were already:

  • Man peppers sandwich profusely, then punches a frog. But Wait! The frog was not actually punched. By the power of the sun, you can punch THROUGH frogs. 
  • Vampirism is real and it gives you laser eyes and Ice Man powers that said vampire uses once or twice and then never again.  Because his newer power of stopping time is just that much cooler.  He uses it to throw a fish at a teenager.
  • Man feeds salami to bullets and shoots himself many times.
  • Man with fishing pole causes man to pull own heart out and asks a bullet to put the heart back later.
  • Man throws balls at rat, rat shoots back with a tank turret with darts that melt flesh.
  • A Lego model of the US White House causes everyone in an orchard to get the bends and suffocate.
  • Woman causes spontaneous hair growth to get free food.
  • Part man, part dinosaur uses Jesus of Nazareth’s actual eye to help collect mummified limbs for the President of the US and also maybe win a national horse race.
  • Aforementioned man-dino doesn’t actually naturally have the dinosaur powers, they were given to him like an infection.  His actual power is stopping time.
  • Sponges collide. It gets weird.
  • Artist uses invisible baby to win a game of Rock Paper Scissors with a child.
  • Same artist also kills someone by writing on that person’s hand to use a remote control, in which doing so causes the man to be flung out a window to his death.
  • That artist thinks he killed a god and is now cursed because of it.
  • Man flies airplane into volcano, launches vampire into space.
  • Space vampire has 35 other incarnations of himself on Mars.
  • Florida woman trips off seeing rainbows, thinks everyone is a snail, and thinks snails are lucky because of their ability to fuck.
  • Said woman fights through the 1974 Miami Dolphins to stuff herself into a pipe in order to smack someone.
  • She also gets set on fire by a man in a cow suit.
  • Man is incredulous on whether Disney is real because there’s no Mickey Mouse in the advertisement.
  • Nun shoots meat from an aerosol can to use as a disguise.
  • Man has incredible power of nothing but positive thinking and wins a lot of money because of it.  (He deserved it, too)

THERES SO MUCH MORE so feel free to add to this

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NO MORE

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No more will this acclimation of iniquity stand!! the shrinkiing of the steven universe boy had come too far for this fan to handle!!

SEASON 1: EPISODE 4: “THE GREMLIN BRIDE”

SEASON 5 EPISODE 7: “NO TIMES LIKE WAR CRIMES”

mathematically he is 4 times smaller.

as you can see he has become so little he could no longer hold his friend garnet in a fleshy hand! he looks just like an ordinary boy. yet another crime to put on my already EXTENSIVE RS callout googledoc. DM for link.

Please join me in a twitter campaign to alert rebecca sugar to the extent of her man shrinking crimes! use the hashtag #stretchtheboy to get the public motivated!

To all y’all saying it’s because it’s two different boarders did you not see Season 2 Episode 11 “Pearl Hates The Irish”, boarded exclusively by REBECCA SUGAR HERSELF

Here’s pearl in one scene:

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Here she is 7 seconds later:

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I can’t believe this just goes under peoples noses, its like they didn’t even watch the feature length Steven Universe Documentary by Lily Peet. The show is so incosnistent im slittlerally skakign ,,, wabth the fUKC

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a man: men now have to think before they speak, they are afraid to be criticized or accused of something, can we believe that we have to live like this now?? uwu

all the women that had to grown up being super self-aware of what they wear, what they think, what they say, how they act, where they are, with whom, etc in every aspect of their life, all the time, in this sexist society (especially women of color, non-straight women and trans women): good. finally you all have to learn how to behave.  

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