Phil Speer
banner
philliamshakespeer.bsky.social
Phil Speer
@philliamshakespeer.bsky.social
The least-famous famous Game Designer you've never met!
Quest Design Lead (Starfield)
Bethesda Game Studios
I love my job, so let me just say that views expressed by me do not reflect those of my employer. Direct your hate to me, not them!
Seriously, I've said it before, but Gunn is truly a master of his craft.
October 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Ok, thanks for the advice, but I'll keep doing things my way and you can do them your way.
September 29, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Well, you're free to throw up your hands and do nothing then. No one's forcing you to boycott them. Have a good day
September 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Sure, but they don't know that unless you contact them to let them know why you're not shopping there.
September 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I checked who's advertising on The Daily Caller in this article, and it looks like Walmart is running an ad on their site right now. I reached out to them to tell them I can't shop there if this is the sort of rhetoric they are associating with their brand.
September 27, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Fulfilling soft power fantasies is just as important as fulfilling hard power fantasies, if not more so, because it reminds us of our humanity and our civility towards others.
September 19, 2025 at 6:44 AM
And given how many players I've seen say they do this, I have to believe that there's a good many people out there who would do the right thing if they could.
September 19, 2025 at 6:44 AM
They're about things you can't normally do in real life - otherwise you would. So sometimes the power fantasy is as simple as being as rich or unworried about money that you can just give a total stranger $10,000 to make their life better.
September 19, 2025 at 6:44 AM
I'm sure I got feedback during production that there wasn't much of a point to this, because the player doesn't get rewarded. But, games are about allowing you to explore power fantasies. And power fantasies aren't always about beating the bad guy with the most powerful weapons you can amass.
September 19, 2025 at 6:44 AM
And do you know what rewards they get for doing that? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Not even an achievement. They just give up the money. Some lines of dialogue as a thank you and some followup dialogue, and that's it.
September 19, 2025 at 6:44 AM
I'm proud to have written two of those characters, because it goes to show you that some people will go out of their way to give a few virtual humans large sums of fake money that they still had to put real effort into earning, instead of buying more virtual guns or spaceships or whatever.
September 19, 2025 at 6:44 AM
I was reading a thread on Reddit about Starfield and a commenter mentioned that in all their playthroughs, they always give money to a few NPCs who are poor, downtrodden, or need it for some other reason.
September 19, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Here here!
September 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Meanwhile, I witnessed plenty of MAGA people getting real big mad and losing their minds over Cracker Barrel updating to a more more modern logo, claiming it was somehow "woke" when really it was just bland.
August 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The admin that leaked war plans on Signal and stored classified documents in a Mar a Lago bathroom wants to relitigate Hillary's emails?
two men are sitting in front of a crowd talking about strategy
ALT: two men are sitting in front of a crowd talking about strategy
media.tenor.com
July 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
For someone who claims to be so strong and manly, he sure looks weak bitching and moaning all the time.
July 22, 2025 at 2:45 AM