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[–] 28 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Morrowind: An oral history on Polygon is a wonderful read.

All the little stories Kirkbride tells are great. My favourite is him designing progressively weird shit to dupe Howard with. He’d be like “Hey Todd, can we put this in the game?” and after he knowingly got knocked back he’d present him something more palatable.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's a classic negotiation technique abusing the psychological anchoring effect.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Yeah, I’ve heard of writers on shows like the Animaniacs doing it, insisting heavily on a more outrageous joke having to go in knowing it’ll get knocked back as a Trojan horse to slip the real jokes they want in.

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