Sure, your boss might be a short-sighted, mean-spirited person with no actual grasp of what you do or worse...a pirate, but at least they don't get blackballed by the plumbers union or get followed by their own orchestral theme music. thisisby.us writer Elle Dee explores what it would be like if video game bosses were our actual bosses.

Dr. Robotnik: I don't know what sort of medication this guy was on, but he obviously wasn't taking enough of it. He used to drive the engineers nuts during the design phase. It wasn't good enough that a vehicle possessed a jet propulsion system; it needed robotic chicken legs as well. By the time we'd finished our line of single-operator combat vehicles, they looked like Baba Yaga's hut had fucked an AT-AT.

That one is probably the best of the lot, though Sephiroth and Carmen Sandiego are quite amusing as well. I'd write some amusing anecdote about Crecente here, but I'm afraid he'd have me keelhauled. Michael Fahey

What if Video Game Bosses were your Real Bosses? [thisisby.us - Thanks DA]

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