Joejimbobjones

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[–] Joejimbobjones@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago

Men? Have you heard about the women's?

[–] Joejimbobjones@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh wow. I've got some reading to do! I read them in the late 1970s and there were only the three!

[–] Joejimbobjones@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Except why just A Wizard of Earthsea. I mean it was a trilogy...

[–] Joejimbobjones@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I don't understand the love that the Dresden Files gets. Great idea with terrible execution. Butcher's writing is just clumsy with bad dialogue and weak world building. The series was originally recommended to me because I was lamenting that Gibson had moved away from noir after Neuromancer and a friend thought Butcher would fit the bill.

[–] Joejimbobjones@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

We call them shithooks.

[–] Joejimbobjones@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

We call them shithooks.

[–] Joejimbobjones@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Noses and ears, they never stop growing.

[–] Joejimbobjones@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In many cases those positions are terminal i.e. you fuck up company X and you are either never working again, or it will take you years to find a comparable position. The golden parachute is there to lower the risk for candidates when you offer the job. Is it abused? Of course it is, essentially becoming risk pay for people who aren't taking any risks. Compare to the "poison pill" where any attempted takeover or removal of executives triggers a massive payout to them.

[–] Joejimbobjones@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

That is exactly right. This wasn't about saving them, but is an invaluable exercise that can't be replicated by a tabletop or full scale exercise. Agencies were probably jumping at the chance to get involved.

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