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They also sold Tomb Raider alongside Deus Ex ... Thief, Legacy of Kain ...

Sold all of these and a few studios to focus on NFTs. Although I think their other reason was to focus on their "eastern" properties.

I always wonder about that because you need a lot of people to function in an "end of the world scenario". It just feels like the ones that are doing the real work are the ones with the power in that case.

I felt Stadia had potential but I also thought they should have tried a game subscription model rather than the one they went with.

I very recently tried Expedition 33 with GFN and I tried turning the graphics all the way down and the lag seemed unbearable. It very well could be me, but I have a fibre optic connection with typically low ping. It could just be where I'm situated or maybe there's more configuration I didn't figure out. I know others still like and use the service.

I tried it to play a few games. I've had some controller issues and then the quality and frame rate seems really bad for me. I know it was great for others, but I don't know what settings I needed to get a smooth game going.

I was actually interested in this service because I felt like building a gaming PC for just a few games I play once in a while outside of my Steam Deck could be worth it.

I think that was the origins of it and can be celebrated that way.

However, I feel it has most certainly been hijacked by religion and capitalism since then in certain parts of the world.

I enjoy it due to having time off, so I'll take that :P

I think they're stupid too. Going into an interview is already stressful enough and these types of questions don't put me into "problem solving" mode. They put me into "brain teaser" mode which is a different type of thinking for me. You know how we nailed these questions when I was in uni? We traded them after our interviews between each other and you just had to pretend you've never heard it before. So the main thing people were testing was whether or not the question had made it to them.

For programming, there are so many better ways to test out of the box thinking to me ... I think the "what happens when you press a letter into a web browser address bar" or something is better and at least relevant. One that I like is, "there's an outage in production, how would you go about diagnosing it?" Then as an interviewer I'd reshape the scenario and see where they put their focus and where they give up.

I remember when there were ads for Firefox at the top of the search results. Many companies I've worked at clicked that link instead of the first result and they wound up with a German Firefox (we were in the UK).

That wasn't the main issue though. It wasn't till a lot of time/companies have passed until the latest IT department I worked for flagged that Firefox version as being spyware.

My manager once swapped my coworker's keyboard to say "FUMICHAL" or something like that on the keyboard.

It was many weeks before my manager had to point it out to him that he did that. Since my coworker was a touch typer he just never noticed. I think my boss thought that since he was Polish that maybe he'd look down once in a while, but nope.

I don't think he ever changed it back because he just never thought it was worthwhile to do so.

I want to be a maintainer and help out but I just know it'll be exhausting. I swap languages/projects all the time. I was on the DB (OLAP), architecture, GenAI and DevOps teams just this year alone. The context switching is really bad. I still would like to contribute but I'd want to pick a project that I used semi-regularly and it's hard to identify when I'm so scatter-brained :/

I usually just assume people around me are left leaning and progressive.

I went to London to visit the satellite office and one of the top guys there was having a rant against vegans. I chimed in a bit and said, "well, you can say what you want but vegans are at least doing good for the environment".

The guy was like, "I don't believe that"

I thought he was joking, so I said, "haha what, you don't believe in climate change?"

I should have never said that. Ten minutes of him furiously ranting about nonsense.

I got great quotes such as: "you know what climate change is? it's when seasons change" and also "we should be eating more animals because it increases the carbon in the world and is good for us".

Fucking hell. When I got back to the Canadian office and told my coworkers about him, the others were telling me how much of a prick he was -- and they didn't know anything about the climate change denial shit he was into either.

Reminds me of David Mitchell's Rant Against Christmas (Christmasland Rant): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxeDQv4lE-o

"fatally stabbing"

They're going with the battered wife syndrome in the defense but there's been evidence of her repeatedly abusing him and he even said that he was going to die if he stayed in this relationship given the abuse he suffered.