Saw this on a delivery truck.
I'm impressed you can repeatedly catch a horsefly. Those things are insanely fast and agile.
I interacted with devs at several Zenimax studios and watching all the employees in other countries take long vacations, generous parental leave, etc. really threw into sharp relief how fucked the USA is. And Zenimax USA benefits were considered good by USA standards, but they were so obviously nothing compared to countries with worker protection enshrined in law. Surprise, despite all that time off, many of those international employees were still extremely valuable.
Across foreign and domestic employees, Id Software in particular seemed lean, talented, and just generally switched on. One of the best experiences of my career. Arkane Lyon, too. I was dumbfounded at the layoffs. It's like Microsoft excised the most creative and productive parts of the company on purpose.
I gave up hope when Marc Laidlaw posted his story treatment years ago. It might come some day, but it will be something closer to a reboot or a remake, a totally new generation's take on an old franchise. Not saying that it will automatically be bad, it could be good, but it will also be different.
The trillions they already extract are just for the regular churn, like Hegseth's lobster dinners or train loads of battle vehicles that get sent directly to a field to rot. Despite the Pentagon's repeated admonition that without a galaxy-sized budget they won't "be ready for war", when anything happens beyond the small-scale terror attacks they regularly inflict on foreign civilians then the "piGgY bANk iS brOkEn".
You ever see these people visit the set or walk around the vfx studio during post production? There is a huge herd of glazers that orbits them constantly. Laughing at their jokes, protecting them from lowly workers who want to talk to them. It's pathetic.
So at some point there's a giant sheet of pre-nugget rolling down a conveyor belt and they have to replace their "dinosaur" cutting dies with "6 7" cutting dies, and someone has to sit down in CAD and try to solve the optimal "6 7" packing problem.
The whole thing kind of reminds me of what happened to John Romero when he was given unbelievable amounts of money to found Ion Storm and create Daikatana. But for Star Citizen the money faucet has never turned off.
Scope Creep Simulator
The village brown.
If one slice equaled average wealth then depicting Elon's pie slices accurately would be like a "to scale" diagram of the solar system.
A mutiny probably isn't going to happen but it would be hilarious. The ship is so huge it'd be like Spaceballs.
"Sir, we still control catering but the mutineers have the laundry, the ice creamery and the basketball courts!"
Damn, they still make them:
Consult on privacy requirements with appropriate school representative prior to project starting. Gender differences may impact privacy needs — avoid providing too little, especially for girls. Properly positioned partitions add privacy within budget limitations
I had to use divider-less, communal showers in grade school before/after swimming. Not only was there no privacy but the showers were disgusting, and there were no showerheads so you got laserbeam'd by a high pressure, freezing icicle of water. Also you weren't in control of the water yourself. Everyone got in position and then stood there under the sword of Damocles waiting for the gym coach to turn some fucking valve in another room.
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