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Adam Withers
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I hope there’s a “Ghost Starbuck” special pilot card. And the winner should get to send all their ships into a nearby sun so they can start civilization over again from scratch.
Sh*t rolls downhill. Executives and board members see this kind of thing and make terrible choices based on fear of losing money. Those choices disproportionately affect the employees (and, to a different extent, customers). You can’t just look at these board members this time and say who cares - and, understand, I…
It’s all part and parcel of the same thing, though. Whether it works in a linear fashion (they made a lot of money, but not a lot enough! Waaah!) or from a different angle (we bet they’d make a lot of money, over-invested, and now we’re disappointed! Waaah!!!) it’s still the same impulses driving the behavior and…
STAT | 20% - The pay cut Rovio imposed on two senior board members’ salaries this month after the Angry Birds studio posted record annual results that still fell short of investor expectations, causing its share price to plummet.
That’s where you’re wrong. These things might not matter to you, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t qualitative metrics by which a movie can be judged. You can disagree with whether they mean anything, but that’s your subjective opinion. You can’t disagree with whether they’re true, because they patently and…
That’s easy. Without even having to go into any long discussions of film theory, storycrafting, or visual imagery, you can list several metrics right away:
This should be the hierarchy of who a company cares about most:
No, he’s right - you are objectively incorrect. You said BP was not a great movie by any standard. There are, in fact, several standards by which it was a great film. Therefore, you were objectively incorrect. If you’d even just said “it wasn’t a great movie,” you’d have more ground to stand on, but to say it wasn’t…
If we’re serious about wanting to change this kind of behavior, the only way to do it is to address Wall Street and the nature of investment and finance. Right now, a company’s stock price is dependent on its value going up quarter to quarter. Constantly. It has to go up forever.
You aren’t wrong, but... Hermione/Ron is a little absurd. ;)
Hear, hear. I’ve long said that the films did a far better job of telling a story comprised of people with emotions, desires, and frailties than the books ever did. The novels are solid fantasy travelogues, and provide some interesting background for some fictional languages, but I’m convinced that’s all Tolkein…
The real price would be the closing of a revenue stream that, while predatory and unethical, is one many publishers have come to rely on. This will allow them to tinker with and adjust loot boxes rather than lose them altogether. Considering the losses you point to, this could be win-win for the industry, with EA’s…
Self-regulation, for whatever positive change it creates, only happens when an industry fears real regulation. It’s important that people pressure lawmakers to the point that lawmakers pressure industries so they feel like they’d better do something themselves or risk actually paying a real price for what they’ve…
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I just want to reply again to say how much I’m enjoying your discussions on this game. We think very much along the same lines, and I appreciate the even-handed and thoughtful way you frame your ideas. Thanks for providing a string of good reads!
The short run of Inquisition is definitely more enjoyable than the long road, I was just surprised how little there was to it. I was actively trying to have a good time, and couldn’t help finding disappointment at every turn.
The thing is, Mass Effect is my favorite game franchise. Taken as a whole, I like it better than anything else I’ve ever played. Taken as a whole. But individual games in the series don’t stand as strongly on their own as they do as part of the larger tale. DA2 works as its own enclosed narrative, and I think has a…