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[Sirus]

Seems like a lot of people are getting new/better jobs lately!

[Guardian G.I.]

Really cool CGI vid on the history of Poland :3

It should be called "Poland Strong: The Movie"

[Loud Whispers]

Really cool CGI vid on the history of Poland :3

It should be called "Poland Strong: The Movie"

Polan stronk!

[Tellemurius]

7026 in... 4 and a half years and almost 100 days logged on.

68 days logged in, and over 7200 posts. I guess I talk a lot.


Anyway, seeing trailer's of Ender's Game coming out has motivated me to actually do something for once and read it. TO THE LIBRARY!

Sad to say this but you might find the library trip much more enthusiastic than the movie trip for Ender's Game

[SalmonGod]

Oh man, one of my favorite clients invited me to GenCon next week, so we can go hang out and be nerds. I can't go, but the gesture made me happy. Stupid income, not allowing me to take semi-justifiable business trips yet. :I

I've been going to Gencon since 2000.  It's changed a lot.  Become much more commercial and smothered in rules.  Less fun.  Still amazing to be surrounded by gaming culture, meet people, see costumes, etc.  The exhibit hall is overwhelming. 

But you just can't walk around and spontaneously sit down and play games with people anymore.  Can't sit down at an empty table and just invite people to play with you.  Have to be registered to do anything.  Can't just join in on a game that's short people without tickets.  Can't sleep in the halls. 

Used to stay up all night at the con and just wander around sitting down with random people looking for open games.  It was one of my favorite parts of the whole thing.  That atmosphere of thousands of friendly people just getting together to play games.  It's just not there anymore.  Security guards wander around and shut down that sort of behavior.  The community feel to the event has faded away.  It's a completely commercial venture at this point.

Wife and I have been debating abandoning it and attending Origins from now on instead.  Supposedly, it feels more like Gencon used to.

[misko27]

Sad to say this but you might find the library trip much more enthusiastic than the movie trip for Ender's Game

You say this like I could afford a trip to the movies. Such luxuries are both too expensive and unnecessary for LIBRARY MAN.


No I just mean I don't like being so out of the loop as I usually am.

[Chaoswizkid]

Assuming the trailer does in fact show actual gameplay footage of flying a ship from the cockpit, OH MAN I'M GEEKING OUT HERE. <INSERT UNMANLY FANGIRLY SQUEAL HERE.>

It does in fact show actual gameplay. EGOSOFT isn't the sort of company that puts up a big sign at the front that says "ALL ACTUAL GAMEPLAY FOOTAGE" and lies about it. It could be some sort of mini-cutscene, like if you select "pilot the ship" you'll walk over and sit at the cockpit and that's all you see of the inside of the ship, but I doubt it. I know for sure it's not a cinematic cutscene. You can check for other videos on youtube, like this one which details why there's been a bajillion release date changes (see: underestimated ambition), to see some of the other neat things in it.

[Nadaka]

The graphics are not that big a jump from those of X³, its entirely believable that its game play footage. The graphics in that game were quite ahead of its time.

[misko27]

On any youtube video (preferably 2:00 minutes in length, but any time will suffice.) click anywhere on the left side and type "1980" without quotes. That is so damn cool.

[Criptfeind]

Soon all entertainment on the internet shall be the forum of easter eggs.

[Vector]

Secret: in retrospect, reading some of my posts, I can't figure out if I'm being sarcastic or not.

[SalmonGod]

And thus Vector's Sarcasm became another classic thought experiment in the field of quantum mechanics.

[Lightningfalcon]

X-REBIRTH NOW WITH STEAM PAGE, RELEASE DATE, LOOKS AWESOME, OMG

That's either going to be the best game every made or a giant disappointment.  I can't see it being anywhere in between. 

[SalmonGod]

So... finished day 9 at new job.  I'm starting to feel pretty comfortable with it.  I have enough understanding of what's going on that even though I've only learned a small portion of the job, I'm not nervous about being broken into the rest of it.

Now that the anxiety is over with, I'm starting to really feel the positives of leaving my old job behind.  It's such a massive weight lifted.  At this point, I no longer feel like I'm just forcing myself to push on through every day.  I don't feel like it's a desperate imperative to de-stress after work.  I have the emotional energy to deal with issues at home and pay more attention to my family.  Even though I'm not getting any more sleep than usual, I feel alert throughout the day, when before I would suffer deep crashes and mental fog.  Smiling and humor is coming more naturally to me now than it has in several years.  I'm working harder and yet feeling like my days are more relaxed at the same time.  The previous 7 years already feel like a distant nightmare.

I'm sure I'll eventually run into things that bother me here, too, but right now I can't imagine it ever amounting to the way I felt just a month ago.  And I know now never to put up with anything like that ever again.  It's just not worth it.  Not even for family, because they've probably been more unhappy having to live with me while I was working there than they would have been with the consequences of me just quitting.  Advice to anyone with even a single free-spirited bone in their body:  Never work for a Fortune 500 corporation.  They will poison your soul.

Also, whoever this quote actually belongs to, it's more true to me now than ever.

"Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes."

Because the people you interact with on a daily basis are such an enormous component of your well-being.  I don't think it's commonly understood just how easy it is for a toxic person to make you feel like a dead thing by nothing more than their presence within a shared environment.

[tahujdt]

I just went to Taos Pizza Out Back. I highly recommend it to any who pass that way. They have a wall covered in graffiti, and they hand out crayons for people to draw all over the outdoor part.

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If you see P=NP in several places, that was me.