bittermang

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by bittermang 9y ago
I always see those kinds of policies like a "Get out of Jail" card for the employer. They have a policy of testing on their books, so if taken to court they can point to their policy. They never enforce testing, because they know
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by bittermang 9y ago
I worked in the games industry for a stint. Five out of every four people smoked weed. Because for every person who didn't, there was that one guy who REALLY did. How the fuck else are you supposed to make games about slaying dragons a
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by bittermang 9y ago
I'll say this here. Because IDGAF. I worked at a call center. We had an hour for lunch. I had it timed down to a science. I could drive home, even in severe winter conditions, get up to my apartment, and queue up an episode of American
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by bittermang 9y ago
I'm reading this thread on a Chromebook and really getting a kick...
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by bittermang 9y ago
And it only gets worse as the conglomerate grows. Due to my own history with Amazon as a Seller Support phone monkey, I probably couldn't get employ at Twitch or Curse, despite my resume in the games industry. Let alone something compl
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by bittermang 9y ago
Nope. He was a regular floor guy who sometimes worked in the Geek Squad department. He was pursuing an opportunity at Apple because the pay was better. When Apple learned he was currently employed at Best Buy, they basically ceased communic
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by bittermang 9y ago
I also doubt an ordinary floor rep has the ability to press a case like that to court. Lawyers aren't free.
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by bittermang 9y ago
OK. Sure. Unenforceable in California. Now what about the other 49 states? My buddy in Pennsylvania couldn't get a job at the Apple Store because of a non compete with Best Buy. This extends beyond the bubble of the bay area and even t
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by bittermang 9y ago
I'd much rather see an end to "non compete" agreements. I should have a right to get another job, and my previous employer should have no more rights extended over me after our employment agreement is finished.
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by bittermang 9y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the use of solder the central issue to first generation Xbox 360's famous Red Ring of Death? The solder would fail and the machine would refuse to boot.
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by bittermang 9y ago
> Does having a laptop that boots straight into a browser without showing anything lower level than that really count as Linux? Does it really make me a Linux user? That's the attitude that keeps Year of the Linux [whatever] from ha
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by bittermang 9y ago
I used to work in Amazon Seller Support. It's a complicated issue when you build a platform for selling things, and then let anyone in the world use it without any training whatsoever. You got a lot of sellers coming over from sites li
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by bittermang 10y ago
I wouldn't say this is exclusive to robots or new. Many machines, like cars, are referred to with a feminine persona: she's really humming (in reference to an engine), come on old girl. See also the many boats throughout history w
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by bittermang 11y ago
The problem is the Linux based boot loader that circumvents Windows Activation Technology. I am convinced that -- and that alone -- is why we live with UEFI.
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by bittermang 11y ago
One of the simple reasons: because they can. One of the biggest reasons a lot of people missed about the early days of WoW and the record high subscriber counts, too. 15 million people worldwide played World of Warcraft, because 15 million
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by bittermang 11y ago
I really expected this as well. In my mind, there is never any justification. My time is worth the world to me, and so if you would like me to dedicate it to your task, that is going to cost you. You never, EVER work for free. Not even for
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by bittermang 12y ago
There's always a single point of failure. The user.
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by bittermang 12y ago
You get to go. Entry is the hardest part. Weather or not you want to go, can go, travel, logistics, boarding. Sure. But you're allowed in the door. You get a golden ticket if you want one. It's free, and your birthright by being a
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by bittermang 12y ago
And, just like undertaking a startup is not for everyone, going indie is not an option for many people coming from the AAA world. They may not have all of the pieces among themselves and their associates to actually ship something, let alon
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by bittermang 12y ago
I paint a bright picture, because as has been pointed out, it's the dream. It was mine in the third grade. I had decided at that young age that I had spent so much time already playing games, that I should work toward that industry. I
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by bittermang 12y ago
Every muscle pulls the weight. There's a joy in seeing your work inside of a world. Knowing that, in the sum of parts that is the entire game experience, you made that potted plant. Or you decided it goes right there. Or you wrote the
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by bittermang 12y ago
Specifically, how Hollywood has a writers guild, an actors guild. Games could see an artists union, a programmers union, a game design union.
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by bittermang 12y ago
"Layoffs aren't a problem." They are _the_ problem. See Dead Space's decline until it was given the ax. See the constant eb and tide of Need for Speed, as they play developer hot potato with the title. See the rambling i
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by bittermang 12y ago
I have not encountered any. With all of the Hollywood Accounting that goes on at the publisher level to ensure a development team gets fucked out of as many royalties as possible, there is a lot the games industry could learn from the Union
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by bittermang 12y ago
This cannot be overstated. You really do get the shaft to live out your dream. The only people making the real money are the ones deciding who gets laid off.
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by bittermang 12y ago
Spoken like a person who has never so much as sniffed what the world is like in "AAA Game Development". Imagine what a product like Facebook or Mac OS would look like, if after every major release, 2/3rds or the entire team w
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by bittermang 12y ago
"US Black Vernacular / Ebonics" is the exact phrase used. Which I also received.
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by bittermang 12y ago
School did. When I was a very young boy, 2 or 3, my parents did everything in their power to ensure I could read. They would read books to me, I would read books to them. It is the very reason I am so well spoken and intelligent to this ver
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by bittermang 12y ago
And yet despite it having no legs, here it is doing real damage to real people trying to sell real products they designed, while spending their real resources to fight this obviously toothless claim in the courts. This is one of the many re
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by bittermang 12y ago
One of the most amazing quarks of the American legal system is how you can rescind, revoke, and give away your rights which are protected by that very same legal system, and it's all perfectly legal to do so.

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