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My extremely long-term @FootballManager save got thrown a huge curveball today when a new board came to the club and cut my budget to the point where I couldn& #39;t operate the way I& #39;ve done for literally decades of game time. 1/
I ended up having to resign, because as frugal and savvy as I am, a wage budget of $1.5 million per week for staff and players combined isn& #39;t compatible with title-winning talent. 2/
And it& #39;s frustrating, of course, but I think more than anything I& #39;m impressed. Because someone on the development team had to account for this situation. I don& #39;t think @milesSI was deploying any deep machine learning in his football simulation game back in 2013. 3/
Someone wrote an algorithm, and code to run it, to simulate a leveraged buyout of a highly successful multi-billion dollar organization. And in hindsight it makes perfect sense. It& #39;s certainly happened in real life, so into the game it goes. 4/
The real-life timing could be better. I was enjoying pretending to have a job while I& #39;m laid off due to the pandemic, but now I& #39;m sending job applications in real life and in the thing I use to escape from real life. 5/
(but hey, at least the FM applications are a single button click and people write back to tell me I& #39;m not hired at Real Madrid. The companies I apply to in meatspace could take that example) 6/
