azerial

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

When I started working at EA 14 years ago (I got laid off last year) they literally told us we might have to sleep under our desks. I promptly told them if that was the case, I would quit. Instead they made us work 7 days a week 9-9 for months. Fun job.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

What you don't want to go to "X"? I can't imagine why. lol /s same though. Also I refuse to call it x. It's fucking Twitter. It's like that line in mean girls, "Gretchen, quit trying to make fetch happen, it's not going to happen!" Lol

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Woohoo!! This awesome! As a game dev, I can speak to how awful the industry can be. That's really great news that they unionized. 🙌

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

It sounds exactly like a Microsoft fix.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Just imagine if it's a build farm with hundreds of machines. Jesus. That's a hell I wouldn't even wish on my worst enemy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Lol you can have shade. Nobody is perfect, for example: do you know what a Gold Master is? It's the final copy of the game that is written on the disk. It's also the reason why when you buy a game, the patch is gigantic. It's an out of date build of the game, really really important, and has to be certified by both Microsoft and Sony. (Called the certificatation process) It takes months, but production can't stop, thus the patch.

The dragon age team, for DAI, built this super important build on a QAs desktop. Why might this be bad you ask? Because it's an uncontrolled system that's not clean and is connected to the Internet. Thank God they didn't have a virus or malware, because it could've been written to millions of disks. Lol

It's the same reason why, initially, the first Star Wars: The Old Republic launcher installed in a user folder named "hedev". Users were like who the fuck is hedev? Lol that was a coding bug and less of a build mistake but still. (I fixed that bug. Now they use a much much better launcher, went from version 2.6 to version 6.x). I miss that team, they're rockstars.

The details matter.

edit: clarification

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

That might be what I'll have to do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That sounds ideal, but I don't currently have the resources to set up a home network. :⁠-⁠\

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Right, it's like the commentor above asking why I would use a private dns. Check the logs. I posted a screenshot above. A private dns is a great tool.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

A mvno is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator, thus MVNO. They don't own the network, they lease it.

I use a private dns for privacy. I don't like my data and metrics being shared without my consent. It also blocks ads. Win win

edit: they had some sort of billing issue with me where my bill was consistently 40-50+ bucks over what it should be. So it would be correct one month then the next it would be like 200 bucks and back and forth. When I called, the garbage support had zero clue, and now that I have cancelled, they say they owe me 40 bucks. When I went to pay my bill, it was always 2 payments. Why? I called, again no clue. They did away with Google pass, well you want to know what they also did away with? The insurance on my phone and didn't tell me. So with i needed it, I was not insured. Cool. Hard pass for me.

Edit: here's an example of why a private dns is useful:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I used to work at video game company and Joplin was the code name for one of our projects, so now every time I see that word, I instantly think of that game. I think it was dragon age lol. Anyway, if I can get past that PTSD I might check out this editor! lol /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

For anyone who didn't know about ed, such as I did not: https://linux.die.net/man/1/ed

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