azerial

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[–] azerial@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 month ago (5 children)

You should check out loose leaf teas. I find them to be less expensive and better quality. I like a mail order catalog called Upton tea imports. You can get 100g of earl grey for 7 bucks which is 18 cents a cup. They also have a cool quarterly magazine.

There are lots of other places to get loose leaf teas, like the grocery store in the bulk goods section. You can get little paper filters or get a strainer. I don't like the little clampy ball one, but it's cheap. I prefer the pour over basket.

[–] azerial@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Sounds like that's the way I'll have to go. Unfortunate, I hate increased layers of complexity, but I think that's the move.

[–] azerial@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah when I worked at BioWare we would do things gradually, then I moved to EA Mobile and staging and testing was like a foreign concept. It was wild. Fortunately that changed, but having a staging instance is really really important, as I'm sure many people now realize. Sometimes lessons are hard. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[–] azerial@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Ooo a pihole! That's on the list.

[–] azerial@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

For that, you actually will need realistic goals and more competent managers. Lol

[–] azerial@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

When I started working at EA 14 years ago (I got laid off last year) they literally told us we might have to sleep under our desks. I promptly told them if that was the case, I would quit. Instead they made us work 7 days a week 9-9 for months. Fun job.

[–] azerial@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

What you don't want to go to "X"? I can't imagine why. lol /s same though. Also I refuse to call it x. It's fucking Twitter. It's like that line in mean girls, "Gretchen, quit trying to make fetch happen, it's not going to happen!" Lol

[–] azerial@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Woohoo!! This awesome! As a game dev, I can speak to how awful the industry can be. That's really great news that they unionized. 🙌

[–] azerial@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

It sounds exactly like a Microsoft fix.

[–] azerial@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

Just imagine if it's a build farm with hundreds of machines. Jesus. That's a hell I wouldn't even wish on my worst enemy.

[–] azerial@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Lol you can have shade. Nobody is perfect, for example: do you know what a Gold Master is? It's the final copy of the game that is written on the disk. It's also the reason why when you buy a game, the patch is gigantic. It's an out of date build of the game, really really important, and has to be certified by both Microsoft and Sony. (Called the certificatation process) It takes months, but production can't stop, thus the patch.

The dragon age team, for DAI, built this super important build on a QAs desktop. Why might this be bad you ask? Because it's an uncontrolled system that's not clean and is connected to the Internet. Thank God they didn't have a virus or malware, because it could've been written to millions of disks. Lol

It's the same reason why, initially, the first Star Wars: The Old Republic launcher installed in a user folder named "hedev". Users were like who the fuck is hedev? Lol that was a coding bug and less of a build mistake but still. (I fixed that bug. Now they use a much much better launcher, went from version 2.6 to version 6.x). I miss that team, they're rockstars.

The details matter.

edit: clarification

[–] azerial@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

That might be what I'll have to do.

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