I wonder if this has anything to do with translations ala All Your Base. Besides just bad translation perhaps there was the memory and compression issues not being addressed so the translation got crammed into the same space as the Japanese text.
LZ77 was invented inā¦ 1977. Maybe they already were compressing. Space was at such a premium on old-timey consoles.
Thatās an interesting hypothesis, but given how much translation was an afterthought in many cases back then, I still think it was a case of translation by one Japanese dude, a Japanese-to-English dictionary, and a large pot of coffee.
From watching various videos about development during the 16-bit era, compression was very common for 16-bit cartridge-based consoles. Not just for textual data, but also sprite/graphical data as well, and perhaps even code on occasion.
I even recall a case where a SNES game got some negative reviews due to having bad āload timesā despite being a cartridge-based game. These āload timesā were in fact instances of the game decompressing data crammed onto the cartridge.
I got a call back for an interview with a law firm nearby that I applied for when I was unemployed and applying to anything I was qualified for. On closer inspection of their reviews on Indeed, Yelp, Glassdoor and Google itās really obvious they hired a PR firm to fluff their online presence and make themselves look good to both clients and applicants. Their website also looks like a 90s ambulance chaser commercial in website form. Should I run away screaming?
To give an update to a discussion earlier this year, WOTC announced yesterday at PAX that they are releasing a new Novel for MtG.
Is it common in companies for acceptable use policies to unofficially not apply to IT? Thereās rules against using work computers and internet access for streaming, chat, and non work related stuff but every time I walk by the IT desks they have browser Discord open posting memes and streaming music on Spotify or YouTube while they kick phones off the guest wifi if they see them streaming music.
No matter what the policy is, trying to enforce it would be like trying to have cops ticketed for parking violations.
Also, no IT person would work for you if you filtered their Internet. If someone told me to stop watching YouTube at work, I would just quit immediately.
I guess itās a just perk of the position. I suppose the other thing is being a law firm, theyāre not beholden to the same standards of tracking productive time since theyāre not doing work thatās being charged to clients.
We donāt do a ton of filtering on our network and I can easily bypass all of them. I was asked to not go onto facebook/amazon etc. because if others see me there theyāll be upset that the rules arenāt being applied equally. I donāt really care much about the things they block so I just follow along. Everyone knows that I can bypass all the filters, but because I ādonātā theyāre okay with it.
I wish I understood the policy however. We do allow streaming at desktop pcās, we donāt allow phones on the wifi, only laptops, but you canāt get onto facebook/amazon ā¦ itās so weird. But what the boss man wants, itās what he gets.
Itās not even filtered I can go on all those sites weāre just not allowed to while IT does whatever they want and no one stops them. I know itās like @Apreche said, theyāre the cops no oneās gonna give them a ticket but they also flaunt the already lax dress code and other minor policies. This is my first white collar office job so maybe Iām just not used to the way things work in that environment. And itās not a huge deal it just irks my sense of fairness and Iād like to preserve my data plan but still listen to Spotify.
I would quit and find another job, but Iām also in the position Scott is: most of my jobs are going to be like trying to police the cops as the cops.
Iām not in IT Iām contracting for a law firm doing class action claim processing so Iām constantly looking for something permanent. Itās actually not bad all things considered, pay is good and itās not retail. But in law thereās consideration given to productive time and what can be ethically charged to clients. Like technically Iām supposed to count going to the bathroom against unbillable break time so weāre not charging the clients for the time I spend pooping and not working on claims. I think the policy is mostly in place to prevent issues with that and give a defensible argument should somehow an allegation of unethical billing arise. Since IT doesnāt produce a work product charged to clients Iām guessing no one gives a shit what they do as long as the systems are up and working.
Just go on all those sites and ignore the dress code. If and when someone calls you on it, tell them you thought it was acceptable because IT is worse.
I was considering that actually.
Hereās the scene, itās my birthday and all the family is over and my wife is so proud of herself and tells everyone that she writes down the names of games that I happen to mention over the last year and sheād tracked down this one game that Iād talked about. It was available in German everywhere sheād looked online but sheād worked super hard and found it in English!
So I open the gift. Itās a game called Guilds of Cadwallon.
Iād never heard of it.
I say āOh, I donāt know what this isā, and she was a bit crestfallen.
Iām still grateful for the work she put in and Iām sorry that I didnāt know it. I have an amazon wishlist if she ever needs it but she loves to surprise me with things I happen to mention but it never works out. There are so many misunderstandings and versions of cluedo and monopoly on the shelfā¦
But my main focus for now is trying to work out what I must have been talking about in the last year she could have heard as Cadwallon. Itās not a word Iād have just saidā¦ because I didnāt know it.
It doesnāt appear to even have a foreign language version so something was lost in translation there. Any ideas?
Super random question but I guess itās what the thread is for.
I know itās getting popular (especially here) to redraw states so that they are of roughly equal population so that Senate votes are more fair, but isnāt that just making a clone of the House? Why not just abolish the Senate?
I mean, weād still have a Congress, just a monocameral one.
Iām torn by the idea, really. If weāre going to redraw them such that they equalize the population and make the Senate and the House basically equivalent it still doesnāt follow that the Senate should be abolished. Ostensibly the Senate should be representing the interests of the Stateās Governments not the people of the State as an averaged whole.
But then why redraw the states when we can abolish them as separate quasi-independent entities and make them completely subordinate to the federal government?
What purpose should the States provide in todayās society?
The distinction between the states feels quite arbitrary given the vast differences between the different areas of each state as a whole. One only needs to look at the gulf that separates St. Lawrence County and Nassau County in NYS. Or West Texas vs Dallas & Austin.
I feel like with the way the Fed is set up now you need the States to be separate and somewhat independent from the Fed. Completely getting rid of their representation at the federal level would severely weaken them.
Overall I think we are at a point where we need to completely rethink how we need to organize our political structures, whether it makes sense to maintain a local first ideal, a strong or weak separation between the State and Federal levels.
Even if both houses are represented based on population, the senate still has longer terms. This is supposed to give them more time to get actual long-term work done since they arenāt constantly campaigning.