Hood: Outlaws & Legends is a game about reference points.
A extra medium time ago I was a platform test engineer for a video game digital delivery portal. At the time, Steam was king of the castle, but the company I worked for decided to try to create a digital market for their own wares because not everyone likes to shop at grocery stores. Sometimes people want to buy produce, toiletries, and hypertech in some dudes sketchy garage. It's a vibe.
Who knows, that sketchy garage might just be Wal-Mart later. It happens that way in movies, so its true.
Anyway, I worked for a whole genius, well, a Giants fan. But besides that, a sharp cookie. He hired me because we were both self taught assholes that refused to acknowledge their place. The digital delivery project was his punishment for telling the CEO not to do a digital delivery project. The digital delivery project was my punishment for going over my bosses head to call out a show stopping issue.
My old boss walked into my new bosses office to let him know that he was firing me for insubordination, and my new boss hired me on the spot to head up project communication. My old bosses game was the first title going up on the launcher. That wasn't the catalyst for the whole building hating me, but it sure wasn't the cure.
One day during SCRUM our team was having a good time describing all the ways our project was going to fail miserably and after a good belly laugh my boss said that at the end of the day all first party digital delivery systems were exercises in planned obsolescence because sooner or later one of these greedy man-child video game CEO's were going to think they are big enough to slap box with god and sue Google or Apple. I was like, "Yeah right old man."
Boy. Was. I. Wrong.
I felt like he was talking about Gabe. I would have never in a million years bet that today Gabe would be a lowkey tech hero doing beachfit press junkets in NZ high schools, and Tim "The Unreal Guy" Sweeney of all people would be drunk enough on Fortnight hubris to sue both entities, thereby ushering in video game ragnarok.
Anyway, I told that story cause I don't know how to directly answer a question without some long ass allegory, but what I do know for sure is that doing what you consider the right thing is the right thing. Shouts to info, and please stay safe. No punchline.Rip tb Rip TC rip Tall-T. Love is wise, hatred is foolish. Get out there and do great things, we believe in you. Also Jobs.
