Malcador

Nerds.

Star Trek shows improve with the addition of beards.

I am just glad the movie wasn't about a testicular injury.

I listen to the Max Payne theme on loop at work. Hard to not kill myself, but they try.

An amusing 40k section exhibiting how to make an agricultural world grimdark

Act of War is pretty fun, managing units can be a bit cumbersome and it sucks having a cap on group size. Succeeded in the penultimate map by just A-moving a horde of units, managed to get it done. The FMV cutscenes get worse though, there's something super weird about the way ersatz EVA and the field commando speak, latter speaks with an exaggerated Canadian accent and the former's just off. Urban combat is quite fun though, keeps infantry relevant (although how snipers can blow up a T-80 in sufficient numbers, I dunno)

We're on the Internet, what else is there to do but argue about who can beat up who.

They need to put that quote on a card.

Relevant

Ah, Americans.

Someone had a very interesting HOI4 save.

I still have the vain hope it will suck, just to enjoy the tears.

Apparently that is how chapati and chicken is made.

Yep, I guess Brack will resign. Although this seems like a mess Morhaime handed him - apparently WC3 Reforged was a cluster**** due to insufficient budget and a tight timeline from corporate, as well. Then again, all said, the stuff in the lawsuit is from one side so far.

The future of Social Security

I guess those that speak up about someone misbehaving were getting poor reviews/denied promotions or assigned to do tasks below their position.

Blizzard's got an interesting office culture - https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/activision-blizzard-sued-by-california-over-frat-boy-culture Heh, does put Afrasiabi, Kaplan and maybe even Metzen and Morhaime's departures in a light.

Act of War is good, although would be better if the FMV cutscenes didn't take it so seriously. On the bright side, the commandos are all running around with TAR-21s, don't see those a lot. Game itself is ok though, feels a lot like Generals.

I get to fix the mistakes, so I have no sympathy for the developers not thinking of things ahead of time!

I should be working late to catch up, but well can't make myself care that much. And in any case have a lot of family stuff to do. Doesn't stop people sending me emails at 11 pm and expecting an answer. Apparently because one guy leaves his laptop on and connected 24/7, everyone else must do the same

You didn't inquire about their childcare and health benefits ?

Well, to put it this way, for our application, being 64-bit is a paradigm shift.