The problem is the working world has become too entrenched in the idea that management should get paid more which ultimately limits the upwards mobility for any non managerial role. Companies want to reward seniority though and so end up shunting people that aren’t suited for it into management.

A smart house is one of those things that sounds really cool but is actually a massive headache. And considering how unreliable voice recognition still is (no Google I asked you to set a timer, not tell me about some interesting species of bird) I can’t see myself investing too much into it in the near future. Some…

My workplace has been half heartedly pushing for RTO at least one day a week. My boss asked me recently why they didn’t see me much in the office and I just had to flat out ask him what was the point when on the few occasions I have gone in (including on the day he asked me that) no one else was there. The annoying…

Yeah I finally got convinced to update it and give it another try since OW1 was axed and yeesh it did not feel like a different game. It felt like the exact same game only discernibly worse in multiple ways. Gone was the clean UI, now there’s the in your face cluttered mess that seems to plague every live service…

You’re kind of underselling how much initial chaos there was. Not every company was able to just slide smoothly into remote working within a few months. Not to mention everything else that was going on. People getting sick, people dying, schools closing, borders closing. And game development is more than just coding.…

But do you need that kind of setup all the time? Every single week? I think the issue is companies trying to mandate fixed in office time when it’s unnecessary most of the time.

It’s British slang for a paedophile, as the article says. There’s a story about it originally being an acronym used at a prison - Not On Normal Courtyard Exercise, used for prisoners that wouldn’t be allowed out with the other cons because they’d get beaten up (being a paedophile is the lowest rung on the UK prison…

Yeah this is it. I have a rare (was a very limited print run) set of cards still in its shrink wrap from a now dead game that has a reasonable amount of value based on what it’s previously sold for. I know it’s in the range of a few hundred at least, but finding someone to pay that much isn’t trivial. There’s one on…

Yeah I don’t really get the whining. I agree it doesn’t function as a substitute for forums but it’s pretty much the evolved form of all the chat programs I’ve used over the years that rolls it all together. It’s got the server/channel breakdown of IRC for chat, it replaced Teamspeak for voice chat, and Skype for…

The article kind of misses that it’s probably Reddit more than anything else that’s killed forums. But subreddits often end up outside the company’s control. Discord provides something that’s easier and cheaper to maintain than their own forums but that they still have administrative control over. 

Except they aren’t really releasing on PC. They’ve scattered a few breadcrumbs sure, but those breadcrumbs all create a trail that leads back to PlayStation. Yes they released Horzion: Zero Dawn, Spider-Man, The Last of Us Part 1, and God of War on PC. Some of their biggest titles. But what a lot of the games they’ve…

I mean it's very on brand for Ubisoft.

I was considering this and even backed at the $1 level so I could decide later via the pledge manager (also means I’ve been getting the updates so I heard about this already) but glad I didn’t bite the bullet in the end as it looks like I’ve dodged one. While I think the pandemic certainly didn’t help it really feels…

The Switch is a portable that does a good job of masquerading as a home console when you want it to.

People made the same claim last generation. They were wrong then and I don’t think enough has changed that you’re going to be right now. The infrastructure just still isn’t up to scratch. It’s getting to the point where it works well for some people (and even then sometimes not all of the time) but that isn’t good…

Not to mention there’s so much garbage after s10 to pick from I don’t think “Homer is a bit too much of a jerk” is a valid argument for putting it on a worst episode list when there’s so many other episodes not on this list that just aren’t funny, aren’t clever, and also feature the Simpsons acting out of character.…

While I don’t think backwards compatibility is a truly essential feature (my PS3 and PS4 both still work and I think are still plugged in) I think it has really helped give the PS5 a headstart over the PS4. I got a PS5 at launch because of it while I waited for more games to come out with the PS4. I didn’t have a PS4…

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I mean this is just the norm at Kotaku now. What do you expect of this rotting husk of a blog? Nearly all their good writers have gone since Gawker imploded and their EIC is infamous for all the shitty articles she wrote when she started here. Including one rambling stream of consciousness about how she scammed a…

We aren't talking in the context of people who exercise regularly and maintain a low weight though. We're talking about people that are overweight or obese. And OP is right that it's ridiculous to pretend there's no relationship with food affecting that.