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Plasma Ring

@ring

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I'm Ring ᐠ( ᐛ )ᐟ I strive to be your web sight's reliable provider of big scruffy guys getting bullied by ≥7-foot tall monster femboys


You will never guess where to find my art account! Hahahaha! My security is impenetrable! (it's @PlasmaRing)

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posts from @ring tagged #remembering when AOL shut down the site I wrote for with zero warning and I'm probably only alive right now bc the studio I was writing about picked me up out of the ditch like a stray kitten

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Why do games media layoffs keep happening?

if y'all were/are on games media Twitter you might've been aware that Khee Hoon Chan was working to put together an absolute beast of a freelance article, interviewing loads and loads of folks hit by layoffs throughout the last year. the pitch eventually found a home with GI.biz and is out now! it's a great read for anyone in the gaming space and I hope it paints a clearer picture of the struggles journalists face for those on the outside looking in — keeping in mind that even this is only scratching the surface. I too am extremely frustrated with the current state of games writing, as a lot of my independent work will show, but the conversation needs a lot more education and nuance than it has now

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#remembering when AOL shut down the site I wrote for with zero warning and I'm probably only alive right now bc the studio I was writing about picked me up out of the ditch like a stray kitten#who can say if this is good or bad for journalism#my stuff is now floating around out there on joystiq which I have never otherwise been affiliated with bc I guess them keeping it up is the only way it survives online#this was almost ten years ago at this point and it just keeps getting worse#every time I see another round of games media layoffs I just feel sick in the pit of my stomach#every industry that relies on creative work feels like it's constantly going "if we got rid of this stupid goose we wouldn't have to feed it and could keep all the money from these golden eggs that spontaneously appear"