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Sillybones
Aug 10, 2013

go away,
spooky skeleton,
go away

Ash1138 posted:

ignoring the first four requirements, some of which i think are mutually exclusive, who gives a gently caress if your backend programmer cares at all about space or science fiction?

Translation: Willing to put up with the worst job possible, underpaid... For the Dream

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The Kins
Oct 2, 2004

Sillybones posted:

Ignoring the newest releases, you could buy every game ever made that is still available and have change left over with the stupid money people put into this non-game.
But why would you ever need to buy and play another game, ever, when Star Citizen is here and among us and 100% playable?

Bofast
Feb 21, 2011

Grimey Drawer

Richie Stardust posted:

I'm going for it, I just started understanding arrays.

Future CIG lead of networking spotted!

Nanako the Narc
Sep 6, 2011

Taintrunner posted:

I started playing Nier: Automata again and finished the first route, they do some really crazy stuff in Route B. If you’re trying to figure out your rotation for the holiday season, put that at the top of your list for sure.

I bought a bunch of Gundam model kits and sprays and am gonna do a bunch of painting, five bucks says I finish my backlog before 3.0 drops.


Almost as if Chris Roberts is a hack fraud!

Oh, you have such sights to see and emotions to feel after Route B, friend :allears:.

Erenthal
Jan 1, 2008

A relaxing walk in the woods
Grimey Drawer

Latin Pheonix posted:

Oh, you have such sights to see and emotions to feel after Route B, friend :allears:.

Yeah, Nier: Automata is loving crazy good. Just when you think the story can't go anywhere further, that this is as good as it gets, it just turns around and smacks you in the face with something even more incredible.

Nanako the Narc
Sep 6, 2011

Erenthal posted:

Yeah, Nier: Automata is loving crazy good. Just when you think the story can't go anywhere further, that this is as good as it gets, it just turns around and smacks you in the face with something even more incredible.

I'm not going to post spoilers in this thread, but there were some moments that really did surprise me and made me re-evaluate everything that had happened in the game. Yoko Taro does seem to know when to deliver a gut punch at exactly the right time.

tooterfish
Jul 13, 2013

Ash1138 posted:

ignoring the first four requirements, some of which i think are mutually exclusive, who gives a gently caress if your backend programmer cares at all about space or science fiction?
The packets have to be sufficiently spacey, otherwise it ruins people's immersion.

Erenthal
Jan 1, 2008

A relaxing walk in the woods
Grimey Drawer

Latin Pheonix posted:

Yoko Taro does seem to know when to deliver a gut punch at exactly the right time.

I heard that he learned from the best, aka Chris Roberts. If you thought Nier:A was a story based tour de force, just wait until we all get to experience the sublime writing of SQ42.

Nanako the Narc
Sep 6, 2011

SomethingJones posted:

Good news everyone, CIG have just started advertising for a backend server MMO programmer to work on their exciting PC space combat sim, Star Citizen!
https://cloudimperiumgames.com/jobs/619-Gameplay-Engineer-Service-Backend



• Online game and/or MMO development experience, ideally including interfacing with backend server code.

• One or more shipped products, especially PC products.
• CryEngine/Lumberyard development experience.
• Space combat sim development experience. e - (they need someone who has done this before to do stuff that's never been done before)
• Passion for science fiction and space exploration

This exciting new role takes the number of published vacancies to 64, the highest it's been since March 2016.

Oh I bet they have network engineers who are specialised with both MMO development and CryEngine/Lumberyard queuing around the block.

D_Smart
May 11, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
College Slice

SomethingJones posted:

Good news everyone, CIG have just started advertising for a backend server MMO programmer to work on their exciting PC space combat sim, Star Citizen!
https://cloudimperiumgames.com/jobs/619-Gameplay-Engineer-Service-Backend



• Online game and/or MMO development experience, ideally including interfacing with backend server code.

• One or more shipped products, especially PC products.
• CryEngine/Lumberyard development experience.
• Space combat sim development experience. e - (they need someone who has done this before to do stuff that's never been done before)
• Passion for science fiction and space exploration

This exciting new role takes the number of published vacancies to 64, the highest it's been since March 2016.

:allears:

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D_Smart
May 11, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
College Slice

Tokamak posted:

quote:

SomethingJones posted:
https://cloudimperiumgames.com/jobs...Service-Backend

• Online game and/or MMO development experience, ideally including interfacing with backend server code.
• One or more shipped products, especially PC products.
• CryEngine/Lumberyard development experience.
• Space combat sim development experience.
• Passion for science fiction and space exploration
This person doesn't exist

No, he/she does not.

I think I am pretty close to this. Though I have zero LumberYard experience, I am very familiar with CryEngine though.

I haven't had a resume since Carter was POTUS, but I wonder if I should put one together and send it in to see how long I can troll them for. They would probably take one look at it, and burn the computer they read it from :laffo:

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D_Smart
May 11, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
College Slice

TheAgent posted:

lol at them being at $23m for this year, current estimates put them below $30m total for the year, which would be an absolute fuckin disaster

things, things ain't lookin too good for the roberts boys

Well they still have the anniversary sale coming up.

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D_Smart
May 11, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
College Slice

Richie Stardust posted:

I'm going for it, I just started understanding arrays.

Perfect! You'll get hired. Maybe they will let you fix the doors and stairs, as part of the initiation test.

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Virtual Captain
Feb 20, 2017

Archive Priest of the Stimperial Order

Star Citizen Good, in all things forevermore. Amen.
:pray:

D_Smart posted:

I think I am pretty close to this. Though I have zero LumberYard experience, I am very familiar with CryEngine though.

I haven't had a resume since Carter was POTUS, but I wonder if I should put one together and send it in to see how long I can troll them for.

:five:

Golli
Jan 5, 2013



D_Smart posted:


I haven't had a resume since Carter was POTUS, but I wonder if I should put one together and send it in to see how long I can troll them for. They would probably take one look at it, and burn the computer they read it from :laffo:

When they ask for references, send them a link to your blog

D_Smart
May 11, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
College Slice

Golli posted:

When they ask for references, send them a link to your blog

:perfect:

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Combat Theory
Jul 16, 2017

Golli posted:

When they ask for references, send them a link to your blog

:drat:

Redundant
Sep 24, 2011

Even robots have feelings!
I can't wait for Reddit-bot to post the screenshots of citizens talking about Derek Smart begging for a job at CIG. It will be peak :smug:

Combat Theory
Jul 16, 2017

I think this flew below the thread radar.



3.0 ready soon? Eh maybe we throw in star map 2.0 before it releases (bonus points if you try to find starmap 2.0 on the schedule report)

Slow_Moe
Feb 18, 2013

Erenthal posted:

I heard that he learned from the best, aka Chris Roberts. If you thought Nier:A was a story based tour de force, just wait until we all get to experience the sublime writing of SQ42.

Chris Roberts played Nier:Automata and got ending [R]oberts. It's the one where you decide to not save PC gaming and instead fucks off to do a bunch of mocap.

MedicineHut
Feb 25, 2016

Dusty Lens posted:

There's a real fascination there for showing pictures of people working through weekends or late into the night.

Setting up the narrative for the “At least we tried”.

Astroniomix
Apr 24, 2015



Slow_Moe posted:

Chris Roberts played Nier:Automata and got ending [R]oberts. It's the one where you decide to not save PC gaming and instead fucks off to do a bunch of mocap.

This is actually an option in the game.

Cao Ni Ma
May 25, 2010



MedicineHut posted:

Setting up the narrative for the “At least we tried”.

Where's the list of production fallacies, one which says "Working hard is not the same as making progress" cause right now CIG has been stuck in crunch for 2 years and spinning their wheels endlessly

stinch
Nov 21, 2013

Tokamak posted:

This person doesn't exist

you might be surprised. one of the ED devs might have worked on a cryengine game in the past.

Quavers
Feb 26, 2016

You clearly don't understand game development

stinch posted:

you might be surprised. one of the ED devs might have worked on a cryengine game in the past.

One of the devs who worked on Goat Simulator Waste Of Space should apply.

"what can you bring to Star Citizen?"

"less janky physics"

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.


I hope Star Citizen gets this.

Abuminable
Mar 30, 2017

Now, aside from the Abuminable, business goes on as usual.

SelenicMartian posted:

I hope Star Citizen gets this.

Impossible: Sandi hath forbidden revealing attire like that. Female dress should be styled like so:

XK
Jul 9, 2001

Star Citizen is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it's fidelity when you look out your window or when you watch youtube

SelenicMartian posted:

I hope Star Citizen gets this.

I can only deal with one scammy kickstarter at a time, my friend.

Isn't there supposed to be a crossbow, and some other thing, cross promoting between these two?

Up to 10% of their share of the purchase price will be donated to the charity.

"Look for the virtue symbol."

:lol:

I want that "good breast health".

shrach
Jan 10, 2004

daylight ssssaving time
Today's accounting error/mistake

3.) Debits and Credits.

Knowing your debits from your credits may be hard for your first week but this should become pretty ingrained as part of the core of double-entry bookkeeping.

It's pretty simple. A credit in the profit and loss account is a "good" thing, it increases profit. The corresponding debit in your balance sheet is a "good" thing, it will represent an asset. So a debit value in your profit and loss account will be a "bad" thing that reduces your profit and the corresponding credit in your balance sheet is a "bad" thing that will represent a liability.

So if you make a foreign currency exchange gain, it should be apparent that it will be a "good" thing in your profit and loss account that increases your profit. Thus a credit balance.

So here, you can see the wording is correct in the 2015 RSI accounts. In 2016 someone just had to add "(gains)/." to the line where it says, "Exchange losses". Instead they added brackets around the word losses and then added in the gains/ without brackets. This is painful to see because of both how basic the error is and how they had to go out of their way to make the error. I included the line from the CIG UK Ltd 2016 (group) accounts just to show it is possible to get this correct.



This has no real numerical impact but this is building on the narrative about the quality of the preparation of the 2016 RSI accounts, which is some foreshadowing.

Thoatse
Feb 29, 2016

Lol said the scorpion, lmao

Mr.Tophat posted:

I'm gunna skip 1000 posts because my attention span is in limited supply and I could only buy one attention span, I doubt they have any more in stock now


The only time I've heard, "Sparky" is from Aladdin, where genie is impersonating Nicholson as he gives dating advice to Al, "Alright Sparky, here's the deal..." How is it meant as an insult or a put down?


Sorry to dox you like this but here we are

Thoatse
Feb 29, 2016

Lol said the scorpion, lmao
https://i.imgur.com/fKwMjVl.gifv

Abuminable
Mar 30, 2017

Now, aside from the Abuminable, business goes on as usual.

Poor cat was born thinking it's a fish.

Jobbo_Fett
Mar 7, 2014

Slava Ukrayini

Clapping Larry

SelenicMartian posted:

I hope Star Citizen gets this.

UP TO 10% or as low as 0%, basically.

SomethingJones
Mar 6, 2016

<3

Truga posted:



totally normal day at work

There's the toilet roll again, beside his right arm

What's with all the toilet rolls in the company tweets and videos?

Mirificus
Oct 29, 2004

Kings need not raise their voices to be heard

Beet Wagon posted:

Anybody share this yet? Some interesting quotes from Crobberts out of this interview posted yesterday

http://www.mcvuk.com/articles/development/star-citizens-chris-roberts-talks-community-development-recruitment-and-rel







Mirificus fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Nov 5, 2017

The Kins
Oct 2, 2004

SomethingJones posted:

There's the toilet roll again, beside his right arm

What's with all the toilet rolls in the company tweets and videos?
Do you really think their minuscule $163 million budget can spare a few bucks for some coasters?

Thoatse
Feb 29, 2016

Lol said the scorpion, lmao

SomethingJones posted:

There's the toilet roll again, beside his right arm

What's with all the toilet rolls in the company tweets and videos?


Employees have to bring their own if they don't want to use the single ply company supplied sandpaper

Solarin
Nov 15, 2007

SomethingJones posted:

There's the toilet roll again, beside his right arm

What's with all the toilet rolls in the company tweets and videos?

Solarin
Nov 15, 2007

credit to pgabz for procuring that real life process documentation from CIG

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Solarin
Nov 15, 2007

shrach posted:

Today's accounting error/mistake

3.) Debits and Credits.

Knowing your debits from your credits may be hard for your first week but this should become pretty ingrained as part of the core of double-entry bookkeeping.

It's pretty simple. A credit in the profit and loss account is a "good" thing, it increases profit. The corresponding debit in your balance sheet is a "good" thing, it will represent an asset. So a debit value in your profit and loss account will be a "bad" thing that reduces your profit and the corresponding credit in your balance sheet is a "bad" thing that will represent a liability.

So if you make a foreign currency exchange gain, it should be apparent that it will be a "good" thing in your profit and loss account that increases your profit. Thus a credit balance.

So here, you can see the wording is correct in the 2015 RSI accounts. In 2016 someone just had to add "(gains)/." to the line where it says, "Exchange losses". Instead they added brackets around the word losses and then added in the gains/ without brackets. This is painful to see because of both how basic the error is and how they had to go out of their way to make the error. I included the line from the CIG UK Ltd 2016 (group) accounts just to show it is possible to get this correct.



This has no real numerical impact but this is building on the narrative about the quality of the preparation of the 2016 RSI accounts, which is some foreshadowing.

you don't understand parentheses development

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