Subj : Dont send me your Borderlands theories or story ideas says Gearbo
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Mon Jan 08 2024 15:00:06

Dont send me your Borderlands theories or story ideas says Gearbox narrative 
director

Date:
Mon, 08 Jan 2024 14:45:26 +0000

Description:
Gearbox narrative director Sam Winkler asked fans to stop sending Borderlands 
theories in an attempt to canonize them.

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Narrative director at Gearbox Software, Sam Winkler, has reiterated to fans 
that hes unable to canonize their fan theories in the Borderlands series and 
asked them to stop sending them to him with that intent. 

In a post on Twitter / X on January 6, Winkler, who served as a writer on 
Borderlands 3 and lead writer on Tiny Tinas Wonderlands , wrote : PSA: Dont 
send me your Borderlands theories or story ideas. Seriously. I will not read 
them. I cannot incorporate your headcanon (even if I like it myself) or fix a 
story beat (even if I didnt like it myself). 

Its also gonna end a conversation with me real quick, he continued. Im 
*happy* to talk about writing as a craft and a career; its largely why I have 
my [direct messages] open, but if you start with your advice on what you 
think I or anyone else should do with Borderlands , youre wasting the 
opportunity. 

Former Destiny 2 community manager, Liana Ruppert, quoted the thread, and 
added : No, really, dont do this. Had countless [conversations] with the 
narrative team over at Bungo [ sic ] on this. Its especially awkward (and 
murky) if someone suggests something that was already planned and then theres 
a sense of external ownership even though that beat was already in-progress. 

Back to Winkler, and despite his plea to fans to stop sending things to him 
with the intent to either canonize them or affect my work, he added that he 
loves that people have those ideas and theories in the first place. Lord 
knows I had mine back when I [was] solely a fan outside of Gearbox, he said. 

Its been a while since we got a new main-series Borderlands game, given that 
Borderlands 3 was released in 2019. This year, however, fans can look forward 
to the release of the Borderlands movie, which is set to launch on August 9 . 

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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/gaming/dont-send-me-your-borderlands-theories-or-sto
ry-ideas-says-gearbox-narrative-director


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