Take a look around and be glad you have a job, period. I get that it can get downright slavish and I that motivation and paycheck factor into it but if it's so hard then go work 3rd shift at a Plastic Mold Injection plant, a coal mine, or as a solidier serving overseas....

This looks like it was animated by The Behemoth. Alien Hominid and Castle Crashers cameos, anyone?

It's called "Personalization". It's respect given from the President to show that they're on a first name basis. It'd be like the CEO of whatever company you work coming down to give you the highest award they have to offer and calling you on a first name basis. Shows that you're not just some cog and deserve respect.…

Well sitting in a PC lab with my co-workers now we all discussed this topic. We all have years of IT experience and the general conclusion was that we all agreed OT is good and honestly all the times we've worked crunchtime even the FTE's didnt seem all that mad about it.

Well said. Yeah sometimes it can be a bit much but it's odd too see people freaking out about things like this like Devs work in Coal Mines or something like that.

Snap and Smartglass are two complete game changers for the XB1 that have gotten lost in all the hoopla. Once people have those in their hands they'll really take hold.

Everyone relax. Having worked in gaming as a Tester and Dev it's NOT all that bad. I worked in malls, factories, fast food, all those crappy crap jobs and working crunchtime at a Game Dev or in IT in general is a cake walk. Also keep in mind that even the lowest, most noob tester in the building STARTS making a few…

They release other games to pay for the lights and bills and dev cost while working on other games. Check out a highly recommended game called Game Dev Tycoon and it simulates this. Gotta release stuff to pay the bills and to put towards your bigger games.

Puppycat or Poppycat? *sigh* Having kids exposes you to all sorts of cartoons and shows in the never ending quest for QUIET.

Now Im gonna have to upgrade my Android device. Was already fiending for the new Nexus Phone as the one gift to myself this year (Hey, I have 2 sons and a Baby Momma, very little that's "mine" is actually mine these days I'm finding out...) and was thinking of picking up a re-furbished Nexus 7 tablet for 'lil Jr Angry…

Where's my Japanese Dating Sim with Occulus support? You know it's coming!

My first job in Software at all was at Microsoft Game Studios. Amongst one of the first things I ever worked on as a Tester was Halo 2 as the launch title for Games For Windows Live (I also worked on Viva Pinata, Crackdown, Gears of War 1, Age of Empires II expansion just after Ensemble Studios shut down, and Zoo…

F1 Race Stars (or something like that) from Codemasters is a great Kart racing game on Steam. Check it out.

Lol these are pretty good. Any gamer can relate to how utterly ridiculous it must sound to others when talking about games with other gamers.

But, Sudowoodo rocks!

Sounds like an excuse for more control and government sanctioned human rights shenanigans.

Whats with all the hate thrown at the Xbox One? If this was SONY's announcement would all the fanboys say how awesome this is? And why bother to post a complaint like "I'll never use these features! QQ!". If you don't plan on using them then stfu and keep it moving.

Soooooo turn it off in the Privacy settings...

And now theres ways to better interact with them online. Why wouldnt you use any this then?

Just wait til SONY completely copies all of this if they haven't already. Maybe they had something like this all along but now if they show it it'll look completely copied.