To be fair that is a really shit saying.
Imagine a surgeon performing open heart surgery with a blunt scapel?
Or an engineer trying to draft with a blunt pencil/ shagged e-pen?
Tools have a direct impact on quality and productivity the difference is a good worker will flatout refuse to use shit tools so either correct tools get supplied or they hire shit workers to use the shit tools lol.
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fair point but i think the point of the phrase is that a good workman wouldn't get bad tools to begin with or would replace/fix their tools when they became hard to use so a poor workman is either stupid enough to get shit tools or has good tools but is too bad to use them then proceeds to act as if its the tools fault
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Or their boss is a tightarse lmao probably the more fitting one here
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Yeah, they're HIS tools. Blaming your own tools, you either suck at using tools, or you suck at buying tools/planning.
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I think you are looking to hard into this saying.
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How do you "hard into a saying?"
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No, whoever made that quote clearly ignored what exactly they were saying.
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Bungie doesn’t have bad tools though. They have cutting edge computers and a good publisher.
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You're wrong. The game engine they develop with their cutting edge computers is arguably they're greatest tool. They are on record saying that the engine they built for D1 was not suitable for a game that required constant maintenance and frequent updates. They said it could take a day or days to make the smallest changes. That's a terrible tool. With Doom Snapmap I can build and populate a huge level with goals, objectives, or even unique gameplay in a day, and anyone in the world can play it minutes after I finish it. That's a good tool. Bungle essentially had to build a tool to clean an office building and they decided to build a toothbrush. They swore D2 would be built on an entirely new engine with better tools up to the task and over 700 employees to weild them, yet here we are hearing them say they just can't do it.
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[quote]Bungie doesn’t have bad tools though. They have cutting edge computers and a good publisher.[/quote] Cutting edge computers don't amount to a hill of beans if your proprietary software is shit. Kinda like putting unleaded gas a race car and wondering why it won't go as fast as the other cars.
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More like motor oil in the gas tank.
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Last time I checked, Bungie had pretty good software as well.
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[quote]Last time I checked, Bungie had pretty good software as well.[/quote] You are aware of the issues they had with their software for D1, right? They supposedly fixed it for D2, but have yet to utilize it to "make more content faster" as they said they could, considering CoO wasn't appreciably larger than TDB, even though it was "hard to create." So they have a race car, but haven't figured out that high end fuel makes it go faster.
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They don't use it much it seems.
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Good publisher? That’s debatable
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I’m mean, they may not be liked by many people, but they do get the game out to as many retailers as possible.
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Well, in terms of competence, Activision [b]is[/b] a good publisher.
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better than EA at least
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That's debatable.
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fair point EA would have just closed bungie in favour of a pure multiplayer game