I’ve generally found companies that make interviewing it’s own esoteric challenge are not places you want to work at anyways.

I’ll remind you about your cnc just as soon as I replace my x-axis screw. So, uh, also about three years?

Yeah we’ve had enough Poe’s law. This isn’t really funny any more

Sign me up. I’ll take one

Usually “cable strain relief”

Legally? No. Morally? You know people are planning this for Halloween right?

This is great progress. Curious to see how the Supreme Court eventually rules

And this Chad

Nope, just think you’re being an idiot. And now power tripping. It’s cool. I’ll see myself out. Though clearly the people disagree with you.

Oh yes, because I never have free time where I just want to scroll memes and end up seeing idiots trying to push Republican propaganda (like that people could fix things if they just hustled). Critical thinking failure.

Step 1: Get involved in local politics

Step 2: Show up in force and drag your neighbors along

Step 3: Don’t let up.

And yes, I’m doing all these myself while people sit online bitching

Or we (* the people) could rise up and take back the power instead of thinking of ways to work inside their shitty system

I think they mean if the advertised product. So like if Kleenex buys the ad space they’ll let kleenex know they’re boycotting them and why, not Microsoft.

They’d likely license as a percentage of revenue, not a specific dollar amount, which would make it more available to every studio and they’d theoretically make more money from the added ad revenue.

Until they license this out to every triple a studio and they all do it. Now I’m off to play more Tiny Terraces

But they didn’t even have to shutter many of the studios. Many of them were profitable. Microsoft just didn’t want the competition and they decided the studios weren’t obscenely profitable

And just to extend, this doesn’t just apply to AAA games or anything. Like look how much people fell in love with and lovingly memed the placeholder art in “Slay the Spire II”. Or how much players are still captivated by the story and feel of “What Remains of Edith Finch”.

There’s plenty of examples of solo devs doing it too, just not as shiny. “Balatro”, “Axiom Verge”, “Return of the Obra Dinn”, “Stardew Valley”… I could go on. People like lovingly crafted things of any size

Way to not read their comment and keyboard warrior from another country

Hey, uh, any ereaders or tablets in that pile? I need something basic I can just read comics or books with but all the used stuff around me is priced as new and the new stuff is priced insane.

I’m gonna point you at the comment chain I’ve got adjacent to this with Zeoic if you missed it. I think it’s ultimately dancing around the same stuff and expresses my thoughts more cleanly on this topic.