If my employer ever fires me, even if it is unwarranted or unjust, item number 1 on the list "Shit I ain't gonna do" will be:
1. Don't write a fourteen thousand, five hundred, and twenty-three word (not including title) Medium post about my firing.
As far as I can tell, every single person involved in the video gaming industry from executives to workers to consumers falls into a category of person defined by their extreme levels immaturity and pettiness rivaling or even exceeding the film industry.
unethical_ban•1h ago
I don't know if you read the essay. If you had or had followed the story, you would know that he was not only fired but his character and professional reputation were smeared publicly by who was it, Marty Stratton I think? I read this last year.
When your reputation is being dragged through the mud, why is it "petty and immature" to defend yourself? How do you know what works or doesn't in the entertainment industry?
Do people, in general, form opinions of others based on reddit posts?
That seems... odd... to me.
For example, I work in a very, extremely, small and specialized subsector of the aerospace industry. Everyone knows everyone else, or close to it.
If I'm going to work with Alice and I don't know Alice I can be assured that Bob knows Alice or at least Charlie, Bob's and my Director of Engineering, knows Alice. Maybe she's new? Doesn't matter, Alice works for either Charlie, Dan, or Erin.
If I was directed to a reddit post about Alice not only would I not read it, I would be instantly suspicious of the person who wrote it (What kind of dickhead goes on Reddit and complains about a coworker? A huge dickhead, that's who.) and the evidentiary weight of any discussion that would be forced upon me (because I wouldn't read the post to begin with) regarding Alice would be so low as to be irrelevant.
You can see how (edit: incredibly) dumb all of this is, right?
When I read "My full statement regarding DOOM Eternal (2022)" I thought it was going to be about egregious bugs or something, not bullshit People Magazine drama.
All of that being said, if Frank writes a reddit post about Alice, and Alice responds with a FOURTEEN THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED, AND TWENTY-THREE word essay that I'm tricked into reading, my only thought is "wow, Frank and Alice are both apparently dickheads".
os2warpman•1h ago
1. Don't write a fourteen thousand, five hundred, and twenty-three word (not including title) Medium post about my firing.
As far as I can tell, every single person involved in the video gaming industry from executives to workers to consumers falls into a category of person defined by their extreme levels immaturity and pettiness rivaling or even exceeding the film industry.
unethical_ban•1h ago
When your reputation is being dragged through the mud, why is it "petty and immature" to defend yourself? How do you know what works or doesn't in the entertainment industry?
castlecrasher2•53m ago
os2warpman•30m ago
That seems... odd... to me.
For example, I work in a very, extremely, small and specialized subsector of the aerospace industry. Everyone knows everyone else, or close to it.
If I'm going to work with Alice and I don't know Alice I can be assured that Bob knows Alice or at least Charlie, Bob's and my Director of Engineering, knows Alice. Maybe she's new? Doesn't matter, Alice works for either Charlie, Dan, or Erin.
If I was directed to a reddit post about Alice not only would I not read it, I would be instantly suspicious of the person who wrote it (What kind of dickhead goes on Reddit and complains about a coworker? A huge dickhead, that's who.) and the evidentiary weight of any discussion that would be forced upon me (because I wouldn't read the post to begin with) regarding Alice would be so low as to be irrelevant.
You can see how (edit: incredibly) dumb all of this is, right?
When I read "My full statement regarding DOOM Eternal (2022)" I thought it was going to be about egregious bugs or something, not bullshit People Magazine drama.
All of that being said, if Frank writes a reddit post about Alice, and Alice responds with a FOURTEEN THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED, AND TWENTY-THREE word essay that I'm tricked into reading, my only thought is "wow, Frank and Alice are both apparently dickheads".