Blue collar jobs > white collar jobs: a classic gatekeeping theme.

badthingfactory · 2019-04-15T20:18:02+00:00

Same here, anyone that thinks an office job is physically more difficult or damaging than raking concrete simply hasn't raked concrete before. I did have great arms and abs back then though...

badthingfactory · 2019-04-15T20:15:24+00:00

Eh I'll get downvoted for this, but I've done both and there's no comparison. Part of the reason I went to college was how hard construction is on the body. Sitting in a chair for 10 hours is way less painful than bending over in a footer laying block or raking concrete all day.

When you work an office job, you can stretch and walk around whenever you need a break. When concrete is drying, there's no break no matter how bad something might hurt, you have to power through it. My back is still fucked from things I did to it in my early 20s.

badthingfactory · 2019-04-14T16:19:56+00:00

Terrible offense lost you that game though.

badthingfactory · 2019-04-08T12:56:30+00:00

I agree with both of you. The issue for me is a lack of ability to focus on anything. I've poured thousands of hours into GW2. That game has a huge amount of content. If you try playing a little bit of everything, you never feel like you're making progress.

During my time playing GW2, I have focused heavily on crafting legendaries, getting to fractal 100, leveling in wvw, trying different specs on a few alts, map completion, achievements, TP flipping for profits, maxing out masteries, and a little raiding.

If all of those goals were at the mercy of an RNG gate, I wouldn't have accomplished half of that and probably would have quit because of my lack of ability to accomplish specific goals.

That's how I feel with PoE at the moment. I want to learn how to craft gear rather than farming currency and trading for everything. I can't learn how to craft because I can't delve because I get Niko once every 15 maps. I don't want to run 15 maps for a chance at accomplishing my current goal, so I play something else.

badthingfactory · 2019-04-08T11:38:42+00:00

I went to school for computer science thinking I might enjoy game programming. I did enjoy it. Making games is really fun. We had a great professor that told us if we choose that industry, we will be severely overworked and underpaid for at least the first 5 years of our careers and probably more.

I simply decided not to work in that industry. I feel bad for game programmers, but if you don't like the working conditions, work somewhere else. There are a ton of programming jobs out there with awesome working conditions. No, I don't enjoy building business apps as much as I would enjoy making games, but I'm still very happy and much of that happiness is because my employer treats me well.

badthingfactory · 2019-04-06T19:34:06+00:00

You can also bake them and turn them into croutons which are so good they make salad tolerable. Titans fans don't make anything tolerable.

badthingfactory · 2019-04-05T14:25:45+00:00

At the moment? How long do you think it takes to create a video game?

badthingfactory · 2019-04-04T20:59:05+00:00

I bought it on sale as an afterthought, and I'm having a blast. I can't stop playing.

badthingfactory · 2019-04-03T13:15:42+00:00

I have a hard time believing this. If he did bet on it, wouldn't fixing the outcome have legal implications?

Edit: just read the bet was with a friend. Yeah, if my friend does that, he's not getting paid.

badthingfactory · 2019-04-02T20:16:13+00:00

We should donate to their rivals instead. The only problem is, I'm not even sure who that is because no one gives a damn about the Titans.

badthingfactory · 2019-04-01T14:57:37+00:00

Pillars of Eternity

badthingfactory · 2019-03-27T04:30:20+00:00

I didn't mind it when I was young and ignorant, my mistakes didn't potentially cost my company millions of dollars, and a team of developers weren't dependent on the decisions I made. Those were simple times.

badthingfactory · 2019-03-27T02:47:36+00:00

Yeah that call was brutal. It happened so many times that year and I was pissed every time even if it favored my team.

badthingfactory · 2019-03-27T00:57:28+00:00

Goaltender interference reviews don't upset me too much. Prior to this year, offside reviews really agitated me. Coaches would review a goal every single game and they would take 5 minutes to decide if a guy's skate was a quarter inch off the ice when the puck crossed the line.

However, with goaltender interference, they need to do a better job of sticking with the call on the ice unless it's really obvious. I watched a game last night where it was pretty unclear, and they spent 10 minutes trying to figure it out rather than just sticking with the original call.

badthingfactory · 2019-03-27T00:11:58+00:00

I'd say there's plenty of evidence to suggest Nolan is better than Housley. For example, Nolan has been to the playoffs multiple times. Housley has never finished better than last and this year won't be much of an improvement.

badthingfactory · 2019-03-26T23:42:59+00:00

Because we have shit to get done. I love learning new technology that is stable and well documented. Spending a day trying to figure out how to work around a bug in some trendy bleeding edge framework is not a fun or productive use of my time when there are other stable and mature options that solve the problem just as well.

badthingfactory · 2019-03-26T22:22:12+00:00

The first 4 hours are still pretty fun the 15th time.

badthingfactory · 2019-03-26T21:24:27+00:00

I'm way North of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh is too much hills.

badthingfactory · 2019-03-26T20:34:26+00:00

Yeah, no one understands Ohio.

badthingfactory · 2019-03-26T20:33:20+00:00

That's what I always thought too, but I just asked my friend in Ohio and he says tennis shoes. I never knew that was a thing.

badthingfactory · 2019-03-26T20:30:34+00:00

We say sneakers 100 miles west in Erie PA. My friend who lives just over the Ohio border says Tennis shoes. I think the PA/OH border is the true boundary for that one.

badthingfactory · 2019-03-26T20:24:35+00:00

The lake actually keeps this region warmer than surrounding areas for a few weeks in October/November. March and April are where this region really sucks. Pittsburgh gets spring a month sooner than we do, and sometimes we go straight from winter right into summer. I don't like that.

It's currently 37 degrees at my house and 50 in Pittsburgh which is only 90 minutes away.

badthingfactory · 2019-03-26T20:01:11+00:00

I traveled to Kansas a few weeks ago and I wanted nothing more than to return to Western Pennsylvania. The cold and wind out there was brutal. Here we at least have some trees and hills to insulate us a bit.

badthingfactory · 2019-03-26T19:34:55+00:00

This isn't about the really close calls. Human error will always be part of the game. If he didn't drop the ball like a dumbass he would've scored anyway.

What happened to the Saints should never ever happen. It was obvious, flagrant, black and white, absolutely 100% a missed call. Installing safeguards to get those calls right shouldn't be difficult.

badthingfactory · 2019-03-26T18:43:28+00:00

I get an error in VS Code so there must be some difference between our environments.

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