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Beet Wagon posted:Man I mean I'll fully admit I don't know a whole lot about HR, but I gotta say I think if I were trying to get people to come work for my video games company I'd probably start somewhere other than "we have a cool coffee maker (and you have to make your own loving latte)" 
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Megalobster posted:"Work well in a cooperative environment" being said twice in the skills section after they corrected it once already, because some randoTwitter noticed that their offer's deadline was in June. CI not G professionalism never disappoint. I sort of wonder if it's code for "Won't quit when Crobearts yells about impossible things after you've worked 100 hours that week"
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Hav posted:They started the year with a hundred (100) positions to fill (Edit: In *January*) after the Calders windfall, and one of the things that I pointed out is that it's really quite hard to fill positions, especially if the industry is becoming aware of you. 
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Agony Aunt posted:I'd apply, but apparently i know nothing about software development. That's okay, you'll fit perfectly with the dorks at CI(not)G.
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Why exactly did they rename "Janitor" to "Day Porter"
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eXXon posted:No, Demon's Souls had a world 'tendency' that got darker (meaning harder enemies) every time you died. The first level also had an enemy that could kill you in one hit - not hidden or anything, just there if you chose to turn left after crossing a bridge instead of the literal right way. It was a sadistic piece of poo poo game. Ah, must just be Dark Souls then.
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Pixelate posted:FEMALE CHARACTER MODEL SWITCHES TO MALE WHILE IN GAME Star Citizen: Female character should remain female
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Bubbacub posted:Star Citizen: Female character should remain female I see the patriarchy's heteronormative agenda is still alive and well in the depths of gaming. SoftNum posted:I sort of wonder if it's code for "Won't quit when Crobearts yells about impossible things after you've worked 100 hours that week" More like, 'if the manager is working the weekend, you're expected to work the weekend'. There's a huge difference between the UK work ethic and that of different parts of America. The UK and New York share a similar pace, while here in the south we start shading to slightly wider margins on deadlines. Younger employees tend to get pushed into longer hours simply because they don't know (or lack seniority/experience/knowing where the bodies are buried).
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Star Citizen broke my heart. All I wanted was Freelancer 2, not a 7-year Alpha pyramid scheme (ashamed owner of the 300i something or other). At least there’s this - Diablo 2... in space: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rockfishgames/everspace-2/description The best part is, if successful, both Everspace 1 and 2 will have launched within the Star Citizen development cycle 
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Thom12255 posted:No cats in the CIG office? Does CIG strike you as the kind of place to pay any taxx?
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Thoatse posted:lmao Yikes, that's a pretty rough one. Aren't these supposed to be given to kids? Prison rape resulting in AIDS seems a bit much. I'm not entirely clear on why the cop is undercover as one of the Village People but I don't understand tract development so that's probably it.
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Thom12255 posted:No cats in the CIG office? Can't trust the Kzin... erm, Kilrathi's relatives.
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Aesaar posted:My favorite bit about that is that he claims he wants death to mean something in this non-game, and to reinforce the point, he cites a game series in which death means almost nothing. There's almost no cost to dying in Souls games. That's the central conceit of the series. Every time you die, you're almost certainly still better off than when you started, and the only way you lose is by giving up. Dork Souls
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Hav posted:I see the patriarchy's heteronormative agenda is still alive and well in the depths of gaming. I've heard many times of americans being shocked with UK working conditions. 4 weeks paid holiday, additional sick days, "sickies" (everyone pulls one or two a year), and of course, the traditional 2 hour long Friday pub lunch (or as it was in my case, the Monday to Friday 2 hour long pub lunch).
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Fidelitious posted:Yikes, that's a pretty rough one. Aren't these supposed to be given to kids? Prison rape resulting in AIDS seems a bit much. The inevitable consequences of Chic Tracts
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eXXon posted:No, Demon's Souls had a world 'tendency' that got darker (meaning harder enemies) every time you died. The first level also had an enemy that could kill you in one hit - not hidden or anything, just there if you chose to turn left after crossing a bridge instead of the literal right way. It was a sadistic piece of poo poo game. I especially loathed those stupid crystal lizards that spawned once in a playthrough and had some random damage resistance, requiring a very specific strategy to kill them. That meant you either cheated and read a wiki ahead of the encounter, re-rolled or tried again in NG. Come to think of it... it's perfect for Star Citizen. I hope CR manages to implement it, but that seems like a longshot at this point. JugbandDude fucked around with this message at 18:35 on Oct 31, 2019 |
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Hav posted:I see the patriarchy's heteronormative agenda is still alive and well in the depths of gaming. I also constantly question if "excellent English" is UK for "Whites only" because of course it would be.
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Well, RIP the entire MMO genre I guess
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HO YES ! The doom's blog will be worth quoting I'm sure.
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eXXon posted:No, Demon's Souls had a world 'tendency' that got darker (meaning harder enemies) every time you died. The first level also had an enemy that could kill you in one hit - not hidden or anything, just there if you chose to turn left after crossing a bridge instead of the literal right way. It was a sadistic piece of poo poo game. Demon Souls is both a hard game and a game where death means nothing. Both the story and the gameplay are based around that idea: you're an invincible immortal dude that can only be beaten by making you give up. The game expects you to die over and over but death is meaningless in the long run, as long as you keep on trucking you either get lucky, git gud, or get powerful. Your final victory is a given. Of course, unless your talking about roguelikes or hardcore modes, death is mostly a non issue in most games but the soul series goes the the extra mile and makes the continue button part of the setting. trucutru fucked around with this message at 19:07 on Oct 31, 2019 |
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Well, RIP the entire MMO genre I guess Lethality and his 4k followers are about to destroy the genre.
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Haven't most of the projects he's backed or gets behind failed or are in the process of failing? His endorsement is the touch of death.
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:Haven't most of the projects he's backed or gets behind failed or are in the process of failing? His endorsement is the touch of death. the game has to be niche enough that he can be a big man in the game and feel important in something. That rules out any game that is popular or any games that are likely to succeed and have an early strong backing.
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Ahdinko posted:In Derby that is solid money. In Wilmslow it is poo poo because its quite an affluent area, but if you live in the cheaper areas outside of Wilmslow, it's probably not too bad. No kidding, I just moved from Derby and I am selling what is, frankly, one of the best flats/apartments in the city. It is a four year old new build right in the city center, opposite the cathedral, underground parking, a balcony overlooking the river next to a park. I am selling it for £175,000 and that is a lot more than I originally paid for it. I was living there on about £45,000 a year and Derby is so cheap to live in that I had a disposable income of well over a thousand a month. Derby is one of the most affordable places to live in the country and 60K there would have you on the same salary as say, a senior manager at Rolls Royce leading a 15+ strong team of engineers with masters degrees. (Of course a grade 15 manager at RR would be getting 6 weeks of holiday a year, up to 3 years of fully paid sick leave and the company required to give nine months notice to sack them. Holy poo poo their contracts are good). Also since it is Halloween, here is my spooky cat tax. She breaks mugs then poses like this, scary stuff: 
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Thom12255 posted:No cats in the CIG office? They are probably afraid that the cats would start editing config files and break everything  style
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SoftNum posted:I also constantly question if "excellent English" is UK for "Whites only" because of course it would be. What you talkin bout Willis?
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In recent news, Blizzard took a page from CIG and relied on gamers' understanding of how e-sports prize pools usually work to mislead them into accidentally crowdfunding the entire prize pool, contributing none of their own money and in fact keeping the extra. All technically allowed because of the CIG-quality defense of "that's not what we technically said. Technically we're covered." Chris Roberts has been saving PC gaming for so many years now I almost can't remember a time before once beloved game development powerhouses all started turning the corner into predatory macro-transaction hellholes.
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Dementropy posted:MMORPG: Star Citizen Free Fly Event Going On Now Blobers is there though. Also from the thread: quote:Quick little fun fact: 
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Kickstarter projects backed by Lethality (c. September 2018)
Just for funsies: Camelot Unchained is technically in alpha, and is something on the order of four years late. the latest update talks about 6 engineers looking at pathfinding code. Ashes is dead afaik. Elyria is still vaoprware but realistically it's only been 3 years. OFC that's still 2 years late but. Crowfall seems to exist? It's like 4 or 5 years late but maybe there will be a game? Repopulation apparently dumped poo poo alpha out the door in 2016 and nobody has heard from them since. You can go buy it EA on steam. TUG was abandoned in 2017 and became a chinese mobile game. Embers is SUPER dead. like they don't even own the domain for the last 5 years dead.
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Agony Aunt posted:RIP all those games. https://twitter.com/real_lethality/status/977222663025381376 https://twitter.com/real_lethality/status/965789739835101184 https://twitter.com/real_lethality/status/969762755396931584 https://twitter.com/real_lethality/status/997810148612739073 Eurogamer: Another SpatialOS game's been canned, making it the third this year - Lazarus' cancellation follows Mavericks: Proving Grounds and Worlds Adrift
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SoftNum posted:Kickstarter projects backed by Lethality (c. September 2018) Wow, some of the comments on those Kickstarter pages... it's like a thousand Fox Mulders all got together and started chanting "I want to believe..." The future of Store Citizer right there folks.
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