All right, so, hello everybody.

I'm Ross.

I'm from the Independent Labor Club of New York City.

We are an independent civil social organization of workers from, you know, around the country.

We organize panels like this, where we try to investigate the current working conditions

in various industries and whatnot.

Sometimes we talk about political events of the day, but often we're just organizing

social gatherings. Like we do bowling nights, we do

bad movie nights around the city. We're going to do a game night. Our inaugural game night is

going to be a couple weeks from now at Hex House. We're hoping to do another one at Wonderville

at some point in May. But yeah, if you're interested in the Independent Labor

Club, please talk to any one of the people who've been

hanging around back or at the front, who is involved

with the ILC.

But yeah, I'd like to at this point hand it over to Alexander

King, and he will take it over from here.

Yeah, thanks a lot, Ross, and everybody from ILC for helping to organize this event, which, yeah, so thankful to see everybody here.

Thanks for coming out.

Yeah, I think many of us feel that there's something like something has gone wrong in games

the past couple of, well, no, I guess not just the past couple of years, but especially

in light of all the waves of layoffs that we're seeing for several years in a row,

and that even successful launches of games now are, you know, end in layoffs for many people.

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