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Don't Cross the Streams
Nov. 18th, 2015 04:43 pmA couple of my interns sent me pictures of two Mii characters they created in Smash Bros and named after me. One is a Bowser build, and the other is a Ganondorf build.
Except for a Wind Waker Link Nendoroid, I try to keep my office as free of Nintendo paraphernalia as possible, and I always do my best to act like a professional adult.
I therefore want to believe that they chose these two characters because I have red hair and a singularly unattractive face, but another part of me is like, they know.
But this is not possible; I made sure of that years ago.
It would be cool to become Smash buddies with the two of them, but I can't, because I'm responsible for their work and reference letters. I also have a measure of control and influence over their lives. Like, I just fired one of my interns this past weekend for acting like an anti-Muslim racist piece of shit. (I made him cry, and his tears were delicious.)
I spent most of my life "fighting The Man," and now that I am The Man everything looks completely different. It turns out that maintaining a professional façade requires a great deal of self-management and self-denial. I think this is part of the reason why I'm so insistent on hiding behind a wall of relative anonymity when it comes to fandom – I don't want to feel pressured to behave like my job title when all I want to do is geek out about video games.
Except for a Wind Waker Link Nendoroid, I try to keep my office as free of Nintendo paraphernalia as possible, and I always do my best to act like a professional adult.
I therefore want to believe that they chose these two characters because I have red hair and a singularly unattractive face, but another part of me is like, they know.
But this is not possible; I made sure of that years ago.
It would be cool to become Smash buddies with the two of them, but I can't, because I'm responsible for their work and reference letters. I also have a measure of control and influence over their lives. Like, I just fired one of my interns this past weekend for acting like an anti-Muslim racist piece of shit. (I made him cry, and his tears were delicious.)
I spent most of my life "fighting The Man," and now that I am The Man everything looks completely different. It turns out that maintaining a professional façade requires a great deal of self-management and self-denial. I think this is part of the reason why I'm so insistent on hiding behind a wall of relative anonymity when it comes to fandom – I don't want to feel pressured to behave like my job title when all I want to do is geek out about video games.
