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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • I’m probably in danger of over explaining the joke, but this actually does happen. The best part about this is people will actually contact support for online stores and just say that they found an item. No concern, no questions, just hi I found this. There are people that will do this every week, for years.

    New customer service agents will go through the steps, how can I help you with it? Were you looking for a different item? Etc etc. And the conversation will go absolutely nowhere because no one knows why the hell people like this do these things and the customer will never provide any information. Eventually you give up and just say that’s great! You can go ahead and buy it!

    And the customer will say “ok thx” and disappear until next time. Most of the time these people never even place any orders.



  • I just bought black flag on steam for a ridiculous low price. The Ubisoft launcher is extremely painful, you have to be online to launch the game and you have to sign in every single time you want to play. (If anyone knows how to bypass that please share. I couldn’t find an exe that will skip the launcher).

    Other than that, damn it’s a good game. It looks and plays like something from the end of it’s decade instead of early like it was.

    It’s pretty sad seeing the dev team that created skull and bones coming up with a worse game. I feel for them. That’s a quote from a dev that says something like “we all know it’s a $30 game” so you know everyone that actually had to do work on the game are probably frustrated.

    Higher management that force stupid ideas should be nowhere near games.

    E. You don’t need to crack the game. There’s a simple mod on the Nexus for Black Flag called Fullscreen Fix that removes the Ubi launcher and online requirements.










  • I went through a lay off being a manager once. It’s not fun at all. We had the list and the metrics. But we were already pretty small and we really didn’t want to lose anyone on the list except for a couple people.
    So we basically gamed financial. Offered anyone that wanted it part time. Fired the few people people that were clearly not interested in working anyways. We did something else that I can’t remember, and we ended up being able to fucking keep everyone. It was amazing.

    Not even two months later we had to ramp up for the holidays, so everyone that willingly cut their hours went right back to full time. And we were offering OT too.

    Year later the company pulled out of the state. But until that time we kept everyone.