Ah I remember when people would tell me that working in the video game industry is a dream, then those same people would complain to me about working long hours for no extra pay (crunch) to finish a game before the deadline.

Yeah that totally sounds like a dream job, it's so great you have to sleep in the office and you don't get paid for that extra work /s

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nightmares are still dreams

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

True, I guess one could say that in a way they were correct in that it is technically still a dream to work at a company like EA, just a very bad, very hellish dream. Possibly made much worse by the self-gaslighting (and regular gaslighting) making them think it's actually a good dream, makes it even worse because you don't try to escape it because you convince yourself and are convinced by others you have it good when in reality, you don't.