Definitely, but they (my family member) did well for themselves and their family. They moved between big name studios but have found a comfortable career not tied to any big name studio

I haven’t kept in close contact with them but it’s pretty fun hearing about, or even playing, games they’ve worked on (every once in a while I check up on what they’ve done)

They eventually got into the sound side of things and occasionally would do recordings when family got together. One time in particular I remember, we went on a walk and they brought recording equipment. Recorded the ambient sounds while we were on the trail. Sometimes we’d be talking and other times we were walking in silence. Recording us approaching and departing; the sounds of our footsteps on different terrain: gravel, dirt, grass, pavement. Got some closeups of a small creek that ran next to the trail. Would record the sounds of a field of wild grass, or a stand of trees. I wonder if anything they recorded ended up in some game… That would be pretty dope

Tl;Dr What I can say is, they genuinely loved their job no matter which shitty big name they worked under. And they got to do some genuinely fun things in the pursuit of bettering their work

Sorry for the wall of text, idk I just haven’t really had somewhere to share that. I’ve never heard someone mention infinity ward , like literally ever. Any time I’ve said the name I’ve been met with blanks stares until I say “Call of Duty”

I have a family member who worked for IW on CoD but left shortly after the merger when they saw the writing on the wall. Granted they left for a company just as bad ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

And when I’ve tried it numerous times I’ll let them walk me through the process while I browse the internet for a couple minutes while I “wait for the light to turn green”

Nope, it’s still flashing yellow, like it has been, and has been after the last couple resets of everything between me and the wall

Oh you’ll send a technician out? Thx.

Here’s the link to the site:

I haven’t poked around yet

Edit: there’s nothing else really, unless there’s some hidden urls

It’s hard to get over “that”. It feels good but vulnerable to let yourself out. But literally no one cares

https://youtu.be/iHLUIDXmF7c

This scene has resonated with me for a while and I love it and embrace it

Oh that looks so fun! I’ll definitely check it out. I feel that I might be able to scrounge together a group that would enjoy this

I recently had an rfid scanner immediately rma-d back that had just been returned to us. The new issue was caused by a setting and not by a defect. I asked our IT/help desk if it WAS a setting that could be changed

“I don’t know. I get the thing, I check these settings, I check those settings, that’s all I know”

😑😑😑

So me and another person are out of our equipment for another couple weeks while the scanner is sent back for “repairs” and the repair people will go “😑 tap tap tap idiots”

(Edit: I know it’s a setting because I talked with the other person who uses it and I explained the issue and he let me know it is something he changes)

Great long form article, thanks!

Thanks for posting these! I’ve caught nearly every one since you started and have given me motivation some days to start up something and play for a bit. And I’ve never regretted it because I do enjoy gaming. On those blah days seeing someone being excited about a game lifts my mood enough to do it myself and end up feeling pretty good and having fun

I hope you don’t forget anytime soon! I appreciate your enthusiasm for your games and following along with your progress is very wholesome as well

Lol well now I don’t have to play D1! Kidding, I’m having a blast with two and have found myself drawn into the story (plenty of games I don’t care so much) so I’d love to go back and play D1 and then him in D2 since I ended up going with Emily

Hey thanks so much!! Good tips. I did end up starting the 2nd one but I think I’ll finish this one playthrough then go back and do D1 and play through d2 on the other playable character. I love it so far and I’m having a lot of fun figuring out different ways of going about the missions

But I’ll absolutely save your comment for future reference!

You convinced me to download the game. Been craving a game exactly like that for a while. Should the first one be played before going into 2?

Just cast him as all the roles. in everything

My PS5 is 4 months old and my fans have never been that loud. Not even when two have been on and running at the same time. Granted we weren’t playing disc games, but still… Fan noise shouldn’t be that loud

I’ve installed stardew on nearly every mobile device I’ve owned

You convinced me to buy it for my PlayStation and I’m loading it up now 😂

I did too. But I played when they had the starter zone and sadly never got very far out of it. Once in a while I’d find someone who’d invite a high level character to clear a dungeon (or what ever the eq lingo is) but never was able to venture much outside the cities

You can change that on a per-profile basis

Same. When I have to use the 4a, it feels SO TINY now in comparison

I’m with you on that one. I use a 3rd party app and it’s nice getting that piped link. It uses the in-app browser and I don’t have to go through any extra steps

As much as foss is pushed on here (fediverse) I appreciate the accessibility the bot provided until I make change of life approach to alternatives

I can’t think of a time steam was down (for me personally, I know outages happen) that wasn’t planned and announced well ahead of time

And I’ve got a lot of hours on steam