Shaozen 💚🚀⚔

Considering starting a contest for people who send videos killing “me” in the most creative and inventive ways…

Couple things here: 1) Laith has a SUPER dry wit. If you watch the whole show, you’ll see that. 2) He’s playing with the “anyone that doesn’t like pvp is a care bear” attitude because he thinks it’s funny. If you watch the whole show, that becomes more apparent, too. 3) The comment is SO out of place in the description, he thought that made the joke obvious, but we all know dry humor doesn’t always translate. To say we weren’t super successful with it that day would be an understatement. If you watch the whole show, this becomes SUPER obvious and we should have tried less to be funny here. We try, we learn. It was his first show. Folks can be angry with Laith for trying to be funny and struggling, or others online for trying to manufacture *outraeg* by claiming an concept artist is “designing salvage gameplay” as if I haven’t spent the last decade of my life trying to show that’s not how any of this works. 😜 But let’s always remember that much like the community, CIG is no monolith either. It’s made up of hundreds of people with individual thoughts and perspectives and no one person, not even myself, always speaks for every one of them. We’re (semi)normal people, and sometimes we don’t get it right in the moment (especially when it’s our first show) and I’ll always encourage empathy when watching any clips promoting ANY agenda without context. 🙏

Good time at CON42 today.

This week I completed my first 10 years working at Cloud Imperium Games. I often joke that your job title is just where you begin at this place, as the path I've taken over the years has been more than I could ever have imagined. The public only gets to see the host, but I've filled my days and nights at various times (and often simultaneously) as community manager, creative lead, live events coordinator/technical director, platform specialist, web designer, video editor / producer / writer / shooter / director, public relations, subscriber program manager, facilities manager, actor/performer, developer and presently as Content Director, which sort of just sucks most of that up into one big whirlwind of never-ending (but enjoyable) chaos. I've struggled with how to explain my job over the years, but most simply: When you can see a developer's face, I'm usually the guy putting it together and making it happen, often in front, but far more times behind the scenes. 1,216 times so far. It's been a hell of a ride, and I'm excited to begin the next 10 years on Monday.