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Rami Ismail / رامي

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I help good people make good games in good ways.

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@tha_rami

Rami Ismail / رامي

8 months

Hi! I'm Rami, indie dev, public speaker, consultant, tool developer, and mentor. Good links to have: - My industry advice newsletter is at - Book me for consultancy at Find my accounts/services/work via

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Rami Ismail - Gamedev Studio & Project Advisory

Because making games is hard enough already — I support game devs & dev communities worldwide with insight, knowledge, interventions, connections, and resources.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

2 months

It's hard to overstate how powerful this particular video is when you're explaining both game design and playtesting.

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Happy 3 year anniversary to this silly reaction video I made thinking no one would ever see it

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Rami Ismail / رامي

6 years

A 44-year old man with severe mental issues attacked my former high school in the Netherlands today. Since he did not have access to guns, he brought knives, and was scared away by students throwing their backpacks at him. The man & students are now all getting help as needed.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

4 years

I've been informed by several angry Twitter people that if I support folks tearing down statues of Christopher Columbus, I should also support the teardown of statues of the Muslim prophet Mohammed. As a Muslim, I say go right ahead & tear down every single statue of Mohammed.

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Dune 2 is a stunning movie but right now it feels absurdly weird to watch a movie where a hyper-militarized oppressor backed by an advanced wealthy empire exterminates an entire Arab-coded civilisation over the violent acts of a few & everybody understands who the victims are.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

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If you're genuinely wondering why Gaza doesn't have an airport, it's because Israel did this to it in 2002. Unhappy with Palestinian freedom of movement, Israel destroyed the runway & bombed the control tower and radar station. Israel controls the airspace above Gaza, too.

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@AyyashMohannad

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I kid you fucking not. A reporter from the CBC, just 5 minutes ago, asked me if I can speak with her about "why doesn't Gaza have an airport?" I kid you fucking not. Again, DO NOT consume Canadian media.

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3 years

I heard they even reused the voice actors

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Gandalf Gaming

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3 years

God of war: Ragnarok looks like a clone of 2018 God of war... Even the animations are unchanged...

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1 year

I'm sorry to all other video games news but this is, by far, the best video game news story of the month. Not even close.

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IGN

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These fish committed credit card fraud while playing Pokémon. 💳🐟🐟🐟🐟

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Rami Ismail / رامي

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500 people drowned on a sinking boat within easy range for help & with the ship in sight of rescuers & nobody acted, but humanity is re-routing literal millions in equipment to save four super-rich people missing in a 12.500 cubical miles of water on a risky deep-sea tourism trip

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Rami Ismail / رامي

6 months

Note the date: July 10, 2023. Israel kidnaps Palestinian children routinely, tortures them, abuses them, sexually abuses them. Returns them traumatized, broken, violated. This is routine, and has been for decades.

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During "interrogation", 75% of Palestinian children are tortured. #Dismantle_israel_Now #FreePalestine_Now

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Rami Ismail / رامي

4 years

Dear parents that don't play games, You can discipline kids in a million ways, but if you destroy their digital homes, their creativity, or the things they love - you are being cruel. They will never trust you with anything they care for again, and they'd be right not to.

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4 years

D-dad?!

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Rami Ismail / رامي

8 months

Just as a note, gamers, the Unity changes mean the following for you: - Demos are now risky to devs - DRM-free games are now risky to devs - Bundles are now risky to devs - Giveaways are now risky to devs - Updates are now risky to devs - Multi-device users are now risky to devs

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Rami Ismail / رامي

11 months

Customs officer did the "oh you make games, you work on any ones I might know" thing so I gave my usual response of "probably not I make indie games" and he did usual "oh like which ones" and I said "Nuclear Throne, Ridiculous Fishing" and he went "wow you're vlambeer?"

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Rami Ismail / رامي

1 year

Oh god it's another "why don't game designers hire pro players to design games" day It's because pro players are the tiniest faction of a game's audience, they play it sweaty as hell, with people who play it sweaty as hell, and everybody else just wants to play a nice game

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Rami Ismail / رامي

6 months

New York Times calling the Nakba a "migration" is as accurate as calling WWII a "impolite land dispute", 9/11 a "airline routing mishap", or Pearl Harbor a "harbor fire". The Nakba was massacre, forced expulsion, and violent dispossession. It has few equals in modern history.

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Dalia Hatuqa🪬🤌

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Did the New York Times just call the Nakba— the mass expulsion and dispossession of Palestinians— a migration?

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Rami Ismail / رامي

5 years

Since several news networks emphasize that the mosques at the Christchurch shootings were #PeacefulMosques , as if most aren't: Hey muslims, tell me something painfully mundane and common at your mosque, whether you visit it five times a day or one time a year. Non-muslims, RT.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

2 months

Fun note, I have heard the phrase "I think this'll get square holed" in game design meetings & it speaks to how powerful the whole video is

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Rami Ismail / رامي

2 months

The devs call this a 5D game because 2D + 3D and I respect it

@Screenbound

Screenbound - A game about being distracted

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Hello #ScreenshotSaturday ! It might not seem like a lot - but there are major updates in this video for Screenbound ❤️📷 -Level editor is working (2d to 3d) -Enemies to smash -FPS controls Still lots to do #platformer #indiegame #pixelart #indiedev @stereochromia

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Rami Ismail / رامي

9 months

The reason AI artists are protective of their prompts is because that's all there is to it. A real artist can share openly because using their process takes practice & time, during which those who learn integrate it to their unique self & style. Not in AI art. Copy-paste'll do

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Rami Ismail / رامي

2 years

Twitter defensiveness is wanting to tweet "it's nice weather today" and tweeting "While I understand the implications of climate catastrophy & global warming, to me personally right here at the time of posting I personally feel the weather is quite good altho I recognize.. (1/11)

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Rami Ismail / رامي

6 months

"your honour, we can't afford to do this legally so we'd like to not pay" is a peak-billionaire play

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Cry me a fucking river.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

11 months

Absolutely wild realizing Tears of the Kingdom retains the horse names from Breath of the Wild. Anyway did you know me and my ex from over half a decade ago sometimes named game pets after eachother, because I'd forgotten about that.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

6 years

I have no data on whether the man plays violent videogames, as of yet the Dutch government has not called to arm all our teachers or give them tactical combat training, and the National Backpack Association has not made a statement, although admittedly I'm not sure it exists.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

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A reminder that Israel counts any adult male they kill in Gaza concentration zone as Hamas. That's why they're reporting hundreds of Hamas killed in Al-Shifa, while in reality they massacred a hospital of civilians -men, women, and kids- with the world watching.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

5 years

news reports keep stressing 'it's a very peaceful mosque' yeah you fuckers most mosques are peaceful & just a bunch of normal-ass muslims praying and talking about life a peaceful mosque isn't news except to the bigoted fucks that believe attacks like this are self-defense

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Rami Ismail / رامي

3 years

the game is 1800 dollars to play what do y'all expect

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3 years

Half-Life: Alyx Is Not Receiving the Mainstream Recognition It Deserves #Opinion #VideoGames

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Rami Ismail / رامي

2 months

fixed it for ya

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guess how many times I ran past this key in the remastered version who signed this off?!

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Rami Ismail / رامي

3 years

And: Cyberpunk 2077 is not the defining game of the year. Crunch, rushed launches, over-hyped games - issues that don't define 2020. The defining games of the year are games like Fall Guys, Among Us, Animal Crossing - games that brought folks together in this weird horror year.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

4 years

OK, listen, whatever you think about Hideo Kojima How did this guy make a game about the importance of delivering mail in a post-apocalyptic United States that launched almost exactly a year before the upcoming US elections What kind of magic future vision does this man possess

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Rami Ismail / رامي

4 years

So, for those of you curious, I can't guarantee that I'll get 100% of the details right, but let just one Muslim explain their view on why to you why this incredible photograph is a sight that literally stopped me in my tracks earlier today.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

4 years

I honestly didn't think I'd ever see a photo that looks like this in my life.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

8 months

There is no way Unity talked to a single developer before launching this: developing in Unity is now straight-up a financial risk for: - subscription services - charity bundles - piracy - being f2p/going f2p - malicious installs - giveaways

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Rami Ismail / رامي

7 months

My position is unchanged: Free Palestine. You want the violence to end? Free Palestine. You want justice? Free Palestine. You want freedom? Free Palestine. You want an end to apartheid? Free Palestine. This whole situation is awful. Free Palestine.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

5 years

The responses to this tweet prove the saying that you don't pay for the time an artist has to put pen to paper, but for the years of practice it took to know where to put the pen on paper.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

8 months

Holy shit Just get to paragraph 4. Trust me on this one.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

9 months

My take on the "why aren't all games as good as Baldur's Gate 3" is that I feel Larian deserves every Studio of the Year award for pulling off a thing that is so risky that most independent studios shutter trying 5% of that & most corporate studios can't take a tenth of that risk

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Rami Ismail / رامي

4 years

I honestly didn't think I'd ever see a photo that looks like this in my life.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

1 year

Someone in a consultancy just asked me how to get their game "its own bigolas dickolas" & then immediately be terrified that I had no idea what they were talking about Anyway, I've now been informed about it & I wish all you creatives that want it a bigolas dickolas of your own

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Rami Ismail / رامي

6 months

Remember: genocide is the correct word for Israel's violence. Opposing genocide is not antisemitism. Israel is not Judaism nor vice versa. Countless Jewish people march among the righteous opposition to genocide and oppression. From the river to the sea is a call for liberation.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

5 months

And this is why it's great that game franchises move to new directors instead of stagnating

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5 months

Recently, David Jaffe, the creator of God of War series, posted a video on YouTube, sharing that he's not happy with how the series and Kratos evolved, saying that the character became too soft. More: #GodofWar #games #videogames #gameindustry

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Rami Ismail / رامي

6 months

If you ever wanted proof of what I mean with "never conflate Israel & Judaism", this video is it. Israel commits genocide as across the world, everywhere, Jewish people stand amidst rising antisemitism & Israeli violence as some of Palestine's staunchest allies.

@dancohen3000

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6 months

Zionist forces brutally assault Orthodox Jews in the streets of Jerusalem for opposing genocide in Gaza. Haven’t seen this kind of state violence against Jews since Nazi Germany. Images like this destroy the myth that the State of Israel is Jewish.

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6 months

Let it be known that Angelina Jolie just did a more just, humane, & genuine political statement on Palestine than the likes of Joe Biden, Macron, Trudeau, Sunak, and Scholz -the Western worlds' elected representatives- could've ever produced in their genocide-enabling cowardice.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

3 years

"IGN Israel upset to learn IGN tries to raise money for Palestinian children harmed by Israeli bombs" is so cartoonesquely evil that I don't even know what to say

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aaaand I see a name license contract ending in 3... 2...

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Rami Ismail / رامي

8 months

If you're a Unity developing studio, good luck if you ever piss off your userbase. Instead of tanking your Metacritic with a mass review-campaign they can now straight-up tank you financially by organizing a mass install-campaign.

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6 months

I genuinely think that if there is one video, just one video to watch about the genocide in Palestine, it's this one. It's almost two weeks old, and in that time Israel has done worse & worse, so keep in mind this video was "just the beginning".

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Israel & the Myth of 'Self Defence' @davidahearst

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Rami Ismail / رامي

3 years

...do people actually think game testers get hired after a game is finished

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SAY CHEESE! 👄🧀

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After 8 years GTA 6 might be finished! Rockstar is looking for “game testers” in several locations, including at its offices in Edinburgh and India!

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Rami Ismail / رامي

4 months

Nightshade is out for all artists to protect their work from AI scraping. A few drops of Nightshade can poison an entire gAI model if folks steal your art to power it, so please do use it if you do not consent to your art being stolen for gAI.

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Today is the day. Nightshade v1.0 is ready. Performance tuning is done, UI fixes are done. You can download Nightshade v1.0 from Please read the what-is page and also the User's Guide on how to run Nightshade. It is a bit more involved than Glaze

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Rami Ismail / رامي

8 months

Listen folks, y'all can stop arguing the specifics. Here's the four main things: - Unity should not be able to retroactively change the terms & conditions on products or sales you've already made. Them making this move says they're willing to, and that should be terrifying.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

6 months

Not allowed to say "stop the genocide" in the country of free speech. Thanks to the countless Jewish folks that said "not in our name". Facing rising antisemitism & arrests, they went and protested for humanity anyway. A truly righteous act, may you be safe always.

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Hundreds of Jewish-Americans calling for ceasefire with @jvplive are getting arrested at Grand Central Station

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Rami Ismail / رامي

2 years

@mikeshinoda Mike, I respect your work a ton - but to a game developer this is you saying "you can buy a single note from my music and use it to control the space station". It is not how it works - interoperability barely works in one game series made by one developer.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

3 years

I watched the Six Days in Fallujah gameplay trailer so nobody else has to. Here's a quick video with live thoughts as I watched it, and more written out thoughts continue below:

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3 years

Understand how important this is: clearly @IGN and @gameinformer editorial posted this under their editorial freedom. If these posts are gone, it very likely means their corporate owners stepped across the editorial barrier & forced the censorship of those humanitarian resources.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

6 months

I need a break, I can't they're forcing babies to suffocate they're sniping anyone trying to save them what the fuck do we need to do how many palestinian horrors are needed how many mass graves how many dead children how do we stop this please

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Rami Ismail / رامي

8 months

It's just a betrayal. The whole Unity thing betrays every dev that tried out Unity & stuck with it. Every school teaching Unity. Every studio built around Unity. Every first dollar made through Unity. Every studio hire for Unity devs. Every Unity license bought. It's brutal.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

2 months

Like there's a scene where Isra-I mean the Harkonnens obliterates a Palest-Fremen town and there's a bloodied kid walking away dazed & a mother lamenting the death of her entire family and I genuinely thought I was watching the daily news for a moment there.

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5 years

At my #PeacefulMosques , we used to have this 5-ish year old kid that would always run in front of everyone during prayer, and when he grew old enough to realize that was improper he stopped doing that and I actually kinda missed him messing up my prayer.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

10 months

So you're saying remote work has only benefits

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Rami Ismail / رامي

2 months

So the Gamergate ex-dev grifter is back claiming shit about forced diversity leading to funding and let me tell you, not even once in my life have I worked on or with any title that had an easier timing getting funding because it was different, diverse, inclusive, or equitable.

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2 years

Getting asked if I regret supporting the Bayonetta call-out loudly originally, but not trusting the corporation when the other side came in: I don't. I'll always start from giving workers the benefit of doubt. There's no harm in that - the corporation will be fine either way.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

7 months

I'm sorry, but no amazing game will make this "a good year for games". This is an awful year for games - the atrocious effects money & shareholders & CEOs had on the industry this year lost us many incredible people, careers, and thus amazing future games for years to come.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

7 months

If you are confused why you suddenly feel like you're on the bad guys side watching this Israeli genocide, it's Western media that failed you. If you care to genuinely learn about the scope of Israels continuous evil, here's some factual resources to try:

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4 years

A horror story for anywhere but the US.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

3 years

I have been waiting to pay for this sandwich for over 5 years. Let me tell you this story.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

6 years

Here's my list of worst games of 2017: - why would you make a list drawing - attention to bad things and wasting - everyone's time, instead - of celebrating good things and - sharing the best this medium has - to offer, especially in a time - our world can use a bit more good.

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5 years

Boomer: destroys environment, economy, politics, democracy, social welfare, education, healthcare, privacy, housing - while using nationalism, sexism, racism, fascism to keep power Gen Z: prints shirt saying "ok boomer" Boomer: this is the end of friendly generational relations

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Rami Ismail / رامي

2 months

We all get this. Everybody in the cinema understands who to root for. It's deeply depressing that in real life, so many people don't understand that the Fremen are coded like us. Nobody is going "the Harkonnens have a right to defend themselves" here.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

3 years

NFT worked exactly as intended: the rich got richer, a few people made money in a gold rush, and it cost us environmental damage, & the trust in and between artist everywhere, & it was all at the expense of the little money lots of people that couldn't miss it had.

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The NFT market has imploded to almost nothing over the past month, with sales in every single category almost completely drying up.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

8 months

Congrats on the amazing marketing campaign today, Unreal, Godot, GameMaker, etc.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

5 years

2019 is lovely in that we just saw the delay of TLOU2 announced & the audience response is "good". Folks might not realize how many developer lives this is going to make better in the next few years, as this understanding propagates through the industry. It matters. Thank you.

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3 months

I just ran the numbers. With todays' Activision-Blizzard/Microsoft layoffs added, in just 25 days of 2024 we're already at over HALFWAY to the total layoffs of ALL OF 2023 (5,600 versus 10,500)

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Rami Ismail / رامي

6 years

Reminder: if you do your job well for exactly the minimal amount of hours, that should be enough to earn a liveable wage, deserve your days off, get considered for a promotion or raise, and keep your job. Any system that works otherwise is exploitative.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

2 years

My favorite NFT grifter of today just pulled "did you know .com domains are an NFT, you own a domain, so you own NFT" without any self-awareness that they just admitted that the things they perceive as "revolutionary benefits of NFT" were already done decades ago without NFT

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Rami Ismail / رامي

5 months

One day we'll figure out the mysterious dynamics of why the games industry is dying despite record profits. In other news, Bobby Kotick's payout could've single-handedly floated 2-3 AAA studios for a full year.

@betterthemask

𝕞𝕖𝕘𝕙𝕟𝕒 𝕛𝕒𝕪𝕒𝕟𝕥𝕙

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“Bobby Kotick was paid $155 million and EA CEO Andrew Wilson was paid $21.4 million in compensation packages, according to SEC filings. Meanwhile, ZipRecruiter estimates the average annual income for US game workers is $38,600, compared to $68,310 for the movie industry”

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8 months

I can't fathom the scope of Unity's fuckup. They caused countless deve to switch, evaporated trust, made it to mainstream global media, wiped educational traction, became a joke verb, and now funded their opensource competitors for years - all before they got to announcing fixes.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

5 years

HOW IS THE CLICKHOLE ONE THE LESS BAD ONE

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Rami Ismail / رامي

3 years

1. Go to 2. Enter "Palestine" 3. Get an error because Coca Cola thinks Palestine is offensive. 4. Enter "Israel" 5. Get no error because Coca Cola thinks Israel is not offensive. What's up @CocaCola ?

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Rami Ismail / رامي

3 years

Find me a single headline that is more USA than this headline

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Rami Ismail / رامي

6 months

The confirmation just came in a few minutes ago: 10,000 Palestinians murdered in Gaza. That's not counting the countless that are currently dying, those stuck under rubble, those whose health is permanently damaged by the stress, famine, dehydration, or lack of medicine or aid.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

6 months

It is all but certain tonight Israel will cross 10,000 murdered Palestinians, and the total murdered Palestinian children crossed 4,000 today. I don't know what else to tell you. They're dead. Murdered.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

9 months

The difference between Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring, Zelda Tears of the Kingdom, and the AAA games industry is that those mostly single-fire experiences in massive IPs made by extremely stubborn studios that built decades of focused expertise & industry trust to pull this off

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Rami Ismail / رامي

8 months

As of right now I have over 50 studios that have reached out to ask for advice on how to switch away from Unity, and I am not counting one-person teams or student projects. Absolutely staggering scale. Never seen anything like it.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

5 years

One morning in 2017, I played a short game that made me wish I had a new tiny game like it for every day of the year. So for all of 2018, I've asked hundreds of devs to make a small game. This launcher will serve you a new little game every day.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

2 years

The 1980 games industry was cash-grabby that it globally crashed to such a ridiculous degree that we still refer to it as the "industry crash of '83" today & 1982's E.T. is still a meme for "shitty cash grab".

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SegaMasterTim Redux

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Rami Ismail / رامي

7 months

I don't know how this industry makes like 220 billion a year and outearns almost all other entertainment medias combined, but also if someone in games manages to keep a job for 5 years they're basically a unicorn because job stability somehow just doesn't really exist here

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Rami Ismail / رامي

2 years

Congrats to @Google for getting Arabic script backwards & disconnected during @sundarpichai 's presentation on *Google Translate*, because small independent startups like Google can't afford to hire anyone with a 4 year olds' elementary school level knowledge of Arabic writing.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

2 months

Violent and military oppression makes you the bad guy. Collective punishment and extermination makes you the bad guys. End of story. It is not ever more complicated than that.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

2 years

the reason developers aren't more transparent is because it tends to end up with a significant amount of death threats & harassment devs don't have an obsession with secrecy, we just prefer our job without being told we suck at it & should be maimed because of some placeholders

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Rami Ismail / رامي

3 months

Starting to feel Gen Z is better at work than any generation before them, including my own. If the contract says 9AM to 5PM, see you at 9AM, or if I make an exception, pay me for it.

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Chris Josephs

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The Gen Z labor force truly is a new breed

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Rami Ismail / رامي

5 months

I have a hard time reconciling playing Sam Lake off the stage after 30 seconds, or the publisher representing COCOON's devs after the same, but having a many minutes-long Kojima bit for a game that has literally nothing to show yet. That felt wrong, genuinely.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

5 years

oh my god there's a wilhelm scream equivalent that only pisses off horse enthusiasts

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mere

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beginning 2019 with the best review of a period drama i’ve ever seen

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Rami Ismail / رامي

5 years

It's frustrating that in 2019, people still don't understand that for networks of this size day-one server issues are an internet infrastructure issue, not a developer issue. The internet is a broken piece of duct-taped wires that we expect magic from.

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It's frustrating that in 2019, games still can't avoid day-one server issues

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Rami Ismail / رامي

8 months

Imagine making what easily seems the worst business decision in the history of video games and then telling the hyper-specialized industry experts whose work you're threatening to wreck that they're "confused" before simply repeating every single claim you're being dragged for.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

4 months

Fucking hell, I know we're in the ultracapitalism end-times but surely a company whose main audience is artists should probably not piss off artists to save a few hundred dollars yeah

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Hanzhong Wang

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Great job @wacom for using AI generated image for your latest marketing campaign. For a company built on the the visual arts industry this ad feels akin to shooting yourself in the foot. Doubly disheartening as a Chinese seeing the dragon used in this way.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

3 months

For those that missed it: - The International Court of Justice ruled sufficient grounds exist for the genocide accusation against Israel. - The ICJ ordered that Palestinians have the right to be protected from genocide.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

4 years

It seems really hard for some US folks to understand that to someone not from the US, the idea of Chinese companies and China having my data is not in any way more worrisome to me than the idea of US companies and the US having my data. It's all shit.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

5 years

I believe that any game dev should be free to pursue their own creative vision, without any rules binding them to a collective understanding of our craft But if you go through the effort of making a waterfall and don't put something behind it I don't know what to tell you

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Rami Ismail / رامي

4 years

Kojima's predictions are becoming shorter term as we go

@SCMPNews

South China Morning Post

4 years

When you'd do anything to keep your baby safe in China amid the coronavirus pandemic

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Rami Ismail / رامي

5 years

As they opened my bag at an airport "random check", the most potent weed smell suddenly came up. I got nervous that someone might've put something in my bag, so I did that 'look at the person behind me reassuringly to calm my own nerves' thing & @SnoopDogg just nodded back at me.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

4 years

Still impressed every time I watch a Twitch streamer rail against free-to-play games with premium subscriptions for cosmetics and additional functionality on their free-to-watch channels with premium subscriptions for cosmetics and additional functionality

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Rami Ismail / رامي

5 years

When my Uber driver learned I was a game dev she turned around, thanked me, and explained her son had a condition that causes debilitating pain, but games help him distract himself from it a bit. It's good to be reminded of these kinds of stories every now and then.

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Rami Ismail / رامي

11 months

The people stuck in that submersible deserve our help, but fucking hell is it hard to reconcile these two stories without fully realizing just how worthless the West considers the people on that boat. An absolute failure of humanity.

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