If the level design's good (which it looks like it will be) who the fuck cares?

He's expressed concern that he's one of a million zombie mods, and I've reminded him that only maybe two will come close to being finished, and that he has to ensure that his is one of them. If it's good, it'll stand out.

Besides, it's got a Peej Cola machine in it now. His path is fucking lit. 

do you light a path by fucking? 

 

[nt] 

think lunaran's buddy did it then?
I'll see the results first before deciding on action. 

http://info.ea.com/news/pr/pr651.htm

ps RPG sucks botties, u si teh sux0r, but cheers for speedmap pack that wasnt so speedy. ps gomap. 

http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=20755

Believe if you like, fps scenes sounds quite odd. 

http://media.filmforce.ign.com/media/490/490104/imgs_1.html

Wait and see... Maybe the movie will be as good as the game... who knows... 

Gosh, positivity, well who knows, it could happen!

FPS scenes don't sound odd at all. 

they're called POV shots. 

Maybe it'll sound a bit odd, considering the fact that I haven't posted much here aside from requesting an upload for a few lost maps...

Just wanted to thank you guys - had a great time reading through this forum since I started to visit it regularly. I won't have much chance of browsing this forum after the 8th of August - my crappy connection will expire by that time and It'll not be possible for me to afford a new one; 'cause I live in Turkey, 'cause it's still a luxury around here.

Hope I'll see you in the upcoming years. 

<Bl1tz|> metl is something wrong with func, or have there really been no posts in GA for almost 2 days

well let's find out! 

making their maps for SOE:Indian Summer they dont have the time to post 

I'm busy making my turtlemap... then after that a chainmap... then after that SoE. But almost SoE :D 

P:-) 

but tonight i'm gonna get drunk and smashed by exaggerated loud music. i hope at least a couple of braincells stay alive so i'll be able to finish the map on saturday. :) 

First some background: I've been with my company for 5 months now, doing telemarketing (yeah, I know). I went from complete sales noob to being one of the best (top 3, maybe top 2) salesmen in the company in 3 or 4 months. Now I've been looking around and I am seeing that in several other companies that do basically the same thing, I could be making 20-40% more money with the amount of sales I usually generate. While I obviously could just switch jobs, switching jobs is always a hassle (new enviroment, new people, different ways of doing things, etc) so I'd rather stay and try to get a raise.

Telemarketing companies work in such a way that during summer, there are lots of folks doing it as a summer job and all rooms are full, whilst during the school time there are barely any people around. Come late August/early September, I will be one of maybe 4-5 salesmen left in the company since the other folks go on to continue school, etc. This is raising my "value" as an employee by a lot, since I am a "reliable employee" who generates good sales and the amount of salespeople in the company will be shrinking by a factor of 3 or 4 pretty soon.

So what should I be doing? Obviously, I alone won't be getting a raise, it's either everybody gets a raise (all salesmen are paid based on same criteria: hour wages + commission) or nobody gets a raise. Should I talk to the other employees who will be staying with the company for the schooltime period and arrange a "now we're going to talk to the boss about a raise" thing together? If I don't get a raise, I walk and can get a new job in this market within 24 hours. However, this would also reduce my chances of getting high recommendations from my current boss. Or should I just forget it and switch jobs, plain and simple? What would you do? 

I'd kill myself. 

Now. 

If you can honestly walk and get another job in 24 hours, do it. There's no sense in stirring up problems at the existing place and getting a bad reputation. If you want to try for a raise, talk to the boss on your own, and say that you're considering leaving for another company that pays better. He'll have a chance to give a raise and keep you on, and he also knows that you're leaving on an honest basis without creating a problem with the other employees.

If you try to organize with the other employees and the boss finds out, you might just get the axe; and that's not going to look so good when you try to get a job at another place. On the other hand, maybe you'll get the raise, but it may not remain the pleasant place you have now, and if that happens then your reason for staying has somewhat disappeared.

It sounds like you're trying to gain everything without giving up anything. That's pretty hard to do. 

I'll just add to what RPG said by pointing out that you also need to access how much of your success within your current company is dependent on the underlying infrastructure of that company.

Whatever company you jump ship to may not have the same contacts, support or other factors that go in helping your performance. You probably have a natural talent for your job, but talent can be severely enhampered by the type of working environment you are in, and if that were to happen, you would have a much tougher time surpassing quota to get those bonuses. 

You certainly need to establish what your priorities are.

Everyone starts work to earn money. Money is a great short-term 'satisfier', it then later becomes neutral in that respect and only becomes a 'dissatisfier' when influenced, and added to, by other dissatisfiers e.g. poor conditions, low status, being overlooked etc.

If you are on commission and are one of the best salesmen, you are already earning more than other people within your company, and presumably they know that.

So, back to your priorities:-

money first, last and everything? - move jobs now because earning 20% more this week than you did last week will feel good (until you see the next higher paid job of course.)

urban radical tendancies/magnanimous benevolence? - stay where you are and rally the workforce to get (try to get) more money for everyone (oh, I can hear them singing in the valleys, isn't it) but remember that money is only a short-term satisfier

personal development requirement? - talk to your boss about your aspirations and how these could be fullfilled (or not) within this company

Where do you want to be in 2, 5 and 10 years time? If you do not know the answer or can not contemplate the answer, change jobs anyway. Money is a great short-term satisfier.

But remember, changing jobs to go sideways too many times will eventually not look good on your CV. Again, you need to know your priorities and have some idea of your long term goals. And in this respect, money is only a short-term satisfier.

And ignore anyone who tells you that a) money is the root of all evil, b) money can't buy happiness, c) the best things in life are free. These things are usually said by poorly paid people who have reached the upper limit of dissatisfiers in their current occupations.

Or they're trappist monks...

Good luck. 

http://q-q-q.net/qqq4.htm 

I'm in Boston, mulling some stuff over. Be back in about a week:)

Do you remember the time, when still a mere lad, you went down one winter's day to play in your dark court? The cold nipped your shoulders through your thin clothes, and the mud worked into your worn-out shoes. Even then when you saw chubby children richly clad pass in the distance, looking at you with an air of contempt, you knew right well that these imps, dressed up to the nines, were not the equals of yourself and your comrades, either in intelligence, common sense, or energy. But, later, when you were forced to shut yourself up in a filthy factory from five or six o'clock in the morning, to remain twelve hours on end close to a whirling machine, and, a machine yourself, were forced to follow, day after day, for whole years in succession, its movement with relentless throbbing - during all this time they, the others, were going quietly to be taught at fine schools, at academies, at the universities. And now these same children, less intelligent, but better taught than you, have become your masters, are enjoying all the pleasures of life and all the advantages of civilization. And you? What sort of lot awaits you?
Peter Kropotkin, 1842-1921 

Theres a fairly interesting GameSpot article, talking to Chris Avellone (Obsidian), Ken Levine (Irrational Games), Akira Yamaoka (Konami) and CliffyB (EPIC) about working in the game industry as a designer. Read it at: http://www.gamespot.com/features/6129276/index.html