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Post by alanc9 on Mar 21, 2017 17:35:28 GMT
That's why he's using all the indirection. Stated flatly the position is too easily mocked. Pretty much the same strategy as his "cakes and ale" thread a while back.
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Post by I'd rather be Mordin Solus on Mar 21, 2017 17:38:51 GMT
That's why he's using all the indirection. Stated flatly the position is too easily mocked. Why so quick to mock? Why not engage? Mocking shuts everything down, pushes people to the hard-left or hard-right.
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Post by I'd rather be Mordin Solus on Mar 21, 2017 17:40:49 GMT
This is the kind of reductionist thinking that stifles debate. We reduce all complexity to a simple, Twitter-ready ejaculation. Left and right do this. Rationale, nuanced thought is forbidden, shunned. Heresy is declared and the heretic is conveniently banished from sight. And we all retreat to our comfortable echo-chambers. I'm not declaring you a heretic mate. You are the one oversimplifying things. Without any sort of real information, you decided that woman was the cause of Andromeda's animation problems. The truth is you have no clue what happened (and neither have we). So you have no business adivising Bioware. Stop being so defensive and try to make a better case for your points going forward. Yes, true. We have very little information. And maybe I'm wrong. But if (and I do mean if) a 24 year old was put in a position other than that of apprentice, there was a problem.
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Post by I'd rather be Mordin Solus on Mar 21, 2017 17:45:17 GMT
I reject the notion that nuance is indirection.
Truth is complex. UnTwitterable.
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Post by GordianKnot on Mar 21, 2017 17:49:32 GMT
Mac Walters is to science fiction writing what those people who paint an entire canvas one color and call it "art" are to art. And if you can't see how profound and amazing that is, you obviously just don't "get it."
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Post by colfoley on Mar 21, 2017 17:51:47 GMT
In reflecting on this issue more...I do that from time to time.
Of course Art is a Democracy. Art is one of the purest forms of Democracy on the planet which actually is workable since Democracy does not work under any other circumstances. But, of course that does not make 'art' any less a tyranny since 'Democracy' is probably the worse form of tyranny ever perpretrated on mankind. The tyranny of the masses.
People vote with their wallets. They look at a product of entertainment, try and determine if its worth purchasing and at what price and circumstances its worth purchasing, and then they purchase that art. If enough people vote in favor of a product vote to buy that product with their hard earned money, you are likely to see more versions of that product in the future. If enough people do not do it, then you are unlikely to see that product perpretrated in the future. This is tripply true in the game industry as whole studios are liable to be shuttered based on one bad game where movie studios can be pushing out crap for years, or underperforming art, and still be chugging along...more or less.
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Post by alanc9 on Mar 21, 2017 17:55:40 GMT
That's why he's using all the indirection. Stated flatly the position is too easily mocked. Why so quick to mock? Why not engage? Mocking shuts everything down, pushes people to the hard-left or hard-right. That wasn't mockery. I'm leaving that to others. I'm just being a theater critic here. I don't think your staging of these Ideas is working. I don't think it worked in the "cakes and ale" thread either.
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Post by I'd rather be Mordin Solus on Mar 21, 2017 18:01:41 GMT
Mac Walters is to science fiction writing what those people who paint an entire canvas one color and call it "art" are to art. And if you can't see how profound and amazing that is, you obviously just don't "get it."Not entirely sure what you mean. But I think ME is very sophisticated story telling. The Reapers as personification of the cycles of the birth and death of civilizations is brilliant. Of course, it's also a video game, so comparisons to Dune or Shakespeare are tricky. Certainly legitimate, but allowances must be made for the genre. We can and should talk seriously about the popular arts. Which is why I take the current failures of MEA to heart.
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Post by I'd rather be Mordin Solus on Mar 21, 2017 18:02:47 GMT
Why so quick to mock? Why not engage? Mocking shuts everything down, pushes people to the hard-left or hard-right. That wasn't mockery. I'm leaving that to others. I'm just being a theater critic here. I don't think your staging of these Ideas is working. I don't think it worked in the "cakes and ale" thread either. Fair enough. Rock on, brother.
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Post by Warrick on Mar 21, 2017 18:04:16 GMT
Yes, true. We have very little information. And maybe I'm wrong. But if (and I do mean if) a 24 year old was put in a position other than that of apprentice, there was a problem. Right, so maybe check your facts so that your judgments will have some merit. Right now it's hot air and nothing more. This issue is not worth debating if none of us have a clue how the company works internally. David Hansson released Ruby on rails when he was 25. Again, sorry, but you don't have the slightest idea what you're talking about. You have decided to make this an issue despite knowing exactly nothing about it, because the conclusion agrees with you. You want it to be true. Well sorry, but in order to make a point you have to check your facts first. Go on, we'll wait. Have a good time in Montreal.
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Post by I'd rather be Mordin Solus on Mar 21, 2017 18:15:11 GMT
Yes, true. We have very little information. And maybe I'm wrong. But if (and I do mean if) a 24 year old was put in a position other than that of apprentice, there was a problem. Right, so maybe check your facts so that your judgments will have some merit. Right now it's hot air and nothing more. This issue is not worth debating if none of us have a clue how the company works internally. David Hansson released Ruby on rails when he was 25. Again, sorry, but you don't have the slightest idea what you're talking about. You have decided to make this an issue despite knowing exactly nothing about it, because the conclusion agrees with you. You want it to be true. Well sorry, but in order to make a point you have to check your facts first. Go on, we'll wait. Have a good time in Montreal. "You want it to be true." I'm thinking really hard about this. Good point. It hits home. I certainly want to blame someone. But it's certainly not women. Ultimately, I blame the higher-ups. Who hired them? It would be nice to be able to check the facts. But, yeah, it's all speculation based on the evidence we have.
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Post by mordrek on Mar 21, 2017 18:44:12 GMT
Right, so maybe check your facts so that your judgments will have some merit. Right now it's hot air and nothing more. This issue is not worth debating if none of us have a clue how the company works internally. David Hansson released Ruby on rails when he was 25. Again, sorry, but you don't have the slightest idea what you're talking about. You have decided to make this an issue despite knowing exactly nothing about it, because the conclusion agrees with you. You want it to be true. Well sorry, but in order to make a point you have to check your facts first. Go on, we'll wait. Have a good time in Montreal. "You want it to be true." I'm thinking really hard about this. Good point. It hits home. I certainly want to blame someone. But it's certainly not women. Ultimately, I blame the higher-ups. Who hired them? It would be nice to be able to check the facts. But, yeah, it's all speculation based on the evidence we have. I wouldn't take that to heart. There's a lot keyboard warriors who think you shouldn't speculate, and that's just nonsense. Bioware will never tell the truth about what goes on behind the scenes that makes them look bad, no company will. But that certainly doesn't mean you can't use deductive reasoning to figure a lot of it out. I mean, that is what the insurance and investment market businesses are all about. As long as you don't try to conflate hard facts with your speculations you are fine.
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Post by warbaby2 on Mar 21, 2017 18:47:30 GMT
Ah, good, you already found it... yea, that very much makes sense. It's all conjecture, of course.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2017 18:51:06 GMT
This, I suppose, is supposed to represent the epitome of journalistic integrity. NOT. Quoting the article: "While it remains to be seen whether these claims are indeed true..." So, basically, the article admits to just feeding one big rumor mill.
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This, I suppose, is supposed to represent the epitome of journalistic integrity. NOT. Quoting the article: "While it remains to be seen whether these claims are indeed true..." So, basically, the article admits to just feeding one big rumor mill. Admitting that the news may not be true is having integrity in Journalism. Not having integrity would be not admitting such like so many other media sources.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2017 18:54:37 GMT
This, I suppose, is supposed to represent the epitome of journalistic integrity. NOT. Quoting the article: "While it remains to be seen whether these claims are indeed true..." So, basically, the article admits to just feeding one big rumor mill. Admitting that the news may not be true is having integrity in Journalism. Not having integrity would be not admitting such like so many other media sources. Bullshit... integrity in journalism comes from not reporting things that might be untrue. Sensationalism is only sensationalism. For example, here is a link to Alberta Minimum Labor Standards... you'll see that 1/2 lunch break isn't all that uncommon here. A lot of companies only give that 1/2 hour AND the employee has to go out and buy their lunch within that time frame (or else bring a packed lunch from home). work.alberta.ca/employment-standards/hours-of-work-rest-periods-and-days-of-rest.htmlNow, Quebec might be different since each province sets their own standards and Quebec also operates under a completely different legal system... but I bet they also have a standard for employment conditions that Bioware would have to meet.
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Post by akots on Mar 21, 2017 19:02:06 GMT
Maybe that's a good way to think of it. MEA is Shakespeare's sloppier work. ME2 was his Macbeth/Lear etc. ... So what's MEA? 'Two Gentlemen of Verona?', hmmm a bit short on m/m for that, 'Comedy of Errors' perhaps? Seriously though (and I loved the 10 hour trial) even a Shakespeare play with flaws has considerable merit, and I expect the same from MEA. MEA appears to have a few issues, some temporary, others more systemic. Whether that will be an ongoing issue comes down to your personal preferences, hence the polarized reviews. MEA is patchy at its best. BW obviously had some brilliant environment artists on the job and some less than mediocre portraitists who really don't know what they are doing and should not be there in the first place. There are some outstanding designer issues, brilliant parts of the story but they are diluted with utter bs and casual meaningless dialogues which are not even a filler. Filler is neutral, this bs makes me cringe and want to Alt-F4 on the spot. It carries heavy resemblance to Kingdom of Amalur in overall style. So, I blame Tiberius aka Ian Frazier and those who support him. KoA was similarly patchy game as well. Does it make it bad or good? it might still be good, they can patch it up if they really try just to save the day. Will they do it? IMO, unlikely, it is not cost efficient. Creating art is not cost efficient. It also takes a genius plus very skilled accomplices. For now, the game is unpolished garbage in single player, barely worth 6 out of 10. I'm trying to approach it from perspective of art. is it still an artwork? Certainly, it is. It has brilliant pieces but they don't come together in a way they should. Is it my personal view, yes, sure, that is what I think. Well, Alone in the Dark is a movie, a bad one and one of the worst out there, but it is still a work of art? Sure, just bad art with bad taste. The movie did actually very well in the theaters certainly paying for its production costs, so by no means it was a financial disaster for developers. However, Kingdom of Amalur developer had to shut down despite reasonable sales, they actually made money with that game. It was just not up to the expectations. Every company has investors. I hope Bioware ones are not giving up on MEA and the company stays afloat. So they can create more art, good or bad, that we don't know yet. On a side note, multiplayer is quite good, very addictive and some features are stellar. Decor and environment are gorgeous. Characters models are reasonable but mediocre. Game play and dynamics are superb. So, I stick to that and we'll see how it goes from there with single player in a few months.
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Post by nothv13 on Mar 21, 2017 19:02:42 GMT
Admitting that the news may not be true is having integrity in Journalism. Not having integrity would be not admitting such like so many other media sources. Bullshit... integrity in journalism comes from not reporting things that might be untrue. Sensationalism is only sensationalism. Integrity in journalism isn't just about reporting truths(facts) as if that was it there would be very little journalism at all since we never have all the facts. You simply cannot fail to report on somethings until you have all the facts. Integrity in journalism is reporting on something fairly, admitting when you don't have all the facts, and keeping things as non biased as possible. The biggest thing that the article seems to do that fails at keeping integrity is using a secondary source which relied on an unvetted anonymous source. BTW, your little example has nothing to do with the integrity of the piece as the piece is basically reporting on what was said, not what is regulated.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2017 19:15:47 GMT
Bullshit... integrity in journalism comes from not reporting things that might be untrue. Sensationalism is only sensationalism. Integrity in journalism isn't just about reporting truths(facts) as if that was it there would be very little journalism at all since we never have all the facts. You simply cannot fail to report on somethings until you have all the facts. Integrity in journalism is reporting on something fairly, admitting when you don't have all the facts, and keeping things as non biased as possible. The biggest thing that the article seems to do that fails at keeping integrity is using a secondary source which relied on an unvetted anonymous source. BTW, your little example has nothing to do with the integrity of the piece as the piece is basically reporting on what was said, not what is regulated. It is slanting the reporting to imply "harsh" working conditions... i.e. to smear the company. It is also a duty of the journalist to check the facts before reporting them.
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Post by Laughing_Crow on Mar 21, 2017 19:15:50 GMT
This is mostly speculation fueled for various reasons: some want to know the reasons why; some want to blame;and so on. We're (mostly) all on the outside looking in. Sometimes that works because some people have great insight; sometimes it fails completely because some people have hate. (Shrug) I don't know why. Maybe other companies hired the best. Maybe people didn't want to work in the cold north. Maybe their budget was too low. Maybe they did the best they could with what they had. Maybe the game was released too early. Maybe EA wanted it released for financial reasons rather than artistic reasons... maybe, maybe, maybe. Maybe they'll fix some of it. Maybe EA will hire an executive who cares more about the users than money (yeah, right). Businesses aren't democracies either. My hope is that at least for the PC version, some modders will eventually patch up some of what most of us don't like. (shrug) meanwhile, I'll play the game enjoying what I can or do other stuff that I like, because I don't have any skill or talents or ability for fixing software. Just remember, ice cream is a dish best served cold...
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Post by mordrek on Mar 21, 2017 19:22:50 GMT
Admitting that the news may not be true is having integrity in Journalism. Not having integrity would be not admitting such like so many other media sources. Bullshit... integrity in journalism comes from not reporting things that might be untrue. Sensationalism is only sensationalism. For example, here is a link to Alberta Minimum Labor Standards... you'll see that 1/2 lunch break isn't all that uncommon here. A lot of companies only give that 1/2 hour AND the employee has to go out and buy their lunch within that time frame (or else bring a packed lunch from home). work.alberta.ca/employment-standards/hours-of-work-rest-periods-and-days-of-rest.htmlNow, Quebec might be different since each province sets their own standards and Quebec also operates under a completely different legal system... but I bet they also have a standard for employment conditions that Bioware would have to meet. That's just silly. Bioware has had nearly a year to post a reply on that Glassdoor review, refuting the claims if they wanted to. And it's not like they don't track and manage that site, lol. Every large corporation does. Journalism isn't a court of law, and as the article stated, they linked the time of the review, to a time of an announced delay. They also toss in plenty of caveats about it possibly being sour grapes. Welcome to the real world, that's better journalism than you'll find on many news stories these days.
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Bullshit... integrity in journalism comes from not reporting things that might be untrue. Sensationalism is only sensationalism. For example, here is a link to Alberta Minimum Labor Standards... you'll see that 1/2 lunch break isn't all that uncommon here. A lot of companies only give that 1/2 hour AND the employee has to go out and buy their lunch within that time frame (or else bring a packed lunch from home). work.alberta.ca/employment-standards/hours-of-work-rest-periods-and-days-of-rest.htmlNow, Quebec might be different since each province sets their own standards and Quebec also operates under a completely different legal system... but I bet they also have a standard for employment conditions that Bioware would have to meet. That's just silly. Bioware has had nearly a year to post a reply on that Glassdoor review, refuting the claims if they wanted to. And it's not like they don't track and manage that site, lol. Every large corporation does. Journalism isn't a court of law, and as the article stated, they linked the time of the review, to a time of an announced delay. They also toss in plenty of caveats about it possibly being sour grapes. Welcome to the real world, that's better journalism than you'll find on many news stories these days. The article is not the review itself. It's a two-bit piece of sensationalism... suggesting a link that it is just wildly speculating on. That sort of "sloppy journalism" is as endemic to gaming reporting as "sloppily written games." As the poster below me stated... it all just forms of various speculation. People complain about how games are getting worse and worse generally... well, I see this sort of sloppy reporting within the gaming industry as part of the problem. I see this sort of slamming on a company as being counterproductive to getting better work out of them. The fans accuse the company's of being blind to their mistakes, of not being able to handle fair criticism... well, the gaming journalism industry should be able to handle a bit of fair criticism. In this case, they earned it... reporting that someone was responsible for the animations who ultimately wasn't.
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Post by nothv13 on Mar 21, 2017 19:58:13 GMT
Integrity in journalism isn't just about reporting truths(facts) as if that was it there would be very little journalism at all since we never have all the facts. You simply cannot fail to report on somethings until you have all the facts. Integrity in journalism is reporting on something fairly, admitting when you don't have all the facts, and keeping things as non biased as possible. The biggest thing that the article seems to do that fails at keeping integrity is using a secondary source which relied on an unvetted anonymous source. BTW, your little example has nothing to do with the integrity of the piece as the piece is basically reporting on what was said, not what is regulated. It is slanting the reporting to imply "harsh" working conditions... i.e. to smear the company. It is also a duty of the journalist to check the facts before reporting them. Having known what what crunch time is like in similar fields, it can be harsh. So harsh that such things actually destroy passion that people have and is one for the biggest reason why people leave the field or leave certain employers in the field. This isn't the first report of harsh work conditions. EA has in the past been accused of such and chances are there is truth in it. Anything that removes employee benefits can be seen as harsh working conditions. The statements of harassment not being dealt with can be seen as harsh working conditions. It doesn't make claims made by the person are true and repeatedly states that they don't know how true it all is. If they were trying to smear, they'd do like the MSM and insist it is all true. As far as what the article was covering, the review of the company posted by someone, they checked all the facts. They are not going to be getting any more fact than that, because Bioware isn't going to substantiate any claims and they do not have the legal power to force such.
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It is slanting the reporting to imply "harsh" working conditions... i.e. to smear the company. It is also a duty of the journalist to check the facts before reporting them. Having known what what crunch time is like in similar fields, it can be harsh. So harsh that such things actually destroy passion that people have and is one for the biggest reason why people leave the field or leave certain employers in the field. This isn't the first report of harsh work conditions. EA has in the past been accused of such and chances are there is truth in it. Anything that removes employee benefits can be seen as harsh working conditions. The statements of harassment not being dealt with can be seen as harsh working conditions. It doesn't make claims made by the person are true and repeatedly states that they don't know how true it all is. If they were trying to smear, they'd do like the MSM and insist it is all true. As far as what the article was covering, the review of the company posted by someone, they checked all the facts. They are not going to be getting any more fact than that, because Bioware isn't going to substantiate any claims and they do not have the legal power to force such. You can get all defensive about it if you want... Sensationalism is not the epitome of great journalism. ME:A is not Shakespeare. Bioware is just a company... one that, given thiis outcome for ME:A, probably will not be able to hire "the best" in the foreseeable future.
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