The Crunch Culture Conundrum

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Final thoughts:
I wish I had instead mentioned a company besides Nintendo at the end. Their track record isn't great... for god's sake, Sakurai hooked himself up to an IV machine to keep working on smash. Would've been better to mention Supergiant games or something.
I'd like to thank Marty, Chris, Alex, Skymen, and everyone else who was willing to share their experience and insight. Y'all are the best, seriously.
Considerable animation assistance was provided by Villa, a frustratingly talented freelance animator currently looking for work 👀
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Goose voiced by Brendaniel (thank u beautiful boy xoxo)( / brendanielreads )
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Chapters:
00:00 - Foreword
2:29 - Ad break
3:13 - Important Footnote
4:03 - Chapter 1 - Gun to the Head
10:23 - Chapter 2 - The Goose
13:42 - Chapter 3 - The Gamers™
15:47 - Chapter 4 - Passion VS Mandate
21:50 - Conclusion
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@CallMeVidd Год назад

The irony of the crunch at CDPR is that the game is all about suits exploiting the average people and how we should rebel against it

@ajaxmaxbitch 11 месяцев назад

What's also ironic is during the time the crunch was happening, the ceo or whatever said they don't have crunch anymore basically

@felipecouto1102 11 месяцев назад

Only in capitalism you can exploit people to make work that's supposed to upend it.

@Kage-jk4pj 9 месяцев назад

Interestingly enough, this exact scenario is repeating itself with ZOM 100 anime.

@felipecouto1102 9 месяцев назад

@@Kage-jk4pj Thought the same when I saw it. Capitalism can twist anything

@chancecarr3000 8 месяцев назад

I'm missing the irony

@JBX07 3 года назад

The only crunch culture I like is in my breakfast cereal.

@sunso1991 3 года назад

what about nachos? and hard shell taco?

@lurch456youtube 3 года назад

i like crunchy kit Kats :)

@thatguy2377 3 года назад

Screw Nestle tho

@Zift_Ylrhavic_Resfear 3 года назад

Well, crunch is owned by nestlé, which doesn't care about killing children. A 2018 report found that they promote their powder milk to replace breast milk in certain countries, but breast milk helps babies build their immune system; you should understand where the problem is. When they first started doing it in Africa (in the 80s? 60s? I don't remember) they even gave free samples lasting just long enough that the mother stop producing her own milk, so that they would have no choice but to buy artificial milk. Such practices were internationally banned (at least in theory), but i guess nestlé is going to toe the line as much as it can.

@nullsnaggle5198 3 года назад

Uh greed

@C418 3 года назад

Thanks for this. Talking about it matters.

@theultimatebagelmaster 3 года назад

Did you have to deal with crunch during the development/updates of Minecraft?

@fruitsnackbandit4987 3 года назад

Hello c418

@victor_. 3 года назад

I love your music!

@PaulSSalazar 3 года назад

Same, I'm not even a game developer but is very relatable to me. Right now I am working for Amazon and there is just too much work that wants to be done.

@otavio30 3 года назад

Hello funny Minecraft music man But in all seriousness, i agree with you, if we don't talk about problems like crunch and workplace abuse then it won't ever stop

@muddashucka9743 Год назад

"No one's got a gun to their head" No, they're just threatening to cut their workers off from food, power, water, and housing.

@parencolonthree Год назад

So they have a gun to their head but it kills them slowly

@audiosurfarchive Год назад

Tooootally not threatening at all; the fuck you mean? /s

@muddashucka9743 Год назад

@@parencolonthree yes

@theolympiyn8670 Год назад

It’s not a fun it’s a poison dart

@stefaniedc1128 Год назад

exactly. at least if you had a gun to my head and i refused your demands, my troubles would be over the moment you pulled that trigger. this is worse than a gun to your head.

@_peachjam_ 2 года назад

"There's nothing like a good foie gras" is so cartoonishly fucking evil I almost can't believe a real human being said that

@majorghoul9017 Год назад

It was said by an Activision Exec, so it makes sense and is even more disgusting

@Data-Expungeded Год назад

its like the kick the dog moment in a cartoon to show how evil this next villain is.

@FrostGlader Год назад

@@Data-Expungeded Dio Brando moment.

@crunchybro123 Год назад

@@FrostGladerit’s literally just duck liver I don’t get it why is everyone saying it’s evil

@FrostGlader Год назад

@@crunchybro123 did you not watch the video? The “Goose” is a metaphor for the developers. The Activision Executive basically said they’re willing to cook that Goose.

@DrGandW 3 года назад

“Sometimes, there’s nothing like a good foie gras.” -A guy who knows he’s a real life villain and loves it

@simonwesterlund2151 3 года назад

Almost like he knew what he meant and deliberately destroyed the whole conversation, what a guy.

@massivejuicer1635 3 года назад

This comment both has me cackling and in fear cause of how accurate it is

@benedict6962 3 года назад

I didn't think I was going to hear anything new from this video. Then I heard that line.

@bluelandyaandgreenlandya1788 3 года назад

That sounded like a genuinely good villain line, he should get an acting job

@Courier6FNV 3 года назад

And of course he was an Activision dev

@sweetpeabee4983 3 года назад

"You can't be creative if you're dead...Stay alive and stay healthy." That shit's so easy to forget but so important. Needed the reminder -- thanks.

@omiorahman6283 3 года назад

Yes

@moss5356 3 года назад

hey I’m gonna keep the goose

@crimsonlanceman7882 3 года назад

High level companies' individuals are ignorant pieces of shit that think economy runs on fairy dust and artists are ammunition that they can pack into their shotgun, shoot at the wall of expansion and then just go find more bullets.

@tommyfroggyy_ 3 года назад

@@waxcutter9813 game designing

@yoshimallow Год назад

@@moss5356 It's not yours! GIVE ME MY GOOSE BA~

@ericfelds6291 Год назад

I no joke had a psychotic episode due to crunch. I was taking adderall to keep my brain alive after virtually no sleep for a week, then my perception of reality completely warped and I erroneously assumed my roomate/ best friend was planning to kill me so I attacked him and spent 3 days in the psych ward. Thank God my friend understood and didnt press charges. Crunch isn't some back ache, or mild inconvenience, it absolutely devastates your sense of wellbeing and for what purpose? For leisurely golfing executives to make more moola. They view their workers, people, as instruments in a plan who exist only to help fatten their wallet.

@unuks9731 Год назад

What kind of job do you have

@ericfelds6291 Год назад

@@unuks9731 during graduate school I worked as an acute intern therapist at a psych work

@fangthrob Год назад

Dude, I've been thru psychosis, it's fucking hell

@ineedabetterusername4803 Год назад

Holy shit that must have been terrifying. Sleep deprivation and psychosis is the fucking worst. I'm glad your friend didn't press any charges

@mr_blank4413 Год назад

You good and talented people do not and will never deserve the shit they put you through. Know that.

@dirktheodale7066 3 года назад

When you think about how many "AAA" games in the past years have been bugged filled, rushed and crappy experiences, crunch proves not to work.

@caramelldansen2204 3 года назад

money comes first, not quality and especially not the health of labour

@doodlizeddd 3 года назад

@@caramelldansen2204 I don't know if that is against the argument or with the argument, but it is true.

@caramelldansen2204 3 года назад

@@doodlizeddd It is an argument against the way we currently organize production

@UrFriendXD 3 года назад

yeah... tbh it takes a lot of time to just implement a feature and then to have it work flawlessly takes even more time. Even it's a simple feature, still takes time, and the more you add, the more interactions and so on you need to make sure works. I suppose without those crunches, those games would either never have been released or been pushed back a lot, and seeing Cyberpunk, I don't know if the community would be happy with that... Oh, and profit too, the longer it takes to release, the more the company bleeds money. Games don't make money until they release or Early access.

@Kerosiin 3 года назад

Hell cyberpunk took like a full fucking decade of crunch and it still came out shit

@cirme9460 3 года назад

Mojang be out there delaying one of the biggest updates yet for minecraft to avoid Crunch, deciding to split it in 2 parts and I respect that

@aitsu_nojayjay 3 года назад

I'm completely fine with it however sort of disappointed with it as well

@theweakestbrazilianmale3398 3 года назад

Waiting 6 more months to see bigger caves is definetily better then Mojang working 18th century coal miner hours

@hjj9269 3 года назад

@@aitsu_nojayjay You shouldn’t be disappointed, it’s coming, don’t worry.

@badjuju2721 3 года назад

I'm Glad they are delaying it, I'd rather have a delayed game then a game made with slave labor

@AqibA.C. 3 года назад

Aw man, as much as it kinda' sucks to hear that, I'm definitely glad they did it to make sure it was done right and avoid the human cost behind it. As great as a game can be and everything it can make and foster within it's subsequent communities, people shouldn't have to sacrifice their whole lives and wellbeing in service of it, just to keep it going.

@equinfox.-.9819 Год назад

i wonder how many death threats team cherry has got for silksong never really thought about that

@thecluckster3908 Год назад

Oh shoot hope not many.

@mrglick5050 Год назад

Pretty sure most of the HK community understand and appreciate the time team cherry is putting into silksong.

@RPGgrenade Год назад

probably far more than you can imagine. I honestly hope they're taking their time and NOT crunching on it.

@ConsarnitTokkori 11 месяцев назад

@@RPGgrenadei know i saw someone threatening to "spray water on the team's pillows" if they rushed it which is fair enough, i wouldn't want my pillows to be moist :(

@Soy__Boi 11 месяцев назад

People are encouraging TC to take their time, and make sure the final product is great. TC themselves told a random fan at a convention that they are not crunching, and are trying to release something good over something quick

@NameName2.0 Год назад

Can we all focus for a second how actually horrifying and villanesque "there's nothing like a good foie gras" is? Like, holy shit, that's an actual villain line. LITERALLY a villain line.

@cryptidkoi8418 Год назад

Felt like I was watching a disney movie for a second

@dorotrusty787 Год назад

Yeah, I even took notes.

@mollusckscramp4124 Год назад

Activision amirite

@tacopizzasandwich621 Год назад

Never knew that lex luthor worked as an EA executive

@AVdE10000 Год назад

I feel like companies purposefully hire sociopaths as their higher ups who manage the work force. You "have to" in order to make this crunch culture we're in possible. No reasonable human being is able to force that on such a massive scale

@SrPelo 3 года назад

I like that Marty character and his Goose. But yeeeh, crunch is horrible, I've been having crunch time for some animations and it's horrible, even more cuz it's personal work and makes me feel bad if I get it late. Latetly I understood that if it's gonna be late then just work at your own time. Sometimes passion can give you that fun crunch, but it's not healthy trying to do it all the time, resting is good to recharge and keep doing it, or just taking it slowly.

@snomvish 3 года назад

It's both super depressing and really strange to see you crunching on your nonsensical videos that only last a few minutes, more depressing than strange, obviously

@aidanniblock6186 3 года назад

It's ok if your toons go out a bit late. I mean spooky month and ccccccchhhhhhhrrrrrrriiiiiiissssssmmmmmasss only comes once a year, so you got a full year to make it.

@doyouknowdawae6660 3 года назад

Yeah i remember how much people demanded underpants genocide path i cant imagine the stress

@snomvish 3 года назад

@@doyouknowdawae6660 I wasn’t there for that and I still know it was stupid, it’s a twisted and depressing irony that people sent death threats for him to make a video on undertale’s genocide route

@Ray.6406 3 года назад

Estoy seguro de que todos entenderán si te tardas uno o dos días. No es necesario forzarte ni hacer crunch

@abot4029 3 года назад

I'm in the US Navy and I thought it was pretty weird how familiar this all sounded, until you said "stress casualty." Then I laughed.

@xanderpostelwait2347 3 года назад

HOBBES? THE ARMY? WHY?

@abot4029 3 года назад

@@xanderpostelwait2347 Calvin can't keep a job

@robertwebb6487 3 года назад

Lol also in the US Navy and I was looking for this comment. SSN 775 says hello

@blakdayy 3 года назад

Hobbes... man that’s a nostalgia trip

@jedispartancoolman 3 года назад

Also a navy lad a bit ago. Crunch defs was just the norm and it actually changed me as a person for the worse end of things. depressed and have no drive to do anything these days. Not even stuff I like to do

@geoffreyguestion2843 9 месяцев назад

Crunch culture being treated as a rite of passage reminds me of F1 fans who didn't like the halo-a safety device-when it was introduced, and one of the excuses was that "racers are gladiators" and _should_ face death.

@swishfish8858 7 месяцев назад

We should get those people put in prison. Holy shit.

@staringcorgi6475 Месяц назад

I’d understand that reaction if racing is a dare devil sport but it’s not

@twotailedavenger Месяц назад

And that's when you respond with "If we'd had the halo in '94, Senna would still be here."

@ruffalo1643 7 дней назад

Why do fans like to see everyone suffer?

@blahaj420 2 года назад

I feel like anyone who makes the argument that “because they aren’t forced by contract means it’s okay” has never worked an exploitative job before. this kind of stuff happens on the regular in minimum wage food service and retail. especially using the threat of putting more work on your coworkers as a way to get you to work more. I used to take shifts I couldn’t handle all the time because I knew that if I didn’t, there would be only two people managing the whole store for the night. it’s exploitative, manipulative, and uses a worker’s empathy and human connections against them. also, what about game devs who are disabled and physically cannot work long hours? are they condemned to purgatorial contract work and job hopping forever? honestly, the only hope is to make sure that developers know their rights and have a union to support them.

@stank7200 Год назад

If they unionize, they'll pretty much just stop employing them if they raise the wages above what the margins would provide. Sure it would reduce their hours and raise their wages, but that's even more likely to bring shit products to the table. I don't support crunch culture, but unionization will put a monopoly on the game industry and reduce employment overall, and severely diminish quality control.

@AVdE10000 Год назад

I feel like you can shorten that statement to "anyone who makes that argument has never worked a job before". Even those like me who are lucky enough to work in places with excellent work-life balance don't want to be the a-hole dumping their work onto others. I feel bad for taking 2 days off when I'm on the edge of a full mental breakdown. Video games are hugely popular with children. And I truly feel like people making arguments like that god awful "crunch vs no crunch" post just don't realise what a full time job is like. I don't think 25 year olds are throwing tantrums because a game they're hyped for gets delayed

@yesyes-om1po Год назад

@@AVdE10000 actually it's usually not children that do that stuff, its really just adults with no clue about game development or work, and usually they are too dumb to realize that half the problems/faults with a game, whether being delayed or having bugs/microtransactions, have absolutely nothing to do with the dev team, but rather the parasitic marketing/HR teams that are paid to suggest ways to squeeze more money out of players. I remember trying to learn to dev for fun, only to realize how mindbogglingly difficult it was to make basic games. That made me respect devs a million times more than I did before, and it made me realize that nobody makes games for money, they do it out of passion and true devotion to the game. If I put years of work into a game, I wouldn't ruin it by adding petty microtransactions or worthless cosmetics

@revolvingworld2676 8 месяцев назад

@@yesyes-om1po I mean…if you’re disabled should you have even been hired in that type of job in the first place?

@Bubble-Foam Месяц назад

@@revolvingworld2676 What? They didnt mention disability, and also workplaces (legally) cant discriminate against disabled individuals if they are still able to perform anyway. Not sure what youre going on about in general

@krombopulos_michael 3 года назад

The problem with "passion crunch" that people take on themselves is that it still changes the culture. Now anyone else who wants to work and succeed at the company will be expected to work to the same level, regardless of the effect it has on their work-life balance or mental health. It's the job of regulations and management to make them stop. Like, it's the same with performance enhancing drugs in sports. Sure, some, maybe even most athletes would take them to improve their performance if they were allowed. But if you just allow them, you're basically putting everyone who isn't willing to potentially harm themselves at a disadvantage. Even if it's not written down as mandatory, it's effectively mandatory for anyone who wants to succeed.

@alexc6088 3 года назад

Passion crunch is how we get employers to bully the shit out of you for all you are worth combined with depressing wages in compensation. People need to wake the fuck up and realize that work isn't the be all end all of life. FFS I see this stuff in education and especially my students, they are so buried into their work that they actually brag about how much work they are doing and it's demoralizing. Not to mention the abnormal hours I see some of my co-teachers put in and I'm just like, why? They're just abusing your generosity to afford to not pay you anything back in compensation. Then you see how capitalism fits into this and you hate it, even more, you are passionate about what you do, employers abuse that and take your passion for granted, don't pay their workers what they are actually worth and the cycle perpetuates. After all, if you're in charge of all of your employee's wages, why pay them extra when they'll still do the work anyway? Might as well use their passion and grind it into the dirt for all they're worth.

@sourwasabi5229 3 года назад

Yeah if management is not great then the second 1 person does it everyone else is expected to even if there isnt a gun to their head

@Deadbeatcow 3 года назад

haha damn that's crazy good luck with that

@thatguy9579 3 года назад

Had a manger who saw me working harder than the rest of my coworkers. She tried to mandate my level of work ethic to everyone else. I told her that if she tried that shit I was gonna leave, needless to say she removed the mandate. It’s sad that it doesn’t always happen that way though, with people becoming more and more stressed as their coworkers turn against them because corporate or the manager decided that everyone should be able to work at the fastest pace possible. This work culture that has cultivated over a few decades is becoming increasingly unfair not only to those who are currently employed, but also, those who need to find a new employer. It took me over a YEAR to find a job out of high school that didn’t let me go within the first month because I wasn’t able to keep up with highly unrealistic expectations and even now my current job doesn’t even give me enough hours so I can earn enough money to live off of.

@davecullins1606 3 года назад

I bet Japanese death-by-overwork culture had that origin as well.

@X-SPONGED 3 года назад

Fans : "no one's holding a gun to your head!" Devs : _(delays game because it's unfinished)_ Fans : _"oh my god, how could they do this ?_ _Let's send them bomb & death threats, guys"_

@romxxii 3 года назад

more like cancel them in life. Did you not read the death threats the CDPR dev got?

@QuiGonJohn1999 3 года назад

“You don’t know how shit lego shoes feel until you actually wear them” If they people sending death threats had to make a game in a limited amount of time and not wanted to take a break because it will effect everyone else and to throw on the pile random people sending death threats for just doing your job, maybe they would think twice about sending them

@Steven-nq7fx 2 года назад

That's a different type of people. Yes still "Fans", but the bad version

@romxxii 2 года назад

@@Steven-nq7fx "The bad version" is shockingly common. At some point, ya gotta wonder if there are only a few bad apples in the bushel, or if it's mostly bad apples.

@billcipher8942 2 года назад

That's because it's what Twitter does :)

@mr_blank4413 9 месяцев назад

I am disgusted by the fact that 2 years later this video still gets commenters trying to either make crunch not seem like a big deal or not needing to be addressed at all. apparently just the idea of 100 hours a week for 3 months AND NO OVERTIME PAY isn't enough to make people thing "wow, that's bad".

@chriscobb Год назад

The "If I take time off the workload would fall onto other people and no one wants to be that guy" quote was too real

@1theredrooster 3 года назад

BRUH. CRUNCH WAS TAUGHT AS PART OF THE VIDEO GAME DEGREE PROGRAM AT MY COLLEGE.

@jackl7566 3 года назад

thats fucking scary

@hemangchauhan2864 3 года назад

Can you elaborate?

@wanderingrandomer 3 года назад

I did Game Dev at uni, and crunch was kind of just taken as part of the industry. There was no real pushback to the idea, the lecturers just dismissed any serious discussion of it as a necessary evil, paying lip service to the idea of "crunch bad". Very demoralising for a student.

@1theredrooster 3 года назад

@@wanderingrandomer This one speaks for me.

@griflet1 3 года назад

@@1theredrooster seems like game dev education is way too market focused

@GremlinOfYore 3 года назад

The bit with having Marty outside the window was hilarious, I've gotta say. And great sound design! For a company with a really good culture when it comes to this stuff, I'd put forward Wube, the devs of Factorio. Obviously most indie games will not achieve their level of success - they had the freedom to put good practices in place because they had the financial stability to do so, right? But regardless, they still were very careful about giving their employees the time they needed to not only complete Factorio within their deadlines, but also give them plenty of time away from the game to recharge.

@kawaiicrocodile1476 3 года назад

And it’s a very fun game to boot!

@autismspirit 3 года назад

@@kawaiicrocodile1476 almost like happy devs with basically no deadlines make better games

@Ooffoop 3 года назад

Ironic that Factorio is the game that let people sleep

@TheAVJ2 3 года назад

heart machine took time for hyper light drifter and only had to update the game to add more weapons they were thinking about

@TheAVJ2 3 года назад

@Amoe Moth i think of the chocolate

@Moonzokast Год назад

The fact you actually got marty to be voice act being upset over the goose makes me laugh so hard.

@levilukeskytrekker 7 месяцев назад

@StinkySlinky1218 Месяц назад

@@levilukeskytrekker This is valid brainfuck code. It doesn't do anything useful, but it does run.

@willboler830 Год назад

Earlier this year I left my "dream job" over burnout. I was doing AI research, but doing voluntary crunch to try to get models and code implemented. My manager was telling me that he didn't want me working that hard, but when I stopped crunching, I noticed that my reviews were becoming poor. I got more recognition and praise on projects after I crunched, and they'd call me things like "10xer." But eventually it all caught up with me and I had a mental breakdown, and my later projects started to fall to shit. I was pretty much done. After I quit, I tried to get my PhD at my old college, thinking the more free time and work to apply to what I wanted to do would help me out of burnout, but it only made it worse. I kept doing more of the same thing, training models, not getting the result I wanted, tweaking data and code, running experiments, averaging 80 hr work weeks, only to end up with trivial or bad results. I took a semester off from college, and just played videogames nonstop. Now I'm at the point where I need to return back to college, but I'm still burned out. I'm guessing this is that "stress casualty" that they're talking about.

@upsher 8 месяцев назад

Hi! It's been a year since then, and I hope you do better

@upsher 29 дней назад

A year and 7 months

@enrikdaka2183 4 дня назад

Are you feeling better now?

@luissegura7059 3 года назад

I'm calling you "funny cartoon man" from now onwards

@Deachuu 3 года назад

ill just stick wiht cartoon man

@Sebastian-uq8xu 3 года назад

@KIMCHlN 3 года назад

I'm going to remember your comment and look forward to your comments in the future

@shargons28 3 года назад

@@Sebastian-uq8xu Comrade?

@bootstrapparadox8656 3 года назад

I got the privilege of getting the like number to 1k

@robbieaulia6462 3 года назад

Remember, we're not even talking about Japanese crunch culture. Because boy, it made the suicide rate super high.

@tommyfroggyy_ 3 года назад

japan is cool but not cool at the same time

@RoflcopterLamo 3 года назад

@@tommyfroggyy_ their really just not that cool. Still haven’t apologized to China for what they did in WWII or anyone for that fact.

@matthewstephen1257 3 года назад

@One vibing cactus juice boi and his pet, lord momo is your brain in 240p

@kristaljensen3727 3 года назад

@Mr. Muhammad Iqbalyeah like a few years after the crunch culture had already established on that country

@Heehoo1114 3 года назад

It also doesnt help that japanese men arent supposed to look weak, so they never reach out for help Edit: Reword

@kamilslup7743 Год назад

that point about realistic graphics = good is just stupid, there's even a sentence that describes it perfectly: "The pursuit for hyperrealism is a fruitless struggle that results in bloated file sizes."

@americankid7782 7 месяцев назад

That’s how we get COD games with updates over 100 Gigs. And it’s still shite.

@TheRegularHedgehog575 2 месяца назад

Yeah. A good art style will keep a game timeless. An attempt at realism will not be realistic in a few years.

@dumpsockpuppet5619 Год назад

"Crunch is not a triunp of the workforce, but a failure of the management" -James Stephanie Sterling (Thank God for Them)

@ChrisRayGun 3 года назад

End bit with Marty is so good.

@Scooter_Alice 3 года назад

Chris Ray Gun Noodle collab when?

@alexc6390 3 года назад

Yo, hey Chris. Have a nice whatever.

@divertingcreations936 3 года назад

you and noodle need to have a rematch

@Junkyardproduxtions 3 года назад

I knew that clip was going to be important when he said it.

@NotKameron 3 года назад

I wanted to see him take a fucking 12 gauge shotgun and blow down the door and take his goose back

@birchbarks550 3 года назад

The only animator for a whole season D: Jesus fucking christ

@phoenixnight9237 3 года назад

I wonder what the series is? It took me 2 hours to make a 1 second hand animation.

@nooneinparticular3370 3 года назад

How does that even fucking work.

@sherochafernando6346 3 года назад

There's this old anime called Twinkle Nora Rock Me. "When you fire all the animators"

@highdefinition450 3 года назад

@@phoenixnight9237 On ones or on twos?

@wilcowhiteheart807 3 года назад

@@phoenixnight9237 Im not good at 2D stuff, so I wont say anything there, but I can do... about 30 secs of 3D animation in... 4-5 hours. And thats just like a gun showreel style animation

@sequences8942 Год назад

This is two years old but I have to share. Marty is 100% the kind of manager some software teams need. Personal crunch bleeds into a crunch culture, because once some devs start putting their lives on the backseat, it creates expectations from the clients and even other managers. I worked with a lead developer who would set deadlines around his crunch behaviors. His goto deadline was "2 weeks." What the client and managers didn't know is that those 2 weeks included 20 hours on weekends, and an extra 2 or so hours each day of the working week at home doing more work. I didn't want to do that, I wasn't even expected to do that, but suddenly I couldn't say "this will take 4 weeks" without having to argue "why? he can do it in 2," because I wasn't trying to crunch my way through it, and my managers ultimately were more interested in the client being happy so they didn't really push back or fight for a longer deadline. This built an expectation in my products that I had to crunch, because he set a standard that was not feasible without putting in that extra time. It ultimately made me a miserable person and led to me being fired because the stress overwhelmed me and affected the rest of my work. So, I'm glad you pushed back on that guy a little bit, in a respectful way of course, and I'm glad people like Marty are out there setting reasonable expectations for their employees to prevent that from spiraling. Sometimes passionate people don't realize how their seemingly personal toxic behaviors can become something that is no longer personal. It's fine to be passionate and want to work extra, but businesses are about results and it can transform into something much worse real quick because they won't see the human cost, either on purpose or otherwise.

@wisdomax2891 Год назад

"Sometimes, there’s nothing like a good foie gras" is something you respond to with throwing a drink or spitting in their face because HOLY that is not a person

@thecluckster3908 Год назад

That’s something a super villain would say

@looshbits9824 3 года назад

I really need to think more about how I react to postponed deadlines in games.

@WARSinRIOTS 3 года назад

In the last year or so I've oddly gotten more excited when I've heard of delays or postponements. My prime example is Infinite. I was telling friends after that initial reveal that if 343 wanted to do the right thing, it would be to delay the game and take their time. Then, they actually did it. I was so happy that more time and thought was being put into the game other than "we gotta get this out!"

@babytricep437 3 года назад

@@WARSinRIOTS still, they should release a thing on time if they say they’re gonna, delaying games isnt good and let’s them know they can delay and make as much hype as they want, even if the game is a complete garbage heap mess. Ala Cyberpunk

@louna5098 3 года назад

@@babytricep437 did you watch the video mate? I'd rather the devs not die and they just postpone the game

@Siike_ 3 года назад

@@babytricep437 i think you would be angrier to get a game that IS a hot pile of mess and garbage, and buggy as initial release cyberpunk was, than waiting so long upon multiple delays but actually get a fantastic game which came out almost flawlessly. Cyberpunk had an issue due to how the hype building up to it was so overwhelming that it was almost impossible to delay it further, or the community would go berserk. Such a task like game development is one which is by no means consistent and easy to guess how long it will take. Its an unpredictable and grevious process, so its hard to blame them if calculating when they are precisely done is humanely imposdible.

@Allustar 3 года назад

Everyone does. Sending death threats to people just isn’t okay.

@majorghoul9017 3 года назад

This is why it always makes me really happy when fans of a game are like "Take all the time you need, you're doing great! :)" to the devs

@gaetanodepaola2ndchannel179 3 года назад

This. I want more of this. Death threats aren't gonna fix anything, like honestly, how fucking hard is it to just be patient and instead encourage the devs to seek their own creative image of their own creative work in freedom (as it *should* be, because it's *their* product), rather than force them to crunch out a half-assed game just so the so-called """fans""" can stop blowing up their Twitter feed with death threats and psychological torture? That should just be human decency, honestly.

@hyjinx1889 3 года назад

@@gaetanodepaola2ndchannel179 agreed

@No.00000 3 года назад

@@hyjinx1889 agreed +

@vishnutheetharappan7074 3 года назад

The best thing about cyberpunk is that i see this all the time now, people asking for gta VI and god of war ragnarok have disappeared, and devs are listening (halo infinite)

@francisharkins 3 года назад

To bad alot of it isn't up to the devs or the fans/consumers and the executives and shareholders.... :/

@reepusvanguard Год назад

gamers that like crunch are insane, like seriously do you want good games or do you want more redfall and gollum?

@Stupididiot67 Год назад

we need more redfall=likes

@dougthemoleman Год назад

Psychonauts 2 was made without crunch. It is one of the most incredible games ever made. It's the epitome of video games being art.

@vurrunna 3 года назад

Fans: "C'mon, it's not like anyone's holding a gun to your head!" Developers: "Y'know what, you're right, we're gonna take some time off and push back release by a day--" Fans: *Cocks gun* "I will literally kill you"

@lordhater4207 3 года назад

Not really it's mostly draconian tyrants that are detached from actual work in the top management that are the issue, faster they push the game more money they make at the end, since there hopefully will be less competition and more microtransactions at the end, of course draconian tyrants in the top management have their ditched servants at middle management to direct psychopaths and sociopaths at lower management who actually do all the whipping.

@kimi7396 3 года назад

@@lordhater4207 And you don't think the absolutely insane, rabid fanbase, who are known for sending mass death threats to the developers of a new release have any involvement with that? It may not be a root cause, but it most certainly promotes the culture. Guarantee it was a part of why 2077 was such a shitshow. The problem (and very large) cluster of companies who turn their developers into slave labor already don't give a shit about them, so what's a few death threats if not "encouragement" to continue the overtime crunches? I mean, the consumer wants their product out faster, and their wallet is our bottom line, so of course we'll keep churning shit out to an ever-increasingly impatient audience than ever think to treat our workers with a shred of dignity in regards to their mental health! That'd be outlandish, surely.

@cactus2549 3 года назад

@@kimi7396 tru tho.

@lordhater4207 3 года назад

@@kimi7396 There is some truth in that as well, however which of the two is more likely : 1. That 100% of management acts in the way i've described in the comment above, or 2. that 100% of gaming audience are impatient little brats? I'd say number 1 is more likely and i would further reinforce that with fact that ditched morons in top management make deals with shareholders or lacking those by themselves or amongst themselves in advance, they make their "perfect" plans despite not having ANY experience nor knowledge on how long and how hard the discussed project would be, nobody of the people who do the actual work is involved promises of time and profit are made then and there, a budget is made for the project that only exists in the fantasy land and "perfect" planning of degenerates that shouldn't be in charge of anything let alone a software development company not to mention gaming company, the demands are made of lower management to push the teams to their limits to complete tasks as fast as possible before the budget is spent, and all so that little shits in top management running a company whos inner workings they do not know don't have to spend few bucks more to improve the quality of life of their workers, i say issue lies in worthless and useless management from top to bottom, you say rampant murdering fan-base, i'd say that incompetent management is the issue, and that a person with IQ in double digits cannot hope to manage those with tripple digits IQ, all software engineers eventually leave their jobs and start their companies that are either related or totally unrelated to their previous work, and there is a reason why, nobody wants to have idiots above them, it's humiliating to a software engineer and it demeans the profession as a whole.

@eye776 3 года назад

Fans aren't the big issue for most games. Fan pressure is a thing in the AAA game space, not so much for games like Barbie's Horse Adventure, but those developers crunch too. Few fans push for the timely release of mobile game milestones but, guess what, crunch also happens in that space. Even in the AAA space it's management and marketing spurring fans into action by promising fixed release dates while the game is still in alpha.

@simonwesterlund2151 3 года назад

”Nothing like a good foie gras.” - The Devil probably.

@swift_sam 3 года назад

So, Bobby Kotick then

@aprilraine8889 3 года назад

It does taste really fucking good though... way less fucked up when it’s a farming goose rather than a human.

@runforitman 3 года назад

yes, EA

@zzxp1 3 года назад

But that shit is hella good, the only thing that keeps me from eating it is that the procedure of how the make it is kind of f up.

@Cheshieruu 3 года назад

-hannibal

@spoonoftheuniverse7233 Год назад

I remember starting to crunch in elementary school. I put my love of learning into homework and school and got praise and suddenly you have a fourth grader who doesn’t know the concept of not doing homework and staying up til midnight doing an assignment worth a couple of points. This lasted as far back as I remember up until I physically couldn’t anymore. Health got in the way and I became physically disabled. Crunching probably didn’t cause my disability but it sure didn’t help when I had to learn the concept of pacing myself by physically not being able to do it anymore. I had to learn not to care and it might be now I care too little but at least I can take care of myself.

@shannonparkhill5557 Год назад

Similar shit happens in heaps of workplaces, where the execs, concerned only about their bottom line, refuse to hire the amount of staff really needed.

@amf8648 3 года назад

Rooster Teeth crushing the shit out of their animators and acting like a smoll indie company : "Don't be a meany to us, we're your fwends :D"

@amistrophy 3 года назад

Uwu

@amistrophy 3 года назад

CoMpaniEs arE PeoPle TOo!11!

@abrahamlincoln9160 3 года назад

H A H H A H H A H

@macarooni7578 3 года назад

"Letsy be fwendy!! Uwu! Me hooman twoo! Uwusy!"

@ggs27 3 года назад

Yeah, they're literally owned by Warner. They're not indie

@Kerosiin 3 года назад

This is why I respect team cherry so much They have like a million people ready to explode from excitement, really, and I mean _really_ , badly wanting to know when silksong is coming And they’re just like “It’s done when it’s done, now go before I slap you with a slipper”

@zaplepikachu 3 года назад

Yeah, like even though people make memes about being disappointed when the Nintendo Directs don't mention it, we know that we'd rather wait in the darkness and be surprised when it's ready than beating them over the head to get it out asap

@moss5356 3 года назад

Exactly 🐛

@waggledance296 3 года назад

God this is perfect

@onyourleft9273 3 года назад

They’re like 3 friend so i wouldn’t be surprised if they’re really causal about it

@Xpndable 3 года назад

Done when it's done used to be the norm, see Soon(tm) from Blizzard as the staple of this trope.

@drmonkeys852 Год назад

As my dad always has told me: when you crunch you're not gaining any extra work/ value on the work you're doing. You're taking on debt and you'll eventually have to pay it back off + interest

@WhateverIWantChannel Год назад

I feel lucky that somehow I've stumbled my way into a healthy work environment, and I definitely think that a lot of it has to do with the producers at my workplace making sure I don't overwork myself, and genuinely looking out for me to make sure I don't crunch 24/7. I know I would, given the chance, because I simply love what I do. But I love it even more when I can have a life outside of it, eat, sleep -- generally take care of myself. They're able to make decisions about pushing things back, and have the sense in their heads that I lack about a work-life balance. I know they won't see this comment, so I'm going to write them a really nice Christmas card to thank them for the health they've given me.

@aidengray3998 Год назад

I've got the same kind of boss. I work catering, and multiple times I've come into work feeling unwell. Chef looks at me, points at the door, and tells me to piss off until I feel better. I've worked twelves and thirteens, and every time he tells me to not do that. He'll stop us working to make sure we all eat. I worked really bad places before, and have never actually felt loyalty to a boss before, be he's earned it time and again.

@americankid7782 7 месяцев назад

I’ve also managed to find my way into a healthy work environment. We don’t really have to deal with “crunches” very often but when we do it’s at absolute most a Month but usually about a week or two. I’m lucky as hell.

@ajeje1996 3 года назад

Imagine being a "stress casualty" of a game that's as dead on arrival as Anthem... Christ, that's depressing

@LTV746 3 года назад

Happens more and more

@caesarspeaks 3 года назад

They can’t blame the publishers tho, they can only blame themselves. They had seven fucking years and they didn’t do shit

@hurricanemeridian8712 3 года назад

@@caesarspeaks WTF is wrong with you did you even bother watching the video?

@DoctorPhileasFragg 3 года назад

@@hurricanemeridian8712 This is what I've heard too. I feel the video conflated the usual conditions at the company and the conditions for that game, but maybe I actually heard this story wrong to begin with?

@strikeforce1500 3 года назад

@@caesarspeaks uhm, no? Anthem was only actually develop for like a year, because management was just so shitty that they couldn't decided to even basic stuff. It is not the fault of the development, it is the fault of people management everything

@aldguton 3 года назад

I legitimately shivered at "there's nothing better than a good foie gras'" The implications of that are so absolutely horrific

@scoobin336 3 года назад

THID

@scoobin336 3 года назад

*THIS

@bassfight2936 3 года назад

That's legit fucking evil.

@iTzNikkitty 3 года назад

Executives are actual fucking psychopaths, seriously.

@nicolasenriquegarciacastil974 3 года назад

I kinda expected it since it was an activision executive

@thomasoreilly857 Год назад

This is the reason I'm fine with Silksong taking the "It's ready when it's ready" approach. I loved Hollow Knight so much that I'm willing to wait basically forever for it to come out. Some time this century would be nice though.

@mrpoopy180 Год назад

I think team cherry has done an amazing job at stopping crunch culture while producing silksong. They didn't give an exact deadline and aren't hyping the game, so now they have as much time as they want without having to crunch.

@tacopizzasandwich621 Год назад

Unfortunately their attempts at not hyping silksong by not putting too many trailers out only served to make someone make a youtube channel reporting silksong news every day because hollow knight fans are starved of content Still good that they arent crunching tho

@Zalinki 3 года назад

I like how Marty is now just another little character in the wacky Noodleverse

@chubste 3 года назад

Hello papi

@rubenssilveira5765 3 года назад

Hello papa

@oddrottenmilk1587 3 года назад

Hello dad

@chubste 3 года назад

When are you coming back with milk

@isaacgsly 3 года назад

Hello dada

@DavidHidde 3 года назад

It’s insane to imagine that people actually think that spending literally all your time working can be healthy.

@coolman9020 3 года назад

You can tell that people who say this are the same ones who want their video game to come out a few months earlier, and don't care if the developers are being overworked.

@amrilhaziq8114 3 года назад

imo gamers are some of the most entitled consumer community around so most don’t even care about what goes behind the scenes, they want games gud they don’t care about the developers health etc.

@tsrenis 3 года назад

@@amrilhaziq8114 Yeah lol remember 2013

@ayamedaika1756 3 года назад

Cough cough meet Japan cough cough

@chavaspada 3 года назад

@@amrilhaziq8114 if you believe that you're very ignorant. IMHO make up users are way more entitled I'll just mention mica mining in India and the beauty industry. Last I checked, the videogame industry don't use child labour nor do animal testing.

@nutbuster87 2 года назад

When I was younger, I used to want to work as a video game dev, and over time, I realized how much of a nightmare is

@dmj271095 7 месяцев назад

“Sometimes, there’s nothing like a good foie gras” is the most overtly evil thing i've ever heard someone say

@damnumonkeyballs 3 года назад

I served 10 years and its wild how similar game companies treat their staff like military members (both should be read as slaves). The mental trauma and physical trauma i suffered almost killed me. Im sure its not far off for them. Corporate slaves. My heart goes out to them. Its our society man. Heartless

@Coldfront15 3 года назад

They must have chose the corporate culture civic in stellaris.

@AnalyticalMenace 3 года назад

As a 20 year veteran, I can confirm this is the case. That's the problem with being an exempt employee with shitty management. And then they wonder why I walk into the office with a sheer look of complete apathy on my face.

@patrickharris7823 3 года назад

I've been in the industry for over 16 years now, and I've done my fair share of crunch in crunch culture oriented studios. You mentioned how contract workers were overtime exempt? Well, I was an actual full-time employee, but I was also technically overtime exempt. The closest to compensation we'd get was called "Project Days", which were arbitrarily awarded additional vacation days (often kept off the books, you know, in case you tried to quit and cash them out) that our manager would hand out at the end of a project. Did you work 60+ hours a week for months on end? Your compensation would be 4-5 extra days off once the game shipped, or maybe just 2-3 if the producer didn't like you. Thankfully, I now work at a studio where crunch culture is explicitly banned: If a manager or lead implies you are required to work overtime at all, you can go straight to the CEO and he'll sort them out. I've been back to working normal weeks for years, and it's one of the most fantastic boosts to my mental health that I have ever experienced.

@theJ1B1A1 3 года назад

Would you happen to know any other companies like this? I am about to jump off into the industry and the crunch culture here in the US is making me think maybe I should work abroad...

@Tavdogg11 3 года назад

If I ever ran a video game company in the future, what hours and what days off for the week I should give to the developers and designers to make sure that everyone is doing a-ok? Also, how many days of a break I should give after the game is released to make sure that everyone can return with a freshened drive to create another game? I want to make sure that in the future when I do end up becoming a CEO or a head of a project that I don't overwork anybody, so everyone can have fun making great to good games.

@patrickharris7823 3 года назад

@@theJ1B1A1 It's something that very much depends on the company. My advice is that if you are interviewing at a place, ask them directly what the policy is regarding crunch. How is it compensated? How many hours are people working per week right now? How many hours to do they work as a project is wrapping up? Don't just ask managers, ask everyone who interviews you and see if their answers line up. I once interviewed at a place where people were working 60+ hours a week TWO YEARS prior to the launch of the game. I did not take that job.

@patrickharris7823 3 года назад

@@Tavdogg11 If your question is "How many hours can I expect my employees to work past a normal work week?" then my honest advice is to shift your perspective or just not run a studio. Planning for crunch is the absolute biggest failure that management can have, and it's guaranteed to burn out your team and produce lackluster products. You should expect developers to work 40 hours a week, just like a normal full-time job, and that's what you use when planning. In terms of breaks between projects, offering a competitive vacation package is the correct way to go. Most companies give 3+ weeks per year, depending on seniority. The main thing is to make sure people can actually take the vacation without being pressured out of it, or called in while on vacation (I have seen this happen first hand, it's insane. People vacationing out of the country and then being told they have to get back to the office, and they schedule earlier flights home, etc. I would quit on the spot if this happened to me.)

@Tavdogg11 3 года назад

@@patrickharris7823 Yeah. I am not that knowledgeable on work hours. I am still in college and I haven't learn specifics on jobs yet. I am actually going for creative writing since I am not knowledgeable on work hours and what I should expect for work hours, plus I prefer creation of stuff on my own time rather than being forced on specific hours, so I probably need more training on leadership skills and work hours. However, that does lead me to another question. How many hours should I work on alone when creating works of my own pen? More specifically, as a creative writer trying to work on a novel or at least some short stories? I don't want to overwork myself, but I am unsure on how much effort is too much and how little effort is too little to get anywhere.

@Who-vt9oh Год назад

This isn't just a problem in the gaming industry. I experienced this in the finance sector, too. I was a commercial real estate analyst. It was my job to analyze commercial real estate loan requests and make a recommendation of approval or denial based on my findings. One of our department's main sources of revenue was loan origination fees, so there was a massive incentive to try and process, and approve, as many loan requests as possible. Of course, I didn't receive any portion of the origination income, yet I was constantly under pressure to push through as many approval recommendations as possible by the loan officers, who did revive a portion of the origination income, and the department heads. I felt like it all fell on me, and I was constantly behind. The stress got so bad I started having panic attacks. This culture is so pervasive in the US, it has got to stop. It's not healthy, it's toxic.

@muttbone01 Год назад

Imagine how FURIOUS these neckbeards would be if game designers an workers would just say "fuck it, my life is NOT work an I won't be abused" an just all quit. You think NOT crunching is killing your precious games? How about no one to work at all. "Oh, but I'd KILL to be paid to design a killer game!" No, you wouldn't. In fact, you'd be MORE angry that what you think is best for the project is ignored. You don't get a say in the way the game is made. You just work...an that's a foreign concept to a lot of the people that send death threats to developers.

@OperatorDrewski 3 года назад

Bruh marty ain't playin with that bat

@jasper1064 3 года назад

oh shit hi drewski

@GruntyGame 3 года назад

Yeah, he should probably just give him back the goose.

@gavinpennycuff4407 3 года назад

*insert big smoke meme here*

@rosettastoned425 3 года назад

Hello there

@Stealthy_tree 3 года назад

Ay isn’t this that dude from the scp overlord video

@TheMartyODonnell 3 года назад

Wow, I was forced to crunch to be in Noodle's video. He's a slave driver. (Added later) Ok, I’ve read enough comments that discuss my bad mic or recording. Not true. Julian actually did some cool sound design and post processing to make it sound real. Is that hard to believe?

@platysheep7092 3 года назад

Hey check this out. Noodle got this cool pet goose. It's pretty cute.

@fabianch3657 3 года назад

Love seeing you round here Marty!.

@AccurateBurn 3 года назад

OMG

@TheJonesChannel11 3 года назад

Did you get your goose back?

@thedoom523 3 года назад

Marty is the type of guy to always have a witty comment to break the tension.

@scotginger4690 Год назад

I have done 8 minute sprints that leave me exhausted for 8 hours. But when I did a 10 hour walk I couldn't walk right for 10 weeks. I use this as a comparison to crunch, that brief 5 hour crunch that leaves you exuasted but you can go 'I DID IT!" at the end is great. What isn't great is when you spend 50+ days crunching yourself, constantly tired, sore, mentally and physically unhealthy and you're not even doing your best work anymore. Then when you're done after that time in the trenches, you still have the pain, the physical issues, the deep phycological issues and now the horror when you realise that it happens to others.

@bigsyrup8567 Месяц назад

The solution as an employee is to have active, spiteful disdain for your company and coworkers and always be job hunting for someone better. And make sure you steal whatever you can on the way out the door.

@annef0x 3 года назад

In Asia, this thing is so so much worse. There is this weird romanticization of putting yourself through literal hell just for the sake of a few grades. Ive seen many of my classmates literally collapse out of exhaustion after exams

@derboe_thebeast6869 3 года назад

Ikr , ive heard people rather die than continue

@sanujakhanal8745 3 года назад

Yeah my mom told me about this, in Nepal she lost many friends and family by the end of school.

@papasscooperiaworker3649 3 года назад

@@derboe_thebeast6869 That's not surprising.

@sonetagu1337 3 года назад

@@sanujakhanal8745 _we died idk_

@iseeyou9488 3 года назад

Ugly pfp

@kinglybuzzard5290 3 года назад

This is why games should operate on a "Its ready when its ready" system instead of deadlines

@nokashii3375 3 года назад

Deadlines are a good thing, as long as you actually manage to decide on a realistic date. Setting an unrealistic deadline is bad management. Not being able to set one in the first place because you have no plan of how long anything takes to get done is just as bad

@whisperhawkmoonspecialist9203 3 года назад

@@nokashii3375 Companies are usually willing to delay and rectify unrealistic release dates, which is a good sign.

@michakrzyzanowski8554 3 года назад

See the original Cyberpunk trailer

@waidwml2166 3 года назад

problem with that is publishing there is a time to strike with advertising and if you miss it publisher will want to release it anyway mainly because about 50% of a AAA games budget is for advertising it's why Halo Infinite is the most expensive game of all time

@Raccoonik 3 года назад

Sure, we'll just stop releasing new hardware and having yearly part with your money holidays.

@DemonBoy524 Год назад

I once told my work colleagues that they shouldn't work after their shift had ended as they didn't get paid for it and I was concerned for their well being and potential culture it can create. This later factored into how I lost that job.

@khionewinter6843 Год назад

makes me wonder about a hypothetical workplace that isn't just anti crunch but anti overtime. where you literally get kicked out of the building if you stay past a certain time

@Volvary Год назад

It's a thing. Some studios now have started requiring their employees to clock out after their weekly hours and to have overtime **authorized**.

@spaceyrat Год назад

Yep, I have been thinking about this for awhile. Close the building and shut down server access etc.

@100dayGamer Год назад

Its hard in the gamimg industry. You wanna have games ready by certain times to announce at big events. The more you keep your employees on a payroll the more momey you have to spebd and obviously the game does not promise a return on that cash

@commentingaccount556 2 года назад

How to not piss off the majority of gamers: you can't, they just shouldn't know you were making a game until it's done

@exyzt9877 2 года назад

see um, that's kind of "A Problem™"'. In a perfect world you could just do that, but we don't live in a perfect world. If you don't market the game both before AND after release, then you're not getting the fanbase as large as it realistically should be, and your game will end up rotting away unnoticed. There's many stories of poor marketing ruining entire franchises and even studios, to prove this ain't a good idea. This is double as important for indie devs where their funds prior to development come from things like Kickstarter and Patreon. People only invest in that kind of thing if they know their investment is in good hands, so they need to generate hype quickly so more people are willing to get invest. If they can't do that, the game is dead in the water at worst, and shoddily scrapped together at best.

@heistingcrusader_ad3223 2 года назад

@@exyzt9877 if that's the case then how the fuck did apex legends survived

@GlenJHenderson 2 года назад

@@heistingcrusader_ad3223 they literally made both titanfall games, i think they had a bit of a community before hand, this is something that devs don't have on a first game, unless they try to advertise and market it properly

@mrsammy7600 2 года назад

Team Cherry, on Silksong: *So i took that personally*

@heistingcrusader_ad3223 2 года назад

@@GlenJHenderson then market it with a no release date and put a statement to be patient. Pretty sure in this day and age the majority would be patient to wait as rushed projects have proven to be bad and inferior

@dreadgrave3379 3 года назад

The best part of foie gras is that it's mostly known for being the product /of/ abuse. The goose is stuffed silly while it's alive to make sure the liver is put under as much stress as possible.

@zamfir2005 3 года назад

I both agree and disagree with you. 1 you are right, it suffers, but 2 you are wrong, it is not abuse, its an animal, it cant express or have an opinion. 3 even if it is abuse, think about it, every good thing has a darker side. Christmas, for example, which is comming in a few days, when you spend time with family, and if you are a christian, you will most probably eat pork, which is given a lot of food, so it gets big and fat over the year, only to be slayed 2 weeks before christmas. The meat is delicious. So is the foix gras. For everything, there is something to sacrifice, for every + there is a - and to this there are no exeptions.

@eyemaysin 3 года назад

@@zamfir2005 bro stfu

@zamfir2005 3 года назад

@@eyemaysin please try and use something called constructive criticism, or if your iq is not high enough for that, i recomand going to school, yes, its actually a thing even in 2020. Thank you!

@eyemaysin 3 года назад

@@zamfir2005 ok, what makes you think humans are the only animals with feelings.

@clochard4074 3 года назад

@@zamfir2005 It's so unscientific to say animal abuse is not a thing that it's hard to answer properly, that's all. Next time tell us of the moon made of cheese. We can't compensate for your shortcomings.

@NAFProjects Год назад

I really like how you managed to do something creative with Marty's bad audio quality by putting him outside a window, because that's how he would sound if he was actually outside the window. Also "nothing like a good foie gras" is literally the most villainous line I've ever heard

@ccrazy101 2 года назад

As a person who spends a lot of time playing video games. I highly sympathize with game developers whether it be big studio or small. And while there are moments where I'm like" Man. I wish this game would release soon" or "wow they are taking a long time". At the same time, I also understand that the reason why they spend more time on it is so they can put out their best work and not be mentally and physically distraught or even destroyed by trying to provide us with their passion

@chardaranimations5981 3 года назад

In Asia it’s worse. A former classmate from my old school just died, crunching for the school for a competition and had a heart attack...

@ME0WMERE 3 года назад

jesus.

@garybrown2039 3 года назад

Sorry to hear that. I personally heard stories from other college students that some foreign exchange students can’t get credit for a paper they helped work on (in terms of science ) because the professor just took the credit. I believe the person was Chinese but I’m not 100% certain.

@chardaranimations5981 3 года назад

@@garybrown2039 I agree. There is this issue about how we value Asian productivity less than white people. We take not only Asians, but contributions made by people of colour for granted a lot of the times. Edit: This is not to say it doesn’t happen to white people. Whenever there’s a hierarchy and systematic discrimination, this problem appears.

@garybrown2039 3 года назад

@@chardaranimations5981 I think you misinterpreted what I said. I meant to say that it happened a lot in China or Asia itself. Not here in the west because every foreign exchange student in person of color got their name on papers when they were here.

@chardaranimations5981 3 года назад

@@garybrown2039 Oh. That’s unexpected and even more unfortunate. Thanks for the info

@The_Belkster 3 года назад

Knowing more details about how foie gras is made makes that metaphor SO much more abhorrent.

@tehynprk 3 года назад

Yeah and it’s also illegal in many countries for being animal abusive

@akaheadlesschicken 3 года назад

Oh God damn, I just learned the truth and your right that quote is stone cold.

@InternetKilledTV21 3 года назад

@@tehynprk this is pretty graphic but for those who don't know, foie gras geese are force fed until they contract liver disease. it tastes good because of the fatty buildup that results from the disease (hence "foie gras" literally translating to fatty liver). it's horrendous, and in my mind is absolutely animal abuse.

@alibouk227 3 года назад

@@InternetKilledTV21 excuse me what the fuck, why don't they fry it with extra grease or something, seriously, what the fuck.I'm all for eating meat but that's just fucked.

@InternetKilledTV21 3 года назад

@@alibouk227 no amount of grease could create the amount of fatty deposits that foie gras has (or if you do use enough, it'd wreck the whole plate)

@ashleylightheart126 Год назад

I like to think this video idea got Martin's attention when Noodle dmed him "What if I stole your goose?" and Martin was all "You are the chosen one, let us begin." Noodle: I still have much to learn *bows*

@alotario 9 месяцев назад

Had my mom watch this video after getting laid off from a creative-based job loaded with crunch. She was genuinely surprised when she realized she had been working this type of job, and now she plans to work using a self-hobby-based job with her own deadlines. Great video.

@wheretowatch5568 3 года назад

I am alone, in my apartment, on the second floor of my building at midnight with my pants off and blutooth earbuds in. Then your fucking knocking happened sound happened and I had such a fucking heart attack.

@gooeygo2515 3 года назад

I literally jumped out of my bed to answer the door

@Hno33 3 года назад

I kept asking who who and nobody answered I was so confused I feel so stupid

@mariannecontrino6297 3 года назад

You know, this isnt at ALL where I thought your comment was heading, so I just gotta say, I'm definitely relieved it ended up where it did.

@MBulteau 3 года назад

Practically the same situation happened to me right now. I am still shaking from the brief panic attack I just had. XD

@icyatlasartworks 3 года назад

Did you at least have time to wear pants?

@wawawuu1514 2 года назад

"People don't wanna actually kill the goose." After the foie gras metaphor, I'm not so sure anymore.

@this_is_patrick 2 года назад

Nah, the exec implied that they don't _want_ to kill the goose, but if it dies, they could still get the foie gras from it anyway, so who cares? Not to mention they can easily buy another one to replace it.

@emPtysp4ce 2 года назад

@@this_is_patrick You make foie gras by months of preparation force feeding the goose beyond its normal limits. If you're eating foie gras, you know it well in advance. The exec is definitely implying they'll gladly work the goose to death and strip it for parts before moving onto the next goose. They know they're killing it, they just want to sometimes.

@thewerdna 2 года назад

While Marty never named names, I can only assume the exec in the story was the devil himself, Bobby Kotick. Seems 100% in character for him

@wawawuu1514 2 года назад

@@thewerdna "In another incident, Kotick has stated during the 2009 Deutsche Bank Securities Technology Conference that "The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games." Kotick continued to say that they "have been able to instill the culture, the skepticism and pessimism and fear that you should have in an economy like we are in today. And so, while generally people talk about the recession, we are pretty good at keeping people focused on the deep depression."[52][53][54][55] Following the backlash on the statement, Kotick has commented that "Sometimes that commitment to excellence, well, you can come across as being like a dick. And when I say things like 'taking the fun out of making video games,' it was a line that has been often-quoted lately, but it was a line I used for investors."[56]" Source Wikipedia. HOLY SHIT. I had to read that thrice to make sure I didn't misunderstand this. Wow. I'm absolutely against torture, but I find it difficult to argue against force-feeding this person with foie gras until he dies (even if it's not the same person, who cares, deserves it anyways). Oh btw, he voted for Hillary, this just for all the people who think she's the lesser-evil alternative.

@adamnielson42 2 года назад

@@wawawuu1514 bruh don't bring politics into this. I don't care who one bad person voted for. The KKK supported Donald Trump, and that doesn't instantly make him more evil than any other.

@rgemail Год назад

One motivator that isn't really addressed here is the concept of 'prestige' in the entertainment business. We want so much to be important and to be able to say "I helped make Avengers!". Entertainment corporations get so much free labor on the backs of regular people desperate to be associated with popular culture. If you decide you're fed up and not going to take it, there will always be 100 people right behind scrambling over each other begging to pick up that torch. Basically no such thing as bargaining power when, if we're honest, studios could almost say, "work for us for free and you'll be in the credits of Iron Man 4: The Resurrection of Tony Stark" and get thousands of eager young applicants. At least in terms of games, if it were me, I might set a (very important) release date deadline, then ensure every team manager from the start is laser focused on tracking progress in relation to the deadline and important milestones. Unforeseen setbacks always occur - so my studio's strategy would be to just drop game levels off the tail end if we're behind and the release is looming. If things are looking grim, shunt all resources to polishing overall mechanics and gameplay and as many levels as possible to hit the deadline without excessive crunch. After delivery then everyone applicable shifts gears to the unfinished portion during regular work hours and they get released as updates one at a time if necessary. The days when a game needs to be 100% on release should have been over when the internet became the delivery medium. (As long as it's playable. CDPR learned that lesson with Cyberpunk)

@SpaceNStuff Год назад

Very high production quality. You are very talented.

@FingerLickinEvilToTheBone 3 года назад

The fact that people are genuinely defending crunch makes me want to throw myself into a blender.

@MailMainbutnot 2 года назад

makes me wanna throw both them and me into a blender

@oo-ld8xu 2 года назад

dew it

@zamiaramirez1390 2 года назад

Yeah its definitely baby mentality. It really reads as i dont care if these people are suffering as long as i get my game and if i dont ima throw a tantrum.

@sink5321 2 года назад

Can you fit in the blender

@everyonegetselfears1444 2 года назад

@@sink5321 I’ve been able to fit 3 people in a blender. It’s not that hard.

@tytantin1442 2 года назад

One huge red flag of an abusive workplace culture is if the bosses refer to your coworkers and themselves as family. If it feels like a family then it doesn’t need to be said, otherwise it’s a guilt trip to take shit.

@anonmouse15 Год назад

To be fair, people also abuse / kill their literal families.

@UrMom-bp2bu Год назад

Where’s my mom in this office

@huyle-ob8rg Год назад

@@UrMom-bp2bu You get Asian mom instead. If you're not a doctor, you'll get disowned.

@Idengard Год назад

@InforaLoopermuscle man, that you?

@danitiwa Год назад

Tbh every abusive work environment I’ve ever been in has had the cult leader of choice referring to participants as “family 🤮 huge red flag

@blerst7066 8 месяцев назад

The funny thing about crunch is that just because you're making employees work more hours doesn't necessarily mean they'll get more work done. NASA learned this the hard way: They used to make astronauts conduct scientific experiments non-stop, so that they could make the most of the time spent in space. Then, during one mission, astronauts were so stressed that they went on strike. After that NASA tried letting astronauts take breaks between experiments, and to their surprise, they got more experiments done during the same length of time. Since then, NASA lets astronauts take breaks, get plenty of sleep, and work out.

@littleblackcatcreations 2 года назад

as an illustrator who's new to the industry my coping mechanism is "Keep working then the thoughts won't hurt" I'm aware that due to this a company could easily take advantage of me, thank you for talking about this

@13Dstyle 3 года назад

I always hated the places where I worked and they say stuff like "we are basically family. We spend more time here than with our real families so we want to TREAT you like family." Idk, it's just disgusting.

@Handinmapocket 3 года назад

It really just sounds like a red flag instead of a pro for working there.

@cixlo 3 года назад

Prisoner of love and war

@PsypherWolf 3 года назад

"This isn't a business, I always thought more of it as a source of cheap labor, like a family" -Hubert J. Fansworth.

@elainajoseph6738 3 года назад

Bro, I wonder WHY they're there with other devs than with family IDK MAYBE IF YOU CARED ABOUT YOU"RE WORKERS THEY COULD HAVE A FUCKING SOCIAL LIFE

@necrothescistt8164 3 года назад

it's worse when you're actual family. My dad is a farmer, each time i try to have a peaceful day for myself he goes on about all the work that I have to do and how he buys me nice things so I have to return the favor. Even when i'm working all day he tells me that i had all these things that I didn't do. When I came back from my other job he always needed me for something. having your boss follow you home for dinner isn't great.

@idontevenknow9211 2 года назад

“Sometimes, there’s nothing like a good foie gras” in context sounds like a line a super villain says to make you realize how fucked up they are. Gave me shivers

@Sean-Ax Год назад

I probably would've shot the guy right then and there or at least threatened.

@DuchDude Год назад

I've returned to this video multiple times and I'm still deeply descasted and disturbed about his line, it is really fucked up and, mostly because the goose here is a human being, sounds like *actual cannibalism*

@harrietjameson Год назад

rich people and their ignorance amiright

@tecno5695 Год назад

Ah yes I too love the cooked kidneys of my severely overworked employees

@ThePlasmicAlchemist Год назад

Actual psychopath

@Abitscrewycreations Год назад

My partners have slowly been helping to nudge me to take breaks when they see me getting frustrated with my art. I work on a lot of pieces at once, do animatics, and do official designs for my book. There's always a lot I feel like I have to do, so I forget to do a lot of important things. So it can be really helpful to have someone supportive telling you "Go the fuck to bed it's 4 in the morning."

@BL00DYME55 Год назад

Whenever I bring up "entitled gamers" in any argument about games coming out unfinished / buggy or release date being delayed, there is a swarm of said entitled gamers ready to point their fingers at anyone else but themselves while spouting crap like "devs are greedy liars", "devs are lazy" and "you're a [dev studio name] simp". It's unbelievable how oblivious to their own toxic behaviour a lot of these people are. That combo of extreme entitlement and complete ignorance of how the games are actually developed makes for some of the worst human beings I've met in my life. I used to be proud to be a part of this cool nerdy underdog community of gamers back in the day, but nowadays that one word "gamer" carries so much stigma I don't want anything to do with it. Even though I still play games, so technically I am a gamer, I want no part in this new toxic gamer culture.

@stardragon5849 9 месяцев назад

Same here man. It's exhaustingly annoying of these Entitled Gamers, especially spouting "Devs are Lazy" like bro! Y'all don't know crap about Game Development in general.

@crowqueenamps 23 дня назад

My point exactly. Entitled gamers paired with greedy corporate heads and passionate but overworked staff creates the ultimate shit storm. This is why crunch culture still heavily persists even after having so many resources showing why it's so bad. Even games that genuinely have programming downfalls (looking at you Sims 4, where every update breaks something), I hesitate to call the actual devs "lazy" since I suspect that not enough time nor budget is given to them to fix potential issues.

@plasticpirate 2 года назад

“Crunch makes games better“ Sounds as just as ignorant “If your homeless buy a home”

@theraginginfernape9496 2 года назад

*sounds just as ignorant and yes

@the_dark_jumper2211 2 года назад

@@theraginginfernape9496 \*sounds just as ignorant *as* If you're gonna play the grammar Nazi, start on yourself.

@pheilimobrien6634 2 года назад

@@the_dark_jumper2211 How the fuck did you draw that conclusion?

@jamespfp 2 года назад

At OP -- Absolutely god-damn right, though. All people who Rent are effectively Homeless. GO BUY A HOME. :D

@theraginginfernape9496 2 года назад

@@jamespfp no

@rumble8865 3 года назад

That goose liver comment sounded like it came from a villain from a well written series

@zynski3451 3 года назад

Sounds to me like the Exec wanted to crush dissent so he came up with some cold-blooded line the night before.

@noblebork7444 3 года назад

Why are people so corrupt that they can't put a line between free time and availability?

@agustindalessandro4073 3 года назад

@@zynski3451 Oh yeah, it was totally a setup... and kind of a threat maybe. Total psycho

@Greatsword585 3 года назад

Welcome to corporate assholes, and why I as an animator/illustrator intend to never intentionally work under a bigger studio.

@kroktal8896 3 года назад

The scariest thing in my opinion is that to convince them to not destroy their employees, you have to explain them that it's more profitable that way

@zubairahmed8777 Год назад

I left my job at a huge payment processor for all these exact reasons. I joined software because of passion, and they were killing it everyday.

@xFlow150 2 года назад

19:53 - 20:05. I'm an electrical engineer, but oofta, I got called out there. I have had this happen with hobbies and university projects that dragged on and just sucked everything out of me, because I wanted to do something fun while the time only allowed for priority functions.

@Daveo_is_my_nameo 3 года назад

Would be cool to have a “certified crunch free” on the game case. Kinda like certified organic or gluten free

@scinary7052 3 года назад

I bet game studios would find an easy loophole to get that falsely

@TheAlison1456 3 года назад

@Scinary publishers.

@tracyblanchard7663 3 года назад

@@scinary7052 Oh 100%, they'd just use the "We don't _formally require_ crunch" argument to make it the Milk Chocolate standard of games.

@user-rr8im1wf8m 3 года назад

I actually really want this

@theMuBot 3 года назад

@@tracyblanchard7663 it could work if it wasn't just a calculation of maximum hours worked per staff member, and if studios/publishers weren't the ones deciding (which should be the case with any certification). There would have to be a third party (maybe... perhaps... a game developers' union?) that individually reviewed studios/projects and made it possible for staff to safely and anonymously report issues and concerns and have those reports reviewed by human beings with compassion and critical thinking. It wouldn't be perfect, because people aren't perfect, but it would be _something._

@labombaboy9433 3 года назад

I WANT MY GOOSE BACK !! -Marty O'donnel

@Circuitssmith 3 года назад

“Julian!!!”

@solanceDarkMOW Год назад

I can say that even as someone with a very understanding workplace and hobbies with very vaporous deadlines if any at all, that crunch can sometimes feel like a siren's call of guilt. Ideas of "low productivity," "mis-spending your life," and disappointing or inconveniencing others feel like they drag you towards crunch-time when in reality they're all constructs. I try very hard not to let myself fall into that and insist on taking my time and metering my workload, only occasionally to the point of procrastination ;p Crunch is a phenomenon we can inflict on ourselves and companies will often prey on that to our detriment. Set boundaries and don't let them slip whenever possible. You'll thank yourself later.

@KneeCapThief Год назад

I have never been a hardcore gamer, I have never played a real call of duty title. Or played GTA, or tomb raider, or really almost any of the AAA games. And the more I find out about their culture, the less I want to play them. Imma stick with indie games that's all I'm saying. I'm not saying it is easier to make an indie game, but at least you don't have management forcing your hand.

@TheGobbler69 Год назад

Also indie games are good. Made for passion not money.

@boxboi286 3 года назад

literally all of my friends were all complaining about the new among us update but there’s literally only FOUR ppl that work at innersloth

@thegermanbasket732 3 года назад

Jesus. But the sign in thing kinda messed it up and is now annoying to change name.

@jacobh.2973 3 года назад

I do complain about it and I understand they weren't sure on a deadline (probably bc once again the 4 workers) I just wish they didn't say early 2021. But, this video definitely gave me a new take on it

@crimsonlanceman7882 3 года назад

Re your frienda also lobotomites?

@Unpopular50 3 года назад

Look at all the comments for Valheim, five person team and people act like the 3+ years they spent making what we have now just isn’t good enough. They can’t believe it’s been three months and they don’t have every single expansion that was planned out right now it’s crazy.

@Xman34washere 3 года назад

bruHuHuHuHuHuH

@malohn2068 3 года назад

Crunch is like squeezing a rock to get water, you could technically do it and get a drop of water trapped inside. But you're left with rock powder afterwards. And then you complain that there's only a single drop of water inside the rock.

@hakametal 2 года назад

Sunk cost fallacy.

@flame7346 2 года назад

i would imagine you hands would also hurt from squeezing a rock

@badv1b3s51 2 года назад

@@flame7346 yeah just a tiny tad

@GraniteFaun 2 года назад

Well there were also studies which showed that Japanese workforce is less effective than workforce in other countries even though the whole work culture is in crunch mode. (Talking about general work culture, not just Game Dev)

@Shorty15c4007 2 года назад

@@GraniteFaun Its not about effectiveness, its about reputation and quality. You want to buy a car made in Japan or Indonesia? Yeah it sounds racist to say but no one is going to bat an eye to assume the one made in Japan is of better quality.

@magicalnewsmaneditsbumpers4374 Год назад

It’s my first semester of art school. I am not currently working for a company, but the crunch and the long hours is more than prevalent. Staying up till 4, 5, 6, AM is more than common, my roommates have pulled several all nighters in a row. I’m really trying to get used to balancing everything in my life, and getting better.

@jpeg.. Год назад

👍

@ellirambler6160 2 года назад

“you can’t be creative if you’re dead” is something i need to remind myself more often. thanks for letting me know again (:

@SilliS 3 года назад

You gained a new subscriber for that ad break alone

@CigaretteCrayon 3 года назад

I really wish I didn't know that much about you...

@joshhiroti 3 года назад

Me too

@jesflo4 3 года назад

It was beautiful.

@painted_aim573 3 года назад

same

@deku976 3 года назад

Ei voi olla... Sillis

@Minekings101 3 года назад

Marty's voice acting was pretty good in this, your writing always makes the interactions between characters amazing. At first I thought it was just you and Ice Cream Sandwich being funny but now im convinced you would have perfect comedic timing even if you were bouncing jokes off Barney the god damn dinosaur.

@navycalvin9337 Год назад

Audio director having terrible "another room" sound quality is ironically funny

@ferrouslam Год назад

I come back to this video every now and then to remind myself to take a break from all the stress of working extensively. It never got me to take that break, but it's definitely helped me change a lot about the way I think about game-making companies, game release dates, and the general making of video games from a developer's standpoint. Awesome video. After typing this now, I think I'll be taking that break.