I am the only one that thinks GH is a joke? From someone who can play these songs in his sleep (on a _real_ axe, not some refurbished squire strat with some colorful buttons), playing this game is like trying to run a mile on crutches.
On some big city (but still local) network, a news team was doing a story on the car dealerships around the city. One guy they interviewed had worked at this one spot for about a year, has a wife, two kids, and said _on the air_ that he wouldn't sell a car that he would trust his family's lives in.
When asked if the dealership had any such cars (that he wouldn't trust), he thought for just a second and said, "Yes, there are a couple". When the company brass caught wind of this, they fired him on the spot. And !!! lo and behold !!! he got _several_ job offers at competing car dealerships immediately.
Knowing how the automobile industry likes to hype its products, I thought the story was strikingly similar. It's a relatively new business practice (and not yet widely accepted, unfortunately) to actually want employees to be _honest_ about the products they deliver, and not just ventriloquists' puppets.
NWN2 elite races, prestige classes previewed
Oct 18th 2006 2:55PM (Joystiq)Drizzt? Sorry pal, I'll go for a Jaraxle-clone. As soon as I can figure out what the hell he 'is'.
Preview of new Guitar Hero II co-op mode
May 9th 2006 11:24AM (Joystiq)What fun!
PS3 dev talks about getting fired for talking
Feb 1st 2006 9:31PM (Joystiq)On some big city (but still local) network, a news team was doing a story on the car dealerships around the city. One guy they interviewed had worked at this one spot for about a year, has a wife, two kids, and said _on the air_ that he wouldn't sell a car that he would trust his family's lives in.
When asked if the dealership had any such cars (that he wouldn't trust), he thought for just a second and said, "Yes, there are a couple". When the company brass caught wind of this, they fired him on the spot. And !!! lo and behold !!! he got _several_ job offers at competing car dealerships immediately.
Knowing how the automobile industry likes to hype its products, I thought the story was strikingly similar. It's a relatively new business practice (and not yet widely accepted, unfortunately) to actually want employees to be _honest_ about the products they deliver, and not just ventriloquists' puppets.