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by failrate 8y ago
@fabien thank you so much for this. I was half-expecting one of your usual dissection of the architecture, but I dont want anythibg coming between you and the release of your Doom book, which I plan on buying at least 2 copies.
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by failrate 8y ago
I see, it's yet another marketing campaign by Big Shit.
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by failrate 8y ago
Theoretically, the quality of work per hour goes up. More than half of the observed workday in my experience is taken up with chitchat and other bullshit.
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by failrate 8y ago
Oddly, it didn't censor "leveraging".
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by failrate 8y ago
Well, they will have made it in a few decades, but you can preorder it now, and they'll send one back to you before you preordered.
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by failrate 8y ago
Ugh, the company toys and bullshit. I market my team to candidates by saying that we don't have any of that garbage. HR is the most critical part of a corporation, but I've never worked anywhere that seemed to treat it seriously.
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by failrate 8y ago
Well, I will now .
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by failrate 8y ago
Awesome. My boy and I were talking about liquefaction and phase solids last night when he was showing me how the sea salt behaves as a solid in the shaker (humid here) until he bangs on thr glass.
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by failrate 8y ago
Anecdotal. History of alcoholism and other fun stuff in the family, so maybe I'm trying to gussy up the truth.
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by failrate 8y ago
When taking a heroic dose of a psychoactive substance, you really need a guide to keep you from going off the rails.
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by failrate 8y ago
A personality type exists that can be addicted to literally anything. I have this type. It feels like an OCD and is triggered by high stress. My theory is that for some people, it will manifest as pharmaceutical addiction, others sex or vid
432.
by failrate 8y ago
Feels like an intense version of Drivey.
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by failrate 8y ago
It should also be standard practice that a person's promotion is accompanied by expectation setting and training. Otherwise, no one could ever grow out of their current shell.
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by failrate 8y ago
Organicity in abstract strategy games may be defined as “the degree to which a game’s behaviour may be perceived as organic, or ‘life like'”.
435.
by failrate 8y ago
My grandma had one of these in the den near the pool table.
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by failrate 8y ago
It is my new band name.
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by failrate 8y ago
I see contemporary radical relativism as being inevitable.
438.
by failrate 8y ago
Yes, that is accurate.
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by failrate 8y ago
Um, I was a developer on PlanetSide 2, and we had zones that supported over a thousand concurrent players. It remains a problem only of having experienced developers analyzing the problem and iterating on solutions until you've reache
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by failrate 8y ago
I have an enormous TV, stereo system, luxurious couch, and a popcorn machine. It is rare that a film in the theater outperforms my home experience. Even the very nice Angelika theater is nice by dint of replicating my home couch experience.
441.
by failrate 8y ago
Omg, do you remember the milk boiled in electric kettle incident? That's the only time I've seen something get posted to Workplace and then have follow up questions go to (iirc) Interpersonal Skills and then Physics.
442.
by failrate 9y ago
Is it a cliche if it's true? The difference between some slapped together product and one that feels decent is layer after layer of detail and polish. Long after you feel that you've put forth a reasonable effort, you still have
443.
by failrate 9y ago
Sure, you could probably keep some spare pooches in an underground mausoleum until you needed them. It was probably the world's first crypt dog currency.
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by failrate 9y ago
I've found that the polish step is necessary no matter what engine you use, or even if you roll your own.
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by failrate 9y ago
Don't forget that Night Dive already has a back catalogue of games rescued from obscurity that they sell on Steam and GOG.
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by failrate 9y ago
If you want this history straight from Sid Meier's mouth, Soren Johnson's excellent podcast "Designer Notes" has a 4 part interview with the man: https://www.idlethumbs.net/designernotes/episodes&#x2
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by failrate 9y ago
I was thinking along the lines of ink that would degrade less under light exposure.
448.
by failrate 9y ago
He is still out there plugging away. Looks like updated ports of old games to the Nintendo Switch.
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by failrate 9y ago
I feel strongly that we should stop using jobs as a metric of the value of human worth. If every job disappeared today due to automation, we would need to find a new role in the world. I think we should start looking for it now before that
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by failrate 9y ago
That definitely sounds like Tinder to me.

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