Abso-flimmin-lutely, mate.
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Abso-flimmin-lutely, mate.
Reminds me of everytime I hear someone say "Well, to be perfectly honest...", which implies to me that they're not most of the time. LOL
I know the feeling, and I've always been the same person, in or out of game- at work, at home, at the store, etc. It's simply amazing to me how many put on a mask in front of different crowds.
I say "to be perfectly honest" or "to be honest" a lot but I see it as a turn of a phrase, one I use when I'm going to say something brutally honest that other people aren't going to like. And, I am not the same person at work as at home, I live in Wyoming where the vast majority of my co-workers think Trump is the second coming. I won't, to be perfectly honest, go into any deeper as I fear the mods.
Side note... I have been looking for a new job recently and the amount of times I heard "Thanks for being honest / Appreciate your honesty" during or after the interviews is ridiculous. I am ALWAYS honest, that's how I've been raised. Lying and beeing dishonest is for lamers and cowards.
What sad times we live in, that being honest is recognised as something special...
It also means, "you're not getting the job", in many cases.
I hate this century.
Side note... I have been looking for a new job recently and the amount of times I heard "Thanks for being honest / Appreciate your honesty" during or after the interviews is ridiculous. I am ALWAYS honest, that's how I've been raised. Lying and beeing dishonest is for lamers and cowards.
What sad times we live in, that being honest is recognised as something special...
It may be sad, and surely is, but in my opinion, it is the truth.
I say "to be perfectly honest" or "to be honest" a lot but I see it as a turn of a phrase, one I use when I'm going to say something brutally honest that other people aren't going to like. And, I am not the same person at work as at home, I live in Wyoming where the vast majority of my co-workers think Trump is the second coming. I won't, to be perfectly honest, go into any deeper as I fear the mods.
I'm a firm believer on promotion by MERIT, not simply by brown-nosing, or sidling up to people in order to stroke their egos. Most of the people I work around fall into the latter category, unfortuntately- and although a lot of people tend to give "taking responsibility for one's own actions" a lot of lip service, in actuality it's quite rare as a practice, from what I've simply observed. It's indeed amusing, and as the adage goes... "Be careful what you wish for..."
I say "to be perfectly honest" or "to be honest" a lot but I see it as a turn of a phrase, one I use when I'm going to say something brutally honest that other people aren't going to like. And, I am not the same person at work as at home, I live in Wyoming where the vast majority of my co-workers think Trump is the second coming. I won't, to be perfectly honest, go into any deeper as I fear the mods.
Try southwest Missouri. It's worse. I've done work on transmitter sites down there.
Only the fact that I still look and sound like I'm a US officer still has kept me alive down there, on several occasions. The Southron (sic) accent is an asset.
I'm a firm believer on promotion by MERIT, not simply by brown-nosing, or sidling up to people in order to stroke their egos. Most of the people I work around fall into the latter category, unfortuntately- and although a lot of people tend to give "taking responsibility for one's own actions" a lot of lip service, in actuality it's quite rare as a practice, from what I've simply observed. It's indeed amusing, and as the adage goes... "Be careful what you wish for..."
Merit died on the day bosses learned how to mangle Excel pivot tables...
Someone has a HUGE LARGE AXE to grind here... :/
Yes I'm afraid it does probably, 20/20 observation. Guess we'll have to see what C21 does "going forward" (grrrr)
Suppose I could say what I saw at FD HQ but then I'd have to frag everyone to stop the info from getting out? Sworn to secrecy on pain of DBOBE but if that makes you jealous don't worry because not really.
I know the feeling, and I've always been the same person, in or out of game- at work, at home, at the store, etc. It's simply amazing to me how many put on a mask in front of different crowds.
I once landed a job after I was asked "what is your biggest flaw?" and I answered "When I get asked cliche, asinine, and completely pointless questions I don't humor the person who asked with a cliche, asinine and completely pointless response".
I got an offer letter before I left the building.
I also blew an interview once when one of the interviewers brought out a bunch of Google interview questions and started using them on me. After the 3rd one I said "you KNOW you're not Google, right?"
so that attitude doesn't always work, but who wants to work for a company that it doesn't work for?
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Merit died on the day bosses learned how to mangle Excel pivot tables...
What's amusing is that I continue to earn the respect of those around me, even to the ire of the management, because it shows just how incompetent they are when it comes to leadership. They don't understand that "fear motivation" only gets you so far, and that true leadership is the inherent ability to not only teach others how to do a job properly based on experience- but also the ability to step in and get the job done when need be. As a manager, your responsibility is #1 making sure the job gets done/mission gets accomplished- either by "subordinate" or "yourself". It's not about how many minions you happen to have on your payroll, what sort of car you're driving, or what kind of college diploma you overpaid a university to obtain. It's not "those who can't do, teach", it's "those who can do and teach are the leaders". Unfortunately, it's a value that's less viewed as such if people around you are only telling you what you want to hear, as opposed to what you need to hear.
The very fact that this thread is, on the whole, negative, speaks wonders to the typical industry technique of getting 'influencers' in to a special closed event, to make such people feel special and important, safe in the knowledge these people have many YT viewers (or other types of follower), and thus will say 'something' just after the event, but without saying anything... and then giving such content providers ample time to knock up a 'special, exclusive' video about the upcoming changes, the moment any NDA is lifted, hence giving these people a head start (and thus extra funds), while giving Frontier some nice, polished publicity without having to lift a finger in effort.
It's just the way the gaming industry is now. Lying, deceitful, conniving and treating their actual paying customers like dirt. Such a shame to see it happening here too.
It's just the way the gaming industry is now. Lying, deceitful, conniving and treating their actual paying customers like dirt. Such a shame to see it happening here too.
It’s almost a classic ‘us and them’ text book master class in how to cause unrest.
Flimley.
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You had to ask....
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I was gonna say...about tree fiddy.
I wouldn't say that explorers have been trampled upon by Frontier. A more accurate statement IMHO would be that Frontier has largely neglected explorers. Even with the Gnosis, Frontier simply did not take what explorers were looking for from the event into account, and instead turned it into Just Another Combat Content. Time and time again Frontier simply seems to forget about exploration, or at least put it aside. I guess you could say they keep "prioritizing" it.
It's one of my largest worries about 3.3, that the update will be more focused on everything else other than exploration, even after waiting over four years for new mechanics and content. That in the end the exploration improvements will be minimal in actuality and not substantial. This is why I'd love more information about what explorers are getting for 3.3, because the info we do have so far makes me fear that it might be the ONLY things explorers are getting for 3.3.
There's a rumor OA didn't attend after all. Apparently, after signing his NDA he said, "I'm just going for a leak" and security marched him out of the building.
I would watch all of his videos back then... i do not recall him at all talking about Frontier's response, which was that they had tried to make the colour reflect the material and the white balance of the stars, where it had failed was the extrapolation between chemistry and different white balances... the result was as you saw, beige... everywhere. If you can find a video where he says something along the lines of this, and says something like "FDev might not be fixing this because maybe they have plans to overhaul it" then, sure ill admit im wrong.
I never recall it though, I never recall him being at all positive... to be positive or objective would be like follows
1) There is this problem with the colours of rocky type worlds
2) FDev have said now that it is due to reason X, I can see that, and actually that was an impressive thing to try and do, but it is a shame that it didnt work
3) FDev have said they plan to fix it in the future, but no plans as yet. I wonder what this means? are planets getting an overhaul?
My memory of his videos on the subject roughly went like this
1) There is a problem with the colours of rocky type worlds
2) FDev are largely ignoring the community who want this fixed, or have said they are not going to fix it
3) FDev have continually downgraded the graphics on planets, 2.0 was amazing. They look super ugly and crap these days.
4) I have no confidence in FDev at all.
Which... when you repeat that about... oooh 2 or 3 times a month, yes, can very fairly get you accused of being toxic.
A fair assessment and non 'i have to always be positive' version would ultimately be a mix
1) There is a problem with the colours of rocky type words
2) FDev have taken a long time to respond, but ultimately told us the reason... it is interesting that they wanted to give us something realistic and it kind of failed. Its a shame but kudos for trying
3) FDev have said they plan to fix it in the future but no plans yet. This is a shame, i think it makes exploration a little undesirable these days. I hoped it could be done sooner rather than later
4) Maybe this leads to speculation that these changes will come in with some other content rather than being a simple fix. Maybe points at a overhaul? that would be neat.
5) FDev have sometimes hit and sometimes missed with what they deliver, but, iv met them several times and they are passionate and care deeply.
His last visit to FDev video had some weird snipe about 'its my impression that fdev found it really hard to develop the Cobra Engine, and they are probably not over those hurdles yet." (paraphrasing obviously) its like wow really OA? you can tell that from looking at people working can you? Where does that line come from, you certainly don't qualify it at all... because all i see is that it seeds doubt in the community that FDev can deliver... its subtle but toxic.