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Reply #630 on: April 29, 2016, 12:13:17 PM

This took me a while.


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Reply #631 on: April 30, 2016, 05:08:18 PM

Wow, I can't believe you are still playing it. I dropped off after a couple of weeks!

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Reply #632 on: June 10, 2016, 07:45:23 PM

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Reply #633 on: June 17, 2016, 03:05:54 PM

I stopped at 'are feet s' with the top result being 'are feet shoes'. The humanity. I can't.

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Reply #634 on: November 30, 2016, 07:46:34 PM

I prefer the original Sushi Cat; the sequel was a bit of a letdown.

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Reply #635 on: December 02, 2016, 02:24:47 AM

Just to make a point that because of this fucking spammer, I'm playing the goddamn kittens game again.

I hate you all.

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Reply #636 on: December 02, 2016, 08:52:43 AM

Hey, I still log into Swarm sim regularly both here at work and at home.  It's more of an exercise is clicking a few buttons in the morning or whenever and then going away again.

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Reply #637 on: December 02, 2016, 01:14:07 PM

I never really stopped "playing" the kittens game.  I think the only achievement I have left is reaching year 40k, which luckily doesn't require a lot of work on my part.   awesome, for real

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Reply #638 on: December 02, 2016, 01:20:12 PM

Yeah, but I did.  Which means I'm starting again.

Thanks Sushicat2, you complete cunt.


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Reply #639 on: December 18, 2016, 03:08:13 PM

This is a couple of years old.

A dark room
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Reply #640 on: December 18, 2016, 03:16:33 PM

NO.

I remember that and I'm still fucking about with kittens.

I ain't clicking it, you naughty person.

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Reply #641 on: December 18, 2016, 03:24:52 PM

I could be wrong but I think this one has an end.
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Reply #642 on: December 19, 2016, 02:18:53 AM

Really ?  I don't remember finding it.  Wait, is this a trick ??

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Reply #643 on: December 19, 2016, 08:01:37 AM

A Dark Room is great (more than a couple of years old I think) and yes there is an end.  I think last time I played it, it took me about a day of real time (not a day of play time) to finish.

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Reply #644 on: December 19, 2016, 08:19:41 AM

Why do you all hate me ?

Ok, I'm going to do that then.  I don't remember getting to the end.

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Reply #645 on: December 19, 2016, 11:22:39 AM

Why do you all hate me ?

Ok, I'm going to do that then.  I don't remember getting to the end.


Join me down the rabbit hole! 

Right now, my biggest complaint is that I can't get the page to turn back to a white background.

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Reply #646 on: December 19, 2016, 02:57:29 PM

Why do you all hate me ?

Ok, I'm going to do that then.  I don't remember getting to the end.


Join me down the rabbit hole! 

Right now, my biggest complaint is that I can't get the page to turn back to a white background.

I see at the bottom of my screen "Lights Off." That's what you want.
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Reply #647 on: December 19, 2016, 08:31:43 PM

This is a couple of years old.

A dark room

That was fun. Got tedious at the end, but I enjoyed the expeditions.
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Reply #648 on: December 28, 2016, 08:23:35 AM

This is a couple of years old.

A dark room

I must totally suck at these kinds of games, because I'm still trying to beat this.  Dammit.

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Reply #649 on: December 29, 2016, 09:40:09 AM

That was posted on the 18th, Rhyssa.  How long have you been sitting there?!   ACK!


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Reply #650 on: December 29, 2016, 08:35:49 PM

I'm not playing it continuously, just logging in/out and dying a lot.

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Reply #651 on: January 06, 2017, 12:26:40 PM

Two digital assistants at neighboring Google Homes have started talking to each other.

https://www.twitch.tv/seebotschat
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Reply #652 on: February 22, 2017, 07:18:30 PM

Interesting puzzle game: http://www.robozzle.com

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Reply #653 on: June 06, 2017, 04:23:06 PM

Weird, this should be stickied. Anyway:

http://absurveillancesolutions.com/

login: 00437
password: bedsheets

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Reply #654 on: June 07, 2017, 02:50:11 AM

What the heck is this ?

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Reply #655 on: June 07, 2017, 08:25:45 AM

right?
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Reply #656 on: June 07, 2017, 08:26:01 AM

It's from the Claridryl / Unedited Footage of a Bear people.
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Reply #657 on: July 06, 2017, 09:33:07 PM


Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something.  We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Reply #658 on: July 08, 2017, 03:31:14 PM

An interesting read:

Being the Boss in Brussels, Boston, and Beijing

(cross cultural management)


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Reply #659 on: July 13, 2017, 02:58:06 AM

I think the US and Japanese models (Japan especially) are the most interesting. Top-down but egalitarian and extremely hierarchical and extremely consensual both seem really interesting in terms of contrasting management styles and attitudes. Definitely something to look at, thanks!

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Reply #660 on: July 13, 2017, 03:59:39 AM

I don't get what these words mean in this context.

Consensual meaning you're happy with the system and top-down meaning you feel they're imposed upon you?
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Reply #661 on: July 14, 2017, 01:32:51 AM

What it seems to be is the X axis is the attitude demonstrated in the workplace and how employees and managers feel about their relationship. The Y axis is the management style in practice. So according to that graph in American workplaces there is a feeling that everyone is fairly equal, managers try to be approachable and deal with people on an equal level but in practice decisions are made at the top and orders are sent down. The Japanese contrast is a company where there's a strict hierarchy and people are in their place on the totem pole (so subordinates being deferential to managers, etc.) but when it comes to decision making and implementation they involve everyone and avoid imposing directives.

Those two are the most interesting because there seems to be a huge contrast in the attitude towards management and how management actually works. The top right corner are places where the boss is king and they tell you what to do. The bottom left is where people are treated more equally and involved in the decision making process. Japan is where the boss is king but they'll ask you if they should be doing this or that, while in the US the boss is treated as an equal but they'll dictate what's happening.

Edit: Ok I actually read the article and it's a little clearer. The X axis is attitude towards authority, I guess more broadly the management culture from flat structures to firm hierarchies. The Y axis is how decisions are reached from being vested in a single boss to coming out of consensual agreement among everyone. They make the useful distinction that the top-down decisions tend to be faster and more initially decisive but less fixed where consensual decision making takes longer but generally produces firm commitments.
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Reply #662 on: October 15, 2017, 09:01:35 AM

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Reply #663 on: October 15, 2017, 11:38:31 AM

Yep, had this shown to me last night. I can't understand why it's so damn addicting.

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Reply #664 on: October 15, 2017, 11:47:06 AM

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