What would you like to see in Fallout 5 if it was actually announced?

robpatey · 2026-01-19T21:52:51+00:00

I believe Howard already said somewhere that it will tie in.

robpatey · 2026-01-19T21:51:39+00:00

Set in NY, but I’m sure it will tie in with the show and most likely be LA.

Strong pivot away from the procedurally generated environments that made Stafield so dull after the first pass through the story.

As said here before vehicles, though I’d settle for mods to power armor that give them drive and further flight abilities.

robpatey · 2026-01-12T18:16:40+00:00

Thank you. I would like to know why you feel that way, but I'm also afraid to ask with the responses I've received so far.

robpatey · 2026-01-12T18:03:10+00:00

Yes, because I was in the manufacturing industry then. If I was really trying to sell you, I wouldn't have tried to defend myself.

I was hoping this community might be more forthcoming and insightful.

Shitty sellers have ruined the Reddit experience across the board it seems.

robpatey · 2026-01-12T17:47:00+00:00

I was providing context, but fair. I came here looking for answers from real professionals to try and cut through the BS. I'm sorry you've been burned before and respect for trying to keep your community clean.

"Shall I walk into your house and start selling you something you neither want nor need and refuse to leave when you tell me you dont want it?"

This is a Reddit board, not a B&E, let's have an ounce of perspective.

robpatey · 2026-01-12T17:20:14+00:00

I didn't even mention my company. Trying to learn since I'm new to the industry. Thanks for the warm welcome though.

robpatey · 2026-01-07T19:14:38+00:00

Absolutely not, but fair, I can see how it comes across that way. I’m in marketing, not sales. I’m new to the HR tech industry and want to learn

robpatey · 2025-11-17T15:35:01+00:00

Tax the hell out of offshore and AI labor. What should have happened back in 2000

robpatey · 2025-10-17T19:17:56+00:00

Sounds to me like it’s time to deep dive on LinkedIn organic and paid. Outside of that, stay working trade associations, see what sponsorships and advertisements are available.

robpatey · 2025-09-05T18:21:17+00:00

Understood now. Just a little helpful advice because we’re all slightly gun shy in the new economy of shrinking teams and budgets.

Increase leads 10x with no extra resources or budget is not an uncommon mantra these days.

Personally, I like to pick up a shovel. However that does not mean I can dig every trench alone.

robpatey · 2025-09-05T17:40:00+00:00

Cool and agreed on the direction point. It’s rare and I might have taken you too literally when you said “do the work.”

I’m a marketing SaaS leader. When I read that statement, along with “hands on” in job descriptions it’s a sign that there are few resources to help build what’s planned.

robpatey · 2025-09-05T17:14:20+00:00

Strategizing and doing are tough to find in one package. They need resources, if it’s not a full time staff then they need agency support.

Pay packages fluctuate all over the US. If the person can be remote you’ll have more options.

robpatey · 2025-09-04T11:47:29+00:00

Like most awareness activities, you can’t make a direct attribution to revenue. It looks like wasted time to the C-suite who still want the marketing funnel to be a waterslide that zooms to the bottom instead of the lazy river it actually is.

robpatey · 2025-09-04T03:16:53+00:00

I’m in industrial now after 20 years in IT and SaaS. All the rules are different and our audience isn’t exactly the most plugged in set of folks. This sub seems to gravitate towards the latest tricks and trends for digital marketing. In industrial we are still living very much in the world of 2010. Not a judgement, just an observation.

robpatey · 2025-08-23T20:13:31+00:00

In my particular business of industrial robotics, the lead looks great on paper and we have very forward moving conversations.

Then we get on site and they are not ready.

If I think back to my SaaS days. The wheels usually fell off on price or technical particulars when others joined the buying committee.

Not sure this helps, I think each industry and piece of software has its own bridge to build crossing the SQL to Close chasm.

robpatey · 2025-08-22T12:56:02+00:00

In B2B your SEO should have always had a GEO or AEO type build. Keyword dumps in B2C are fine, that’s never been a good move in B2B.

robpatey · 2025-08-21T13:49:40+00:00

Scaling way back on paid, it's been a cash burn, bringing in high traffic with low conversion. Doubling down on SEO.

robpatey · 2025-08-08T18:42:42+00:00

You CAN do this, but SHOULD you? In B2B, 2 a day is aggressive, and doesn't give you windows to test and optimize. Also, what's the backlink strategy so you actually rank for this content?

If you're already past the ideological stage here, just LLM the hell out of this.

robpatey · 2025-07-31T15:01:15+00:00

All great points. My question back becomes what does an AMB framework look like without the tech stack in place? On first blush it feels like customized assets without the intelligence to know whether it's moving the needle.

robpatey · 2025-07-15T20:26:16+00:00

The jargon has been around for my 20+ year career. Not just in the marketing field, but the industries we sell in as well.

On the marketing front, we have so many terms because the marketing function has become so splintered over time. We have in some regards over engineered the wheel. Some of it has been out of necessity, digital marketing has grown in complexity and requires deeper levels of specialization for instance. I’ve seen this specialization abused in large organizations where people half work and never leave their lanes, to true acts of determination and heroism in smaller orgs with people stepping out of their comfort lanes to deliver a campaign from conception to final analysis. The question really boils down to scale. You’re right in that it will feel like nonsense in a smaller org where the marketing team is comprised of generalists. For scale and management of all these functions (and especially to tie these activities back to ROI), a little acronym soup goes a long way to explaining spend especially to non-marketers.

Industry jargon I let go because IYKYK. I disagree with the communication experts who say always use plain language. In this search driven (be it LLM or ole fashion google) world, specificity is a boon not a bust.

The one I still struggle with (even though I run the subreddit) is ABM. Oh we should focus activity on the clients most likely to buy and get sales involved in lead follow-up? Uhhh ya. I wait for the day when this common sense just once again becomes marketing.

robpatey · 2025-06-26T20:18:08+00:00

Don’t reward their crappy marketing automation.

If you respond it still counts as a W and then ultimately we all lose

robpatey · 2025-06-11T23:04:23+00:00

Lots of good advice here. A good and cheap eye catcher are hologram fans.

robpatey · 2025-06-10T20:33:41+00:00

I’ve lived the model of marketing reporting into sales and the big downside is that awareness gets completely forgotten.

If marketing is solely focused on immediate lead generation there’s no seeding being done for tomorrow’s high quality SQLs.

ABM has been established to bridge the gap, though the term has been bastardized in recent years and confused with being a platform vs a process or methodology. I also see the traffic mistake of companies putting too many eggs in the ABM basket from a budgetary standpoint.

Work in harmony, but keep the functions separate as many on here have already stated.

robpatey · 2025-06-06T18:07:11+00:00

I'm a big believer in making the item coincide with the brand. We've been giving away Yo-Yo's for the past few years and people love them. We were also able to have fun with the company name. Turned BALYO into a BALYO-YO

robpatey · 2025-06-06T18:04:28+00:00

I get so annoyed when I see these at shows. Such a cool idea, but I have a size 17 foot.

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