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   Gabriele Svelto (gabrielesvelto@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 21-Mar-2026 18:21:02 JST Gabriele Svelto

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   • Eniko Fox

   @eniko it sounds a lot like those people who make videos about how to do financial trading. They are most certainly not doing what they're telling people, it's 100% grifting

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     Eniko Fox (eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 21-Mar-2026 18:21:03 JST Eniko Fox

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     just weirds me out that there's this entire ecosystem of people who tell other people how to make games for a living and i'm sitting here looking at it going "who the fuck *are* these people?"

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     Eniko Fox (eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 21-Mar-2026 18:21:05 JST Eniko Fox

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     i think part of it is that i know gamedevs who are actually shipping commercial games wouldn't put out videos telling you what to do/what not to do so confidently. not just because, yanno, they're busy shipping games not making videos, but also because most devs who do this for any amount of time for an actual living will absolutely not speak in absolutes

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     Eniko Fox (eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 21-Mar-2026 18:21:06 JST Eniko Fox

     for some reason youtube is trying to get me to watch a bunch of gamedev advice videos even though i almost never watch anything like that and i'm finding a lot of them have very offputting titles/thumbnails

     its hard to express what i find offputting about them but as someone who's been making games fulltime for 10+ years it just has this whiff of grift to it