Jason, I just have to say thank you for providing these in-depth articles about the game development industry. As a gamer it can be disappointing to see promising projects killed, but articles like this just reinforce the fact that these are businesses that need to make smart decisions with money to continue existing.…

If you work in a creative field long enough, you’ll probably encounter a project has completely gone off the rails and should be cancelled. Sometimes a project just gets completely mired by focusing on the minutiae while failing to nail down a grand vision that there’s no way to move forward. I’m involved in such a…

What, your ideal Star Wars team doesn’t feature the Manatee, Khal Drogo, the Fairy Princess, the Rebel Cosplayer, and Broomhilda the Witch?

What’s the over/under on a mysterious technical glitch taking 2 of their cars out of contention, their 3rd suffers a crash at the hands of a GTE Am Ferrari, and privateers filling the podium?

If someone can perform the job as described on their employment contract in 6 hours, do you call them lazy for not performing 2 extra hours of labor per day because they’re paid for 8? What if their workload is doubled and they now have 12 hours of work per day. Do you call them lazy for only working for 10 while…

Why is performing the job one was hired to do now considered lazy?

Let’s place the blame where it really belongs: Hermann Tilke. What other course designer would take a long, sweeping corner like that and just randomly square it off into a half-octagon where a driver could be forced off mid-turn?

“At Will” states can fire people because the boss doesn’t like their tie. “Right to Work” states make union membership and dues voluntary while still forcing the union to negotiate for non-paying non-members.

For $5k you can probably get into an E46 BMW. Hydraulic clutch, clean and crisp shifts, and generally enough torque to get you moving even if you make a mistake and drop it to 500 RPM. It’s not an America muscle car, but it’s RWD at least and will give you a pretty good ride.

I wish that they just did away with lane markings at temporary closures and started the merge in the middle of the lanes. It would get rid of the ‘Your lane is closed and my lane is open’ mentality and instead force everyone to take a turn or else trade paint with the car beside them.

If you’re not actively passing anybody in the right lane, then you are the slowest vehicle on that stretch of road! Move over!

Usually spotted on the back of a truck going 10 under in the middle lane despite ample opportunities to move back into the right lane.

This is my only issue with the feature. It’s nearly impossible to assign fault programmatically so it likely just gives both drivers a demerit, meaning a troll can drag you down to his level, and once you’re in a lobby with crashers it would be hard to avoid contact and bring your SR back up. I suppose as long as the…

We don’t know the criteria Riot is using to determine eligibility, but perhaps the issue is entirely financial. Riot may only wants teams that can demonstrate they will continue to operate in the coming years but feels that IMT has over-leveraged itself to afford its Overwatch buy-in. If Riot wants stability, it would…

If you look at the pay raises most unions manage to negotiate, even after strikes, you’ll notice that most are just for basic COLA increases. COLA increases should be about 2% per year to keep up with inflation, but the most recent strike (at CAMI Ingersoll which builds the Chevrolet Traverse) only managed to secure 4%…

Assembly line jobs are generally monotonous, low skill jobs. There is very little room for advancement or skill gains, little variability or stimulation while on the job, injury risk from strain and repetitive motion, and in the automotive sphere a risk of catastrophic injury or death due to the large machines and…

Tried that for the first hundred or so, but eventually it just got shoved into a drawer and forgotten for a while (maybe about a year). Eventually I think we rented it from Blockbuster again just to get the code.

Please see Sweet Trav’s response. What makes you think you’d have any power to negotiate a better salary for an assembly line job whose main qualification is ‘show up’? Skills, education, and training aren’t important, just your ability to show up when requested and do your task in the allotted time so that you aren’t…

They could, but they don’t. Assembly line workers aren’t hired based on their skills or experience, but rather on their ability to perform a task within an allotted time. As such, the skills and education of prospective employees don’t really change how much a factory owner is willing to pay. Negotiating with an…

1st Gear: It’s a race to the bottom with regards to worker’s rights, and now business owners have started handing out shovels.