Bob the World Builder Interviews Kyle Brink

[dave2008]

Ugh this feels like spin to me. If it was true, why wasn't it mentioned before?

Feels like a "oh I've thought up a great answer for when they ask about X!" situation.

Memory is not perfect and it often takes twist and turns. You could be correct, but you could also very easily be wrong.

I know I will often remember details about things in pieces and parts. Particularly after I keep talking about them or trying to remember them. Heck, I even done a 180 degree turn about what I thought happened after enough reflection and review. It happens!

 

[darjr]

@Lojaan this interview was recorded quite some time ago. I’d have to check but I think it was the same day the Three Black Halflings interview was recorded.

 

[Lojaan]

Memory is not perfect and it often takes twist and turns. You could be correct, but you could also very easily be wrong.

I know I will often remember details about things in pieces and parts. Particularly after I keep talking about them or trying to remember them. Heck, I even done 180 degree turn about what I thought happened after enough reflection and review. It happens!

Seems like a pretty big deal to forget. The "why the delay in communication" question has been asked at length multiple times now.

But hey whatevs

 

[Lojaan]

@Lojaan this interview was recorded quite some time ago. I’d have to check but I think it was the same day the Three Black Halflings interview was recorded.

That makes it even more weird. Why didn't Kyle mention this again? He's been asked this a lot now.

 

[dave2008]

Seems like a pretty big deal to forget. The "why the delay in communication" question has been asked at length multiple times now.

But hey whatevs

My partner has forgotten she was holding our infant child.* Life and memory are strange.

She literally asked me (this was years ago FYI): "Where is ***?" and I said something to the effect of: "In the baby-bjorn your wearing!"

 

[Clint_L]

Ugh this feels like spin to me. If it was true, why wasn't it mentioned before?

Feels like a "oh I've thought up a great answer for when they ask about X!" situation.

Totally disagree. I work at a private school, and we have plenty of internal disagreements about policy, etc., but if someone goes leaking those disagreements they always are doing so to serve their own agenda and it absolutely kills internal trust so that conversations become next to impossible. I am sure it is the same at any business. For instance, if you look at some of the leaks from this controversy, a significant number were straight up misinformation, probably intended to advance a personal agenda (i.e. the claims that WotC doesn't even look at survey data).

There is a place for leaks and sometimes they are courageous and important. But most of the time, they are poison in a workplace. They make it harder to air disagreements and tend to harden positions while preventing management from hearing legitimate counterarguments.

 

[deganawida]

You haven’t worked in corporate America have you?

Beat me to it.

 

[Lojaan]

Totally disagree. I work at a private school, and we have plenty of internal disagreements about policy, etc., but if someone goes leaking those disagreements they always are doing so to serve their own agenda and it absolutely kills internal trust so that conversations become next to impossible. I am sure it is the same at any business. For instance, if you look at some of the leaks from this controversy, a significant number were straight up misinformation, probably intended to advance a personal agenda (i.e. the claims that WotC doesn't even look at survey data).

There is a place for leaks and sometimes they are courageous and important. But most of the time, they are poison in a workplace. They make it harder to air disagreements and tend to harden positions while preventing management from hearing legitimate counterarguments.

My point was about if it was true, why are we only heating about it now. The question has come up a bunch of times.

 

[Lojaan]

My partner has forgotten she was holding our infant child.* Life and memory are strange.

She literally asked me (this was years ago FYI): "Where is ***?" and I said something to the effect of: "In the baby-bjorn your wearing!"

That's hilarious

With respect, it would be more relevant in this situation if your wife had multiple extremely high profile public interviews where she knew she would be asked "and where is your child?" and she forgot every time except one.

Like you all get that this is weird yeah?

 

[Loren the GM]

Ugh this feels like spin to me. If it was true, why wasn't it mentioned before?

Feels like a "oh I've thought up a great answer for when they ask about X!" situation.

I mean, he has answered the question multiple times. This isn’t all news, it is just added detail. His answer has been generally the same across all the interviews, but it has all been conversational narrative, not canned talking points. When you are not in a direct script, points often get made in different ways, and sometimes information comes out a little differently over multiple telling. Doesn’t feel like spin at all to me, just added detail we got in this telling if the story.