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Waypoint+ |OT| "Fuck Capitalism, Go Home"
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Me? Why me? I'm not saying they don't deserve it. Jeeeezus.
Rob, I love ya, but a blind pigeon in Argentina could have sniffed this out last Autumn.
What surprises me is that Vice agreed to those increases despite probably knowing already they'd have to cut a decent chunk of staff. If anything that's a corporation acting humanely for a change.
What surprises me is that Vice agreed to those increases despite probably knowing already they'd have to cut a decent chunk of staff. If anything that's a corporation acting humanely for a change.
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I'm pretty confident they could run a pretty successful patreon to keep doing most of what they're doing now, at least insofar as the podcasting is concerned. They're literally just Skype podcasting from all over the country, right? The office space seemed superfluous once the site ditched streaming.
Do they have six or seven full-time staff, though? I think a Patreon that supports them all when a major corporation couldn't be viable is a bit fanciful. I could see a podcast/brand working following something like the Retronauts model but it would likely end up being a side project unless the money they could draw in is wildly above what I'm thinking it would be.
I dunno what kind of staff they had outside of the on-air talent, but look at Kinda Funny and Easy Allies, they do pretty good with the crowd funding model. Honestly, Waypoint could probably stand to trim some fat, but I'm not a fan of some of the personalities on their shows so that could be my bias talking. I'm there for Austin primarily, so whatever he does next and whoever he takes with him I'll be there for that too.
I'm a P-Diddy man myself
I suppose Patrick can always go back to high school and finish puberty
It feels like the time for some gallows humour
I suppose Patrick can always go back to high school and finish puberty
It feels like the time for some gallows humour
Agreed. At least it's more positive than first thought. Though it may be that they just haven't told them what's happening specifically yet unless Austin has something concrete to relay.
Celebrate by starting a new Stellaris stream with Danielle and Rob!
Austin u kool bro
All the best to everyone at Waypoint and anyone who loses their jobs. Severance or not it's never a fun time.
All the best to everyone at Waypoint and anyone who loses their jobs. Severance or not it's never a fun time.
Appreciated.
Also, I cannot believe that our first OT's page 69 will be forever marked by this.
That's great news....well as "great" as news about mass layoffs can be? I guess? Right?
All the best to you Austin
All the best to you Austin
Very happy to hear that Waypoint is going to still be around and doing what they set out to do. I really clicked with site over the past few months after following casually for a few years so I'm glad there's more to look forward to.
Speaking of, I guess that third KH lore podcast isn't even the last one based on this tweet.
Speaking of, I guess that third KH lore podcast isn't even the last one based on this tweet.
If they finish Birth by Sleep in this podcast (which I don't know is the case, haven't listened yet) wouldn't that put them about halfway through the series? Assuming they also plan on covering KH3 in Lore Reasons I could see it going for another couple episodes.
I am happy to hear the team survived another round of layoffs, and that the union successfully bargained for better severance during last year's negotiations. That doesn't make up for the fact of how much it sucks for people who were let go though and I hope those employees quickly land on their feet.
The podcasts have been my go-to current gaming show for the last year and I would be upset if Waypoint ended right now as the recent ones have been excellent.
In office culture, that's called Miltoning yourself*
(* I have no idea if that's actually a term, but laying low until the rest of the organization forgets you exist is what Milton did in that movie)
The podcasts have been my go-to current gaming show for the last year and I would be upset if Waypoint ended right now as the recent ones have been excellent.
In office culture, that's called Miltoning yourself*
(* I have no idea if that's actually a term, but laying low until the rest of the organization forgets you exist is what Milton did in that movie)
BBS has maybe the highest concentration of lore, especially since they used it to set the basics up, so there's that to consider.
Looks like this covers the rest of 1 and CoM. So after that... I guess by their ordering, we'd have Days, 2, Re:Coded? (probably just the end if anything...?), Dream Drop Distance, 0.2? (this would be extremely quick), and we're into 3?
I would expect Days + 2 to be the long third episode, then the rest before 3 could probably be a 4th. Though I can't really estimate how long DDD would take; I'd say it maybe doesn't have a lot of original story but it does add to the lore a decent amount.
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Yeah BBS is super lore-dumpy because it's trying to explain a bunch of stuff that was introduced and start setting the table for KH3. And then they decided to do Dream Drop which added another bucket of lore to the mix to further setup KH3.
Starting with BBS is probably not where I would've started a lore dive but I haven't listened to the episode yet to know how they're using it to establish the basics.
I hope at some point they realise how much extra lore is in that mobile game so they loop back around to that and the weird movie thing that was tied to it. I feel like there's at least 3 hours worth of material right there.
Oh it makes perfect sense that it could take that long, but it's just hilarious to me given the context of Patrick saying that they originally thought the lore discussion wouldn't even fill an entire single episode and they'd need to pad it with listener emails.
My guess is part three doesn't even make it all the way through the end of KH2, but it gets close. Hard to know for sure since Natalie won't have watched as in depth a review for that one as she did by watching all of KH1, but the possibility of talking about all the Organization XIII and Disney worlds stuff with that one could make it take a lot longer than anticipated, especially if they spend as much time as they could on Days.
With a beautiful kind of hubris that sees them trying to utilize the power of their own friendship to work together to compose the ultimate Kingdom Hearts timeline.