steeznson

It's just my opinion, man ¯_(ツ)_/¯

It's the element of randomness as opposed to the applicant's accumen that makes me question it.

I've done FAANG interview processes and I have friends/colleagues who have done them before too. Often the people who get jobs with them apply every year (or as often as allowed) with roughly the same CV, and do roughly as well in the practical tests, but they can end up being weeded out at different stages of the process seemingly at random.

It depends on factors like the mood of the interviewer, or the standard of the other applicants, etc. The whole thing is just so hard to reach the final stage of that I am having difficulty imagining that there are many people who have been in the position of being in the final stages for more than one role.

Edit: I have an extremely talented colleague at the moment who used to work for Meta and he had to apply an insane amount of times despite the fact he is technically extremely proficient.

Dungeon Keeper 2 is good in its own way but definitely lost some of its original magic.

There was an indie series called Overlord (I think, can't quite recall) which tried to be a Cities: Skyline type homage to Dungeon Keeper. I played it many years ago and it did scratch the same itch so you might be interested.

Ok, I feel like we've both explained our positions here. Let's agree to disagree.

It's pretty much the 2025 equivalent of a Che Guevara t-shirt/poster

It's a messy movie. I think a lot of the more current jokes/references are going to age badly like when Futurama came back and made iphone jokes to be topical.

That said, I really enjoyed 60% of it so gave it 3 stars on letterboxed. At least it tried something new in its genre mashups. My personal theory is that big Bong struggles to direct English language films like this and Snowpiercer because he misses a sense of how the script sounds to a native speaker.

Was going to comment something like imagine being GenZ and growing up with Mike Adriano and Trevor from GTA as your role models.

Actually as a millenial I remember spending my time getting Tommy Vercetti to use prostitutes in Vice City while the free porn sites were far less moderated and contained extremely questionable content.

Maybe these external influences are less of an issue if people realise they are "entertainment" and not reality. I could picture a kid who struggles to separate the two but they'd be a minority.

IMO parents/caregivers need to step up to ensure kids are raised properly but I think that's the main point Southgate is making.

There is something satisfying about going back and cranking Far Cry 2 or some other older game to max settings / 4k with an extremely modest GPU.

I think the power curve of the 2nd one really hits when you started off with your character in the first game killing rats in a basement.

As an aside I started Seige Of Dragonspear reecently because it was really cheap on Android and I was stuck on a long bus journey. I think it's actually pretty decent and potentially would be a good starting point if BG1 was too slow. So far the writing has been similar to the other two games albeit not quite on par. There is no tutorial on the mechanics or anything like that though.

Edit: One thing about BG1 is that it can be absolutely fucking brutal in an old school way. I was in Chapter 5 in the eponymous Baldurs Gate and a sidequest triggered where an NPC told me they had poisoned my entire party and I needed to follow them to an alleyway to get the cure. I assumed this was a ruse and my party was going to get mugged/jumped in the alley.

Fast-forward to 4 hours of gameplay later, 2 weeks of in-game time. I was on Chapter 7 on my way to confront Saverok and my entire party keeled over and died. Turned out they actually had been poisoned and none of my stacked saves went far enough back to go and complete the sidequest to avoid the poisoning. So I was totally soft-locked with no way to complete the game by conventional means.

I wonder if this would work with my RX580 if I put a 30 FPS framecap.

It is quite easy to go slackware -> gentoo from what I remember but minimalist distros might be cheating

Both have extremely long and moderately random interview processes. You need to be extremely bright and extremely lucky to get to stage 8 or 9 of the interview process with either of them.