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I gave Alien Rage - Unlimited a try...
I knew it will be a flaming trainwreck early one, when I saw the ridinculous level of the character's head bob... It was like in the future the Space Marines or whatever they are started recruiting people suffering from a serious case of cerebral palsy.
I tried and tried, managed to pass two levels and a rather poorly designed boos fight (we are speaking about sitation where a few times he managed to oneshot me in 3 seconds after reloading the check-point). The main character, a tough, manly Space Marine (or whatever) apparently is made out of paper-mache or equally delicate material. He gets better very quickly when out of enemy fire, but he is so bulky that most cover fails to protect him and the boss is firing shorts burst out of minigun almost constantly.
I tried to use method listed on Steam forums to remove headbob but it didn't work for me (apparently it fails in some cases, might have something to do with the way settings of this game are handled).
The 90s B-movie style banter between the main character, his pilot, and the AI of their gunship was fun but that's not enough to keep me interested.
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I'm not sure I appreciate people favoriting a post about how infrequently I'm right.The good news it that it doesn't happen often.Darn it! I hate when gran is right!Hey John... don't think I haven't noticed you keep showing up when i'm nekkid.I get here when I get here.
How about a post questioning the post they were favoring about how infrequently you aren't right?
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I'm not sure I appreciate people favoriting a post about how infrequently I'm right.The good news it that it doesn't happen often.Darn it! I hate when gran is right!Hey John... don't think I haven't noticed you keep showing up when i'm nekkid.I get here when I get here.
You would be more right if you allowed room parties.
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Val's classroom got shut down yesterday because one of his classmates had a close contact, so Hermione and I can go to school, but he can't.
At least WW still doesn't have a job, so him staying home with Val isn't an issue.
Catch me, looking on the bright side!
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You're wrong.You would be more right if you allowed room parties.I'm not sure I appreciate people favoriting a post about how infrequently I'm right.The good news it that it doesn't happen often.Darn it! I hate when gran is right!Hey John... don't think I haven't noticed you keep showing up when i'm nekkid.I get here when I get here.
So if you allowed more room parties, you'd be more left, and he'd be more right? I thought politics was banned in this place!
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Not everything left or right is about politics.
Sometimes it's about the clear superiority of being left handed.
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Not everything left or right is about politics.
Sometimes it's about the clear superiority of being left handed.
Which also pales compared to those of us that are ambidextrous!
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I just talked to someone who spent 10 minutes talking without answering my question. What he was saying was also utterly wrong on multiple levels. He was not a politician.
Two interviews were scheduled for today. The first one was a s*&!show. The second was a complete no show.
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My favorite is always:
Interviewer: So, what do you know about <>?
Interviewee: Oh, I've never heard of it before, so I can't really tell you anything, but I'm a quick learner so I'm sure if you hire me I'll pick it up immediately!
And this is where the job description specifically says, "You will be writing training and labs for <>, so you must have at least some familiarity with it."
Thus, the interviewee's answer is pretty much, "Yeah, I can't even be bothered to Google something and spend 5 minutes reading up on it, but I really want your job anyway."
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My favorite is always:
Interviewer: So, what do you know about <>?
Interviewee: Oh, I've never heard of it before, so I can't really tell you anything, but I'm a quick learner so I'm sure if you hire me I'll pick it up immediately!And this is where the job description specifically says, "You will be writing training and labs for <>, so you must have at least some familiarity with it."
Thus, the interviewee's answer is pretty much, "Yeah, I can't even be bothered to Google something and spend 5 minutes reading up on it, but I really want your job anyway."
Me! Me! Pick me!
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Which also pales compared to those of us that are ambidextrous!Not everything left or right is about politics.
Sometimes it's about the clear superiority of being left handed.
That's true! I'm equally bad with both hands! Hah! Match that!
Sometimes that which is left, is right; it is in the leaving that it becomes so.
As a dyslexic, it doesn't matter! NYAHAHAHAHAHAH
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I can't count the number of times I directly ask about a subject...take corporate licensing for Office 365 as a good example...ask about what they know on the subject (if anything), then lay out a real-world user scenario directly related to that previous question (the behavior of Outlook when the license isn't applied), and have them absolutely and completely ignore the licensing aspect. They go straight to the most complicated answers possible or just straight make stuff up.
Another one - and I think this is directly related to most people's aversion to story problems - when I set up a scenario in an interview I drop several clues to help them narrow down the possibilities, but I do it much like the users do. "The icon in the lower right shows I have internet." "My kid is working with their teacher on Zoom right now. I can see the screen." "It worked yesterday." "I changed my password yesterday." "You are able to gain remote access of the computer, and it is sitting on the Ctrl-Alt-Del screen of Windows 10." And then they immediately start talking about rebooting home internet equipment.
Learn this, kids: Life is a Story Problem. It's great that you know 3+4=7, but Robert has 2 apples and Samantha punches him in the nose and takes 2 apples and his wallet. How is your answer of 3+4=7 relevant to figuring out Robert's medical bills for his broken rib?
I can't count the number of times I directly ask about a subject...take corporate licensing for Office 365 as a good example...ask about what they know on the subject (if anything), then lay out a real-world user scenario directly related to that previous question (the behavior of Outlook when the license isn't applied), and have them absolutely and completely ignore the licensing aspect. They go straight to the most complicated answers possible or just straight make stuff up.
Another one - and I think this is directly related to most people's aversion to story problems - when I set up a scenario in an interview I drop several clues to help them narrow down the possibilities, but I do it much like the users do. "The icon in the lower right shows I have internet." "My kid is working with their teacher on Zoom right now. I can see the screen." "It worked yesterday." "I changed my password yesterday." "You are able to gain remote access of the computer, and it is sitting on the Ctrl-Alt-Del screen of Windows 10." And then they immediately start talking about rebooting home internet equipment.
Learn this, kids: Life is a Story Problem. It's great that you know 3+4=7, but Robert has 2 apples and Samantha punches him in the nose and takes 2 apples and his wallet. How is your answer of 3+4=7 relevant to figuring out Robert's medical bills for his broken rib?
Well, if you have basic math, you might be able to go through a long, slow, torturous route to eventually figure out how many hundreds or thousands of dollars it costs Robert! :D
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My favorite is always:
Interviewer: So, what do you know about <>?
Interviewee: Oh, I've never heard of it before, so I can't really tell you anything, but I'm a quick learner so I'm sure if you hire me I'll pick it up immediately!And this is where the job description specifically says, "You will be writing training and labs for <>, so you must have at least some familiarity with it."
Thus, the interviewee's answer is pretty much, "Yeah, I can't even be bothered to Google something and spend 5 minutes reading up on it, but I really want your job anyway."
Are you saying I'm not getting the job...
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This is America. Robert's medical bills will be all of his money, plus all his money for the next 10 years. 20, if he has no/crap insurance.
Robert doesn't exist, he's a figment created in a Russian troll farm in Moscow.
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Which also pales compared to those of us that are ambidextrous!Not everything left or right is about politics.
Sometimes it's about the clear superiority of being left handed.
I thought noone was ambidextrous? They just practiced more and were competent with their non dominant hand but still had a dominant one?
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You're wrong.You would be more right if you allowed room parties.I'm not sure I appreciate people favoriting a post about how infrequently I'm right.The good news it that it doesn't happen often.Darn it! I hate when gran is right!Hey John... don't think I haven't noticed you keep showing up when i'm nekkid.I get here when I get here.
At this point, I just think you are the room party terminator. Mechanically dismembering all non-sex based fun in a room if there are more than 3 people in it.
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My favorite is always:
Interviewer: So, what do you know about <>?
Interviewee: Oh, I've never heard of it before, so I can't really tell you anything, but I'm a quick learner so I'm sure if you hire me I'll pick it up immediately!And this is where the job description specifically says, "You will be writing training and labs for <>, so you must have at least some familiarity with it."
Thus, the interviewee's answer is pretty much, "Yeah, I can't even be bothered to Google something and spend 5 minutes reading up on it, but I really want your job anyway."
I could have sworn I heard somewhere that was a trick question. Not sure where though.
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I can't count the number of times I directly ask about a subject...take corporate licensing for Office 365 as a good example...ask about what they know on the subject (if anything), then lay out a real-world user scenario directly related to that previous question (the behavior of Outlook when the license isn't applied), and have them absolutely and completely ignore the licensing aspect. They go straight to the most complicated answers possible or just straight make stuff up.
Another one - and I think this is directly related to most people's aversion to story problems - when I set up a scenario in an interview I drop several clues to help them narrow down the possibilities, but I do it much like the users do. "The icon in the lower right shows I have internet." "My kid is working with their teacher on Zoom right now. I can see the screen." "It worked yesterday." "I changed my password yesterday." "You are able to gain remote access of the computer, and it is sitting on the Ctrl-Alt-Del screen of Windows 10." And then they immediately start talking about rebooting home internet equipment.
Learn this, kids: Life is a Story Problem. It's great that you know 3+4=7, but Robert has 2 apples and Samantha punches him in the nose and takes 2 apples and his wallet. How is your answer of 3+4=7 relevant to figuring out Robert's medical bills for his broken rib?
interesting. Very interesting.
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This month's humble bundle would be great... If I hadn't had the two best games from the list already. There are some other promising games there, though.
I might have Chimera Squad and Elex for a give-away sometime later this month when I decide to click the button.
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I could have sworn I heard somewhere that was a trick question. Not sure where though.My favorite is always:
Interviewer: So, what do you know about <>?
Interviewee: Oh, I've never heard of it before, so I can't really tell you anything, but I'm a quick learner so I'm sure if you hire me I'll pick it up immediately!And this is where the job description specifically says, "You will be writing training and labs for <>, so you must have at least some familiarity with it."
Thus, the interviewee's answer is pretty much, "Yeah, I can't even be bothered to Google something and spend 5 minutes reading up on it, but I really want your job anyway."
Why would, "What do you know about the technology you'll be working with?" be a trick question?
Waaaaaaay back when I interviewed for this job, the guy who recommended me warned me, "They're going to expect you to know something about <this>, so you'd better spend your time between now and the interview learning about it."
So I researched the topic, wrote up a little presentation on it, and when they asked me about it during the interview I responded, "Well, I've never formally worked in this field before, but here's what I learned about it over the last week," and gave my presentation. And that was what got me the job.
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Oookkkk... The review of the first game in the bundle—Control—is very promising.
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Of course it will be some ridiculously sized monster to install...
What I could get rid of for now?
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23-something GB download...
But it takes over 50 GB on the disc.
Marvels of modern technology.
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I should probably focus on playing through games I have already installed instead of getting new ones...
Well, I am in the final mission of Dishonored, so I might finish that one not far from now. Hopefully.
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Why would, "What do you know about the technology you'll be working with?" be a trick question?I could have sworn I heard somewhere that was a trick question. Not sure where though.My favorite is always:
Interviewer: So, what do you know about <>?
Interviewee: Oh, I've never heard of it before, so I can't really tell you anything, but I'm a quick learner so I'm sure if you hire me I'll pick it up immediately!And this is where the job description specifically says, "You will be writing training and labs for <>, so you must have at least some familiarity with it."
Thus, the interviewee's answer is pretty much, "Yeah, I can't even be bothered to Google something and spend 5 minutes reading up on it, but I really want your job anyway."
In addition to what NH said, no, it's not a trick question. If I'm going to hire someone I need to know where their baseline knowledge is. How much training am I going to have to invest in this person? How long will I have to live with cleaning up their daily mistakes before they're going to be on the same page?
I have enough material from our users to provide questions without needing to intentionally mislead the candidates with trick questions.
Also, and I've probably said this before, like most good math teachers/professors I'm not as interested in the final answer as I am the process by which you arrived at your answer. That's what makes for a good IT person, doctor, auto mechanic, HVAC tech, electrician, or anyone else that has to troubleshoot a given system. If the process is good, the rest falls in line.
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Oookkkk... The review of the first game in the bundle—Control—is very promising.
Ok, let's see if it really as good as it sounded.
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It's a first game in a while that was blocked by the antivirus/firewall. Unblocking and trying again.
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FWIW, we're still loving Valheim, maybe 20 hours in. I figure getting 20 solid hours out of a $20 game is definite entertainment value. And we've only just started scratching the surface: We know how to upgrade all our weapons and armor to bronze, we just need to get all the materials to be able to do so.
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I could have sworn I heard somewhere that was a trick question. Not sure where though.My favorite is always:
Interviewer: So, what do you know about <>?
Interviewee: Oh, I've never heard of it before, so I can't really tell you anything, but I'm a quick learner so I'm sure if you hire me I'll pick it up immediately!And this is where the job description specifically says, "You will be writing training and labs for <>, so you must have at least some familiarity with it."
Thus, the interviewee's answer is pretty much, "Yeah, I can't even be bothered to Google something and spend 5 minutes reading up on it, but I really want your job anyway."
Why would, "What do you know about the technology you'll be working with?" be a trick question?
Waaaaaaay back when I interviewed for this job, the guy who recommended me warned me, "They're going to expect you to know something about <this>, so you'd better spend your time between now and the interview learning about it."
So I researched the topic, wrote up a little presentation on it, and when they asked me about it during the interview I responded, "Well, I've never formally worked in this field before, but here's what I learned about it over the last week," and gave my presentation. And that was what got me the job.
I think its because upgrades in technology sometimes result in outdated information and if you answer a specific way its painfully obvious you just Googled it or something like that? I dunno. It was a while ago that I read that article.
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I've lied on many a job interview about knowing/having experience with certain things and yes, that does including googeling the thing, then knowing what it does, and having a vague story about it.
But I've been always been good at the 'user scenario thing' so that probably balanced it out?
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"No experience necessary" the three best words in the english language.
I've had jobs in over 20 different fields with that.
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I studied up on medical devices and Benign Prostate Hyperplasia to get a job as CS manager 15 years ago. I barely finished an associates in communications from a 2 year college and I SUCK at all the hard sciences. The vast majority of the job was handling the sensitive logistics for a microwave projection device.
That job plus experience as a freight handler/CSR for international air freight got me a CSR specialist role managing international service for said device I knew barely anything about. I muddled through that for several years until I parlayed that into a role as a sales support analyst for a med device distributor.
Daily I use technology I hardly understand, business math I kind of know and I'm helping to manage and grow business for multi-million dollar national chains who buy PPE from the global corp I work for.
I've learned any tiny amount of skill I have simply by doing what I do. I ask a TON of questions. I still come off as a rube sometimes. However, I'm living proof that you can grow into the job you have if only someone will take a chance on you.
And the bolded is all I'm looking for. I've seriously had people come into interviews where you ask, "So, how much do you know about what we do?" and they cheerfully answer, "Absolutely nothing!"
Which means that they did -zero- preparation for the interview.
I consider that a fatal flaw.
Experience is vastly overrated. Showing me that you have any interest at all in the job you'll be doing isn't.
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The problem with the weather being sunny and above freezing is the bike path was literally bustling with people.
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Since I'm not allowed to say anything political and I quit smoking twenty-five years ago, let me just say that Texas Governor Greg Abbott is a [lengthy string of curse words and colorful invective redacted].
This is going to make life so much harder.
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Not everything left or right is about politics.
Agreed. Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
Sometimes it's about the clear superiority of being left handed.
Per Guild rules, you're supposed to wear your fake mustache when you're being sinister.
Which also pales compared to those of us that are ambidextrous!I thought noone was ambidextrous? They just practiced more and were competent with their non dominant hand but still had a dominant one?
No One, Not Me, and Freehold walk into a Family Circus...
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Good night, John.
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Since I'm not allowed to say anything political and I quit smoking twenty-five years ago, let me just say that Texas Governor Greg Abbott is a [lengthy string of curse words and colorful invective redacted].
This is going to make life so much harder.
That is what the spoiler tags are for. Besides, we charge by the word to listen to you so PLEASE talk away. ~grins and runs~
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Experience is vastly overrated. Showing me that you have any interest at all in the job you'll be doing isn't.
As a general rule I agree with you.
In my specific situation in A Large Global Company (no, not on Global Megacorp's playing field, but still several thousand employees in four countries) I have to disagree. Basically entirely because of the way this company is ran and decisions made well above my pay grade. Each of our US offices are staffed by 0-3 IT employees under me. Most of the offices are in the 0-1 range. I simply cannot put someone with no experience into that situation. My staff, counting myself, are outnumbered about 750:1. The only places I can take a chance on someone with a great attitude and little/no experience are the offices that actually have at least one experienced technician already in place. It makes that much of a difference.
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I literally just saw that one somewhere.
Yeah. Here.
XD