Thermian. One of the all-time greatest gags we lose in the streaming era.
JDPoZ
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When a company is using AI in place of a person, it's not a sign of that they are "futuristic" or "forward-thinking..." It's a sign they are cheap, chase fads, and make short-sighted decisions that are not designed to improve their relationship with their customer.
Anyone using some headless white-label monthly subscription version of ChatGPT in an attempt to save a nickel on their bottom line - even if it means making everything worse for the company, product, employees, and customers in every way possible - is probably someone you don't want to do ANY kind of business with - whether you're a contractor, customer, or client.
Maybe I should start like a service where we get someone like a dedicated “agent” who has their assets hidden to buy tickets for you for a small fee… and then transfer them… like an agency… for travel…
WAIT a second 😱!
I know everyone who recognizes this super in-joke is like over 40. 🤣
played by an actor who, I'm guessing, isn't actually a vile and pathetic person).
😬…One would hope…
- Cook at home and eat healthy
- Sleep enough hours every night
- Cultivate and maintain healthy non-familial relationships
- spend meaningful amounts of quality time with family
- Work at a full-time job 40+ hrs a week
- Play video games or engage in other hobbies
Choose 3
You cannot effectively do the rest.
I do 4, 5, & 6.
I slept 3 hours last night and have an embarrassing number of Uber Eats deliveries each month… but on the bright side I count the video game time sometimes as “cultivating healthy relationships” when I can get ahold of my fellow gaming dads who don’t go to bed until after 1am… 🥱
It’s an expensive carbon spewing parrot.
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I don't know if people realize how amazing this is.
People who make games work so goddamn hard and are treated like trash... usually thrown out right after working hundreds of hours in unpaid overtime because they're so passionate about making something they love...
...And for a studio as major and long-standing as id Software AND it being physically located within the heart of TEXAS is also big.
The techno-artisan work of game development might finally become a field worth getting back into and actually sticking with - instead of how it has been now since the mid-2000s - where people burn out and leave the industry all-together... meaning we have almost zero long-term master game makers except for a handful of people who are at the very tip top.
I personally left games after the studio I worked at for 2 years (making them literal millions per day in revenue at one point) closed down only about a year after our hit game was released.
My heart goes out to the guys at id. They are some of the GOATs and this is something they've long-since earned.