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chooch

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Engineer, Insomniac Games Previously: OtherSide Entertainment, Harmonix Music Systems, Iron Lore Entertainment, Stainless Steel Studios Full time game dev, part time backyard BBQ chef. He/him.

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... it took them 6+ months to find new positions on average. Just sucks right now, for sure. If you want some resume critique and to chat / mock interview with myself and some friends that have done this recently lmk, I can shoot ya a discord link.

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Are you still working in tech and attempting to apply/interview in that space? It's a miserable time to be looking -- it's very much not just you, it's hard for everyone. Most of my friends who code were downsized in the last year, and despite having 15+ YOE... (cont)

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My vacation is going pretty well, but not as well as my dogs.

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Nicholas Wallace's avatar Nicholas Wallace @wallace.bsky.social
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Absolutely wild that the court accuses the dissent of "fearmongering" with "extreme hypotheticals" when the actual basis for the indictment is a coup attempt that led to an attack on the capitol

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LENA WIFE's avatar LENA WIFE @nebulena.net
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but they were all of them deceived, for another type of guy was made

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chooch's avatar chooch @chooch709.bsky.social
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I'm not young enough to keep up with all of the gen z lingo but I do pick up a thing or two on social media and use it as precision ammo to make my teenager physically reel in the cringe.

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Aaron Rupar's avatar Aaron Rupar @atrupar.bsky.social
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Supreme Court allows women to get health care when they're dying, as a little treat

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chooch's avatar chooch @chooch709.bsky.social
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I don't know which one we're talking about, but: yes.

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Finance guy at the car dealership looked at my employer then came out to tell me he's waiting on SM2 DLC 🤣

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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious's avatar Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social
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I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

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chooch's avatar chooch @chooch709.bsky.social
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Playing Marvel Snap against little Bobby Tables.

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That was my experience; I was wondering if anything happened between then and now

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Is the new player experience in Destiny 2 any good yet or still in rough shape?

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chooch's avatar chooch @chooch709.bsky.social
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The year is 2024 and I'm watching $GME all over again.

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I'm sorry but LFG is always going to be Looking-For-Group.

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We have the nerdiest Discord server role hierarchy.

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All three over time, but originally Hib!

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Same, but I've been a citizen of the internet long enough to know the names of the characters, and watched (at least one of) the modern movies to learn some history. It's not that I don't WANT to, it's just never felt like a commitment worth making

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futurejeffrey🙋🏻‍♂️'s avatar futurejeffrey🙋🏻‍♂️ @lacroixboi.lol
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We didn’t see the aurora borealis but we did do a drive thru car wash today

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chooch's avatar chooch @chooch709.bsky.social
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Cerberus, the hound of Hades, defender of Tartarus, and the best boy. Just line work today, lots of color to do in a few weeks. I've had this booked for months and this week's surprise Hades 2 release was a very happy coincidence.

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Oh yeah it's terrible, I eventually just put the game down to easy and it was still a pain.

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The laziest Sunday on the couch with this doggo, Balatro, and Another Crabs Treasure (which I am criminally bad at)

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I am so incredibly bad at souls likes.

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Nick Quackenbush's avatar Nick Quackenbush @quackles.bsky.social
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Ask a graphics engineer to fix a problem "That sounds impossible but I'll take a look, it'll take a while." [47 seconds pass] "I reflactated the quantriplicates to ensure the drooples were drooping. Anyway it's not perfect, there are some transplerences in the normcants, but it works now." Coo coo

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chooch's avatar chooch @chooch709.bsky.social
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Credit roll on FF7 Rebirth tonight! That was an all-consuming title, I spent almost all of my gaming time over nearly the last two months working through it.

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Last day of vacation, sittin' on the beach, trying not to let the sun burn me on my way out the door.

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On my third Disney park of the day. Glad we're pushing the park hopper passes to the max, but absolutely do not recommend this lol

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Required Millennium Falcon selfie with bonus X-Wing and Tie Fighter selfies

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Also, this phone photo does it zero justice vs what it actually looked like!

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One of the cooler things to have happened on this trip was realizing SpaceX was about to launch a rocket and then just looking up in the sky and seeing the takeoff and burn into the outer atmosphere.

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Beaches, mangroves, gators, and ospreys, oh my.

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What was the first game to lean heavily into puns as quest names? I remember WoW doing it early on, was that where it started? They're low key my favorite bits of writing.

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Asian supermarket is the only place you can find Alaskan King Crab and Chun Li soda a couple aisles apart

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Today I traced a bug back to a line of code with a "// HACK:" comment above it and it's nice when the author leaves you little breadcrumbs.

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All PAX'd out after one day. Today's plans include way too many hours worth of FF7 Rebirth.

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