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Thread by @Grummz: "I don't believe in crunch. On WoW it was brutal. After that, I never had mandatory crunch for teams and discouraged managers from it. My lea […]"

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I don't believe in crunch. On WoW it was brutal. After that, I never had mandatory crunch for teams and discouraged managers from it. My lead of production kept asking me to force the team to do it and I refused. We had some people stay anyhow, but this time I"m doing a curfew.
During WoW's dev, we did not crunch for our E3 demo. We ended up a week ahead of schedule. During shipping, I was pulled in a for a "come to Jesus" talk about making the team crunch to (show the urgency). I did not agree with that, but I had to do it.
Of course, after WoW, CA law meant Blizzard had to go to a time clock system and unpaid crunch is hopefully a thing of the past there? Not sure, as I left before it was implemented.
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I run into a lot of game devs that hate gamers. Not a majority, but a vocal few.

Game criticism is harsh stuff. Gamers make it personal if they get a name to blame, even if that person had little to do with it.
It’s a human reaction for accused devs to resent the base. They are not PR professionals or politicians. They just don’t know how to take it or roll with it. Their friends see what happened and also share the venting and the feelings of the dev.
So my tip is: bash the bad game and the publisher. Not the dev. You have no clue who did what or whose fault something is. Devs use this to blame other devs for politics too. Even leads are not to blame in all cases.

Devs also need to understand hating your customer is bad.
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@SonOfAGod94 @Out_spokenOne Obviously never been to Scotland then have you ?
It's slang there's a lot of slang and we talk fast as my American cousins are airways asking me to slow down .
You never heard a Scottish person speak,it's nothing about spelling it the way we pronounce words
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It's art up for review in opinions, of course I'm going to gravitate towards something shared with interest, when he didn't say a word for 2 days! Why was he there? #opendata #smartcities #bigdata #ai
I went through every single video he released in hip hop to understand him not saying a word. Easy to work out, he's a very bitter man who has absorbed all his parents immigrant opinions at home #opendata #smartcities #bigdata #ai
His parents are not middle class anywhere & neither is he #opendata #smartcities #bigdata #ai
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A lunchtime thread with some insider tips on forgiveness and self reflection.

Why seeing the old versions of people will make you miss out on new blessings.

I talk about stuff like this on my email list that you can subscribe to here 👉🏾 bit.ly/LoAEmailList
Sometimes it’s incredibly hard for us to see the change in others.

Myself included. I’m pretty fucking stubborn so if I can do this, you certainly can too.

We have a lot of emotional stuff floating around that clouds our vision and our judgement.
Most of this comes from our need to be right all the damn time.

We’re so scared of being wrong that we cling to anything that makes us right. I used to be super bad at this and I had such a slick mouth,

I could convince people that they were wrong when I was wrong 😂😂😂
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I keep thinking back to a discussion a few months on reddit about THE BELGARIAD. Several comments were made about it being cliche and pedestrian, and someone said, “Yeah, it’s a fine story, but it’s never going to be a classic.”
And all I could think to respond was, “It’s over thirty years later and we’re still talking about it. How is that NOT ‘a classic’?
But that got me thinking- I cite THE BELGARIAD (and THE MALLOREON, its sequel series) as one of my influential works. But what is that influence? I know I’ve read the whole series several times. My copies of the books are in terrible shape.
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Here's what #OccupyICELou looks like this morning. Police are bracing for a group of (potentially armed) counter-protesters to gather further down 7th Street. The two gatherings are blocked by a buffer zone
A group that calls themselves the Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Justice is heading to the #OccupyICELou side of the dueling protests
I'm on the other side of the protest now. Here's a flyer that police say they're passing out on both sides
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THREAD - Update on the next set of Mueller indictments.

1) Tea Pain has been preachin' to you lately about the importance of the Papadopoulos indictment. MSNBC now reports that PapaD turned on 4 other members of Trump Nat Security team.
2) Coincidentally, there are 4 sequentially numbered unsealed indictments in the D.C. federal court between the Manafort and PapaD indictments, except Tea Pain don't believe in coincidences.
3) Remember, PapaD was a "proactively cooperatin'" witness for Mueller, wearin' a wire. Another news report confirmed a member of Trump's Nat Security was caught lyin' to the FBI. Most likely more fruit from the PapaD arrest.
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