Asheras wrote on Jul 21^st, 2016 at 12:27pm:

One does have to wonder what it says about those who know what it's like to watch every episode of Jersey Shore....


karavek wrote on Jul 21^st, 2016 at 1:24pm:

I'm currently only using "/sarcasm" sarcastically.

S_O_B wrote on Jul 21^st, 2016 at 5:19pm:

And about as useful as a bracelet of friendship.

karavek wrote on Jul 23^rd, 2016 at 10:56am:


Sounds like someone who doesn't have kids, honestly.  Robocop is R Rated.  I don't agree with kids watching R rated movies at age 10.  That's 4th grade. 

I'm also not sure toughness comes from desensitizing them to violence at age 10, but whatever. 

Count of Monte Cristo is rated as a 16+ age book by most school book rating systems.  It is high school content.  6 year olds being familiar with it is a joke.  There's not even much film history for it.  Nothing a 6 year old would be interested in watching.  Maybe the Three Musketeers, if you are going by Dumas work, but even that carries a 12+ book rating.  At least there are a few recent movie adaptations that have humor and action, with little real violence/gore.

mudfud wrote on Jul 23^rd, 2016 at 2:26pm:


You're talking like that's a good thing.

karavek wrote on Jul 23^rd, 2016 at 10:56am:

It was mostly OK until the second half of book 3, where you started encountering heaps of starved and experimented on bodies. The women with tentacle arms with the bloody sutures where they attached were particularly disturbing.

There is a big difference between reading about stacks of starved bodies and experimenting on people, and seeing a well rendered graphical display of them. We've had family discussions about some pretty tough subjects - Charlie Hebdo, the Holocaust, even the Newtown shootings. They're tough on kids. Kids want to know about them, because they can't escape hearing about them, and the unknown but hinted at horror is even worse than hearing about them in the calm voice of a trusted adult. But seeing them in full Technicolor leads to nightmares.

I haven't ruled out PoE, I have family accounts for everyone and I've purchased storage and cosmetics for everyone,  and we all have multiple characters. But when I say "Hey, we're done with homework and supper, what do you want to do for the next hour?" PoE isn't chosen. It's picked sometimes on a Saturday morning with a full day of sunshine ahead, but mostly PoE is when I'm gaming with a guildmate at night or staying home when the rest of the family is at my sister in-law's house (my wife learned long ago that it's just easier if I stay home).

Personally, I love PoE, but I like gaming with my family more, so games like Neverwinter and DDO win out. Or Pokemon Go. These days, we've been on so many family walks in the last week that my feet have blisters. I hope my family grows into PoE, but for now it's too dark.

Barkabout wrote on Jul 23^rd, 2016 at 5:21pm:


Don't know who Don Pendleton is, but did your sister give you Flowers in the Attic to read?

Asheras wrote on Jul 23^rd, 2016 at 7:18pm:


Don Pendleton's mack bolan the executioner is pretty much the original punisher.
I started reading him around ten myself.
His back story is while he is over in veitnam his family falls on hard times. His father gets layed off ends up indebted to the local gangsters his sister ends up forced into prostitution and when the father finds out he mentally breaks down and kills himself and his whole family. Mack little brother barely survived to tell mack the story.

Mack comes home on emergency leave and hearing decides the real enemy is organized crime. He becomes known as the executioner. The books are brutally accurate about things like human trafficking and torture tactics.

And considering g gang rapes involving tween boys raping girls as young as five occur in the u.s.a I don't think kids should be left ignorant and thus helpless to such potential things.

Asheras wrote on Jul 23^rd, 2016 at 7:16pm:


Sure it is.
You can only speak for what you yourself would do with your kids. Because you only know the situation you put your kids into. You don't know others situations so shouldn't judge them as you did.

Damn!
monkeybrains, exploding gremlins in microwaves, and Sloth didnt bother me one bit

Judge me.

I believe that late 2017 is around 18 months away.

Severlin is working on DDO, and LoTRO.  He used to work on Asheron's Call until that went into maintenance mode, then he was switched over to DDO.  Now, he is switched over to LoTRO.  History repeating?

Which game makes the most money for Turbine?  Asheron's Call?  DDO?  Infinite Crisis?  LoTRO?  ( I threw a softball one in there)

The talented programmers went to the Mobile game for Warner Bros.  That means the shit was left behind.

I doubt there will be an expansion by December 2017.  Maintenance mode by January 1, 2018, I can see.

Warner Bros will do something before then about the lack of return on investment they are getting out of Turbine.

Turbine has over-promised and under-delivered once with IC.

Current openings
Animator for Mobile Gaming
Senior Android Engineer
Senior Mobile Engineer
Senior Mobile Game Platform Engineer

Interesting that there are three SENIOR openings.  Either the current staff quit or was laid off.  Or else, there is zero confidence in the talent level at Turbine.  I would think I would want a current employee as senior.

notajedi wrote on Jul 24^th, 2016 at 8:05pm:

I'd want to promote from within too, but then, I value my employees and take the time to mentor them, get them training, and try hard to keep them. This is yet more proof that Turdbin has a high turnover and low morale. When your team is demoralized and unstable, promoting from within can cause hard feelings because there is no clear candidate.

Too bad WB won't just bite the bullet and clear out the incompetent management at Turdbin, it would sting a bit short term, but in the long run it would pay handsome returns.

Meursault wrote on Jul 23^rd, 2016 at 6:59pm:


Ok, sorry in advance...

This reads as though you're either arguing with (probably) or fucking (thus the apology) the sister in-law.