Those folks making the Transmorphers-type movies have really upped their budget with this one.

Nailed that Kryptostralian though.

Nerds are not a culture/community discrete enough to warrant either value in personal allegiance or protection from being “walked all over”. It refers only to an interest, and any sunk cost effect or degree of personal feeling does not earn increased entitlement to identity and protection. Talk to legitimate…

“LORIEN - Lack of low-carb dining options.”

Look at this fake linguist. Those of us with actual English degrees hate these impertinent people who think they can just pick up and wield selected definitions without displaying true etymological cred. “Dumbed down” is right.

If Ariana Grande is a believer, I’m switching to “Greedo shot first and poorly.”

Thank you so much for posting this. What an incredible...gallery of this author’s thinking. I’m off to get his two China-inspired books now. And it made my throat tighten to see him so accurately understand what my family [and many families] went through with “occupying powers have long known and exploited the idea…

Nerd anger is just another sidelined-to-bullying progression for insecure people.

Exactly. “Here’s a cool movie lacking the censorship of your government” is a much shorter path to getting viewers than expecting everyone to independently educate themselves in comic lore so that they can then appreciate the lore faithfulness of a character’s portrayal.

Well you can’t really hijack a Starfox Zero shipment when it just barrel rolls when attacked. “Ah, that’s why we don’t go after these shipments.”

Haha yeah it is. I had to lean back in my chair to let him scroll by.

Yeah but they suck, so don’t feel bad.

Hard to miss the Fahey humor!

And cobwebs...which makes me turn towards spiders like “WhaaaAAAT?”

That’s elegantly simple: require fuller disclosure of the employment tail expectations. That’s required of a myriad of other paid agreements between providers and receivers of services. That would also be ripe for legislation, rather than just hope for the market to turn in favor of it.

Is it worse than planning the termination of excess personnel after the conclusion of a project phase?

Then you revert to last year’s big dev workplace issue: the termination of surge personnel after the conclusion of a big project phase, for which they were brought on specifically to address this issue.

Agreed: deadlines have to be met. The problem is that people think of themselves more as devs than as [Specific Game Dev] and are surprised to lose their jobs when that specific game concludes a dev phase. Since any major project phase is (a) finite in duration and (b) requires more personnel, there are two mutually…

ASL?

Thankfully the OP did not say that at all.