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News Comments > Morning Consolidation

It's an ADHD world and we are stuck living in it...




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Re: Morning Consolidation

Apr 12, 2013, 09:58

Microsoft has been fucking up for over a decade. They are still there...




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News Comments > EA Layoffs

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Re: EA Layoffs

Apr 12, 2013, 09:57

Cutter wrote on Apr 12, 2013, 09:27:
At one point one the HR people is beating around the bush for at least 5 minutes literally trying to couch this before someone said, 'Just fucking spit it out already, we're canned right?' And she still proceeded to lay the HR BS on us at which point most of us just got up and walked out.

You'll enjoy this... one of the guys who got laid off here had his ADP email notice turned on. The result of this (at least at my company) is every Wednesday before a Friday payday, you get an email notifying you the "pay stub" is available. So, on Wednesday he gets the notice, and logs into ADP to look at it and sees the severance payment. But he doesn't know what it is because the office hasn't been notified yet. Asks his boss about it -- the boss is clueless also. They call the next boss up (a VP) who tells them in a business friendly way, "Oh yeah, you are both laid off." This VP was scheduled to fly to the city to give the news in person, but since the cat is out of the bag, he cancels the trip. Dozey




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News Comments > EA Layoffs

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Re: EA Layoffs

Apr 12, 2013, 07:59

News Comments > Evening Consolidation

Cutter wrote on Apr 12, 2013, 03:26:
Firing people to ensure the best games for players eh? Yeah. Sure.

Substitute "products" for "games", "customers" for "gamers" and you get something very close to what one of my company's VPs said Wednesday when about 50 people got laid off here. Thankfully, I dodged the bullet, again (been dodging them for about 10 years now..). It's just standard HR rhetoric, it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the actual reasons for the reductions.




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Re: Evening Consolidation

Apr 11, 2013, 14:05

News Comments > Morning Tech Bits

DVR innovation... it's a Betamax story. The best one made, ReplayTV, got ground up by inferior products.




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Re: Morning Tech Bits

Apr 11, 2013, 13:52

News Comments > Morning Consolidation

Hey, I'm doing my part. I buy a new PC every 2-3 years. Grin




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Re: Morning Consolidation

Apr 11, 2013, 13:50

I guess he was right, the Internet is awesome! =p




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Re: etc.

Apr 11, 2013, 13:30

Currently no further update on eurogamer.net or develop-online.net.

*shrug*




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Re: Out of the Blue

Apr 11, 2013, 12:23

Cutter wrote on Apr 11, 2013, 11:43:
is if I'm Chicagoing the steak.

1. I'll bite, what is Chicagoing?

2. Where are you located again Cutter?




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Re: etc.

Apr 10, 2013, 15:24

News Comments > Evening Metaverse

Hmmmm, her Indiegogo funding page seems to have disappeared. Wonder what is going on...

Well something is up update.

"Update: Indiegogo has taken Chloe Sagal's crowdfunding campaign down for a second time just after it reached the $35,000 mark, and all contributions are being refunded.

A spokesperson told Develop: "Indiegogo has a proprietary and effective fraud algorithm and when suspicious activity is detected the campaign is immediately suspended and all contributors are refunded."

We have requested further clarification on why it has been suspended for a second time"




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Re: Evening Metaverse

Apr 10, 2013, 11:38

Yeah, it would be interesting to see/know if the announcement has a noticeable effect this has on housing costs in Austin.




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Re: Tetris Stop Motion Chalk Art

Apr 10, 2013, 09:31

What is amazing to me is that anyone has the patience to do something like that...




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Re: Out of the Blue

Apr 10, 2013, 09:05

News Comments > EA "Wins" Consumerist Poll Again

Well, it is Minnesota, Bats -- might as well be in Canada!




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Re: EA "Wins" Consumerist Poll Again

Apr 10, 2013, 08:47

News Comments > Into the Black

I would say the "Final Four" are definitely four sucky companies...

Bank of America, ComCast, Ticketmaster, EA -- losers all..




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Re: Into the Black

Apr 10, 2013, 08:18

News Comments > Into the Black

Yeah, looking at it again, the scale isn't large enough to qualify as an Oribital. Seems like a larger than normal contingent of sci-fi movies coming out. Off the top of my head:

After Earth
Oblivion
Elysium
The Host
Pacific Rim

Not that I'm saying any of them will be good, just seems like more than normal.

Edit: Oh yeah, and ST:ID

This comment was edited on Apr 10, 2013, 10:07.




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Re: Into the Black

Apr 9, 2013, 22:14

So, it is an Orbital? Pretty cool.




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Re: etc.

Apr 9, 2013, 16:01

Did you read the page? She did sue -- and lost. My impression was she mistakenly thought she could go to court and say, "If I don't get the surgery I'll die" would be an automatic win. It isn't.




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Re: etc.

Apr 9, 2013, 15:24

Alright, it is more fully explained on the fund raising page.

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/i-am-going-to-survive




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Re: etc.

Apr 9, 2013, 15:14

Never heard of Chloe Sagal or her "indie horror game", Homesick. She apparently lives in Chicago? I take it for some reason she doesn't have medical insurance and doesn't qualify for Medicaid? Seems like part of the story is missing here. Could be just another total fail by the US "medical system" or something else...




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Re: Out of the Blue

Apr 9, 2013, 09:46