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[LazyLizard]

Borderlands died alongside Handsome Jack.

in my opinion the only good Borderlands game was Tales From the Borderlands and that's not even made by gearbox

 

[Zalvert]

It is baffling how "failing up" is an actual real thing and Miles Luna is living proof of it.

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

It is baffling how "failing up" is an actual real thing and Miles Luna is living proof of it.

As a friend of mine put it, it’s not failing up. It’s joining a club and being rewarded for certain behaviors.

 

[Evil Peter Griffin]

any man with the name luna never had a chance

Hey wait a minute. What's the name of the guy that owns this site?

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

It is baffling how "failing up" is an actual real thing and Miles Luna is living proof of it.

As a friend of mine put it, it’s not failing up. It’s joining a club and being rewarded for certain behaviors.

I forget the name of it but there's a paradox that goes "competent people get promoted until eventually they end up promoted beyond their abilities, this is why every level of every company is manned by nothing but incompetents."

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

I forget the name of it but there's a paradox that goes "competent people get promoted until eventually they end up promoted beyond their abilities, this is why every level of every company is manned by nothing but incompetents."

The Peter principle.

Hey wait a minute. What's the name of the guy that owns this site?

James Potter?

 

[Evil Peter Griffin]

James Potter?

Ok never mind. I thought it was some dude with Moon as a last name.

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

Ok never mind. I thought it was some dude with Moon as a last name.

Easy mistake, but Null’s legal name is James Potter. Hence why Ralph calls him Johm Potter.

 

[pephickshigh]

Now that we do have hindsight I think that AH focusing so hard on GTA/Minecraft was indeed a bad thing. It was good in the short term sure, but long term I think they would’ve maintained more viewers by keeping things fresh. Of course though thats like #17 on the list of reasons they lost all their viewers.

I wonder if they had tried doing some type of role playing in GTA-V if that would have worked and kept things fresh. Like have the video following Geoff and Gavin and they end up interacting with Michael, Ryan, Jack, and Jeremy who are roleplaying as cops/ clerks/ random people/ etc.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

I wonder if they had tried doing some type of role playing in GTA-V if that would have worked and kept things fresh. Like have the video following Geoff and Gavin and they end up interacting with Michael, Ryan, Jack, and Jeremy who are roleplaying as cops/ clerks/ random people/ etc.

Probably not, but their Sunday Driving series was widely enjoyed and successful.

 

[Big Green]

I wonder if they had tried doing some type of role playing in GTA-V if that would have worked and kept things fresh. Like have the video following Geoff and Gavin and they end up interacting with Michael, Ryan, Jack, and Jeremy who are roleplaying as cops/ clerks/ random people/ etc.

I would have had zero interest in such a thing, but it sounds like exactly what a youtube audience would eat up. What get's me is that they canceled both Go and Versus. I had stopped watching by then anyway, but it was crazy to hear later. When I did watch, those were both the most interesting series they did.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

I would have had zero interest in such a thing, but it sounds like exactly what a youtube audience would eat up. What get's me is that they canceled both Go and Versus. I had stopped watching by then anyway, but it was crazy to hear later. When I did watch, those were both the most interesting series they did.

The issue with Go and Vs is that none of them were ever actually good at video games except for sometimes Ray. Those shows would usually end up being dominated for long periods by one guy and the matches were rarely actually fun to watch after a bit.

Could maybe fix it by doing seasons where the points reset and maybe they rotate the cast each season where it's a different field though. That might work to keep it fresh.

 

[Zalvert]

I wonder if they had tried doing some type of role playing in GTA-V if that would have worked and kept things fresh. Like have the video following Geoff and Gavin and they end up interacting with Michael, Ryan, Jack, and Jeremy who are roleplaying as cops/ clerks/ random people/ etc.

They had something like that with Heists.

 

[Burt Ryan]

I was playing some Cyberpunk 2077 last night and I remembered how Lawrence defended the game at launch, and the reason was because his wife was the North America Head of Communications for CDPR.

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

I forget the name of it but there's a paradox that goes "competent people get promoted until eventually they end up promoted beyond their abilities, this is why every level of every company is manned by nothing but incompetents."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

 

[archive regret]

As a friend of mine put it, it’s not failing up. It’s joining a club and being rewarded for certain behaviors.

If someone incompetent is in a high level job, then the game they're playing is different than it appears and they're likely competent at that game (despite or because of their incompetence at the job). Likely because the bosses are looking for things other than merit, and when you hire on something other than merit you get less merit.

Spoiler: Thorough analysis on high level 'incompetence'

In those cases I think of it as the nominal job and the actual job. Nominal job: getting something done; actual job: appealing to the job givers (and this can be done in a multitude of ways such as toeing the party line, sucking dick, kickbacks, loyalty, nepotism, flattery, etc.).

Miles is an OK example, his nominal job is writing and he's mediocre at it, but he's decent at the actual job of appealing to the people who hire him as a writer (since he got hired). "Wouldn't good writing fulfill both nominal and actual job requirements?" Maybe, but good writing is a lot of work, so time spent writing is inefficient compared to making the boss happy in other ways. Worse: it's not even certain that good writing *would* make the bosses happy, because that can quickly become problematic for lacking inclusion of Ze/Zim, and that would make the bosses very unhappy.

Which is to say: the bosses might have additional requirements that filter competence. How many great secretaries are willing to suck dick? How many incompetent secretaries are willing? If you want a secretary to suck your dick then you'll probably have to settle for a mediocre secretary. How many great writers are also pro-equity and pro-inclusion? If you want that, then you'll probably have to settle for mediocrity. Which is how so many of these positions end up with people incompetent at the nominal job: someone good at both jobs is rarer than someone competent at either individually. Whenever you hire on something other than merit, you get less merit.

Anyway, that's less succinct but a bit more thorough than: "joining a club and being rewarded for certain behaviors". I'll definitely use the succinct version when being thorough takes too long.

 

[Chilson]

I was playing some Cyberpunk 2077 last night and I remembered how Lawrence defended the game at launch, and the reason was because his wife was the North America Head of Communications for CDPR.

I think that game is, in its current state, one of the best games ever made. However at launch it was a steaming pile of unplayable shit and Lawrence was always a limp wristed faggot who married a harpy and never had any real principles.

 

[Burt Ryan]

I think that game is, in its current state, one of the best games ever made. However at launch it was a steaming pile of unplayable shit and Lawrence was always a limp wristed faggot who married a harpy and never had any real principles.

Agreed. I was there, at launch, being a double idiot for pre-ordering the game both on PC and on PS4.
I remember having the total amount of... 15 seconds of gameplay on PS4, limited to the main menu screen, where the cursor was moving at less than 5 frames per second. I promptly resumed my playthrough on PC, which fared a bit better.
Then Phantom Liberty came out, Dogtown was pretty rough on my rig so I switched full time to Cyberpunk 2077 on PS5, which runs buttery smooth.

...also Lawrence got married twice. I find it funny that a "consummate gamer" as he professes himself to be, decided to bend the knee and accept the Polish slop that the game was at launch.

I sincerely hope CDPR drops the e-celebs casting for the next game. I won't be able to stand another Alanah role.

 

[Tom Honks]

Bro doesn't even live in the U.S anymore, also it says foreign students not American ones

 

[Chilson]

Bro doesn't even live in the U.S anymore, also it says foreign students not American ones

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Again, same group of people who just a few years ago wanted to jail anyone who was even the slightest bit skeptical about masks, jabs and the rest of the insanity that came with the lockdowns.

But Hypocrisy is the creed, not the exception for these people.