The more Meta and metaverse shoots itself on the foot, the funnier it gets.

Oh yes, this is so very entertaining to watch. From the rebrand to Meta (which probably cost them more than 100 households make in a year) due to how disastrous the FB branding was going, to this wildly unsuccessful attempt at creating a metaverse (and all the lil’ funnies that have come along the way), there is so…

“But there’s something especially funny about this in particular”

Yes, instead of giving 100,000 people $100,000 each, he had... *checks notes* FEET added to the Miis that no one wants to use, not even the people he is paying to develop them!  GREAT WORK, CAPITALISM!

A small [country’s] fortune

His avatar has all the warmth of a mobile game ad, so that definitely scans.

From a friend who used to work there I am told the problem with Blizzard is there is always push from on high for things that really shouldn’t be. And you either have people who are managing the project that push back and say whats realistic or people who don't. My guess is Jeff pushed back and the people in charge…

I disagree. A good team cannot hold itself together when they have no control over the timeline. Nor can a good leader of course but my point is that the current issue is more likely due to the desire to get OW2 out racking all that money as early as possible than it is about the quality of Kaplan’s leadership or the…

A good team can hold together fine whoever the leader is, and a good leader can hold a mediocre team together. But a mediocre team that loses its leader will often fall flat on its face.

I feel horribly for the OW team itself still, but good lord...was Kaplan really the glue holding it all together? I know it’s likely more complicated than that and it’s extremely rare one person has that much influence on a project worked on by hundreds but like...damn man.

Well yeah. It’s the problem with every corporation that’s run by a cult of personality. In this case, Suckerberg has weighed in with the holy gospel of Meta that the Metaverse is gonna be the next big thing. In reality, there are likely many, many competent managers at Facebook that have instantly understood that the…

God I hope we get to live in a world where Facebook/Meta starts to rival Google in terms of “pushing a really big project that absolutely no one uses and then killing it five months later”

The epitome of "Am I so out of touch? No. No, it's the children who are wrong." 

I know it’s beating a dead horse, but I have to tenderize that carcass just a little more.

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I’m extremely mid-level leadership at my company and have zero management training (basically just stumbled up the ladder through good old basic competence), and even I know the correct response to “even the devs hate our product” is “let’s use this as an opportunity to improve the product” and not “the product is…

This is so very, very deliciously funny. I mean, in a way it does suck for the people who are being directed to work on this thing. But for management and above, who are quite literally the ones doing the writing on the wall but apparently dead-set against reading it themselves - well, from back here, well enough away…

“Low skill” is a bullshit term they use so they can justify paying next to nothing. It’s still hard work.

Wow, 16 whole American dollars?