@SaintWacko You'd have to move up here into the great white north.

@Frank My company is far more concerned about making sure you put in at least 8 hours a day, even if you need much less time to get everything done

The upshot of that is that I spend a lot of time at work playing video games

@SaintWacko They need a better performance metric, then.

@Frank Yep

You could come work for me, I'm the best boss.

It actually really pisses me off

For me, so long as you're not taking forever to do the job I assigned you, and you show up when there's an emergency, I don't really care.

Do it from home. Do it at work. So long as your tasks get done, I have zero issue.

If I have to stay up til 3 in the morning finishing something, or get up in the middle of the night for an implementation, too bad, see you in the morning

But if I have to leave an hour early for something, I'd better get there an hour early in the morning

I'm very jealous of your underlings

@TimStone WHAT ARE YOU HIRING FOR?

@SaintWacko I probably couldn't spend much time at work playing video games because there are about 6 people with a clear view of my monitor

Huh.

[thing I shouldn't post here]

Developers, developers, developers.

@SaintWacko Sadly, I don't really have any.

Maybe.

That's a surprisingly good idea.

I should, based on my workload, but I don't.

@murgatroid99 I'm afraid that's going to be the case in June, when we move back down to our renovated floor. I'm going to call a recruiter very soon, though, maybe today, so hopefully I won't still be here by then

@TimStone where are you hiring?

I know this isn't what you really meant, but Pennsylvania.

@TimStone too far a commute, sadness

it is exactly what i meant

Oh, then good on me.

@SaintWacko I did manage to finish a game of Nethack, but it probably helps that it looks like text and runs in a terminal

I have the distinction of being the only Male Valkyrie out of the 7 total ascensions on the server

"What's that?" "Code." "Why is that one moving?" "Progress."

Honestly, most of my coworkers probably wouldn't really care, but the feeling of someone watching me slack off in a non-standard way makes me uncomfortable

@TimStone HAVE HAVE EXPERIENCE IN FOOD EATING AND SPENDING TOO MUCH ON MTG. ARE THOSE SKILLS YOU'RE LOOKING FOR?

Possibly.

Especially the food part.

Oddly enough, skill in MTG means you understand complex logic loops, which some programmers might appreciate.

@GnomeSlice It beat out Star Citizen?

A lot of Star Citizen's funders/ing was external to KickStarter.

Star Citizen: The Duke Nukem Forever of a new age.

Elite actually raised more on KickStarter, I think.

But yeah, in terms of backers Exploding Kittens surpassed Reading Rainbow for the title of most-backed project.

THE GAME HAS A "WE DIDN'T PLAYTEST THIS AT ALL" TYPE FEEL.

AT LEAST FORM THE KICKSTARTER VIDEO

IT HAS THE BONUS OF BEING ASSOCIATED WITH THE OATMEAL

@TimStone it seems the people have spoken.... violence and cute animals > learning

@Batophobia backed != funded

that or the really big projects are learning how to do better kickstarters

@Rapitor So what's the difference?

the most funded is still that cooler thing

@Batophobia People v money

backed is how many people backed it, funded is how much money it got

ah ok

Admittedly, I don't care how awful STRAFE(TM) ends up being, I threw money at it because the pitch video got a laugh out of me.

I SHOULD MAKE A KICKSTARTER TO BUY ME A BLACK LOTUS

And the creator provided an update post documenting behind the scenes of the pitch video

@OrigamiRobot You'll be up there with the guy who kickstarted making a bowl of potato salad.

Also I think the 'Give me money' ones are more commonly on indiegogo.

@OrigamiRobot That.... that is a pretty good idea

DON'T COPY ME!

That's a pretty crappy situation.

@OrigamiRobot We should make people fund our livestream of Elite.

That would abide by KickStarter's terms and result in us getting paid to play a game!

You should make it a little more broad. 'Power Nine Acqusitions Kickstarter'

Don't click it if you don't want to read about it.

but it's sfw

Noooo...I've binge-watched all of Gravity Falls Season 1 & 2...what will I do now??!??! :(

It's SFW YOU CLOWNS

@RPiAwesomeness Solve the puzzles?

inb4 mods

@MadMAxJr Not yet, but I plan on doing so :D

k no

Why do I always join as flags are issued.. T^T

Well, there are at least 2 d-mods

@GnomeSlice Seriously though, I don't think very many of us are that interested in the adult film industry. You may be speaking to the wrong audience.

@WorldEngineer I know that much :)

the link wasn't that bad, didn't deserve to be flagged

Probably not, I invalidated because @GnomeSlice provided proper warning.

I cleared the flag once, and then it wouldn't let me action on the subsequent flag, hmm.

THERE IS A CLEAR DOUBLE STANDARD AGAINST GNOMESLICE WHEN IT COMES TO FLAGGING.

Not to mention it was behind a link and not a one-boxed image.

^

@WorldEngineer Right ;)

@Yuuki Thank goodness

We have strange standards when it comes to flagging.

I WILL BE THE FIRST TO CALL HIM OUT ON IMPROPER LINKING OF NSFW CONTENT AND THAT WAS NOT ANYTHING FLAGWORTHY

#freegnomeslice

While I agree with @Yuuki here @GnomeSlice that it's not exactly a topic that garners much open interest in here, it's not like there was anything particularly offensive in and of the content itself...so [status-completed].

#StarCity. Goodness.

DON'T CLEAR MY STAR ON "PRECISELY" YOU MONSTER!

Oooo. Mod's can clear stars?

Faancy

@TimStone MY MAIN POINT IS THAT EVEN IF THERE WAS NSFW CONTENT, THAT POSSIBILITY WAS SELF EVIDENT IN THE LINK ITSELF

Well, right.

hey @Wipqozn did you go to the doctor yet?

I mean I invalidated the flag originally and have now unbanned @GnomeSlice, so :P

Clowns.

@TimStone Thanks.

@Yuuki hotlink blocked img

@Yuuki image fail

@Yuuki PING

Oh goodness.

@Yuuki THIS IS MORE FLAGGABLE THAN WHAT GNOME POSTED T_T

@Yuuki Replace it with food, now!

@TimStone Agreed!

Much better.

Much better

dammit, so hungry now

There, should be off the screen now.

Unreal 4 is quite pretty

Foooooods.

People of the bridge

You should play Town of Salem with me. Or each other.

It's free.

Also has a steam version for $5 which just gives you $5 worth of shit to buy skins and stuff.

I'll play a bit

> Town of Salem - a game of murder, deception, lying and mob hysteria

Sounds like the perfect Bridge game

Right?

Does it require Javascript?

> a game of murder*

@RPiAwesomeness No idea, sorry.

@GnomeSlice But I dun wanna register.

@Yuuki You have to to play, unfortunately.

It tracks achievements and unlocks and earnings and shit.

Is it in browser?

@Batophobia Holy cow...

@Batophobia Yes.

WHAT DO YOU DO?

I have a meeting in a couple minutes but maybe after that

@OrigamiRobot If you're a townie, you try and lynch or kill all evildoers and criminals.

Have to do deception, lying, and hysteria for business before pleasure.

If you're mafia, you try to get rid of all the townies.

If you're the serial killer, you just kill everybody

There's other roles too

OH, LOOKS LIKE WEREWOLF

like the jester, whose goal is to be publicly executed

but you don't know what anybody's role is

I wonder which came first, werewolf or mafia? One is the parent of the other, surely.

Yeah it's like mafia

Eww, flash

I am enjoying it a lot more than I thought I would

I CAN PLAY LATER TONIGHT