What storm? Did Tony Turboblitz let go a fart?
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Storm in Texas? I didn't realise...couldn't hear the TV news over the noise of the 110mph winds and driving rain we're having up here beyond the wall. That kinda thing isn't classed as a storm up here though, that's just Thursday
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If you don't know, Texas got hit with a winter storm it couldn't deal with and many many people lost power and water for too long.
How would I know? Didnt make the headlines here. Any dead?
Last I heard was 86. Not sure if that is the final count.
And they have studio in Texas? I thought they were California?
And -- of course -- many are jumping to the defense of CIG, because "they didn't have to use PTO."
The Kotaku article explains it (because of course no real Star Citizen would actually read the thing, including their own employees doing damage control):
Source: https://twitter.com/CaptainZyloh/status/1370060606875832328
The Kotaku article explains it (because of course no real Star Citizen would actually read the thing, including their own employees doing damage control):
So yes, Tyler. No one used their PTO; it was the tone deaf way things were handled. Ugh. Stuff like this just makes me really, really mad.
Source: https://twitter.com/CaptainZyloh/status/1370060606875832328
This is weird to me. No one on my team had to use PTO at all, and I felt that CIG was extremely flexible/understanding. In fact, I just asked a load of people on the team about this and it confused everyone. Unfortunately, I think this is an outright lie.
California, Texas (the original studio before they moved to Santa Monica), Canada (Turbulent), UK (two studios, Wilmslow and Derby) and Germany.
And about a dozen other corporate entities and dozens of current and former 3rd party studios.
But having studios spread around so many different time zones allows CIG the benefit of nonstop development!
Storm in Texas? I didn't realise...couldn't hear the TV news over the noise of the 110mph winds and driving rain we're having up here beyond the wall. That kinda thing isn't classed as a storm up here though, that's just Thursday
Different countries and cultures. Some areas aren't prepared for weather other regions take for granted.
In England people think they are getting a snow day if there is a few inches of snow. Here in Russia its not a snow day unless the cars won't start (depending on the car that can be anywhere between -25 and -35, assuming they aren't kept in a garage).
Yeah, like anyone here is going to believe a word that comes out of Mr "I played through every mission of SQ42" in 2016's mouth.
Up here in Minnesota, we took the near -40 weather (not counting windchill) and snow in stride. After all, we’ve had snow as late as June, and as early as August, in living memory.Storm in Texas? I didn't realise...couldn't hear the TV news over the noise of the 110mph winds and driving rain we're having up here beyond the wall. That kinda thing isn't classed as a storm up here though, that's just Thursday
Down there where snow is a rarity, and temperatures rarely drop below freezing, they were dealing with massive power outages, $12,000 electricity bills (if you were on of the lucky few with power), ruptured pipes from the water freezing, and traffic accidents thanks to not having snow plows and sand/salt spreaders.
To be fair too, it's not like there's anything there that would seem specific to CIG or SC. It reeks of idiotic control freak middle manager syndrome, which is sadly all too widespread. It only takes one pillock in the line management chain to ruin the day of a good few people. And even when the higher ups bring the hammer down, you will still end up with some degree of employee unrest for the situation to have been allowed to happen in the first place.
I love the idea of absolutely catching up the week's work asap though. Could you imagine the disaster scenario of release being delayed by 1 week?
I love the idea of absolutely catching up the week's work asap though. Could you imagine the disaster scenario of release being delayed by 1 week?
I'm kinda catching up on the news now...quite horrendous with so much loss of life, especially when I look at that kind of weather as almost commonplace. I suspect that there will be more of this 'freak' weather in the future though. I think this planet has had quite enough of us breaking it...
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And we'll be on the front lines too. If the Gulf Stream goes, Ireland and the UK will suddenly realise their latitude...
Or it could go the other way, increase, turning the UK into the new Magaluf, with hordes of drunken Finns coming over for their hols to sunny Bangor.
The Gulf stream is already weakening year upon year. With the amount of ice breaking off the Arctic shelf and filling the north Atlantic with heavier, fresh water...the Gulf stream isn't only weakening, it's being pushed further south by the influx of that fresh water...
Global warming doesn't mean it's going to get hot up here either, a 2 or 3°c shift downward in mean annual temparature when and if the Gulf stream gets pushed much further south by the melting ice would drive the UK and Ireland into another mini ice-age...similar to the one that gripped Europe from the 13th to the 19th century. Thanks to the Gulf stream being stable, the winters in northern Europe have been unusually shorter and milder during the 20th century by it causing a permanent meteorological high pressure area over the Azores and Portugal and an opposing permanent meteorological low set over Iceland, all the winter weather in between these places have been consequently mild as a result.
That's what I remember from history lessons about the mini ice-age at school anyway
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According to this YouTuber iCache is in. Posted 4 days ago.
I mean, you could even swap "Star Citizen" with "iCache" in that title and it wouldnt change an inch how accurate the statement is.