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Indie Game Jam Show Collapses Due To Interference From "Pepsi Consultant"
Sockatume (732728) writes "Would you like to see a half-million-dollar TV show in which four teams of indie developers and Youtube personalities compete to create amazing videogames? Tough luck, because GAME_JAM from Maker Studios has spectacularly imploded. Although a lot could go wrong with this kind of show, the blame isn't being levelled at game developer egos or project mismanagement but the heroic efforts of one Matti Leshem, a branding consultant brought in for Pepsi. After imposing Mountain Dew branding rules that even banned coffee from the set, his efforts to build a gender divide amongst the teams culminated in the competitors downing their tools and the production collapsing. Accounts from Adriel Wallick, Zoe Quinn, and Robin Arnott are also available."
Part of the problem here is "downing their tools" which is an idiom that is not used in American english. While I was able to take a guess at what it meant it is confusing and awkward to those who are not familiar with the idiom.
Mr. Smith, there will be no put-downs in this meeting.
Yo! I'm down with that.
Our dog is too old, so we're putting it down.
Rather than go uptown we're going downtown, Saturday night.
Looks like it was written by a claw shrimp - they live down deep.
The network is down, looks like switch failure.
Way, down upon the Swanee River, far, far away...
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Rule #1: Always read the contract carefully.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.