I’d break down this process in four ways:

This looks to be a marketing presentation. Marketing frequently has to justify and sell their pitch to different parts of the company for something like this, so naturally it would need to look dressed up and convincing.

These are pretty standard fare top level campaign documents you’d send our for agencies to use in their marketing campaign pitch RFP’s.

You touched on this a bit, but this level of planning is even bigger for AAA games. Some yearly AAA franchises have a marketing schedule you could set your watch to. Reveal early in the year, big E3 presentation, buildup of marketing in the summer and early fall game conferences / showcases, huge marketing push right…

As a Swede all the talk around Josef Fares, and that EA apparently treats him like some sort of loose cannon, makes me surprisingly happy. He is a national treasure.

Huh, that’s actually a pretty cool look behind the scenes to see how a major compay tries to market it’s product.

Call me crazy, but I don’t think you’re supposed to play ALL of them. Pick the ones you like and just accept that you won’t be involved in others

Far more people have died in American spacecraft than Russian.

And even more who conflate it with socialism.

Look I really have little interest in debating the personality of Karl Marx, as to be honest, who really gives a fuck? The guy is dead, and he has been for several hundred years. Why does it matter? But okay, I’m having a hard time understanding why the way he lived resonated very poorly with what he considered to be…

Supporting him is not the same thing as saying the dude was living it up. I mean, he had like only one pair of pants. That’s it. The guy was poor, even with support. If Engles hadn’t supported him, he would just be dead, not a little worse off, but actually dead. Or he would have had to go do something else, not write…

Not really. You don’t typically get embraced by a system when you are critiquing, revealing, and potentially dismantling it.

I mean, so? He dedicated his life to academic and political struggle in which there isn’t frequently employment.

Yeah, exactly. The Russians have been doing this for longer than the US, and better too (it's not as if the US hasn't had its share of tragic casualties of the space program).

Quick and dirty, so pardon the awkward phrasing (I was trying to be as precise as possible with the dialog):

The Russians can get a rocket ready, wheeled up, propped up and launched in a super short amount of time, days to hours. It's takes us two weeks or more. They really do have an incredible and brag worthy rocket program, no doubts about it, visible rivets and all. And honestly, they're rockets are beautiful too.

We're not "entrusting" anyone with anything, we're begging them for a ride because we've driven our own space program into the ground.

Except here, you know, where the guy was making the stuff up.