About My Notes, Part 2

I talk about my notes some more, and what I want people to learn from my stories. I'll use a Fallout story as an example of what I mean.

Videos I reference:

[YarGolubev]

"I'm not vindictive - I just write everything down in Great Book of Grudges"

[Holesale]

From a management perspective, notes are incredibly valuable. If you have to absorb a lot of information in a short period of time, taking notes should be a daily practice.

[Ms.Pronounced_Name]

I know you're unhappy about the Companion AI, but genuinely some of my best memories of Fallout is Ian gunning me down because he decided to go full burst mode on something like a rat.

[Pangloss]

Here’s hoping you get a golden button, Tim!

[WastelandChef]

You must have a treasure trove in those notes of all your past experiences! I’d love to know more about Arcanum development

[RETROORDIE]

I love hearing about the notes and stories Tim.

[DeusVoltt]

Love your work Tim! I appreciate your outrageously candid insights into “the industry.” Be well brother!

[robbywendel]

Tim, you don't have to share these stories and create these videos, but you still do so anyway. Many of us appreciate you sharing your wisdom, knowledge, experience, and insights, and part of that comes from your notes. Blaming someone or something is the easy option, but it doesn't provide much value. Taking ownership of your own actions is the hard option, but it provides a lot of value through growth and understanding. Accept that things happened and that people are often trying their best, and move forward utilising the lessons learned along the way.

Thanks for the video, Tim 🙂

[petersmith]

I would argue that there is a huge difference between blame and accountability.

[ianeichenlaub]

Please consider arranging for your notes and videos to be added to a university or library collection. Fallout fits a few narrative genres that are incredibly popular within/informative of western culture and soon enough, if not already, the 90s will be studied as the early days of video games as an art and technology.

[TurboVideoGames]

After watching your videos, I’m starting to like the idea of taking career/life notes that can be referenced later on. It’s a cool idea to be able to look back on a time earlier in life similar to a photograph, but instead of a captured image of a moment in time, it’s a captured typed out thought

[aNerdNamedJames]

10:12 -- "Some people use the lens of: Well, it's always the person at the top, so, *I'm* completely to blame."

While I completely understand why it's important to try and pull things away from blame-casting, I also think it's worth pointing out that (as long as people *are* *going* *to* be thinking in terms of "the person at the top") the actual "person at the top" is not the game director (or, as 90s Interplay titled the role, producer), but is, in truth, *the* *investors.*

[Chriscras]

I hope you will consider donating your notes for research someday! 🤩

[talideon]

I think the people who try to assign blame like this are people who've never worked in a software project or anything like it and thus have no idea of the complexities involved.

[Zeropointill]

I'm happy you keep making these. Fallout 1 holds such a huge place in my heart and is probably the biggest inspiration for me to work on my own projects, it's great to hear about everything that went on behind the scenes in the development process and business side of things. For example: I wouldn't even have considered color blindness as something to think about in asset creation, and it ended up saving me a LOT of work down the line in one instance.

[Maddrax]

I've great memory but I also have ADHD my whole life and thus I need to take notes e.g. for tasks or appointments while as a musician I write down every idea because they're gone as fast as they came and then I was diagnosed with MS almost a decade ago and now I take even more notes because I want to recognize any cognitive decline early on and unfortunately I can't rely on the memory of others.

Taking notes is the closest I ever got to writing a diary and when I was working as a programmer or even just in HR it was useful to cover my own ass from time to time.

Some comments are just unbelievably dense every now and then.

By the way, I still take notes when I play video games, especially cRPGs - it was normal back then, and I'm not that old yet. Watching my grandfather die of Alzheimer's wasn't exactly pleasant either and convinced me to keep taking notes. Who knows if that won't help me one day.

[alexpetrovich]

There is some charm to the jankiness of the companion system.

[exgamerr]

Thank you for making so many videos, Tim. It is so awesome to be able to hear your perspective of the history of your own career.

I hope u are having an awesome week 👍🏼

[unRealityFPV]

As someone who played Fallout 2 before ever getting a copy of Fallout 1, it was outright frustrating not having the changes to how companions worked!

[YarGolubev]

The purpose of the video is simple: "You can only learn from mistakes. Learn from them while I teach :D"