Heard of Elephants?

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Nov 7
An explanation: I play a lot of video games for entertainment and to connect with friends. EA publishes some great games, but, almost without exception, they launch with game-breaking bugs, sometimes taking months to provide fixes. They leverage exclusive licensing to hamstring competitors’ products rather than competing on quality. They police their forums to remove reports of bugs they do not want to address. Their servers make Tumblr’s uptime look incredible (especially since I don’t pay $60 for tumblr). I have more reasons and could go into deep detail, but nothing I say will stop them from making boat-loads of money from selling broken games. They can do it without my help from now on. I join a league with friends each year thinking it’ll make the NFL even half as interesting as the NHL. It works for about 3 weeks until I get too lazy to trade guys I’ve never heard of for other guys I’ve never heard of, only to get beat by a team full of guys I’ve never heard of, plus Tom Brady. I’m done wasting my attention on it. Apologies to the ironically named Play To Win The Game league. Go Steelers. I spend most of my work day doing things until the clock says 12, eating, and then doing more things until the clock says 5. It makes the day drag by and (at least feels like) it makes me less productive. I already get meeting reminders, so I set up silent 12pm and 5pm alarms on my phone and took the clock off my computer’s task bar. As of writing this, I stole a peek at my phone’s clock for academic purposes, and already this morning has seemed to fly by much quicker.

An explanation:

  1. I play a lot of video games for entertainment and to connect with friends. EA publishes some great games, but, almost without exception, they launch with game-breaking bugs, sometimes taking months to provide fixes. They leverage exclusive licensing to hamstring competitors’ products rather than competing on quality. They police their forums to remove reports of bugs they do not want to address. Their servers make Tumblr’s uptime look incredible (especially since I don’t pay $60 for tumblr). I have more reasons and could go into deep detail, but nothing I say will stop them from making boat-loads of money from selling broken games. They can do it without my help from now on.

  2. I join a league with friends each year thinking it’ll make the NFL even half as interesting as the NHL. It works for about 3 weeks until I get too lazy to trade guys I’ve never heard of for other guys I’ve never heard of, only to get beat by a team full of guys I’ve never heard of, plus Tom Brady. I’m done wasting my attention on it. Apologies to the ironically named Play To Win The Game league. Go Steelers.

  3. I spend most of my work day doing things until the clock says 12, eating, and then doing more things until the clock says 5. It makes the day drag by and (at least feels like) it makes me less productive. I already get meeting reminders, so I set up silent 12pm and 5pm alarms on my phone and took the clock off my computer’s task bar. As of writing this, I stole a peek at my phone’s clock for academic purposes, and already this morning has seemed to fly by much quicker.

Posted 3 months ago