Yeah and there’s a bit of drama around that as Jirard claimed that expenses would be handled by his parent company but seems to have expensed it to the charity, also they claim the total amount donated is still less than what they’ve taken in even after expenses.
Whatever the truth may be …
I completely understand why a gaming company just wants to not be associated with any of this.
Yeah it’s hard to speculate right now and we may never know. Jirard’s story changed so much between the phone call and his YouTube response. Much like you given the nature of where this stemmed from I’d like to attribute it to screwing up than anything else because it’s pretty dark otherwise.
I don’t watch much Completionist stuff but he really seemed like he was reading a script written by a lawyer for this “response”. As well as, looking increasing angry.
oh JS too, which kinda throws me off because I’m not bad with Web Dev, but I’m not good either and my UI looks like a bad web page than a good desktop app.
I’m actually trying to keep it simple and write my own launcher like Alfred, Albert, Kupfer but I want it to launch my own custom scripts that I can load in a directory as well.
The federal government is proposing financial incentives for farmers in lieu of cutting enteric methane emissions that are released in the air when cows burp.
I don’t think it’s super easy on an individual basis. I think for regular people it’ll be a really difficult transition. However, given the solutions we’re coming up with, and with the effects we’re having on the environment … it’s definitely easier relatively speaking.
I think that even cutting meat out a few days a week or going vegetarian than full-blown vegan would have a great effect too. Probably both on health and the environment.
This thread needs more explanations than just straight responses.
Anyways, I will say that the most surprising to me was Dredd. I mean, I shouldn’t really be surprised because it didn’t do well in the Box Office, but it was just so awesome. Was such a great movie all around and I really wanted to learn more about that world.
Just an apropos of that, I’m at dinner with friends and one of them says that I had bad tastes in movies. His example of that was that I liked Dredd. I think the entire table turned on him at that point. I think that he said that The Raid did it better. I was like … they’re just different movies to me … I LOVE The Raid. That being said, I really enjoyed Dredd. It’s a damned tragedy Karl Urban didn’t get to reprise the role.
I’ve been feeling down lately and I started re-watching futurama for some good nostalgia, but it keeps making transphobic jokes which is kind of just making me feel worse. Anyone have any suggestions for comfort shows to watch?
I hated that episode. That type of premise felt out of date when it was released.
It was surprising to me because they had a really early episode where Leela beat up her sensei really because he was sexist so it was so weird that “Bend-her” was a choice.
I’m totally the opposite. I feel you gotta love in a town/city where it’s great. I just moved to a city where I have to drive most places now… I find myself getting lazier … I drive to the gym. That feels bad.
Hello guys and gals, a day ago you've probably seen the video from my co-investigator in regards to the developing Open Hand Charity Situation. This time we delve far deeper and calculate that even more money appears to be either unreported or outright missing, both these situations are very troublesome legally and with no...
I do it while watching TV or something. It never seems to stop though. Even better when the kids spill something on the couch or wet the bed and you have to do impromptu laundry in the middle of the non-stop laundry.
I enjoy the base game of HOTS. Then again I only played a bit of League and I didn’t care for the last hit money thing and figuring out what books to level.
I enjoyed the simplification/streamlining of HOTS where you level as a team and select your upgrades. Games then seem to take 20 to 30 minutes? League can sometimes stretch out quite some time, I found (once again, not as much experience with it)
I think they screwed up on the monetization of HOTS though and it really is a shame it didn’t last. Still my favourite MOBA but it seems no one on this thread agrees and they could be right. I don’t play other MOBAs, but I love HOTS.
I actually came close to buying D4 this Black Friday but my friends all reminded me about the recent changes and the reviews and that it’s no longer the regular Blizzard I once loved. I think they were all saying Path of Exile is way better.
I remember when I was working with .NET and I saw some web service code and I saw there was no try catches. They didn’t have a global catch in the asax either or anything. I just wrapped each call into a try catch and log.
I got the same treatment where my manager wanted to know what happened with the increase in errors. I told him what I did. My manager got another developer to go through my commits regardless. I was a bit upset at the lack of trust.
Oh that was like years ago! Probably SVN, we on-boarded Git a little while after.
No pull requests, you just manually merged back then. It’s definitely a workflow improvement we adopted later and we as a company and as an industry have gotten better.
lol, the thing was just that my manager asked me what I did and I told him. Him getting another dev to “fact-check” me after is what bothered me a bit. I am usually the type of look into issues rather than brush them off and I am the first to confess to a screw up. Which is why I was irked.
I remember doing that as a junior because everyone in our codebase did it!
My new team lead came in and asked me why. I said it’s to reformat it due to the layer it was in. He said “…and what did you really accomplish with that?” All we did was bury our real error really well. It made me think about these things and to question convention more
I’m one of those people that don’t like it when people recommend stuff. I guess generally if you send me a clip and it’s my kinda jam then that’s cool.
Most of the time I like watching old stuff. I feel like I don’t need to pay attention as much and can just relax.
Infinity War has its faults. It’s paced a little nonstop and the Wakanda bits are a bit weak. That being said, I saw it ten times in the cinema and it’s the perfect movie for me. I swear – the tail end of Thanos being on Titan to the end of the movie, you can feel how somber it was and I feel that’s because of the connection to the characters. We can always say “oh they’re coming back” but I like to watch the movie on its own and remember just how it felt watching the movie for the first time.
I got it only a few months ago. I can wait a while for another. I’m still impressed what this little bugger can do. Also, then again I never bothered with the Switch OLED neither so I may not be the best.
From the livestream for their new channel, talking about what Yahtzee and the rest of the video editing team that quit the Escapist will be doing next.
The Cold Takes videos makes me feel like I’m getting some scotch and sitting down and listening to an old friend talk about games in a 1950s detective style bar.
I think I saw some doctor on YouTube explaining that most blind people don’t see pure black. They have varying levels of sight that count as being legally blind due to cataracts or something else.
Don’t get me wrong, the relief they feel for that 30 seconds for their disabilities to come back still fits in with the spirit of this meme.
I always felt Nintendo was rather innovative or at least took risks. Shoulder buttons with the SNES controller. The thumbstick and rumblepack with the N64. Wireless with the wavebird on the GameCube. Motion controls with the Wii. Touch screen with the DS and WiiU.
A lot of these are common sense now but at the times they were introduced they were awesome.
Handheld PC games have been such a “game changer” for me too. I love Nintendo and the Switch but like you said the library was a bit limited. Alongside, the storage and the types of games too.
I’m in bed and playing Ori. I haven’t bought a TV for my bedroom yet and sitting at a desk to play some games feels more cumbersome.
I really like that Steam has really changed things. It really brings PC games to a console-like experience.
Just a funny story. All of our devs and even BAs used to have prod access. We all knew this was a bad idea and put in a process of hiring a DBA.
I think in the first two weeks the DBA screwed up prod twice. I can’t remember the first mess up but the second he had a lock on the database and then went to lunch.
We eventually hired two awesome DBAs to replace that one but oh boy.
Supply chains, worker wages and the price of energy has been blamed for the current bout of high inflation. But central bankers around the world are starting to clue in to something consumers have been aware of for a while — corporations just aren't afraid to raise their prices anymore.
To be fair I skimmed the article and I don’t see the: “we let them sentiment in it” … I think that may be a bit of editorial liberty.
The articles does seem to empathize with us:
Advice for consumers for much of the past year has boiled down to either trying to cut back on expenses, or increasing income, but Stanford says it’s misleading to put the onus on consumers to solve inflation, since they’re the ones bearing the disproportionate burden of it.
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Sea of Stars devs remove The Completionist cameo amid charity controversy (www.dexerto.com)
Sea of Stars devs remove The Completionist cameo amid charity controversy (www.dexerto.com)
Updates regarding the IndieLand / The Completionist charity fraud allegations
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Canada wants to make cows burp less to fight climate change (globalnews.ca)
The federal government is proposing financial incentives for farmers in lieu of cutting enteric methane emissions that are released in the air when cows burp.
He didn't have to go far to find his muse. (startrek.website)
What Film Are You Surprised Didn't Get A Sequel?
Who is a fictional character you most identified with?
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The Completionist: My Response (www.youtube.com)
Comfort shows without transphobic jokes?
I’ve been feeling down lately and I started re-watching futurama for some good nostalgia, but it keeps making transphobic jokes which is kind of just making me feel worse. Anyone have any suggestions for comfort shows to watch?
The Completionist's Charity Finally Donated... (youtu.be)
An update on The Open Hand Foundation situation where it seems a donation has finally been made.
HP misreads room, awkwardly brags about its “less hated” printers (arstechnica.com)
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The Completionist’s Open Hand Charity Scam Has To Be Investigated... (youtu.be)
Hello guys and gals, a day ago you've probably seen the video from my co-investigator in regards to the developing Open Hand Charity Situation. This time we delve far deeper and calculate that even more money appears to be either unreported or outright missing, both these situations are very troublesome legally and with no...
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Blizzard allegedly surveyed Diablo 4 players about a $100 expansion (www.pcgamesn.com)
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What's a food you forget you like? Then you eat it, and wonder why you don't buy it more often?
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Gabe Newell on why game delays are okay: 'Late is just for a little while. Suck is forever.' (www.pcgamer.com)
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An Introduction to Second Wind with Nick and Yahtzee (www.youtube.com)
From the livestream for their new channel, talking about what Yahtzee and the rest of the video editing team that quit the Escapist will be doing next.
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Nintendo has officially announced a live-action 'Legend of Zelda' movie. (www.nintendo.co.jp)
From the team behind The Escapist, we're excited to announce our next adventure, Second Wind (twitter.com)
Focalboard: a free alternative to Trello (lemdro.id)
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The Escapist staff resign following termination of editor-in-chief Nick Calandra (www.gamesindustry.biz)
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It's not your imagination: Companies are more willing to raise their prices now — and it's because we let them (www.cbc.ca)
Supply chains, worker wages and the price of energy has been blamed for the current bout of high inflation. But central bankers around the world are starting to clue in to something consumers have been aware of for a while — corporations just aren't afraid to raise their prices anymore.