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@taylorcocke

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@taylorcocke
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haahahahhahaahwah
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A billboard for a show on Twitch. The future is weird.
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this is why i’m always yelling about th*rin. he’s the intellectual doorway to this kinda garbage. his continued influence over esports makes people like t*te feel welcome here. you think it’s a coincidence that t*te ended up in esports immediately after getting banned? i don’t.
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@taylorcocke
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the video he pulled the Asmongold screenshot from is talking about the precariousness of digital ownership and games as a service. it has literally nothing to do with DEI or whatever the rest of his dumbass rant is about
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oh are we having the games industry salary discussion again? i had a recruiter at a non-gaming company laugh when i quoted my desired salary, and say "oh i'm so sorry, if that's what [COMPANY] is paying you, you're worth way more" and then exceed my quote by like 35%
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they’re not sending their brightest, let’s say
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i’m crying lmao
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same energy
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@taylorcocke
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i don't care how many twitter followers they have, do not take career advice from a 23 year old
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it's! not! cancel! culture! it's! consequences!
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you know esports is cool when one of its CEOs posts a video of them hanging with andr*w t*te like that's normal and not fucked at all
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The only two GameStop takes worth a damn: - This happened because enough people found it funny to do it. It's not more complicated than that. - The stock market and capitalism are both deeply, deeply fucked.
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Hey check this out: It literally doesn't matter if Ellie was "actually a woman." The fact that girls/women have been telling you for years - FOR DECADES - they don't feel safe in gaming spaces should be enough for you to want to work and improve them.
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@GenePark Real answer: it's blinking white guy, pretty clearly
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this sucks dude
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@dannygavito oh it means “non-white men are present”
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Lars sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Lars reaping:
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Rod Breslau
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the current state of Twitch: the official Twitch Gaming channel cut off the live Metallica concert to play 8bit folk music to avoid DMCA
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esports dudes, it’s okay to say that what nickmercs said was transphobic and homophobic. you don’t gotta both sides this one, it’s pretty clear cut
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every time an NFT guy writes a big thread about how the critiques are wrong, it literally boils down to "no you don't understand, you OWN it" and it's like, yeah man, we know
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i keep confusing ezra miller and ezra koenig and being like the vampire weekend dude did WHAT
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@TheCartelDel oh it’s right smack dab in the middle of his TL lmao
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Fnatic's out here playing League of Legends while G2 is playing Dota 2.
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hey real quick question: What
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The city of LA put out a message saying the curfew was 8:00. Just now, we got a message moving the curfew to 6:00. Forty minutes notice is fucking unacceptable in this city. @MayorOfLA you are putting your people in harms way.
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let's fucking GOOOOOO
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it wasn't this instance, but when i went from Riot to Yahoo, my pay increased by 80%
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every single time - EVERY single time - someone has asked me for a desired salary, i have undervalued myself. twice, the company has said "lol no" and offered me more. this industry broke my brain so badly that *MAJOR CORPORATIONS* have offered me more money than i asked for.
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It's really cool that esports loves dudes who retweet stuff like this, totally a welcoming space
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i can't stop watching this, it's so good. rick astley stuck it out long enough to be deeply rad, what an achievement
@FarOutMag
Far Out Magazine
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Rick Astley singing ‘This Charming Man’ with Blossoms tonight at the London Forum. 🕺
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oh good guess who’s getting involved
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and that's intentional! companies want you to feel like you're lucky to work in the games industry. you're "supposed" to feel bad for wanting more money. that's how i ended up living in Los Angeles, one of the most expensive cities in the world, on $42k/yr.
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*stares in games industry*
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gamers, in this situation, dump baking soda on it and/or smother it with a cover. DO NOT POUR WATER ON A GREASE FIRE IT IS A GOOD WAY TO BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN
@Dexerto
Dexerto
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A Twitch streamer almost burnt down her kitchen in a cooking stream
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gamergate was always a harassment campaign targeting marginalized folks and its sequel is exactly the same
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those of us who have been in gaming/esports their entire careers don't actually know what a good salary is like. after Yahoo, i just assumed i'd never make more than $70k/yr again, because that's just this industry. i make more than that now, and i feel like i don't deserve it.
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well, this thread kinda went off. uh, don't work for free for companies that are making money, unions are good, health care should be free, etc.
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have you overwatch people been watching OWL for the last 72 hours, i feel like i'm just seeing constant livetweets
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Also, Deadspin's front page is currently these excellent pinned posts, plus a series of very much non-sports articles all posted today. They're not going down without a fight, and it's incredible.
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i'm certainly no asmongold apologist but like cmon man
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oh so that's the narrative they were going with lmao all ESL said was that they want to create an environment with less toxicity, and dudes read between the lines to assume that means "all men are toxic doth protest too much etc
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for the record, this is fucking gross
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that's just regular esports, actually
@Bry_Mac
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Like, I get that Northwestern was going for “erase racism” here… but I read this as a new kind of e-sport.
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"i can fix them" - me, any time any character at all appears in arcane
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it is important to realize the progress that’s been made in isolating these types of people into their own little silos. the next step is getting those willing to learn out, but for now mitigating damage done is vital
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The return of Gamergate is smaller and sadder
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@Home_Halfway DRINKING AT 65: I drank an entire fifth of Old Crow and finished off might night with an Ice House, then slept for 3.5 hours. Now I'm gonna play golf.
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Every time Kotaku posts a very good op-ed like this, there's a dozen or so people that say some shit like, "Finally, a good take from Kotaku." It's almost like....Kotaku consistently puts out great analytical work and you just don't actually...read what they do.
@Kotaku
Kotaku
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Games Made Under Crunch Conditions Don’t Deserve ‘Best Direction’ Awards
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oh no, don't explore the abuse of contractor status in esports!! it sure would be a shame if someone exposed the seedy underbelly of esports and how workers are treated in the space and how bosses take advantage of young people and "hustle culture" to criminally underpay staff!!!
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interesting that some of the most thorough owns of kern are from white men, and yet, kern has yet to directly tag any of them and instead chooses to go after women and POC. huh. strange. odd. weird. funny. hm.
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we can accept that videogames don’t cause violence and still examine the societal effect they have on normalizing guns. both things can be true
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like what the fuck are we even doing here? if we can't even avoid a literal human trafficker in the space, why would anyone who isn't a white dude want to get involved in the space? who would want this shit?
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NFTs have never been about protecting the artist and anyone telling you otherwise is lying to you
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drachenmagier
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No comment. #FuckNFTs
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Let me be clear: If you're a person with a large following and you're not speaking out right now, you're a coward. If you're acting like everything is normal and going about your day, you're a fucking coward. Fuck your "keep politics out of X" bullshit. You're trash.
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100% of the people defending Carlos in this situation would instantly call for someone to get fired if they said literally anything "woke" on social media lmao, carlos cost his company MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. like sorry, you don't get to keep your job after that! it's not hard!
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@santiagomayer_ Hey @Hbomberguy , I've always wondered. What would have happened if you flubbed the line? Was there a backup wall? Is there a second hole somewhere from a prior take?
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Fun fact: When speaking English, @FnaticHuni TOTALLY has a French accent. Good job, @FnaticYellOwStR .
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okay, @CarlosR . to be clear. this man is an active and hostile misogynist. look at literally any piece of content he’s created. he is bad for society and bad for both women and men. this isn’t about your “friendship” this is about keeping harmful people out of esports.
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it's very funny that a major esports org posted this
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As my dearly beloved father loves to say, "Drinking a Bud Light is like having sex in a canoe. It's fucking close to water."
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Anheuser-Busch has filed a trademark application as "THE OFFICIAL BEER OF ESPORTS" and i couldn't be happier because gaming really needed a water sponsor
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@xoxogossipgita ah yes a videogame where a greek man becomes a god by murdering other greek gods, then goes north and fights *an entirely different mythology's* pantheon, and the black character is the part that doesn't make sense
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@DaveOshry sometimes you gotta take the same stairs again, but actually they're different stairs, and then take them again because those are ALSO different stairs and then there's a ladder, but is it hte same ladder? who can say
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do we have a term for games like Forspoken and Days Gone, i.e. single-player games that are don't do critically well and has a complete lack of critical conversation, but seem to have legs among the average game player?
@GenePark
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it’s wild that forspoken has more concurrent steam players than redfall, a multiplayer game that’s newer
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no biggie, just your local esports historian casually RTing white supremacist talking points
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reading about realizing people the current will discover state of affairs Kids in the Hall because of this meme
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esports people don't know how game criticism works, part [WHO EVEN KNOWS AT THIS POINT]
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if you can't draw the line at ANDR*W GODDAMN T*TE, why do i even bother? why wouldn't i take my talents elsewhere? why would anyone with any sense of morality get into the space?
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listen, if you're in esports, maybe shut the fuck up about SWers having to get "real jobs" after OF shuts down sex work is real work, first of all second, shut the fuck up you work in esports
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AAAH MY WHOLE FEED IS MORDEKAISER ASS
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partying with rich investors is one thing, @CarlosR . defending yourself for partying with a man that justifies violence against women is quite another.
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lmao an all-timer of a thread, just great stuff all the way down
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@Slasher @thecodemiko been saying for literal years that twitch has a massive untapped reservoir for Weird Shit On The Internet
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Esports analysts love to talk a big game about how the best games make the biggest esports scenes. The biggest esports titles are the ones poor kids could play on their 5+ year old PCs. Development of esports scenes is way, way more about class than game quality.
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CW: abortion remember, this is the sort of stuff you’re enabling when working with this guy
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"gamer" isn't an identity, "gamer" isn't a culture, "gaming" isn't a community. the sooner we get that through our heads, the faster we deal with issues within the industry.
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I have only worked for one game developer, Riot Games. I was paid $22/hr for my first year, and got bumped to $23. I was coming off being a freelancer for 5 years, so this seemed like quite a step up. Then I took an 80% pay raise when I went to Yahoo Esports. #GameDevPaidMe
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Perhaps the greatest gift @MBMBaM gave to the world is reminding us that Jimmy Buffett owns.
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@danozzi !!! by an absolute fucking mile
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ESPECIALLY if they're encouraging you to get into esports journalism
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Doublelift did the most damage in that game, despite playing Kog'Maw in a game that they were behind from the start. HE TRIED SO HARD.
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@SJSchauer with no warning: "are you into blood play?" it was fine, they were 100% cool when i said no, and we continued hanging out. just...a shocker.
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@xoxogossipgita glad to see north and south korea united so they can attend school with...japan?
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@MBMBaM Son Of A Son Of A Sailor kicks ass. Margaritaville kicks ass. Pencil Thin Mustache kicks ass. Why Don't We Get Drunk kicks ass. Volcano kicks ass. Jimmy Buffett kicks ass.
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who cares leave them alone
@VictoriaSanchez
Victoria Sanchez
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We’ve been watching @wmata fare evaders ALL MORNING. Our camera isn’t hidden and people are blatantly hopping turnstiles live on air. Metro estimates $40 million in lost revenue. @7NewsDC
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hey can y'all do me a favor and not make mental health jokes about this? the guy's a wiener but let's not be shitty to folks with mental health stuff goin' on. appreciate it.
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A recipe for success: > Graduate college into one of the worst hiring markets in history > Survive largely on freelance and the "gig economy" > End up overqualified for entry level jobs > But without managerial experience > Be told by boomers to just work harder cool
@politico
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Analysis: Millennials should be willing and able to work longer than their parents and grandparents did
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sonicfox said no gods no masters no borders trans rights
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listen to people when they tell you who they are
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that's the free market at work baybeeeeee
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One thing almost no esports team web page has: A "media" section. You want to be a huge help? Give news writers assets/photos to use!
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@SJSchauer Queer boy work outfit inc
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i really fear that the wave of influencers currently dominating games discourse, this is going to get worse. at least with the previous generation, many grew up admiring games journos/personalities who had actual knowledge of the space, bc they had to! they interacted w/ devs
@mommilph
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You are going to start worshipping the stupidest youtube personalities who have no concept on how the law, jobs, relationships, or the world works and you're going to get fleeced for hundreds of dollars donating to their rotating cavalcade of scams that never amount to anything.
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Today, four years ago, Yahoo Esports shut down. This team was one of the best I've ever worked with and, damn, their success afterwards really proves that.
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An editor's job is to protect their writers from mistakes like this, especially if they're as green as I've heard in this particular instance. This is a leadership mistake, straight up. Why do writers have the ability to publish/delete this easily?
@Upcomer
Upcomer
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An update about an erroneously deleted story.
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the joyce manor show is at the same venue as the anime convention
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Is Jokic The First Horse Girl NBA Champion
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this is the statement they're mad about. how do i know that? because semmler quoted it in his reasoning note that this statement is for the ggforall initiative, not the women's league they're mad at absolutely nothing
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Man, kids my age were totally able to trick their parents into buying unnecessary game things because our parents didn't know anything about them. Our kids are gonna try and pull that, only to be met with "lol, those are just cosmetics, play with the base skin, coward."
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i learned recently that my coworker with a similar title was making 80% more than me at [GAME DEVELOPER] talk about your salary
@lilykonings
Lily Konings
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Please talk salary with your friends and peers. As someone who grew up pinching pennies, I couldn't even fathom the amount I could get paid in tech. When I moved to SF, I asked for $100K, received a phenomenal offer at $120K, then realized everyone was getting paid $150K.
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Don't forget to exercise every day.
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@NickAllen hahahahahahah
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i hope they give literally everything in BOTW2 durability armor? wears down map? tears fishing pot? rusty and shitty horses? break legs NPCs? hurry up and finish that quest, shark boyfriend's lifespan is 15 in-game hours
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