BehindBlueEyes

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by BehindBlueEyes 3y ago
This. As long as platforms optimise for engagement e.g. to get more add revenue, it seems unfair to blame folks who enjoy cat videos for watching too many of them and not doing something more creative/productive. I wish there was a bet
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by BehindBlueEyes 3y ago
Agree with all of this. Our QA do all this and also provide dev support to designers, content creators and engineers, support build and editor stability in addition to the actual game quality, manage several labs with various hardware and s
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by BehindBlueEyes 3y ago
Yes and no, guess who has to repro bugs so they can be assigned for fixing based off what players report during alpha/beta tests?
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by BehindBlueEyes 3y ago
I don’t think more testing will lead to better quality games necessarily. My experience is testing always comes up with more bugs than devs can fix already.
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by BehindBlueEyes 3y ago
Fear of leaks, dealing with timezone differences that slow down the work, cultural differences leading to misunderstandings, or generally requiring more iterations to get the same result. Sure it might be cheaper even if it takes 10x as lon
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by BehindBlueEyes 3y ago
Either way, some work conditions are so bad that it is a risk work to taking over a status quo that harms workers in a way they can’t stay in the industry very long regardless. QA are certainly treated the worst in an industry that already
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by BehindBlueEyes 3y ago
Yup, QA log bugs, then producers triage them and punt/decide to not do what doesn’t fit in the schedule. Any time a game ships with horrible bugs, i wonder how many more even worse ones had to be fixed, for the game to ship with the re
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by BehindBlueEyes 3y ago
Actually pro players may have the deepest understanding of the balance but they only represent a tiny fraction of players and while useful for esports, implementing their expert feedback may alienate the broader audience. QA may provide goo
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by BehindBlueEyes 3y ago
Funny to me that they’d pay grad students instead of using AI to summarize.
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by BehindBlueEyes 3y ago
I am surprised that using non profit status to build a business and transferring/converting to for profit down the line isn’t considered a form of tax evasion.
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by BehindBlueEyes 3y ago
If imposter syndrome doesn’t go away with time, it is very possible the person overly focuses on knowledge/skills that are lacking but that are not required at all to perform at their job, and this can happen even when the person alrea
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by BehindBlueEyes 3y ago
More or less easily depending on which country you initially leave from
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by BehindBlueEyes 3y ago
Sounds like a lot of manipulation techniques described in this book being used: A little treatise on manipulation for honest people Book by Jean-Léon Beauvois I had a psych teacher who shared an anecdote of how she spent a few 100 on Veneti
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by BehindBlueEyes 3y ago
I wouldn’t mind starting the whole process over if that was the cost of calling them back vs. Risking a scam on top of the 6000 transaction. That said banks can be pretty bad at avoiding scam-like messaging and promoting bad habbits.
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by BehindBlueEyes 3y ago
This. Not in my contact list? Good luck getting a hold of me. And people who know me know not to call on my phone. My bank will lock me out of online banking if they want something from me. That will get me driving to the bank to fix the is
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by BehindBlueEyes 3y ago
No, that’s just what shareholders want you to think so you keep working hard at making their lives better.
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by BehindBlueEyes 3y ago
So it’s like saying “this soap cleans 10x better than if you washed the thing with poop”? That’s not nearly as interesting to debate.
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by BehindBlueEyes 3y ago
To work for the aunt/uncle, friend of the family etc described earlier the thread, or having an older brother helping… 10x programmers have a bunch of people giving them a head-start, not just themselves. Sure the person needs a drive
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by BehindBlueEyes 3y ago
The tree will grow roots to tap water closer to the source, ignoring property lines. I don't think fans are needed for the analogy to work.
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by BehindBlueEyes 4y ago
"You don't need to kill a chasing bear to survive, you just need to run faster than your friend." Problem with this approach is you run out of friends quick. People in bear country cary bear spray, have dogs to scare off bear
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by BehindBlueEyes 5y ago
It's not profitable to develop the infrastructure, but considering the price of delivering something where I live, I'm sure Fedex/UPS make a nice margin by delegating the last 400km drive to an unprofitable postal service.
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by BehindBlueEyes 5y ago
I'm not surprised. I haven't had much faith in the system protecting identities since the time I had to move for witness protection only to find my new address revealed to all parties in the summons to the hearing.
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by BehindBlueEyes 6y ago
Similar story: I finally created an account last week and after a few minutes of looking around, I tried to follow 1 person and got locked out. It requires a phone number to the unlock the account now. Just feels like gratuitous extortion o
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by BehindBlueEyes 6y ago
I agree that shame can be a powerful tool, but I believe there's ways to have more impact than shaming individuals for being addicted etc. Crazy idea: why don't we shame the people creating addictive products for profit at the cos
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by BehindBlueEyes 7y ago
As a newbie, looking to learn front end (and programming in general) without a programming background nor related career goals, I actually feel like this is gold. One of the hardest things when learning is that you don't know what you
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by BehindBlueEyes 8y ago
An interesting life story and comparison of Canadian vs. US immigration. How many of those Canadian immigrants are former US immigrants, how many are engineers...? I don't see anything supporting the claim in the title.
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by BehindBlueEyes 8y ago
What? A swallow carrying a sweet potato?
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by BehindBlueEyes 8y ago
To me it sounds like learned helplessness. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness People (and animals) who perceive to be systematically unable to avoid or confront sources of stress eventually accept that