What relationship does this anecdote have to this scenario exactly, other than tenuously drawing a connection between Google and baby grinding?
Re:Google is shutting down Stadia
by literalAardvark on Thursday September 29, 2022 @02:17PM
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As a third party with no skin in the game: no idea but it was hilarious.
Re:Google is shutting down Stadia
by bastardoperator on Thursday September 29, 2022 @02:36PM
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I think what they're trying to say is that the stadia engineers should have seen the writing on the wall, coupled with the questionable history/actions of their employer when it comes to products regardless of their own good faith efforts as an employee.
On your first day, you're asked to design a big toothed wheel. You ask your boss, will this be used to mulch babies? No no no, he says. It will be used to chop up entirely unrelated organic material. You spend three years on it, and once finished, it's immediately incorporated into the Baby Mulcher 3000, the next generation baby mulcher, which can puree one hundred toddlers per hour.
Everyone starts yelling at you for building a baby mulcher. But it wasn't your decision! You spent years working on it! This is so unfair!
Unfair, maybe. But was it unpredictable?