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In the game industry, working yourself to death for 4 days, that's called a hot fix ;)
by keyle 5y ago
In the game industry, working yourself to death for 4 days, that's called a hot fix ;)
- bsenftner 5y agoAnd that is after you've been working 6 days a week for the last 9 months. As an EA spouse survivor - fuck that industry.
- chasd00 5y ago“Spouse survivor”, I like that! I worked on the tech/distribution/data reporting side of the Covid vaccine and consider my wife, and all the sacrifices she made and extra things she handled up on while I was on the keyboard and phone, a critical component of my team’s success.
- bsenftner 5y ago"EA Spouse" is the name is a specific period during the early 90's when Electronic Arts burned out an entire generation of game developers.
- munificent 5y agoHere is the source of the term: https://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/274.html https://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/274.html
- Thaxll 5y agoPeople working on the cloud infra are not the people working on games.