The nice thing about Gator Game was that movement felt so good and fluid. It really is just a game about jumping and climing and bouncing around like a hyper kid.

Given the game doesn’t have ‘combat’ they really really needed to get traversal right because that’s the main draw, and they succeeded in that.

That sounds miserable :(

In a previous position I was asked if I was willing to be on call, but it was optional. I accepted because the terms were good.

If I was on call the requirements were clear - No alcohol, and a 10 minute response time 24/7.

In return, I got a bump in my paycheck for weeks I was on call, no matter whether I was actually called or not. And any time that I did end up spending on support incidents I was eligible to take back out of normal hours at time and a half. So if I spent two hours on support in the middle of the night, I could take three hours off the next day.

It was a respectful arrangement that made me feel positive about the company and management, and I wish all companies did it that way.

I got lost a few times too, but I think they did a good job of providing mitigation for that with specific large landmarks you can see at least one of from anywhere, like the big tree, the mountain, the windmill.

I understand what the devs were trying to do by not having a map. When a map is there, especially an always-on minimap, I basically spend my whole time with my eyes glued to that tiny corner of the screen rather than actually looking at the world. So I can respect the decision to try and do without any map.

It does feel like it might be, but I don’t know if it actually is.

The UK generally has extremely good fire safety regulations, so if this was getting people killed I feel like it would have been the subject of some scrutiny.

The house I grew up in was this way, and the house I live in now with a new door (<10yo) is still that way.

As a kid I never thought about it, and I don’t remember ever being stuck in the house.

The way people normally deal with keys is that everyone who needs a key has one of their own on their keyring, and there is usually also a ‘house’ key which stays by the door and isn’t taken away anywhere.

And none of this is to say “this is a good way” it’s just to say “this is the way people are used to here”

Different lock types are more or less common in different places.

I don’t know where the artist of the comic lives, but here in the UK for example most exterior doors have a keyhole on BOTH sides, and you need to use the key to lock or unlock it from inside, as well as from out.

Chocolate bricks

My strategy is to not look at work emails outside work time.

You can neither attend nor be stressed about a meeting that occurs earlier than you start work, if you don’t know it exists.

Would be nice to see a graph of inflation-adjusted wages at McDonalds between 2014 and now.

I don’t have the data, but I doubt much of this price increase is going into worker’s pockets. It’s profit for CEOs and shareholders.

GET ON THE FLOOR! NOW!

You guys are lasting half a year???

More like 1st to 31st January

In reality, they only talk to the idiot

“If you want me to stroke your hair and tell you everything’s gonna be okay, that’s extra.”

It’s quite easy to understand, even though it’s bullshit.

When the sales department has a good month and makes loads of sales, the business too has a good month. The activity of those individuals directly correlates to revenue on a month by month basis, so management are naturally going to be incentivised to give the sales team perks and bonuses as motivation.

In a given month the IT/dev department doesn’t “generate” any money at all, they only cost. We know they generate value in other ways of course, because the product the sales team sell is surely built and operated by the dev team, but because the relationship is indirect management don’t care to reward you.

Reward sales with nice perks -> Revenue goes up

Reward devs with nice perks -> Revenue doesn’t change

So of course management doesn’t see the benefit in giving more money to tech, because it doesn’t seem like you get anything back.

Of course, the reality is that investment in tech will make the product and the business better and more profitable, but it takes months or years to see the impact of changes, and management has a short attention span.

No idea if that specifically is related.

But a lot of fields have convention of ranking A,B,C,D etc with A being better just because it’s the top/first.

I wish the best for you, and hope you find yourself a better boss soon.

Can you imagine the absolute misery of working for someone like this.

A person who thinks developers are all useless, and has total contempt for any skills that aren’t “business” stuff.

A person who thinks tech is easy and you can “just” do this and “just” do that and everything will be done, always telling you “this is so easy I could do it myself” while any contribution they make only makes things worse, and if there’s any kind of hold-up it’s because you’re either “lazy” or “incompetent”

No thanks.

He wasn’t wrong, it was a great video

Exactly this, it’s a within-industry term that has leaked out to members of the public. It simply means “we put a lot of money into this, and we expect to make a lot back (for our investors)”

As for where the ‘A’ terminology came from then that itself is likely a reuse of other entertainment industry terms.

In the old days when you released a record album, you’d put the best tracks on the ‘A’ side and the less popular ones on the ‘B’ side.

Similarly, we talk about ‘A-list’ celebrities abs ‘B-list’ celebrities, and use the term ‘B-movies.’ to denote low budget.

And so what happens wben something gets “bigger and better than A?” Well, you just add more A’s!

As a kid, like 9 years old, I wasn’t able to get a real Tamagotchi. I had a cheap knock-off version that had a little dog in it.

A bunch of my classmates were upset because their Tamagotchis ended up dying of neglect during the school day, but my fake-ass tamagotch has this weird bug where if you held down all the buttons at once it would freeze up and stay that way until you pushed something else.

So I basically had a Tamagotchi with a ‘pause’ function, that wouldn’t die when it was frozen.

My dog never died until the batteries finally ran out. Nice work, fake Tamagotchi :)

That’s honestly even more annoying.

I enjoy seeing google reviews where someone is making a huge fuss about their poor restaurant experience, and then the manager responds like “You did not raise any issues during your visit, including when asked by staff. If you had told us of any problem we would have done our best to make it right”

Like how much of a clown did that customer just show themselves to be. Couldn’t raise the problem in person, but quite happy to go kick off about it online where they feel anonymous.