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Stephen Totilo reports: 'EA CEO’s pay is up, as EA worker median income drops'

Behold, the tallest chart in Game File history. PLUS: EA execs were paid (a little) more for boosting generative AI

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"EA CEO Andrew Wilson received $30.5 million in cash and stock pay for the 12 months ending March 31, 2025, nearly $5 million up from the year before, according to EA’s most recent proxy filing, which was issued earlier this week. That’s a significant boost for the long-time CEO of the studio behind Battlefield, Dragon Age and Madden. It also went in the opposite direction as the EA worker pay to which the company annually compares Wilson’s take. EA reported that the median income for its full-time employees in 2024 was $117,000, down from $149,000 the year before. Note that EA’s tally for worker pay is disappointingly imprecise. It’s ostensibly based on a median average, not the mean (median = pulling the middle number from a stack of salaries; mean = adding the salary stack together, then dividing by the number of salaries in that stack). Confusingly, EA says it used “the same median employee” in 2025 that it used to compare compensation with Wilson in 2023 and 2024. It does not explain that workers’ 2025 pay drop, but says its figures for CEO and worker pay both include bonuses and stock grants, which can rise and fall in a given year. Nevertheless, Wilson’s compensation is up; EA’s chosen comparison figure for worker pay is down."

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i love being up early but i love being up late. and i love getting lots of sleep. what now.

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feeling insane, drew the boys as birds

kanans a eurasian eagle owl and ezras a sun conure with funky colouring

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wolf rider caleb!!!! trying to vaguely emulate the wolfwalkers artstyle but its sooo haarrrddd omfg

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comic i drew out of a scene from the clone wars novelization by karen traviss

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silly seals from outer space

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Absolutely enchanted by this sand mandala at the San Antonio Museum of Art, created by actual Tibetan monks and allowed to be preserved by special permission from the Dalai Lama.

To preserve that which, by its nature, should be transient, so that it can be shared. The inherent tension in taking away that which gives it significance in order to educate countless others.

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i swear to god that social cue wasnt there before

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For the longest time I opted on the side of "no coffee, potatoes, etc" in fantasy writing, on the argument that if I was writing a pseudo-european medieval story, featuring elements brought to Europe by colonialism would imply the existence of colonialism, and if I was going to include that kind of elements, I could not just mention them casually, it would have to be a major theme of the story.

Then I scrolled past a post on tumblr specifically about "can you have potatoes in a fantasy setting for no reason" that had pics of Peruvian potato farmers and asked "are you really too much of a coward to not write these people into your stories?" (the tone was probably not that accusative, I paraphrase from my own perspective of this), and something clicked in my head, and this epiphany manifested in my head as Gordon Ramsay yelling

"IT WAS NOT THE FUCKING COLONIALISM THAT INVENTED THE FUCKING POTATO."

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i think one of the best parts about being a teenager in the early to mid 2010s was that cigarettes were definitely not cool anymore and vapes hadn’t popularized yet so my lungs made it out of my peak impressionable years relatively unscathed

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weeks 11-20 on my weekly poster challenge this year, crazy I've actually managed almost half a year of getting these done. 1-10 here.

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night-diving trip on Penáxweng island. we went to swim in the bioluminescence.

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Sinners studies in heavypaint

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This is who is leading the NYC mayoral democratic primary rn

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Grave offerings and burying the dead with tools and goods is actually such a deeply human thing to do. It's not really even necessarily about how much you believe in a literal afterlife or them taking the tools with them. It's also just going Wait, I'm Not Done Taking Care Of You, let me make you one more pair of socks so your feet won't be cold when you go wherever it is where I can't follow.

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