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> Well, now the company that treated me like human garbage > for pointing out a doomed product direction will, at > least, have to view me as human garbage
by jmillikin 13y ago
> Well, now the company that treated me like human garbage
> for pointing out a doomed product direction will, at
> least, have to view me as human garbage that was right.
Your manifestos were treated with astonishing patience and consideration, given their content and your reaction to criticism.
As I recall, your position was that Google+ Games should prefer intricate rulesets based on obscure board- and card-games on the basis that popular casual games are not sufficiently complex to pose an intellectual challenge.
It seems unlikely that positioning Google+ Games as the place to go for half-baked Catan knockoffs would have made it more popular.
- obviouslygreen 13y agoWhich is not helped by a follow-up of "the most interesting thing about this news item (or, at least, the only thing worth my time to comment on) is that I was correct, generally speaking, and shall now espouse my belief that I'm owed recognition for it."
- bdowney 13y agoAnd still is really sad that Google employees still waste time creating memes about Michael in their stupid internal memegen site many months after his departure.
- 1010011010 13y ago... says a person impersonating bdowney
- michaelochurch 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Goldstein http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Goldstein
- yid 13y agoSince you seem to be an Ayn Rand fan, this is more like it: Toohey: "Mr. Roark, we’re alone here. Why don’t you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear us." Roark: "But I don’t think of you."
- michaelochurch 13y agoI'm not an Ayn Rand fan, but thanks. My Atlas Shrugged post was all about how the concept, while appealing, wouldn't work.
- varelse 13y agoSometimes Google can be a lot like Heathers with Wynona Ryder's character played by Jon Heder...
- StavrosK 13y agoI'm getting a weird feeling that these guys know something I don't...