Price transparency != Marketing strategy.

If you own hardware that voids its own warranty when you open it up, you don’t own that hardware.

Same with cars.

Same with anything.

… did you market yourself as a stuck up prick who can’t budget well?

Or did you maybe save that for some stage of contract negotiations?

There are ways to dance the dance; hers seems to be the equivalent of loudly complain that no one is picking her to dance with because no one can afford her.

Just not a good strategy.

There is no metronome.

You see?

It is not the metronome that oscillates, but yourself.

Advertising yourself as:

1. Bad at internal budgeting

2. Full of yourself

… is a bold marketing strategy during an economic depression, for a freelance/contract worker.

Best of luck Nat.

Well its based off of a ditty that’s meant to be a broad guide for how to not be killed by snakes… just, any snakes, that fit the descriptions in the ditty.

So… its not broadly useful, maybe qualify it?

Updooted purely for dad joke lol

… exactly.

… I think Hezbollah is gonna put up a fight.

… as well as anyone flying this, at least historically, if not also currently.

Sorry, your vexillologous ditty is dubious.

… also, a purely white flag is the universal sign of surrender.

I don’t think you thought this through.

You’d have to be naive to… go to Best Buy, for repairs.

Yeah… people need to understand this as a basic way corpos and corps work.

Almost nobody ever willingly retires. Almost always, they’re forced out, and theres a PR campaign run internally and externally to make it look like they’re voluntarily retiring.

Your first part is ‘more’ right by way of detail, but…

A dev that works for Bethesda should be able to figure out what you just said pretty quickly.

A dev that figures that out and then continues to work for Bethesda is a fool. Sure, that’s maybe a bit harsh for younger devs… but that’s how this industry works … unless you band together and make your own indie studio, you’re going to be the first on the firing line for everyone elses mistakes.

You are correct though that the entire writing team, including Emil, need to be fired. Start over, try again. They are still using the same facial animation tech as from roughly 2008-10, which was already outdated and surpassed at that time by say HL2, when they switched over to it… I could go on. It really cannot be overstated how many technical problems are caused by never doing any real work on their shitty engine, and the management mindset that allows that to happen for 20+ years is basically cancerous.

The second half of what you said, I take issue with. In the last 10 to 15 years, the quality of enviornmental storytelling has gone down, the overall feel of the games has also gone down. Easter eggs? Who cares…?

But yes, all senior managment, including Todd, need to be shit canned as well, for making 10 years of terrible decisions.

Sharma taking an axe to Bethesda is really the only thing that makes sense from MSFT’s business POV… she’s gonna trim down the most financially wasteful things under her control first. ES 6 needs to come out and be very good, relatively quickly, or Bethesda as a studio is a dead man walking.

And even Asha isn’t fully in control of or responsible for how much fat she needs to trim, because MSFT has gone so wildly into AI, and Windows has so much technical debt and bloat, again mostly accrued over the last 10 to 15 years, … that bill is now coming due, and she needs to help figure out how to pay as much of that as well.

We can all be mad that capitalism does capitalism things, or, the talented people that are or were at Bethesda could have made their own studio, refused to work with a publisher, made a structure closer to a worker co-op, or just a more standard indie studio.

Nothing is stopping them, or anyone, from doing that right now. I know that, because modders work for basically free, sometimes patreon donations or something like that, and the more talented of them have out-quality’d Bethesda for a while now.

Look at OpenMW.

Give them a few more years, we’ll have a reworked engine that will also be capable of FO3 and NV.

Volunteers.

Alright, I’ll have a cigarette for both of us then, asshole.

Yeah sorry Bethesda hasn’t made a good game in over a decade, found your own studio about it.

Modders have been outdoing you idiots for years, fixing your mistakes.

Devs in general deserve better, not fucking Bethesda devs though, nope.

Untill he starts trying to go all in with other people’s chips.

do you like hurting people? intensifies

The name’s V.

So uh, totally awesome and also, completely fucked.

I bet they are actually both trying to figure out which one is the killer queen, dynamite, with a laser beam.

I fear this quandry is guaranteed to blow your mind.

Have you not turned on the news in 10 years?

Political violence has been normalized for a pretty good amount of time now.

The US has been having a pretty good amount of… violent Nazi/Christian Theocrat/White Supremacist public intimidation marches… President incited an insurrection… public brawls when bigots try to assault pride events… and that was all during Trump’s first term.

I think like at least 5 people have now attempted to assasinate Trump, probably more than that…

Kirk got popped… etc etc.

Hah! I did not know that was an emoji, haha!