http://web.archive.org/web/20240904174555/https://ssi.inc/
I have nothing witty or insightful to say, but figured this probably deserved a post. I flipped a coin between sneerclub and techtakes.
They aren’t interested in anything besides “superintelligence” which strikes me as an optimistic business strategy. If you are “cracked” you can join them:
We are assembling a lean, cracked team of the world’s best engineers and researchers dedicated to focusing on SSI and nothing else.
you know a company is very serious when it uses game balance terminology to describe its HR practices. “I’m sorry, we’re going to have to nerf your salary”
“Your wages feel overtuned.”
“We’re thinking of reworking your position.”
“This company is in beta. Your position is not fixed and might not be in the final product.”
Tangent: As a first time participant in an early access game, I came across the term “overtuned” which made me irrationally angry. My understanding is that it is supposed to mean “you buffed this because of feedback but maybe a little too much” but I have rarely seen it used to mean other than “this needs a nerf, and I won’t justify my position, but I want to sound like I’m reasonable”
please never let me make the mistake of becoming a game developer; I absolutely would be the guy who closes this ticket with “fuck off gamer” and gets us review bombed by the worst parts of our playerbase
never, ever, ever play EVE. you might pop a vein in apoplexy
(CCP demonstrates some of the most stunning lack of systemic thinking and basic hypothesis testing on the very damn thing they control, and it frequently does my head in)
I think I’ve seen a bit of it and thought that it was a game that could kill me in that manner!!!
C-level team killer