Also they tend to have superstition or folklore stuck in their memory.
I wish I could remember where I read this, and I don't know if it's actually true, but I had read that the human brain often relies on "stories." That is, memories are recorded as stories. Something that is a story is easier to remember than a dry recitation of facts. Superstition and folklore make for good stories; it can be easier for us to keep them with us.
Oh. I'm sorry. Is my personal experience with real live people in my circle less of a factual source than a Wikipedia article?
Yes. Yes it absolutely is. Your experience is what we call an "anecdote." That is, it gets a "uhh, cool story, bro" because it doesn't reflect what happened to a far, far greater number of people.
If 40 hour weeks made people more productive, game companies would have figured that out decades ago.
No. The games industry is too new. They are extremely immature. The software development industry is immature in general compared to others, but games seem to be at the very low end. Full of bad management that doesn't understand how people operate, full of incredible amounts of turnover because no one can work at that level for years on end, and full of recent college grads with no family who are too young and stupid to know that there's any better way to work.
It worked for Red Dead Redemption 2. [...]Real developers are proud to work crunch time to get a game out on time.
Yay, you got your game. Good for you. I mean, some other folks got royally fucked, but who gives a shit about them? You got to play a game.
They know it makes for a better product.
No it doesn't. We KNOW exactly the opposite is true: Once you start working more than 40, 50 hours a week, your per-hour productivity takes a big hit. You make far more mistakes, have to clean up far more messes, you're less creative, and your work is just generally shoddier. Working 80-120 hours? I don't care how superstar you think you are, you're far less effective than you think at that level of hours. Worse, that is burnout mode -- that grinds up all your talent and forces them to leave the industry. Games devs don't last very long in such an environment, so you'll have a studio full of newbies.
It's only bad developers that want unions, and solely to protect themselves from being judge on the merit of their work rather than their membership in the union.
There's just so much bullshit here, I have to think this is an anti-union executive trolling.
What we're seeing is the balkanization of the industry, driven by the ability of anyone with a cell phone now being able to create "movies" and distribute them via YouTube.
And almost nobody cares about those "movies." They don't have anywhere close to the same impact that the studios have.
This server is probably running on Linux, so you just failed your boycott right at the starting line, dumbass!
The Linux Foundation owns "The Linux Foundation." They don't own the kernel. They don't own GNU. They don't own Red Hat or Slackware or Ubuntu or IBM or any of the other Linux-related big names. They're not
Now if you're talking about boycotting all Linux Foundation partners, or boycotting any technology that the Linux Foundation has funded, well, then we'd really have something. I think you'd be a little touched in the head because at that point you're boycotting technologies that the Foundation doesn't own just because they touched it, which is not a standard we apply to other boycotts.
If the school came after the plant, then it sounds like a government screw-up.
It's what happens when we eschew sensible planning in favor of "no planning," and we've seen it for hundreds of years. It's why people eventually got sick of it. No, we don't get "the same likely planning" with sensible zoning.
So I (eventually) switched to Prime. So far so good. Prime seems to go after the more premium experience and curates it's content more. Netflix seems to just want to dump massive quantities of crap on the service, and make you figure out what you want.
Well frankly, a service SHOULD have everything, and we have the choice about what we want to see. Unfortunately, that's not the case, and it won't ever be the case until there are enormous shifts in the marketplace .
One must be a fool to think that Netflix can offer all shows and movies out there for $10-15/month
You do? I don't know, that's exactly what they offered a decade ago. Then streaming came around, and the media companies were all "noooope! We're in charge now, rental prices need to triple. Just because."
I agree. The only reason I started using them was they were cheap and had a good selection. Now they are so hell bent on this original programming and dumping truckloads of cash into it. Guess who they are offsetting that cost with? The masses of idiots.
They're going hard after original programming because they get dicked over by the media cartel. Streaming has taken the power away from DVD distributors like Netflix, and given viewing controls back to the media rights holders. Not surprising, the "golden age of Netflix" DVD system from a decade ago, where you could get almost anything you wanted for a reasonable price just in one place, is gone. Instead, the streaming market is Balkanized, requiring you to sign up for four or more services to (legally) watch the shows you want, each of which costs as much or more as Netflix did in their prime.
I don't blame Netflix for this. They're getting fucked, repeatedly, by the media companies who have long wanted to put Netflix out of business. Netflix's only defense is to create original programs that they control and can guarantee won't disappear the next time Disney or Sony decide to pull their offerings from rival services.
DO you realize that SUV/pickups are the FASTEST growing vehicles in the world? China is buying them up faster than America. Why do you think that China's emissions increase are between 4-7%.
My mother always told me that someone else acting badly is not an excuse for me to act badly.
"B-b-but Trump had nothing to do with the largest economic gains in generations! It was post-Obama's legacy!"
I'd give Trump more of the benefit of the doubt if the economy wasn't roaring the same amount in the final year or two of Obama's presidency. Trump made a point of it, saying on the campaign trail that the stock market couldn't be trusted, how the Obama boom was all smoke and mirrors. Of course, as soon as 2017 rolled around, he pulled a 180 and took credit for it all.
Poe's Law is unfortunately correct. You say something crazy, and you will get plenty of people coming out of the woodwork who believe you and legitimately think "What this guy said, yes, that's the truth I believe in!"
Because they were all raging far-left activists who would rather wipe their ass with the document they had sworn to uphold than defend it.
No one really debated Merrick Garland on his qualifications to the court. He wasn't a "far-left activist." No, he was blocked for no other reason than that Mitch McConnell vowed that Obama would not appoint a Supreme Court justice. He did it because he could get away with it, and there were no penalties for such a power grab. He was right.
You have completely left reality. The USA is still many times lower in population but 2nd overall and the highest per capita in the world.
I've tried making that argument before, but Slashdot has lots of folks who believe per-capita does not matter; only total generation per country matters.
Heroes of the Storm did not flop -- it's still well-maintained, and it's the eSports thing that flopped. Overwatch league has brought in nearly a billion dollars for Activision. Not my thing, particularly, but that's not chump change. I don't care if it's not LoL level either, it can exist as a success or failure on its own. That's also after the base game made a billion dollars in sales, which isn't too bad given it was built from the ruins of Titan, which they spent $150m on before they canned it.
D3's launch and initial year was an absolute disaster, though it turned into an excellent game with the expansion. YMMV with "damaged brand," but it was not abandoned, it's putting out a patch in a week that's the largest since the expansion. People who still play D3 are excited about it. If you play on the ladder, it's a frequently evolving game. I don't know if I'll do that much with it; my time with that game might be past.
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Also they tend to have superstition or folklore stuck in their memory.
I wish I could remember where I read this, and I don't know if it's actually true, but I had read that the human brain often relies on "stories." That is, memories are recorded as stories. Something that is a story is easier to remember than a dry recitation of facts. Superstition and folklore make for good stories; it can be easier for us to keep them with us.
Oh. I'm sorry. Is my personal experience with real live people in my circle less of a factual source than a Wikipedia article?
Yes. Yes it absolutely is. Your experience is what we call an "anecdote." That is, it gets a "uhh, cool story, bro" because it doesn't reflect what happened to a far, far greater number of people.
If 40 hour weeks made people more productive, game companies would have figured that out decades ago.
No. The games industry is too new. They are extremely immature. The software development industry is immature in general compared to others, but games seem to be at the very low end. Full of bad management that doesn't understand how people operate, full of incredible amounts of turnover because no one can work at that level for years on end, and full of recent college grads with no family who are too young and stupid to know that there's any better way to work.
If they want a family and a social life, then what the heck are they doing in the game dev business?
That says really shitty things about the games industry.
It worked for Red Dead Redemption 2. [...]Real developers are proud to work crunch time to get a game out on time.
Yay, you got your game. Good for you. I mean, some other folks got royally fucked, but who gives a shit about them? You got to play a game.
They know it makes for a better product.
No it doesn't. We KNOW exactly the opposite is true: Once you start working more than 40, 50 hours a week, your per-hour productivity takes a big hit. You make far more mistakes, have to clean up far more messes, you're less creative, and your work is just generally shoddier. Working 80-120 hours? I don't care how superstar you think you are, you're far less effective than you think at that level of hours. Worse, that is burnout mode -- that grinds up all your talent and forces them to leave the industry. Games devs don't last very long in such an environment, so you'll have a studio full of newbies.
It's only bad developers that want unions, and solely to protect themselves from being judge on the merit of their work rather than their membership in the union.
There's just so much bullshit here, I have to think this is an anti-union executive trolling.
The aquifers are already getting tapped out. We may not even need legislative controls.
What we're seeing is the balkanization of the industry, driven by the ability of anyone with a cell phone now being able to create "movies" and distribute them via YouTube.
And almost nobody cares about those "movies." They don't have anywhere close to the same impact that the studios have.
They're not
Whoops. I meant to say, they're not Disney, where they're the owners and controllers of all things Disney-related.
This server is probably running on Linux, so you just failed your boycott right at the starting line, dumbass!
The Linux Foundation owns "The Linux Foundation." They don't own the kernel. They don't own GNU. They don't own Red Hat or Slackware or Ubuntu or IBM or any of the other Linux-related big names. They're not
Now if you're talking about boycotting all Linux Foundation partners, or boycotting any technology that the Linux Foundation has funded, well, then we'd really have something. I think you'd be a little touched in the head because at that point you're boycotting technologies that the Foundation doesn't own just because they touched it, which is not a standard we apply to other boycotts.
You can't win an Oscar unless your a member...
You can't? Haven't independent movie studios won Oscars before?
Fine, I'll boycott the Linux Foundation.
Which isn't very hard to do.
If the school came after the plant, then it sounds like a government screw-up.
It's what happens when we eschew sensible planning in favor of "no planning," and we've seen it for hundreds of years. It's why people eventually got sick of it. No, we don't get "the same likely planning" with sensible zoning.
So I (eventually) switched to Prime. So far so good. Prime seems to go after the more premium experience and curates it's content more. Netflix seems to just want to dump massive quantities of crap on the service, and make you figure out what you want.
Well frankly, a service SHOULD have everything, and we have the choice about what we want to see. Unfortunately, that's not the case, and it won't ever be the case until there are enormous shifts in the marketplace .
One must be a fool to think that Netflix can offer all shows and movies out there for $10-15/month
You do? I don't know, that's exactly what they offered a decade ago. Then streaming came around, and the media companies were all "noooope! We're in charge now, rental prices need to triple. Just because."
I choose streaming to avoid the commercials. a 20-22 minutes show takes 30 minutes to watch on Network TV.
It's like when your significant other makes an extravagant purchase, and focuses on how much was saved due to the item being on sale...
My time is far more valuable these days. I have really tired of the incessant advertising and how much of our time is wasted on it.
I agree. The only reason I started using them was they were cheap and had a good selection. Now they are so hell bent on this original programming and dumping truckloads of cash into it. Guess who they are offsetting that cost with? The masses of idiots.
They're going hard after original programming because they get dicked over by the media cartel. Streaming has taken the power away from DVD distributors like Netflix, and given viewing controls back to the media rights holders. Not surprising, the "golden age of Netflix" DVD system from a decade ago, where you could get almost anything you wanted for a reasonable price just in one place, is gone. Instead, the streaming market is Balkanized, requiring you to sign up for four or more services to (legally) watch the shows you want, each of which costs as much or more as Netflix did in their prime.
I don't blame Netflix for this. They're getting fucked, repeatedly, by the media companies who have long wanted to put Netflix out of business. Netflix's only defense is to create original programs that they control and can guarantee won't disappear the next time Disney or Sony decide to pull their offerings from rival services.
DO you realize that SUV/pickups are the FASTEST growing vehicles in the world? China is buying them up faster than America. Why do you think that China's emissions increase are between 4-7%.
My mother always told me that someone else acting badly is not an excuse for me to act badly.
"B-b-but Trump had nothing to do with the largest economic gains in generations! It was post-Obama's legacy!"
I'd give Trump more of the benefit of the doubt if the economy wasn't roaring the same amount in the final year or two of Obama's presidency. Trump made a point of it, saying on the campaign trail that the stock market couldn't be trusted, how the Obama boom was all smoke and mirrors. Of course, as soon as 2017 rolled around, he pulled a 180 and took credit for it all.
Poe's Law is unfortunately correct. You say something crazy, and you will get plenty of people coming out of the woodwork who believe you and legitimately think "What this guy said, yes, that's the truth I believe in!"
Because they were all raging far-left activists who would rather wipe their ass with the document they had sworn to uphold than defend it.
No one really debated Merrick Garland on his qualifications to the court. He wasn't a "far-left activist." No, he was blocked for no other reason than that Mitch McConnell vowed that Obama would not appoint a Supreme Court justice. He did it because he could get away with it, and there were no penalties for such a power grab. He was right.
You have completely left reality. The USA is still many times lower in population but 2nd overall and the highest per capita in the world.
I've tried making that argument before, but Slashdot has lots of folks who believe per-capita does not matter; only total generation per country matters.
DRAIN THE SWAMP
... of what talent is there.
Aaaaah, Dynamix. Too bad they couldn't stick with Sierra.
Heroes of the Storm did not flop -- it's still well-maintained, and it's the eSports thing that flopped. Overwatch league has brought in nearly a billion dollars for Activision. Not my thing, particularly, but that's not chump change. I don't care if it's not LoL level either, it can exist as a success or failure on its own. That's also after the base game made a billion dollars in sales, which isn't too bad given it was built from the ruins of Titan, which they spent $150m on before they canned it.
D3's launch and initial year was an absolute disaster, though it turned into an excellent game with the expansion. YMMV with "damaged brand," but it was not abandoned, it's putting out a patch in a week that's the largest since the expansion. People who still play D3 are excited about it. If you play on the ladder, it's a frequently evolving game. I don't know if I'll do that much with it; my time with that game might be past.
Bungie wasn't the cash cow that Blizzard is for Activision. Expect an extraordinarily high price if Blizzard was to split off.