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ɪɴʜᴀʟᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴇᴍᴇs, ᴇxʜᴀʟᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴇᴍᴇs, ɪɴᴊᴇᴄᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴇᴍᴇs ɪɴᴛᴏ ᴍʏ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ sᴛʀᴇᴀᴍs
>Be Bethesda dev working on Skyrim
>try to make sleeping meaningful mechanic
>players allocate stats from level ups while asleep
>design cool dream themed levels and menus with deep proverbs
>opposing factions may try to assassinate you while asleep
>genuinely believe this will be very immersive
>a neat break from the flow for players to think and plan out their character
>Todd Howard calls me out in a dev meeting, belittles me in front of our coworkers, and calls me “Dreamboy”
>The whole company now calls me dreamboy
>get demoted
>thinking about how to make passing of ingame time meaningful
>The “Dragon Apocalypse” happens on day 50 and the Aldmeri Dominion invades on day 100
>Genuinely believe this will immerse the player and provide a sense of danger, and heroism
>Todd finds me in the bathroom and repeatedly punches me in the liver and balls
>dunks my head in the toilet while calling my autistic son a retard
>Demoted again, working out of janitors closet now
>Make it so all NPCs from opposing faction hostile
>You have to sneak around solitude as an Imperial, for example
>believe this will highlight the importance of the civil war
>Come home that day and find my wife crying because a man approached my son at school and asked him if it’s hard being a retard with a fag dad
>son is too scared to identify the man
>want to include an optional “Hardcore Mode”, like in New Vegas
>Believe this will immerse the player and make food and taverns meaningful
>someone throws a blanket over me when I go to throw out the trash that night
>hear a whole crowd laughing and applauding as I get stomped on
>someone pulls the blanket off
>feel a wet finger around the rim of my anus
>hear Todd’s voice say “Is that Hardcore enough for you, Dreamboy?”
No one talks to me at work any more and my old friends are too scared to even look me in the eye
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