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I am legit working on a bug with a tool and the guy I worked with and am gonna info dump (since I'm not THAT guy) were joking that it'd be quite a mic drop "check in and leave" to do something like that on my last day lol.

She seems like one of those just unabashedly good/wonderful people. Keanu Reeves is another one.

Yeah I get it and I don't go tell people to do so either. I just ran up against people who legit bought games get burned by DRM and that can really suck. Especially with the mid 2000s and early 2010s when some of it was getting pretty aggressive so greater chance of catching innocent people which is never easy. Sucks to be working with someone on tech support for their issues and it's just like "I have no idea why/how this is the case and I have no solutions for you"

It's actually funny, my time in gamedev has actually softened me a lot towards piracy (my politics in general have shifted left quite a bit too), so when I hear about ways to restrict access to digital goods I'm pretty against the idea on that principle in general. Ideally scarcity isn't an issue for things!

Oh man I don't follow the league too closely anymore (mostly just track Oilers progress after games) but he's still going eh!? I'm down for him winning. Also always nice to see a new team win the cup. Also uh, to keep it on topic for Politics... uh, it'd be good news for some Florida people too?

Was wanting something chill so I am playing a ton of Elite Dangerous right now. Although there's a civil war right now between my minor faction. That said we're in a pretty dead part of the bubble it feels haha

Y'know, I don't think I've posted here since we got our cat!

Last day at work so uh, cashing in all my store points and pretending to work >.>

I am fickle and often have too much on my plate so I'm not around here very often anymore either. But that McDavid guy is pretty good. Much better than that bum Auston!!11 lol

Interestingly I logged in because I was talking hockey with Deraldin on Steam and I double checked that I created this account not long after Calgary lost in the Stanley Cup Finals. Was in fact 3 days after lol.

Oh def not. Not a fan of those in general, let alone in games!

It is not haha. More backend-y type of stuff that I can't speak too much about at the moment

My wife is from Granbury so I mean, when your town is named after a Confederate General........ lol

Yeah I find the Confederate flag fliers here surreal. Hits Taylor a bit more than I as it's much, MUCH more prevalent in Texas.

I def had to google this but lmao. Wife is from Texas so both our home areas getting hit with a lot lately.

A DA4 is indeed in development. Although today is actually my last day at BioWare. Got a really interesting and dorky opportunity with Epic Games that I start on the 18th!

I had to double take your name sir! XD

It's very entertaining in Canada as a lot of the conservative wing says the world needs to buy our oil instead of oil from dictators, while the base for those politicians strongly feel that our Prime Minister is also a dictator.

15-20 years ago I was super conservative and even advocated that Canada consider privatizing health care. Although most of my research at the time didn't do a good job of supporting me (to the point that I reconsidered my position). Basically I realized that a lot of my applications of free market economics still relied on a lot of the idealized application covered in course work. Assumptions such as perfect markets, no transition time/costs, perfectly rational actors, and perfect competition. As a result, even at some of my most ardent big-C Conservative days, I still felt that health care and primary K-12 education were good things to support similar to roads/infrastructure, emergency services, and so forth. Essentially I felt an educated and healthy populace was a good investment and would be good for the economy. Evidently Obsidian just needs to release games more frequently to keep me coming back <.<

Watching my MIL in Texas stay in a job with an abusive boss because she depended on the health care that the job provided in order to get necessary medication was one of those eye opening moment for me. She was eventually fired which was disruptive in ways I'm pretty unfamiliar with as a Canadian, because in effect it also forced my FIL to quit his job so that he could find one that provided adequate medical insurance. For a state that very loudly proclaims their support for liberty/freedom, it seemed like quite the juxtaposition for me. My wife is much more left than her conservative parents (as am I), but even as a son of a business owner in Canada there's a significant "freeing" aspect of having socialized health care. It's one less mechanism compelling people to remain in jobs that may actually be harmful to someone, and one less cost and headache for a business owner (particularly a smaller one) to not have to worry about providing that level of care for your employees.

Also liked it as we had player options in response that allowed us to share that we too were ace!

It's near the office where you can go to Chairman Rockwell's office. Facing the door to that, it's to the right. IIRC, on the map it is just north.

Definitely on the radar. Basically flipped a coin between it and Outer Worlds. Just finished up OW though!

I ran into the Parvati bug as well, though I was still able to continue with her quest. I found hers super adorable and in general she was a delightful character. I agree about Ellie's. Nyoka and Max's were quality.

Yeah I actually really enjoyed the skill level ups. The low level, baseline stuff would all go up but the specialization and harder checks required you to then focus those skills.