“We’re always in crunch,” a source told Polygon. “Crunch never ends in a live service game like that. You’re always building more content and more stuff.”

I don’t think it’s fair to blame the customer here, they aren’t demanding an endless stream of content so much as they’re currently willing to pay for it. Epic is just pumping out as much as they can as fast as they can because they know nothing can stay on top forever

How do you know?

Not at literal gunpoint, but they are, figuratively. Game dev is the career they wanted. This is what they do for a living. Crunch is forcing brutal work hours by coercion of job security; you either meet your employer’s demands, or wind up on the chopping block in the next quarterly review.

At this point I would assume STW is dead.  Why would they ever commit resources to it, especially if keeping BR propped up is taking 200% of their available staff.

Some people are even joking about the prospect of Notre-Dame being restored using Unity’s digital recreation.

Yeah, you’re supposed to review the game, not the side shit of outside the games review.

We are pretty much always working.

So, forget the fact that Pete’s father was killed in a very tragic and traumatic event, and that kind of shock changes the dynamics of surviving family members like him and his mom.

Well, and the part that I find so toxic (I shudder to use this word, but it seems apt) about the attitude is how it displays this obsession with Davidson—and presumably this is supposed to hold for the average dude—demonstrating worthiness for female attention entirely through material means. And then we turn around…

It’s been proven that strong family ties are incredible boosters for mental health and a long life.

I think it’s a particularly stupid American idea that everyone needs to waste their money on housing in order to prove their worth as good little capitalists. That I have to be defensive and have an excuse for it to be OK for me to live with my mom is absurd. I would live with my mom even if I didn’t have this mental…

I really really thought we’d put all that “living with your parents is super lame” thing behind us already. There are so many valid reasons why people choose to live with their parents!

Context is everything.

At what point are we allowed to mention that Pete Davidson is constantly being bullied and this is shitty? Duder is hella mentally ill and doesn’t seem like a bad person and I kinda hate the way he keeps getting publicly shit on and think he could legit kill himself as someone with two suicide attempts Of my own I…

I said this in a comment that will probably say in the grays because Dirt Bag is no longer that fun and therefore is less popular, but I live with my mom because (like Pete) I have a serious, chronic mental illness. I am also employed and we share living expenses. But no one cares about me as much as my mom does, and…

He also bought the house for his mom. The frequency of his jokes involving his mom are pretty solid evidence that they’re very close. I know that if I were single and bouncing from woman to woman in my mid-twenties, recovering from addiction, fighting crippling depression and Crohn’s Disease, I’d probably go live with…

Plus it certainly sounds like a little stability could help him after his roller coaster of a last two years - addiction treatment, mental health issues, constant reporting on his romantic life.

Should I point out that Pete has a serious mental illness, and that living with a parent is maybe not the worst/most pathetic idea for an employed, single adult who struggles with suicidal ideation and other self-harm issues? No? We’re going to continue making fun of everything this person does, even though he’s…

So what? Maybe he likes his mom? Maybe she keeps him grounded. I truly think that people who haven’t lost a parent can’t understand how much that experience makes you value the one you have left.