State of the Game

The Roofus

The Roofus
Oztig said:
Anything by terry gilliam is fine by me
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AlSki

AlSki
PiLhEaD said:
When commuting in London I knew exactly where to stand on each tube-platform for the doors and carriage necessary for the best exit for my specific onward connection/exit. Even now Mrs PiLhEaD says 'How do you know this stuff!?'

One thing that still strikes me as odd is that in the 12+ years of taking more or less the same (tube) train into London and sitting in more or less the same carriage, that I didn't ever recalling seeing the same person twice. One of my colleagues who commuted in on the mainline/overground formed a bridge-four with fellow commuters.
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Depends. It does seem to have a direct correlation with frequency.
Commuting in from Clapham/Barnes, I never saw the same people twice. But when I moved to Guildford then I made lots of Commuter friends. Then I moved even further out on a line with only 2 trains to London (before 9am), and after a few years I knew about a hundred regular commuters. We've played scrabble, cards, even celebrated birthdays and had leaving drinks on those trains.
 

Lysette

Lysette
AlSki said:
Bizarrely working in IT, particularly where support and development cross, you still see sub-divisions within the focused vs multi-tasking space, but on the whole it follows male vs female. It also means that I've seen women excel in Support (a highly underappreciated and underpaid sector) via their ability to multi-task, yet highly focused individuals will cut a niche as the "anti-social rock star coder" (often a lucrative position to be in). Also, and again so stereo-typically, development managers need to multi-task, so your best developers rarely make the best managers, but instead you end up pulling in somebody with these skills to oversee them (and all the friction that causes).

Nope. I have a couple of colleagues (one female, the other is a PM so highly multi-tasking) and they will chat you while we are in larger conf calls. I have to ignore them while I walk around focusing on the persons voice. If I am answering either of them, I am not listening to the call.
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well in IT you have to assume that women choosing this profession are most likely much like me (a non-typical female) - eventually even tomboys, who developed male interests like choosing a technically or mathematically heavy profession. So you will find "mixed features" like mine quite often in this sector and comparing those to each other will not lead to the kernel of it.
 
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AlSki

AlSki
Lysette said:
well in IT you have to assume that women choosing this profession are most likely much like me - eventually even tomboys, who developed male interests like choosing a technically or mathematically heavy profession. So you will find "mixed features" like mine quite often in this sector and comparing those to each other will not lead to the kernel of it.
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On the whole, I agree the sector leads to a shifted spectrum, particularly on the female side, but not always particularly where people "accidentally" ended up in the role. Some of the best examples are the ones that break the norm, like the secretary that was only supposed to be helping on the helpdesk for a few weeks, but found her niche. They certainly weren't tomboy nails. ;-)
I've also known more focused females in other diverse sector's such as theatre design, and lawyers. So whatever the kernel is, I have no idea.
 

nemolomen

nemolomen
Factabulous said:
It wasn't even that

"Oh hai - I'm Onedrive I'm backing up all your data ok"
"Why?"
"It's convenient, never lose anything"
"Don't do that"
"Ok, I'm keeping your data - screw you!"

Good old m/s eh (y)
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Thank you very much for reminding me to set up a daily backup of my personal OneDrive to my NAS. You know, just in case. 😉

I already have it shared across several devices. But screw the memes on there, I'd rather not lose my other documents. I remember reading horror stories like that when researching it. I started using it on a trial basis about 8 or 9 months ago and while I have been making occasional manunal backups, nothing I do personally beats automating it...

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OneDrive mocks me to such an extent I keep expecting ultimate Microsoft troll Clippit to be waiting for me in my taskbar when I log on, ready to mock me.
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Clippy?
 

Sysmon

Sysmon
nemolomen said:
Thank you very much for reminding me to set up a daily backup of my personal OneDrive to my NAS. You know, just in case. 😉

I already have it shared across several devices. But screw the memes on there, I'd rather not lose my other documents. I remember reading horror stories like that when researching it. I started using it on a trial basis about 8 or 9 months ago and while I have been making occasional manunal backups, nothing I do personally beats automating it...


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PiLhEaD

PiLhEaD
AlSki said:
...It does seem to have a direct correlation with frequency....
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Indeed. I was on a service that ran every 10-15 minutes. Combine that with the numbers and it makes sense. For context the Bakerloo line ran three trains in three minutes, with a three minute break in between. I was lucky to meet myself when using it, and often joined the people who'd taken the first train at the bottom of the escalators when I'd arrive on train #3, having sat down for my journey.
 

Darth Ender

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so tomorrow, does fdev embrace the state of the game and just troll everyone hard... or just do a clip show of the year?

the right choice stream:
big text: "state of the game:"
then show all of the cool pp characters that never made it in the game. show the code for power collapse and faction elevation... have some employees playing Odyssey on the ps4. land on a planet with oceans and clouds and crash land into a thargoid that's walking around. have the cmdr pet his cat in the passenger seat before getting up and walking thru the ship to jump out of the access door. cut back to the streamers who are in vr on foot with hand controls...

then it cuts to black. coming in 2022.... to me. braben spins around in his chair, laughing... then gives the camera the finger. in the corner is a pile of bricks and a homeless person just crying and in the other corner behind braben is barreh the pp aliehn in a cage.
then just the text "have fun with update whatever"

most people might not get what they just did but we'd get it... and that's all that matters
 
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