Brian Rose

Trying Threads again, I guess.

I genuinely want to think this thing is cool, but their marketing approach really confuses me.

@ChefChrisYoung @IncCombustion @WIRED Where do you ship from? Trying to figure out if shipping times mean I might receive in Seattle by Saturday. Thanks!

I was nervous when I heard @WIRED was reviewing the @IncCombustion Predictive Thermometer. Joe Ray is tough on kitchen tech, so I’m delighted to learn he liked our Predictive Thermometer, giving it 9/10: wired.com/review/combust…

This week has been rough for Bungie employees and the Destiny community. I thought I could weigh in with a slightly different perspective -- one as someone who has been part of the layoff process at a big company. @brianroseio/making-sense-of-the-bungie-layoffs-fe741e096f72" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@brianroseio/m… I'd love your thoughts and feedback.

Finally getting around to separating things into one account for gaming (see @heimidal) and another for work/everything else (this). Go follow that one if you're interested in my future gaming hot takes.

@PaulTassi @Forbes The way you’re reporting about stock compensation being “reverted to Bungie” is inaccurate and it’s leading people to think Bungie is ripping away stock that’s already owned by employees. I think you’re awesome, but I don’t think this is a great representation.

The Bungie And ‘Destiny 2’ Situation Gets Worse, Per New Info via @forbes forbes.com/sites/paultass…

@nerdilyrages I think that quote (along with the one about player retention) is getting the least charitable reading imaginable. The community is out for blood and looking for any way to spin something to be overtly aggressive.

@heimidal Yeah and there's some sites reporting that it was said that the "right" employees were left untouched at the company. You would think that if you knew your player base was declining, you'd be doing more to appease them, not drive them away.

Watching the Destiny community reaction to the Bungie/Sony layoffs is as much as a spectacle as it is a study in how critical comms are in a crisis. They are catching a lot of deserved flack, but it could be a lot less terrible if they just said *something* to their customers.

@nerdilyrages They haven’t even come out and said the delay is happening. It’s one thing to avoid a statement that could be misconstrued, but it’s another thing to not even communicate the effects to your customer.

@heimidal Can you imagine the amount of toxicity that the community would unleash if they put out a statement? I fully agree with what you said but have no faith in the community responding well to anything bungie says right now.

@AscendantNomad @kevinosx Toss the abandonment of weapon and armor sunsetting on the pile of "things that made players less engaged", too.

@kevinosx It destroyed it, plain and simple. They removed the treadmill to the grind and now the seasons fizzle out without fail after 3 weeks when the novelty wears off

I'm now really wondering what impact the decision to not raise the pinnacle cap has had on player time.

@ActuallyOmniMan @AscendantNomad I mean, same. Have a great day.

WOW.

@ActuallyOmniMan @AscendantNomad At any rate, muting this conversation as it’s just devolved into personal attacks. RIP Nomad’s inbox.

@ActuallyOmniMan @AscendantNomad “Management” and “IC” are the two employee tracks at basically every company. Every VP I know would describe themselves as being “in management”. I’ll assume you don’t know any.

@ActuallyOmniMan @AscendantNomad ……… yes. So were the lawyers who wrote the contracts and the finance managers who closed the transactions. How is that relevant to this conversation?