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CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)

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Re: CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)

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Post by nkohari »

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I'm a HUGE fan of Gibson's books, but let's be honest: he's 72 years old, and might not be the best judge of modern video games. He was also involved in (and wrote the screenplay for) the Johnny Mnemonic movie, which was one of the blandest attempts at mainstreaming cyberpunk ever. The Japanese stereotypes and Haitian gangs are lifted straight off the pages of Neuromancer and Count Zero. I dig the retrofuturist 80s v…

I agree on altered carbon for sure. The Haitian gangs, however, are based on the Voodoo Boys from the original source material. (Though I understand why they changed the game to have them not be a bunch of racist white dudes with dreads.)

Yeah, but Mike Pondsmith no doubt drew inspiration for the Voodoo Boys from the Rastafarians living in orbit in Neuromancer, and from the AIs representing themselves as Haitian voodoo gods in Count Zero.

The tabletop game draws heavily on Gibson and Philip K. Dick by the way of Blade Runner. (And to be clear, I love that!)

Re: CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)

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Post by XorNot »

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I mean I'm pretty sure the cop spawning itself is a placeholder mechanism they just never got around to. If you think about, the crime-notification probably calls a "spawn law enforcement" handler which basically just runs the spawn economy and drops them in, with a comment along the lines of "TODO: waiting on NPC driving mechanics" (which are also missing).

> I mean I'm pretty sure the cop spawning itself is a placeholder mechanism they just never got around to Is this meant as an excuse? Because it's not. Either they left it out because they ran out of time, or they didn't bother implementing it from the beginning, but the result is the same: they released a game without core mechanics fully implemented and the critiques are justified.

I think there's a difference between the game being half-baked (it is) and just genuine failure on the part of the developer. Basically I'm pretty sure the cop mechanic wasn't intended to be the way it is.

That doesn't really make it good, but I don't think it represents the feature design.

Re: CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)

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Post by msh »

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Depends a lot what you compare fiber to. mobile broadband can easily have 20-30 ms latency to the ISP. DSL is often 10-20 ms. Coax is in the same range, depending ont he provider. Fiber is usually 1-3 ms.

You do not seem to live in a rural area.

I don't understand why rural is relevant to the latency I posted?

Re: CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)

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Post by dghlsakjg »

trymas wrote: post #471
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> Also it may be illegal, i.e. if you are employed like a full time employee - you cannot work as an independent consultant/contractor. Though AFAIK this definition of "like a full time employee" is not very strict. Polish here. It is like you described but a) not many people know about this (sometimes I surprise some guys telling them their employment form - independent contractor for one company where you are actua…

> b) I've never heard of someone being caught practicing this Yup. Me too. It's not as bad with design/IT agencies anymore, but I know that lawyer agencies are still notorious for this. Big-ish lawyer agencies with dozens of lawyers have no employees, everyone is a "partner" (or whatever the term is).

The difference is a law "partner" is called that because they become a partner in the LLP. In other words they are given a very real ownership stake in the firm. They are paid a portion of the firms profits in addition to any salary.

Associate lawyers (what you are before partner) are paid a regular salary as employees.

Law firms aren't healthy workplaces, but I wouldn't worry about the legal rights of the lawyers working for them.

Re: CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)

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Post by tomc1985 »

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Step into the shoes of almost any past futurist and you'll find that humanity usually took the boring, predictable route, technologically. There is an inherent cynicism in the setting that needs to shine through as a fundamental part of the genre's identity. Also, it's only 57 years in the future. You're not going to advance that much in that time. Personally I think the aesthetic seems a little too trapped in 80s re…

That makes sense. Something like Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix really gets wild with what posthumanism can look like. Cyberpunk taken to the next 200 years. That said, media like ghost in the shell and altered carbon (the novels) gesture in this direction. Altered carbon, for instance, has people who have modded their bodies with animal features. GitS goes hard on the ship of Theseus metaphors and has lots of mods tha…

A bit into the game, Cyberpunk starts to resemble Altered Carbon in some ways. I'm not super far into it, and I don't want to spoil anything, but it definitely has some things to say about transhumanism and at one point I felt like it was sharing some vocabulary with AC.

You are right in that I think the universe could explore those themes more thoroughly, but then maybe it will and I'm just not there yet

Re: CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)

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Post by takeda »

neuronic wrote: post #550
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Launching broken isn’t an unexpected thing for this type of game. Everyone is used to falling-apart-at-the-seams Bethesda games, constant patches, even full-on crashes are now apparently acceptable on a console. I saw some people saying “I bought it, but I’ll wait a few months to play until they’ve patched it,” and they think that’s fine. I totally understand why CDPR made that choice. A console game being broken on…

Even worse, despite the outrage everyone will immediately purchase or even preorder a hypothetical Cyberpunk 2088 again.

Well, I'm on a PC, and frankly my experience was good. Yes, it would be better without some glitches, but they don't kill the game for me.

Re: CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)

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Post by dghlsakjg »

astrange wrote: post #561
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>>your max out of pocket health expenses won’t exceed a few thousand dollars. Wait, that's meant to be good? What kind of insanity is this. Why do you have to pay anything out of your pocket at all??

Don’t Canadians also have to pay for prescriptions and dental work? Some of that is included in the US benefit cap.

Yes. But I've never worked for a company that didn't provide coverage for that as well. My current plan provides $1500/yr for routine dental coverage, $15k for dental emergencies and accidents. $30k/yr prescription coverage. Massage, chiro, accupuncture up to $1k/yr. Counseling for up to 6 sessions free, then 50% coverage. This is not an unusual benefits package as far as I can tell. My last company even provided a $400 wellness spending account on top of all that. Anything I could justify as 'wellness' was covered to that amount. Running shoes, ski passes, recreational classes. This isn't some special package for high value employees. This is standard for any FT employee.

My out of pocket expenses this year for all health related stuff is around $100. That is made up mostly of prescription dispensing fees ($10 for a 3 month supply), and massage fees that were over the per visit limit (they only cover the first $100/hour. My massage therapist is $115/hr)

Benefits in Canada blew my mind when I moved up here.

The downside is that I make $80k ($62kUSD) as a mid level web dev, and that is not really considered low for the position.

Re: CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)

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Post by moron4hire »

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I made a quick little userscript that allows you to attach tags to users on HN. There's pretty much no documentation, I didn't really expect to release it, but it puts a little [t] next to usernames on HN and you can click it to add tags that persist in localstorage and show up next to that user wherever they post on HN. Feel free to use it and adapt it however you like. Only tested on Firefox and I'm sure it's full…

Cool! It works in ViolentMonkey on MS Edge Chromium. I didn't realize how easy this was to setup and do. Here's a first crack at making user names more prominent.

That's weird, I could have sworn I shared the link

https://gist.github.com/capnmidnight/b61dcecf587949d6adf1dc4...

Re: CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)

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Post by 908B64B197 »

simonh wrote: post #322
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Never understood why they tried so hard to be the destination for offshoring instead of fostering home grown studios. That and pitching Vancouver as an ideal HQ2 location since tech workers are worth ~50K less than in America[0]. Is this something that Canadians approve? [0] https://www.vancouvereconomic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02...

Offshoring companies bring investment into the community, while funding startups costs the local community. Also if your startup needs skill and services not available locally that have to be sourced outside that’s more cost, whereas a company coming in will have to provide those services at its own expense. If local salaries are depressed like that, this implies the outside investment is sorely needed. If there was…

> while funding startups costs the local community

I'm not sure I completely understand.

> If local salaries are depressed like that, this implies the outside investment is sorely needed.

It's interesting because a lot of capital is flowing into Vancouver right now in the form of real estate speculation.

Re: CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)

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Post by 908B64B197 »

asdfaoeu wrote: post #289
908B64B197 wrote: post #203

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Never understood why they tried so hard to be the destination for offshoring instead of fostering home grown studios. That and pitching Vancouver as an ideal HQ2 location since tech workers are worth ~50K less than in America[0]. Is this something that Canadians approve? [0] https://www.vancouvereconomic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02...

That document is not saying they are "worth" less than in America but that they are undervalued which I imagine a lot of them would agree with.

Well, according to the market they are worth less.
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