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Ah. But you see, what we have here is a studio that doesn’t listen to suggestions from anyone it considers an outsider, combined with an environment where they believe anyone with an eye toward business decision making is unnecessary. Think of the game a studio like that would make and then compare.

Suggestion: don’t make your purchasing decision based on that hope.

Your comment about studio culture is absolutely accurate. I think your note re numbers is ultimately going to end up being accurate also. I always liked the Marathon team and wish them well, but they may not have been able to get out of their own way sufficiently for that to happen.

Ultimately we banned them from campus.

Oh god don’t give me extra chapter ideas like “dumb things I’ve overheard in elevators and restaurants”.

It’s a great line, though.

Exactly. If I had been in some form of non-public space, that would be entirely different. But I was in an office building elevator that didn’t require badge access.

I believe my response was to this effect: “Buddy, your fucking VP was discussing it in an elevator. If anything I’m taking care of your Regulation FD problems by publicizing it. You’re welcome.” He asked if I would do him a professional courtesy and delete it, and I thought that was better so I did.

An Expedia lawyer got very mad about this and called my office to yell at me about how I was violating securities law (no I wasn’t) and could go to jail for this (also no). I suggested he might like to know what I do for a living and he should maybe tell his people to smarten the fuck up.

I heard all about how Expedia was buying VRBO in the elevator up to my office at Pokémon one day because the Expedia VP was talking about it; they always forgot they didn’t have the whole building. Naturally I posted the deal info on Facebook when I got to my office.

There used to be a research firm called Directions on Microsoft that would put people on the employee shuttles to see what they could overhear. Also, the locker room at the gym where Microsoft gave free memberships was always a great place to hear about new projects.

Collection of fucking geniuses on this site, is why.

Somehow she hasn’t divorced me.

You take the monorail from Westlake station to Seattle Center and get off there (the only stop). Every Kraken and Torrent ticket comes with a free transit pass, and this is the best way to get there because it avoids Queen Anne parking madness.

On our way home from every Seattle Torrent game, which comes with a free light rail pass and you get there from the arena using Seattle’s monorail, it’s not impossible that I say to my wife how weird it is to be on the monorail because I had always thought of that as more of a Shelbyville thing.

Some people will do anything to avoid a simple question.

People just don’t want to impress Jodie Foster anymore.

For a website full of people with heavy student loan debt, reading comprehension levels On Here leave a lot to be desired.

The “acting” “talent” of Sydney Sweeney combined with Dakota Johnson creates a Web of excitement!

Stolen from someone else but: personally I’m excited for 2 Madame 2 Web.

The shitty remakes studios do to preserve their rights under licenses…

Seems you may also have forgotten a few parentheses.

Did I? Interesting observation.

Would be terrible if people started asking him if he’s losing his hair.

Declaring war illegally is hungry work. Need to hit the omelette bar when you’re done.

If only you could have made something of yourself.

I assume he's losing it so much that the combover doesn't work anymore, or that a side effect of one of his meds is making it get worse.

Observation: if Joe Biden or (god forbid) Barack Obama wore a fucking baseball cap during an announcement that they had taken America to war without Congressional approval, we would never fucking hear the end of it.

It's a piece of folk wisdom backed up by some research. I say it like that because: not proven, but demonstrated.

Reading comprehension is hard. If you ask nicely, I’m sure your school district will give your parents a refund.