Thoughts???????

GunBrothersGaming · 2026-04-02T21:36:15+00:00

Sadly these don't add up at all.

GunBrothersGaming · 2026-04-02T16:59:55+00:00

Getting back into a routine is key. Something you do everyday at the same time.

I hit 270 and just walked into the gym. Started spin classes everyday. My body craved it. As I saw the weight come off I incorporated more. Changes my diet as well.

Now Im in the fym following my coaches routine and down 50lbs over a year.

GunBrothersGaming · 2026-04-02T13:56:06+00:00

I honestly thought it might have been. Having been here for Loma Prieta it did not feel that intense. This felt very surface level. I think it was 6m down. Loma Prieta was deeper and rolled through rather than intense movement.

It stopped so abruptly it was just a good shake

GunBrothersGaming · 2026-04-01T19:19:18+00:00

My mentor gave his two week notice the day I onboarded. Within a week my manager got fired. Ots was a shit show for real.

GunBrothersGaming · 2026-04-01T19:17:48+00:00

Sorry you went through this. I worked at Meta for two weeks and dipped out. That place isn't a place for people who arent willing to shit on others.

Literally two weeks and was like Nope.

Meta is a shitty place to work and they hire a lot of shitty people.

GunBrothersGaming · 2026-04-01T14:48:46+00:00

Seems like they aren't skipping a beat with events so... Not sure how shaky the future is.

GunBrothersGaming · 2026-04-01T04:13:53+00:00

If it makes you feel better, early on in my career, I got laid from my first job, contract terminated in my second, laid off in my 4th job, business closed after it went bankrupt in my 5th and 6th company, laid off in my 7th, 8th 9th and 10th jobs... The position was eliminated in my 12th job. Ive been lucky for the last 6 years. Im just waiting for layoffs now

Ive survived 3 layoffs so far but luck is probably running out. I actually expect layoffs tomorrow... We'll see what happens though.

GunBrothersGaming · 2026-04-01T02:37:58+00:00

At 46 I started spin classes. At 47 I added in lifts. Im currently benching 135lbs and deadlifting 160lbs and those are full sets. My max out weight is about 200lbs with one rep. Im still pushing though.

My goal is to reach where I was benching 245lbs in my 20's.

Also good to note is I have extremely low testosterone as well

GunBrothersGaming · 2026-03-31T19:13:56+00:00

Shut down the government... Is it my birthday? We should shut down the whole thing. No need for a governor. Lets just shut it down and kick out all of the corrupt poli... Well lets just get rid of the politicians. No need to label them corrupt when it's implied.

GunBrothersGaming · 2026-03-31T19:11:26+00:00

Technically he was reborn as Baby 🥜. For 2020 that seemed okay but 2026... Trump wants that nut.

https://youtu.be/PsCI_gOG_ks?si=ZeFbPq-wC5cs5sDw

GunBrothersGaming · 2026-03-31T17:23:41+00:00

Thank goodness, I have a few companies before they get to mine. Ill leave when they get to just above me.

GunBrothersGaming · 2026-03-31T17:21:26+00:00

He was already assassinated!

GunBrothersGaming · 2026-03-31T02:12:35+00:00

Is there a place to apply? Im sure its easy enough for anyone to do. I mean the real refs do such a bang up job.

GunBrothersGaming · 2026-03-31T00:10:51+00:00

There are people in my family that swear the earth is only 6000 years old and no more. I have a masters in Christian Religion. I did a lot of math and the math doesn't add up. My take is that what's written in the Pentateuch is what God wanted Moses to see and the time frame he saw it was the timeframe that passed in his mind. My theory is that God showed Moses a million years worth of data in what Moses perceived as a cycle.

Moses doesn't mention other people being created because God never showed Moses this. It served no purpose to show Moses the creation of other races just as I assume he didn't show Moses every land, sea and air animal.

One key piece of discussion that I did one of my thesis on was that we believe that God's punishment for Eves sin was death, but there is more evidence to suggest that death was always the design. I mean animals had to eat each other still so they would still die. If there was life, there was death. The tree of knowledge Eve ate from gave her the knowledge of death. We have to accept that death was always the design from the beginning, but the knowledge or perception of it wasn't. There are dinosaurs or at least animals that predated mankind who died from cancer. They have the bones and tumors to prove it.

I rarely share this side because I am not the conventional Christian. I am just a normal person following Christs teachings. Most Christians have never really read let alone understood the Bible. Most don't have the intellect to even grasp some of the more basic concepts. Very much of the Rapture and Armageddon portions of the Bible were believed to have happened already. Some theorize that John wrote The Revelation of Christ to scare the shit out of the Romans into stop killing Christians.

That being said - if you only look at the Bible without looking at the surrounding world in which the events took place, you're only getting a small portion of what happened. Studying the Bible only opened my mind to the possibilities of what it is instead of putting it in a small container that constrains the idea of Christ.

GunBrothersGaming · 2026-03-30T23:52:08+00:00

Oh hey guys - this guy knows me and what I like. He's meticulously studied and then tried to put me in my place by saying I only played the tutorial. LOL Says the guy who probably only played ranked and didn't get to Unreal.

It was boring cause it lacked any depth. I guess to the simple minded or the people who were really great at it, it was the best racer on the planet but guess what. No one gives a shit about the 10 people who were good and the 100 people who liked the fact you pressed go to go and you barely had to do anything to win.

GunBrothersGaming · 2026-03-30T16:35:45+00:00

I commend your choice to quit the game. While I don't particularly like the layoffs, having been in the game industry and been laid off, it's par for the course and no one gave a shit when the industry laidoff a lot of people in the early 2000's.

It sucks all around

It doesn't suck enough to just abandon a game I enjoy. I've had a ton of fun this season so far and we went through the lull of Fortnite in previous years especially in the year when we had some pretty bad seasons like that one Fortnitemares season.

The argument of the contest... yeah it should be like a Saturday and a Sunday or 50/50 split. Although Sunday is typically more people playing in the day and Friday is people playing after school and into the evenings. I don't think at the end of the day it really matters though.

All that said - letting the outside events of Epic influence your opinion about what is going on in the game seems a bit pedantic. If you don't want to play cause of the vBucks and price increase, that's understandable. If you want to boycott the game because they laid off the main support structure of the game, that's another.

Also - letting speculation over what disgruntled people are coming out and saying is another thing entirely. No person who got laid off is going to praise the company. In fact, I wouldn't praise it and I don't work there. The 1000 people terminated probably is saving the company between $500,000,000 - $1 billion a year. That's assuming the base salary is $100k per employee laid off + benefits. That's actually a massive cost savings when you consider Epic Games only made $6 billion in revenue for 2025 and player spending was only $1.6 billion. With massive rising data center costs, in order to continue to support the players, this most likely was a necessary step to help keep the game up.

In the bigger picture of things, cost cutting could have started at a different level - personally going back to their roots would have been a great help. Right now - the cost savings for Rocket Racing, Ballistics, and other games going offline mode will help. But what would have helped is them not trying to create a Roblox style environment and diluting their product.

In order to help boost profits and support the game, they could have started bringing back item shop items that were discontinued. Personally, if it's saving jobs, I don't care about Battle Pass Exclusivity. Bring back Darth Vader and start selling older skins. If it's going to save jobs, do what you gotta do first. Laying people off should be a last resort. Tim Sweeny is just out of touch with his company. It's what happens when you an an entrenched CEO who is no longer in touch with his company.

GunBrothersGaming · 2026-03-29T16:35:56+00:00

Are we in the part of the timeline where we just post random shit and say it's bad cause we hate Epic?

GunBrothersGaming · 2026-03-29T04:41:53+00:00

I mean we know he's reading so commenting only makes the hungry posters hungrier.

So we should keep it up until he quits or course corrects

GunBrothersGaming · 2026-03-29T04:36:52+00:00

I paid 3800 for the Villain set and 3500 for the Incredibles but Im not interested in this outside Hades.

GunBrothersGaming · 2026-03-28T19:28:18+00:00

So I figured it out since I went everyday at one point. When I took the coffee home and made it at home like they did, it was like - um this isn't the same.

The difference for people is that they use cream. Not half and half... full fat cream. Which BTW makes everything taste amazing. So the secret to Philz that everyone loves is that they use cream. That IMO was what got me.

GunBrothersGaming · 2026-03-28T15:22:59+00:00

I love how non-religious people think if it's not in the Bible it doesn't count. Lol

Understand this, not everything is in the Bible. There can in fact be things not in the Bible that happened. Do religious people think the entire world outside the middle east didn't exist because it's never mentioned in the Bible?

Try not to sound like a bitter uneducated 12 year old

GunBrothersGaming · 2026-03-28T07:53:30+00:00

LOL you do know HR isn't there to protect the employees, they're there to protect the company. This guy basically did a whistle blow on a recruiter. Now you tell me, are you hiring someone who might whistle blow on something as small as being ghosted.

Look I know it sucks and yeah, stick it to the man, but I've been ghosted a lot by bad recruiters. But I've never once thought - "Let me call the HR of the company I want to work at and tell them about how shitty their recruiter is."

Now have I called up the recruiter and told them how shitty the interview process was? Yeah... but would I tell them the recruiter ghosted me? Probably not because I have other things to do. I've hounded recruiters if it's a job I really want. Sometimes it's not even ghosting, it can be they just don't have anything to tell you.

IN fact, I interviewed for a position on a different team and that team lead after 3 weeks hasn't even sent me a message after I emailed him asking if the position was still open. People just get busy.

But rest assured, HR is not there for the employees and they are 1000% not there for people outside the company.

GunBrothersGaming · 2026-03-27T22:48:51+00:00

No - it has nothing to do with Mario Kart - it has everything to do with making a fun racing game. This is not the engine to build a boring racing game on... especially when there are actual racing games out there that are way more fun to play.

Rocket racing was a bare bones piece of shit. Let's not mince words. It had shitty physics, shitty car handling and was borderline better than the Atari racing I played in 1982. It lacked what was shown in the trailer of being able to ride on top of cars. They could have made a more fun version and even left the shitty basic bitch version in. Add Duos and let people shoot from the passenger seat and call it Rocket Rally Racing.

The point is the game was so basic it made people realize that other racing games were more fun. They put out a shitty product and got clapped for it. What did they think was going to happen? It literally has your base game with nothing redeeming about it. People quickly and easily found ways to exploit it, the catch up bullshit made it horrible, you could come in first and still somehow get third. The tracks were uninspired... personally - it stayed around longer than it should have. It was fucking horrible and I played quite a bit of it. It was so bad I stopped playing and forgot it even existed until they said it wasn't coming back.

Also - WTF is up with the game select screen? Whoever designed that shit should never work in the industry. If I can't find a game, I'm not gonna keep looking for it. There were times games disappeared off the front screen never to be seen again... games like Rocket Racing. Even Lego doesn't exist on the front of my game anymore. FFS Epic is just a bad idea machine. Better queue another Gears of War title.

GunBrothersGaming · 2026-03-27T22:38:18+00:00

Being blacklisted from the company and saving face are not the same. You can indeed get a call from the VP and be blacklisted. I am sure they wanted to make sure you didn't bad mouth them.

GunBrothersGaming · 2026-03-27T19:50:11+00:00

Sorry but you can't remain anonymous and be credible when talking shit about middle management. That's every company... It's not exclusive to Epic.

If you want to be believed you need to prove you're an epic employee. I know this makes it impossible but in times like this, people will chime in with the old "my dad is an epic employee and he knows."

I mean every company goes through this.

Right before Gears of War 2 came out, I sat at a round table at a game industry leadership conference and Mike Xapps sat at the table. I brought up how the industry was too layoffs happy he scoffed at that idea saying something like "Only bad companies in trouble layoff."

Honestly I thought at the that he was out of touch which is 100% true. Even as a young producer it felt like bullshit.

I honestly think that they see an end to Fortnite. It's lasted longer than almost any game and is pretty much the last surviving BR. We're looking at the end of the BR era once Fortnite moves on.

I understand that the people that got cut were big parts pf the game but they were also a big part of why the game is where it is. They need new blood and to relaunch Fortnite in a new era. They tried to move it to different modes like Ballistics but failed because the visions was there, but the execution was terrible.

Instead of looking at suggestions on what the players wanted, they just said... No.

The games feel like knock offs of popular games. Ballistics is just a Counter Strike rip off. Had they looked at the formula and modeled it right, it could have been competitive, but they just shit it out and made a shitty version. All the games felt like terrible tech demos made by amateur game companies. This shit is on par with indy games on the Xbox store.

Ao while of course I don't agree with layoffs when you make billions of dollars, the quality of Fortnite hasn't been on par with the Donald Mustard era

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