What happens when one of these breaks and drains into the sewer system? Algae blooms cause noxious odors and would proliferate quickly in the nitrogen-rich environment of human waste water, potentially building up as clogs in the sewer lines. And if the system drains into a natural body of water, the algae can have devastating toxic effects on the natural wildlife. If it doesn't drain and instead gets recycled, then the water treatment process becomes much more difficult and expensive.
That paper map was a masterpiece, and honestly, it's hard to imagine playing without it. It had all of the regions and major settlements labeled, but that was pretty much it. It was up to you to figure out where all the fast travel routes were, and there were so many tiny little details that were clearly something, but that were left completely unlabeled. If you wanted to find out what they were, you'd just have to go out and find them.
I'm struggling to remember anything else in gaming that tickled my imagination quite like that map...
I watched about half of it (which is all I could make time for since I have a 'useless' job of my own that limits my time). Maybe that wasn't enough to understand the point, and if that's true then my bad for posting a reactionary reply. Oops.
But, if the first half is a representative slice of the whole video, then I don't think my response is unreasonable. To summarize, the guest runs a non-profit that aims to pay Ivy League grads who have high-prestige "bullshit" jobs to switch careers and go work for NGOs, charitable organizations, etc. (I'm actually a bit confused about this point because he says he wants to pay them, but also acknowledges multiple times that they'll be taking a pay cut? Maybe he clears that up in the last half, I didn't know.)
I didn't go to an Ivy League college. I do have a soul-sucking bullshit job that I only keep because it pays my bills and allows me to support the people who depend on me. I suspect the vast, vast majority of people who interact with this content will either be in the same boat as me, or will be people of even less privilege. In either case, we're the ones who are gonna be served this video, but we're not the ones who would ever benefit from this plan. Do you wanna bribe Harvard grads to quit their job at McKinsey and go work for Habitat for Humanity instead? Cool. Great. But the millions of us who don't have fancy diplomas and six-figure jobs — the people this content is served to — get to continue slaving away and dying inside a little more each day while the most privileged people in our society get to be taken care of while also being given the moral highground? Forgive me, but I don't really see what problem this is solving. This feels like a vanity project to make rich tech bros and lawyers feel better about themselves while the system remains fundamentally broken and the same toxic incentives that created this corporate hellscape remain just as toxic and just as incentivizing as ever.
Anyway, for people like me, the moralizing title of the video is really frustrating. Yeah, I would quit if I could, man... but who's gonna be responsible for what happens when I do? Not the guy in the video, that's for sure.
Cool, yeah. While I'm at it, I can get rid of my useless house and stop eating all this useless food. Thank God I don't have any useless kids — that'll save me a ton of trouble having to get rid of them too.
For a while I worked for a shitty little marketing company that had, shall we say, a high frequency of narcissistic traits among the C suite. The men's room in that office was the worst I've ever seen in terms of there always being puddles of piss on the floor.
Also, a very large majority of the execs didn't wash their hands when they were finished.
Other than the setting, this was the only reference to the original trilogy that I spotted, and man... the way it's used here is just so disconnected from what made that line iconic and cool. I was cautiously optimistic before, but the media blitz they did today has completely killed any hope I had for the Marathon IP.
What happens when one of these breaks and drains into the sewer system? Algae blooms cause noxious odors and would proliferate quickly in the nitrogen-rich environment of human waste water, potentially building up as clogs in the sewer lines. And if the system drains into a natural body of water, the algae can have devastating toxic effects on the natural wildlife. If it doesn't drain and instead gets recycled, then the water treatment process becomes much more difficult and expensive.