WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
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WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
2d ago
I love my wife. But these days she only speaks to me to push more tasks onto my plate, complain, or complain about how I performed the task she pushed onto me. Often she doesn't even speak to me. She just sends mispelled and unintelligible texts from the bedroom while she nurses our baby. My days are long and thankless, and I die a little inside every time my phone beeps and I know it's never anything good.
If my friends and coworkers are any indicator, this is not atypical. I doubt even being the most powerful CEO on the planet changes that dynamic much. Most men just aren't important enough to have women who's entire job is being nice and pleasant hunting us down.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
2d ago
Imagine Apple firing Steve Jobs.
They.... did? Is this some sort of Mandela Effect thing?
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
10d ago
Tell me about it. Election signs are worse than Christmas decorations in my small town. Just what the fuck? Get a hobby.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
19d ago
Why do you think they got bad at making games though? I’m going to guess it’s because the guys who made kotor and ME1 were a bunch of Gen X computer guys who loved early pc games and were incredibly talented. As the commercial success came and they grew exponentially, they hired a bunch of diverse young millennials and women that wanted to instagram their first day at BioWare. Then trump 2016 happened and it became a moral imperative to use their positions to fight the culture war.
I mean, I remember people saying the writing was on the wall when they brought some community manager on staff (why is it always a community manager?) who thought it would be really fun if there were a button that let you skip all the gameplay and just experience the shipping story. At least I think I'm remembering that approximately right. Was a long ass time ago now.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
19d ago
Hard disagree. I think real time with pause was perfect, and flawlessly bridged the gap between rigid turn based where 90% of your turns are going to be "Press X as quick as you can to attack", and stupid bullshit "Directly control a single character while your useless party members do random useless bullshit". I think only Final Fantasy XII had a decent competing solution to the problem where you got to program your party, along with some real time with pause elements. Technically Baldur's Gate let you program your party too, but I think that was an actual whole ass scripting language or some shit. I don't remember too clearly.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
26d ago
That's insane. Its like asking who would win, Micheal Jordan in his prime, or some random college athlete from 2026. It presumes an obvious superiority because the absolute peak of the game is passing out of living memory. Europe of 1939 is possibly the most martial society ever seen on Earth, short of Europe in 1911. Africa is still just Africa. They couldn't even maintain the infrastructure and institutions they were gifted under colonialism. You think they could defeat the pinnacle of the societies that built them?
Lucky. I wake up at 5:30 am, get my other kid ready for school, drive her, drive to work, work 9 hours, get home a 8 PM, cook dinner, clean, do my other kid's occupational therapy, read to her, get her to bed, desperately try to avoid thinking about having to do all this again the next day. Then my wife shows up to complain breathlessly about how hard it was napping with the infant half the day. Then the moment it might finally be my turn to talk she bolts off.
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