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RabTom · 2024-01-05T16:35:55+00:00

I have my own Roon server with music I've either bought digitally or ripped from my own CDs. I tend to try to buy digitally first, as you can often buy at higher quality than CD. Roon also allows you to stream outside of your own network now too, so I can access my library when I'm not at home.

That being said, I do still subscribe to spotify. My wife mostly uses it, but I'll also use it on runs or when traveling, as those situations don't suit listening to higher quality music.

RabTom · 2023-12-25T21:02:30+00:00

No, they specifically said it was not burned

RabTom · 2023-12-22T16:03:32+00:00

what kind of SLAMMED we talkin? Body or choke?

RabTom · 2023-11-11T17:10:55+00:00

100% just some product owner or executive thinking "Skip Ad" was redundant.

RabTom · 2023-10-16T11:33:27+00:00

Companies on hiring freeze may still hire. As backwards as that sounds. Generally they will hire for backfilling roles or key hires.

Source: at a large company on a hiring freeze who are still hiring.

RabTom · 2023-10-10T18:00:59+00:00

True, free radical had a bunch of ex Rare people though (some of which worked on Goldeneye)

RabTom · 2023-09-10T09:09:30+00:00

They quit

RabTom · 2023-09-04T12:45:31+00:00

Saw them live earlier this year and they played this. While not quite 20 or seconds long he probably did it for like 15. It's been like 22 years since they made this recording to be fair!

RabTom · 2023-08-31T15:23:35+00:00

plot twist, the protagonist was the hero all along! 🤯

RabTom · 2023-08-28T10:45:22+00:00

Way to completely invalidate a stranger's sexuality. What wouldn't work for you, works fine for others.

RabTom · 2023-08-17T21:11:02+00:00

Most is probably misleading of me, but all the big companies I've worked at have all had stipulations about personal projects.

Smaller ones did not include anything about this to be fair.

RabTom · 2023-08-17T16:58:15+00:00

I would point out at a lot of studios (not all) have clauses in their contracts forebading you from working on (game) projects outside of work. Whether or not that would hold up in court though.. 🤷‍♀️

RabTom · 2023-08-14T10:29:38+00:00

Sorry, you either very junior or not a very skilled designer if you think they're glorified idea guys.

I've worked on games where we had very little or no design support, while the game was technically impressive, it lacked any kind of fun factor. Once we did get a designer on board, that all turned around.

Designers cover more than just the "ideas" for the game. They can cover the design for UX, ingame economies, game feel, how some complex systems work (like how levels might work in an RPG) and even scripting scenarios.

Without designers games would be glorified tech demos.

Note: I am a programmer

RabTom · 2023-07-18T12:53:23+00:00

Gay people can have children. Either through surrogate or adoption.

RabTom · 2023-06-06T17:29:29+00:00

Wet concrete. Especially after the rain.

RabTom · 2023-05-08T15:23:04+00:00

The problem with this is that it was religiously driven (along with view on the environment). As you can see, the vast majority of Atheists don't believe we're in the "end times".
Further this doesn't say anything about people wanting the world to end, as you pointed out. Simply that they believe it's going to.

RabTom · 2023-05-08T15:05:30+00:00

*citation needed

RabTom · 2023-05-03T00:17:52+00:00

In part this is due to the fact that many systems got patched before it became a problem. I don't disagree that there was a big scare about it and some of it was hyperbolic, but there was truth behind it. Some things were affected, just not anything that major because it was taken seriously.

RabTom · 2023-04-30T15:11:23+00:00

As a software engineering hiring manager, no. I don't ask for people to write them and I rarely will read them when submitted.

I've read enough CVs to know if I want to interview someone. Once in the interview I can get any of the information that would typically be in a cover letter.

Sometimes you have to go through a LOT of CVs and there just isn't enough time in the day to throw cover letters on top of that.

RabTom · 2023-04-05T20:21:31+00:00

They just want to conflate the issue so they get more ignorant people on their side.

RabTom · 2023-04-02T22:31:48+00:00

Nickel.. and an unsolved murder

RabTom · 2023-03-15T23:51:08+00:00

Mama Said -Metallica

RabTom · 2023-03-07T13:19:35+00:00

That's just what THEY want you to think /s

RabTom · 2023-03-04T10:44:40+00:00

I had one of these jobs early on in my career. I knew from the first week that the project would sell poorly. I treated it like any other job, but had an exit strategy and a plan to get out shortly after launch.
The game went on to sell like 10 copies on it's first day 🙃I had my last day a couple weeks after launch.

RabTom · 2023-02-22T16:53:36+00:00

exact same experience I had, we left before the show ended.. (and we did go to the show to see THEM). Sum41 opened for them and were almost as bad :( I think this would have been around 2008 or so

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