So, I started playing Stella Deus (PS2 turn-based strategy) last night. Like many games, it has an evil empire. There's a head overlord dude and four generals under him.
One of these generals, Viper, is an over-the-top insane guy. Crazed cackling before each line and a love of killing everyone he meets.
So, how does a guy like that become a GENERAL in any army worth anything? The other three generals all have come off as mentally competent and/or tough potential opponents. He's just an insane guy who the other ones seem to consider incompetent. Sure, guys like that might have a future in evil armies (as the rabid dog types you use to strike fear in the people to make them susceptible to what you're doing), but as a GENERAL? When the other generals look at him with contempt.
Pure silliness!!!
honestgamer Staff Sep 30, 2011
Genj Oct 1, 2011
SamildanachEmrys Oct 2, 2011
Misguided empire :p
fleinn Oct 2, 2011
I had a boss for a while who basically had no skills. He couldn't type a letter on a keyboard. Even if he could do that, he wouldn't have been able to write something worth reading. He couldn't organise anything, or motivate people. The report-system he used for filing numbers and sales and so on apparently was always wrong, it turned out. It's basically a sheet with a bunch of columns. Straight ones, from left to right. Not rows at an angle, or oriented by some advanced mathematical formula.
But he was incredibly good at looking like a boss. That's not just me making fun of the guy either - he genuinely had something about him that oozed "boss". Once you got to know the guy, that impression would fade away like rainbows under a fertilizer spray on farm, though.
But that was all he knew how to do. Be boss. One guy I knew described his interpersonal skills as if he had learned a foreign language by copying phrases from sitcoms. Like someone get some of the sounds right, but never seem to say anything that isn't either tropes upon clichés, or else it doesn't make sense.
Those guys float to the top, though. Bob up and down sometimes - but they stay on the upper layer somehow.
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..besides, if the evil empire had clever generals, they wouldn't be stuck on the losing team, would they? Had that with Kya-haha-ha, and Hya-a-haha-aha in FF7. They would retire subordinates by the scores. Only natural that extremely ambitious and short-sighted idiots end up as general then.