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Yeah it's pretty frustrating. Especially when it starts making me straight up angry at the first sign of the Spanish language. It's turning me racist! Well, I guess xenophobic is more accurate. But ugh just how is fun for THEM to not understand ME? It sure as hell isn't fun for me. I've heard it's because they get better pings, that they queue in the US. And I'm sure they pick English because it reduces queue times. I just wish it was reportable if they didn't speak English. I'm so tired of dealing with it. Especially because most of the assholes I meet in Dota these days don't speak English except for "noob" and "idiot", which they readily employ to blame everyone but themselves, naturally.

I'd imagine it is, but I don't know. Nidhogg probably did well, right? I remember a lot of buzz about it, anyway.

I read the first two Mass Effect novels and they were dumb fun. I read a bunch of Warcraft novels long ago and they were dumb fun. I don't think I've read anything else, gaming-related, and none of what I read did I walk away from feeling like it was anything spectacular.

How much did it sell on Steam?

Yeah I know you did but I figured I'd give it a shot. Oh wellllll.

Time for another random Complaint about Anime and/or Japan in General. The fuck is up with the little sister complex? Jesus. I watched the first five minutes of No Game No Life and turned it off after getting a panty shot and an OH SO CUUUUUUUUTE montage of the little sister being overtly and disgustingly adorable for her bigger brother. I stopped it and quit. I watched the first five minutes of The Irregular at Magic High School (okay I was bored and picked it on a whim 'cause it seems to be semi-popular on Crunchyroll), and the little sister is just OBSESSED with her older brother and blushes and gets super excited when he praises her. At least she disappeared pretty quickly, though. I'll keep watching this episode, not expecting much, although really I know basically nothing about the show so far besides there's some sort of weird magic future cold war going on? Seems like it's going to turn harem pretty quick, though. DOLLARS TO DONUTS SAYS THE LITTLE SISTER GETS SUPER JEALOUS OF ALL THE CHICKS HANGIN' ALL OVER MC'S SEXY BOD. I will say I appreciate that the main character is not overly incompetent or overly confident. He seems like a nice balance, a really chill, composed dude without being super distant, which is pretty uncommon in anime, that I've seen anyway. (I'm at 8 minutes now. I guess I'm really bored to be typing all this, huh?) OH SHIT DUDE HAS A SECRET. A DARK TERRIBLE SECRET THAT MEGANE-GIRL WHO CAN READ PEOPLE'S AURAS MIGHT DISCOVER. WHAT IS IT? Oh and now there's a bald monk with a schoolgirl fetish. Okay, okay. This anime is like all of the cliches and tropes I hate most rolled into one with no redeeming qualities. I guess... I should stop. Errrugh. Horf. Blargh.

Hah, I don't know if I'll ever read those, but I appreciate what you're saying. It's nice that I'm not the only one. Merus: Yeah, I'm hoping that's how it goes down. Or maybe I'll even just get really lucky and they'll go a little further in the interview process with me now. Haven't heard back from them, yet, but they told me to expect word soon.

I believe that love-for-Dota may have something to do with it, but really a lot of that's just what a good action RPG should do, anyway.

I never really understood the desire for it in the first place. I still don't.

Yes.

Quoted so we always know Ucantalas' shame.

That, that right there, that is the attitude that makes talking about anything with you torture. And that's the last I'll say on that.

Mmmm I fell for it again didn't I? ):

I can think of plenty of reasons. I wanted to know what yours were. Next time, I'd appreciate you answering the question without being a smarmy jerk. Thank you.

The difference is Pacific Rim has characters and Godzilla has piles of slightly different shades of grey goo.

I think what you're doing wrong is trying to force yourself to enjoy a game you clearly don't enjoy.

SNORT. Yeah you do come across as a bit of a shill. I don't really care because I don't care about Elite (though I do like space!), but I could see it being annoying for someone who might actually be interested.

The real gem is nabbing permission to say "politically correct". I can't even tell you how many people I had to [redacted] to get this.

Pacific Rim and Godzilla are incomparable as movies beyond the fact that they both feature giant monsters. Comparing them favorably is the greatest sin any one person could commit. Independence Day is okay. But also not really the same kind of movie so I don't understand the comparison.

Nah I distinctly remember people praising it as like a super great example of storytelling. Not here, maybe, but definitely somewhere.

Finally saw Pacific Rim. Man, that is a really fantastic action movie. Not sure what was up with people praising the writing as if it wasn't just a bunch of cheesey action movie tropes, but purely on the action movie metric it is really good. And fucking pretty as hell. Though the kaiju were a bit to obviously CG relative to the rest of the CG. Didn't bother me too much, though. THOROUGHLY ENTERTAINED.

Hah, nice. Well the interview went okay I think?! they are looking for a senior-level programmer, but they're interviewing everyone of any level just in case they find someone good. It was a more casual interview than I was expecting, but I think it went okay because we talked about games and game development and I love talking about games and game development. I'm not sure I expect it to go further, regardless, but I won't be upset if it doesn't. Now to apply to a billion other places that some friends here in Seattle told me are hiring. Wokka wokka.

Anyway uh I appreciate the advice guys but no offense I've heard it all before. I really just wanted to vent a little bit of stress and anxiety before the interview actually happened and then it all turned into this. U:

The feedback is literally always "We're looking for someone more experienced". EDIT: Actually the latest one his feedback was "You just don't know enough about programming," which was a joke because he asked me three specific questions that I just plain didn't have the answers for because, as I told him before the interview started, I was very new to what he asked me about. I answered all the other questions fine. Felt pretty bullshit to me, but whatever, I guess they're looking for someone... more experienced. I've had one offer, but they ended up rescinding it because a contract fell through and they couldn't hire anyone. I had two more interviews that I think I would have led to an offer except basically the same thing happened (as I heard from other people who worked there). But they didn't say so directly to me, so I'm unsure. I don't have a lot of personal projects because I'm constantly fucking miserable and depressed, and as a result unmotivated. And that's not something that's going to change anytime soon. I was more motivated when I had a job, but also was just exhausted. Immediately after getting laid off is when I started working on a lot of things, but most of them went nowhere (just duds of ideas, which is fine, but hard to show off). And then over time I lost all that motivation as I went through more and more interviews that led nowhere. But yeah it's all just as easy as having a more positive outlook on life. EDIT: What Gormongous said, basically.

We are talking about life because that's where I brought the conversation and then Nappi responded. But to bring it back, I disagree. I don't get jobs because I'm not experienced enough, or I forget easy answers because I'm nervous, not because I'm being negative. I'm actually pretty positive and excited once I get into the interview. It doesn't matter. They don't like me because I'm not good enough, not because of my non-existent shitty attitude. Also, you try being positive after being jobless for almost a year and having failed dozens of interviews. Please. I challenge you. Fuck.