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It seems to me that even before those considerations, the interactive nature of games makes it harder to write a good story for it. Most great books/movies have a carefully and specifically crafted experience to get a story across. Of course there's also opportunity there to create something new and original, but it's an area that's much less developed than story creation in books/movies. Most game stories that play with the interactive nature seem to mostly be trying to hide the fact that your choices mostly don't matter rather than creating a wildly branching story with alternate paths. Which is also logical - even just 3 binary choices ends with 8 different paths, and writing an amazing storyline only to have a fraction of players actually experience it (1/8th of the players that actually finish the game, which isn't that many to begin with) is probably not a great use of good writing skills. Caveat: I have no experience with this, it's just what seems logical to me after thinking about it a bunch. Maybe someone who knows what they're talking about can correct me/elaborate?
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There's no hacking involved. Just start up an invincible chess computer, copy your opponent's moves into it and play back the moves it does in your online game.
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Another thing to consider is whether you're doing a long term contract, where you have a multiple month long stretch of guaranteed income, or short term work where you generally have to deal with more downtime. Short term work pays better per hour. I live in the Netherlands so the math is different, but the concept is the same, you have to cover a bunch of additional costs/insurance yourself so you need to charge a higher rate as a contractor to pay for those things. Also, since I live in a socialist hellhole, we have pretty strong worker rights and a company can't just end our employment at will, so there's additional security in being an employee, the absence of which in a contractor job should be reflected in a contractor rate (that's what I feel at least). But similarly to some other stories posted here, I too have had a company offer to hire me as a contractor in lieu of regular employment and act all surprised when I expected a higher rate than the salary of an employee. I was already employed elsewhere at said salary, there was no more work for me there on that project, but as I said, they couldn't just fire me at will and I wasn't going to just leave and take a haircut elsewhere. When I refused they went back to regular employment, but they wanted part of my pay to be a bonus based on performance, with the bonus taking me back to my original pay. I'm fine with a bonus, but if I'm sacrificing $X pay and getting a bonus instead achieving the bonus should give me more than $X. Also, they wouldn't contribute to a retirement fund which my existing job did, but tried to spin that as a positive for me by telling me "but you won't have to contribute yourself either so this actually means you'll have more money". I'm not sure whether they were delusional or just trying to con me but either way I had no desire to work there whatsoever. During the whole process I kept telling them I had an existing contract that I was looking to match and they kept trying to undercut it. I ended up moving to another division of the company I was already working at who just matched my existing contract to the letter, without me even having to ask them to.
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Big K of Justice posted:I'll say this COVID rendered a bunch of old practices kinda moot. I'm looking forward to WFH forever at this point, I'll just have to make sure I have a dedicated room and sufficient internet. I already have a coworker railing against WFH with the argument that it's not possible to police your staff to a satisfactory amount. I had a coworker with similar opinions at my last job. Somehow both these people are just regular non-management workers whose work is 0% affected by the coworkers whose productivity they are worried about.
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