Disappointed Optimists

0trip

i am sorry but this gave me a pessimist vibe...what was the message here exactly?

JSR_FDED

Clear-eyed description of the reality of corporate life. Designers feel this pain, as does anyone (like sw devs) who has a sense of “I could make this better” but isn’t given the support to do it.

n4r9

> A cursed problem, in his definition, is an unsolvable design problem rooted in a conflict between two promises that can’t coexist. You made both promises, on purpose, and they contradict each other, and no amount of clever tuning gets you out. You can only cut through it and give something up. > His example is a free-for-all fighting game. You promised players a test of combat skill, and you promised them a game worth winning. But the way you win a free-for-all is politics — alliances, betrayal, ganging up on the best player — so the two promises eat each other. You can’t fix it with a patch. You can only decide which promise to sacrifice. Is anyone else confused about this? I'm not sure exactly how these promises contradict. Is the idea that politics makes a game less "worth winning"?