Lord_Anime

A small anecdote here. I work in SW development (not games). In a previous life we had a remote development office in Bangalore, India. Where, frankly many major SW corporations have an office there. This remote office we not given ownership over projects, but was mainly used for maintenance/legacy code, QA, and SOME small SW features.

Was it company culture? Was it talent? Was it the shear effect of asking for solutions from people whom were quite detached from the problem?

All I know, is I've worked at companies with 5,000 sw developers, and at ones with 40.

There is so much waste once a team gets too big. There is no such thing as "Hey do this, have it done in 3 months", when the thing they need to integrate with is a moving target. You can't just throw work/problems over a wall. Smaller teams will always outproduce massive fleets of ... not top talent. I know that last statement seems unlikable. But I've seen what 4-5 rockstar developers can do vs. 30 decent developers.

What I would I give to bring back Hottest Mess as a GOTY category.

I know, I know ... it's about celebrating games. The world doesn't need to highlight more negativity.

But in a sea of people trying to "do the right thing". The schadenfreude of letting loose on these messes, really feels so satisfying.

There is a lot of terrible anime out there. At the end of the day, when 30-40 shows are coming out a season (calendar year quarter) most of it is derivative cash grabs. But to give you an example OF TERRIBLE SHLOCK, watch "Another". It's a 12? 13? episode show? It doesn't matter. the plots and events could probably fit into 2-3 episodes but instead saddle up for boing paced nothingness to happen, and for a mystery to get hinted at but not talked about. Like, BORED OUTTA MY GODDAM MIND. I could only watch it by MST3K'ing it with my partner in the room. Ya some characters die .... that have no character, that you don't care about, that die in boring ways? Horror Anime? Try Borer Anime?

Art should be whatever it wants to be. It it ruffles your feathers, it's probably doing what it's meant to do.

+1, thanks to all. Also, Alex is my spirit animal. Full Stop. <3.

There are a lot of ways to interpret what you were experiencing, but I'll tell you, you're not alone. I've gone through the same spell, myself, if for different reasons. Sometimes, it is best to stop absorbing content about games, and just enjoy games. You unknowingly make watching games being played compete with actually playing the games. And, by stop watching ... you can start doing, since if watching isn't the default, than playing is the next best option.

The 1984 offering is pretty hard to beat.

Sucks

Jason has a lot of production responsibilities to shoulder solo, AND is a great personality with thoughts & views that GB community can't miss out on. I wish he had a the freedom, from production responsibilities, to be even more vocal on the bombcast. Jason is rad.

this is like on the edge of metal. Like it's not hard rock, but it's brutality is minimal.