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> “The report, which IGN can confirm based on conversations with our own sources, states that Annapurna Interactive president Nathan Gary had recently been in n
by sonofhans 2y ago
> “The report, which IGN can confirm based on conversations with our own sources, states that Annapurna Interactive president Nathan Gary had recently been in negotiations with Annapurna founder and billionaire Megan Ellison to spin the gaming segment off as its own company. However, Ellison eventually pulled out of negotiations, at which point Gary resigned. Almost 30 other individuals, including division co-heads Deborah Mars and Nathan Vella, as well as the entire remaining staff of Annapurna Interactive, joined him.”
From IGN — https://www.ign.com/articles/annapurnas-entire-gaming-team-has-resigned https://www.ign.com/articles/annapurnas-entire-gaming-team-h...
I don’t blame them. I’d rather negotiate my arm out of a shark’s mouth than the cost of a hot dog with Larry Ellison, or his daughter. You don’t get that awful rich by ever believing you’re awful rich enough.
- Rinzler89 2y ago[flagged]
- pdimitar 2y agoI agree with your take but also let's not pretend that SW Outlaws and Concord are worth even 4/10. Worst games I've seen in a while. Concord seems to have a good-ish engine and it would be a shame if that's trashed but outside of that, yikes.
- kbelder 2y agoI agree with you about IGN's quality, but I think it's not necessarily your opinion that's generating the downvotes, but the tone. IGN being disconnected from the tastes and preferences of gamers? Almost inarguable. Letting political opinions of the journalists have huge sway over game reviews and scores? I'd say that is inarguable. But you'll get downvoted when you type a post on HN that seems like you're getting excited while typing.
- Rinzler89 2y ago>but the tone Who cares? Debates are about ideas, not tones. >But you'll get downvoted when you type a post on HN that seems like you're getting excited while typing. Unless you're getting excited about the same world views as the mobs'.
- hinkley 2y agoAnother lawnmower is born.
- robjwells 2y agoFor those who don’t get the lawnmower reference, take 5 minutes and have a hearty laugh: https://youtube.com/watch?t=1980&v=-zRN7XLCRhc https://youtube.com/watch?t=1980&v=-zRN7XLCRhc (Start at the 33 minute mark if it doesn’t jump you there.)
- pcl 2y agoPSA: it’s a link to Bryan Cantrill ranting about the Sun / Oracle acquisition. I couldn’t make it through 5 minutes of his ranting to get to an accurate summary of the joke though.
- stavros 2y ago> You need to think of Larry 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 Oracle.
- robjwells 2y ago> "Oh they wanted to kill OpenSolaris!" No, the lawnmower doesn't care about OpenSolaris, the lawnmower doesn't think about OpenSolaris, the lawnmower _can't_ care about OpenSolaris. The lawnmower can't have empathy.
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- whstl 2y agoThe lawnmower joke is here: https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?feature=shared&t=2303 https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?feature=shared&t=2303 at the 38:23 mark.
- stefan_ 2y agoImagine having to negotiate with Larry Ellisons nepo daughter, how can you even keep a straight face. "It says here you are a film producer?"
- ZeroGravitas 2y agoI only found out recently that animated film company Laika was created after Nike founder Phil Knight bought his son a new career after he failed at being a rapper. He bought into Will Vinton studios and then forced Oscar winning animation pioneer Will Vinton out of his own company. There's a whole documentary, sad and interesting.
- mhuffman 2y agoIf I recall, it turns out that his "failed rapper" son had some sort of natural talent for this and has got nothing but accolades even from other animators ever since. Although I do get your point.
- J_Shelby_J 2y agoYes, they did produce this great movie https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubo_and_the_Two_Strings https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubo_and_the_Two_Strings
- busterarm 2y agof me that movie was so great, only to be overshadowed by Coco a year later.
- brandall10 2y agoHe also directed Bumblebee, perhaps the only great film in the Transformers universe.
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- markus_zhang 2y agoThis is what people with talents should do if they don't agree with the super riches who don't do anything substantial but inherit a shit ton of money.