I did not argue against strengthening the VRA to apply to all states, as my comment explicitly notes (“all or none”). My problem with Section 4 of the VRA was that it essentially let everyone besides the Deep South get away with murder. Laws specifically targeting parts of the US for things that happened in 1965 are…

The part of the VRA that he gutted deserved to go. I live in a deep blue state that viciously suppresses the minority vote via gerrymandering, and meanwhile, that part of the VRA was busily using Civil War-era statistics to tell us who to keep an eye on. The VRA should apply to all states or none... but not just…

Man, I even remember the kind of smack-talk people had about their particular Voodoo card... IIRC, the Canopus cards were ultimately the ones to get, due to having extra RAM (Voodoo1) or being shorter (Voodoo2).

Threewave Software was Zoid’s company.

I just realized that a substantial portion of the readership has probably never even HEARD of Threewave CTF, or 3dfx, S3, or any of the other names from the golden age of 3D acceleration.

Bingo. My 5yro LOVES Lego Dimensions. Some of these older properties at least make it passably entertaining.

Not surprised at all that they don’t get the hint. Communications discipline in some companies, especially smaller ones, can be way too lax... I sometimes have to remind people that certain conversations should not be conducted over formats that could become revealed in a lawsuit discovery phase situation.

That’s a fairly sensible policy. Gambling debt can cause massive security-related problems for a company. Kinja’s a time waster, but unlikely to result in serious problems.

Your supervisors have thin skin. I’d be more surprised if my guys weren’t talking some shit about me now and then. That’s just how it goes when you’re the manager... not everyone’s gonna love you. Now, if they were making actual threats, I dunno, I might find that more alarming.

A couple usual ways people like that get nailed:

Or they’re really understating the technical problems, and the game would review terribly in its current shape. I’ve managed software projects for a few years, and I’ve spun similar lines of bullshit as required.

“Not on him at all.” That’s some cold comfort there. You hear about your semi-long-time ex killing herself soon after you broke up with her, and I can pretty much guarantee any emotionally-functional human being is going to be seriously traumatized by that, regardless of whether it’s “on him”. The issue here isn’t…

IMHO, Dr Nerdlove is downplaying the possibility of suicide here, because I witnessed a tragic outcome in a very similar situation.

Yes and no. $93k is OK for a programmer, but there’s a couple confounding factors:
1. Many studios are located in high cost of living areas.
2. Your average game dev works far more than the usual 2080 hours a year in the US. Crunch times sometimes go for months. This is why burn out is so damn high in the industry.

Where…

I agree that this is one of the few situations where “lolno” is called for.

I like it. I have been looking for a way to ease my son into proper console gaming, and the simple NES controls are a nice way of doing it.

The military runs on tradition, to my understanding... that’s usually good, but sometimes has downsides. :)

The fragmentation properties of M193 and M855/SS109 depend greatly on the velocity at which the bullet hits the target. At longer ranges, they tend not to fragment as much due to velocity loss. My understanding is that newer military rounds (M855A1, Mk262, Mk318) don’t rely on fragmentation for lethality. Commercial…

I very much do not agree that .223 is abnormally high. There are many other calibers which have comparable velocities (~3000fps). You can see this for yourself if you crack open a copy of Cartridges of the World.

What is high velocity? Faster than the speed of sound? 2000fps? 3000fps? Why is a rifle that slings 55gr bullets at 3100fps (5.56x45) inherently more dangerous than one that throws 600gr bullets at 950fps (.458 SOCOM)?