Wargroove is a game about campaigns.
I have always hated the saying, "Fake it till you make it." But I do acknowledge the underlying brilliance of the idiom. A person that says it is admitting they are faking it, and pitching the idea of faking it to people like it's a virtue virus.
But I never bought into the long term benefits of faking something until you make something. The reason is, ok, you are faking it until you make it. Make what tho? If you don't know what you are doing at the start how are you going to know what you are doing at the end? If you are rewarded for not knowing what you are doing at the start, then what are you going to do when shit gets rough. Go back and learn the game? Nah, you ain't.
The worst part about the "fake it till you make it" movement is that anyone that knows what the fuck they are talking about is your sworn enemy. Knowledge and experience are your sworn enemy. How does someone treat their enemy? Any fast talking carpetbagger is your sworn ally, just as any person with deep pockets and want to invest in something they don't understand.
Worst part of that is even tho they are your enemy you need them to get shit done, so you gotta fake it till they make it. Such is life.
This is the market now. People act like the Fyre festival movie is some kind of revelation. No, it's not. It's far from a revelation to people who have spent a decade plus grinding in their industry only to have some twentysomething straight up liar rocket to the top thanks to energy and buzzwords. You sit there for decades watching fakers make it and sit there in meeting rooms watching fakers eviscerate well thought out responses to absolute bullshit.
Then you watch the bullshitter get congratulated by c-level because the fake it till you make it movement reached the top of the mountain and recognized its own. What a wonderful world. Is it ok to complain about this yet or is complaining about it still an acknowledgment of being salty because you aren't winning the game?
The biggest problem with the fake it till you make it movement is and always will be the same. Sooner or later, no matter how good you get at faking it, you are still a fake, and you will be exposed as such. Acknowledging what you don't know, taking the humble at the bottom and working your way to true understanding and only selling what you actually have will never go out of style.
The gaming industry has a lot of growing up to do because faking it ain't selling like it used to. Nah, better yet, faking it is really just a long line of credit and bill is showin up.
I see you info, waddup. Rip TB rip TC rip Tall-T. Love is honesty, hate is platitudes, get out there and do great things, It's ok to not know, you will learn, and you have no idea how much we believe in you. Also Jobz.
The Protoculture Mixtape: Issue: People: Portend
