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No, actually. New Vegas was not developed by Bethesda. It was published by Bethesda. It was developed by Obsidian which Microsoft also owns.

Because it is for now. If they mess with it then it'll not be a good deal and folks will leave it.

Bobby is the same dude who left a voicemail threatening to kill an employee.

So, where can I live a decent life for free? Nowhere? Then I can either end things or work. Working because the alternative is death is not really a choice.

I realize the CMA is a UK agency and we might be talking specifically to that. Now, with that said, I don't think anyone in the US should take it seriously. Even if they fix latency and the jank, there will still be data caps. Most of the US lives with them. Game streaming will not be able to take off until we fix our infrastructure and regulations thereof.

It's not a monopoly, so say it if you want? It's not ideal but of the options available to ActiBlizzKing I'd say it's probably best.

Capitalism leads to monopolies. They are competing. They have deeper pockets than Sony or Nintendo. Now they own CoD, WoW, and Candy Crush.

What the other person seems to want is revenge or some arbitrary punitive action against someone, perhaps decades, after they've already been through the legal system and answered for their actions.

Much appreciated in any event. I'm always happy to learn of books to read.

You can be wrong with everyone supporting you. Bragging about internet points to prove anything isn't exactly the way to go.

Is it, though?

Means testing is a nightmare. Sorry to hear about your situation.

Do you happen to remember that book by Reynolds? I've read one of his in the past and remember that I greatly enjoyed it. It's been several years now, unfortunately, I should probably do a re-read.

You're comparing apples to floor tiles as though the comparison is relevant in the least. I think that's the issue you and the others are having in these discussions.

To be fair, if I am given any choice of leetcode I'll know the place isn't somewhere I want to work. I have little interest in that whole thing. I'm not grinding away hours and hours and hours of my life just so I can get denied in the fourth round, again.

The insistence that window be the only thing I need to be looking at on MacOS is also a frustrating one. No, Steve, I really do want to manage my windows.

Fair, yeah. I don't have a professional network. I find the folks I work with to always be insufferable. Guess it'll be launching resumes into the void. Thanks for the perspective.

>Spray and pray is more, I think, a junior thing.

I'm at least intermediate, I've done senior work before, and this is still my strategy. Applying to one or two jobs isn't going to do anything. It takes at least a calendar year to find a job that wants me. I can't imagine applying for less than 5 positions a week, and usually it's at least triple that.

I'd love to hear a different strategy for a developer that doesn't specialize in any given language or technology. Most of the employment gates seem locked for me. Yet I hear of other people doing things just like that and making bank from it. Who knows, maybe people don't like me as much as I don't like them.

Requiring an app is a blocking issue.

Why is it bad with dealing with an introvert? We're not closed off or any more private than extroverts. We just drain faster in social situations. We're not children that need to be coddled.

Most, if not all, managers I've had are terrible for neurotypical. I imagine it's sort of like talking to the cops as a neurodivergent person. You're just guilty because you don't behave "right".

I think I might be neurodivergent but I'm not going to get diagnosed so I have no idea. I will say it seems like no team I have ever been on really understood what to do with me. Which -- fine, I don't care to do anything with them.

It is never safe to do that. Anything you say can and will be used against you. Manager is taking notes. Always.

Good lord I'd never vent with a co-worker especially a boss. That's a quick way to become an outsider on the team.

>I’ve done experiments where we’d do 1on1s for a while then stop doing them. Inevitably, in the next retro, at least 1 person would complain about us cancelling 1on1s.

Did you restart the 1:1 just for that person or persons? Let the rest of us not bother with that white lie factory?

They can do that but that costs money so they never will. We worship the dollar like its a god above gods. No way we're going to willingly do something that costs the rich a dime more than absolutely necessary.

This platform will not change human behavior. Sorry to say.

One day hopefully I'll manage to find one of these magic unicorn positions that y'all seem to have around these parts. Until then I'll have to do with wanting to die rather than be at work.

When you have private for-profit healthcare you get a lot of wait lists. They come in the forms of "I can't afford that" and "I can still walk on that leg, I don't need to spend our retirement."

Not to be that guy but Windows is the best OS out right now with all its faults. I don't have to dick around with Linux, and my USB ports don't crap the bed every two seconds and I can actually manage my windows unlike with MacOS.

That it plays games is just a bonus.

You might be the smartest person in the room. Find a new room.

At the same time if you're keeping a car going for several hundred thousand miles and experience issues you're also not to be counted.

Get a new phone every handful of years. Stop being surprised when old hardware starts to fail.