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Best known for being a leading cause of Napoleon's defeat?

Don't worry, Kagus. In a short time, your soul will learn to Gaze into the Infinite, and begin to wander by night. In its nocturnal roamings, it will hunt down your enemies, tear free their spirits from their spines, and consume them whole. As the spider of your heart arms itself with fractal claws born of a spiritual genocide, the struggle with her soul will turn in your favour until presumably she is eventually unable to tell you even have a soul.

Been paid, and my students are performing pretty well. Both make the job feel less terrible when it's manic.

In the name of reducing the amount of Trendy Startup Buzzwords I have to deal with, I think I should rebrand my job. Instead of "educator in a scarce skills sector", I should call myself a "purveyor of unusual memes". This is both technically correct and much less likely to make me throw up.

The paradox isn't actually about barbers, and the barber version is generally considered to have an obvious answer. The point is to be an example.

Microsoft recently released Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition. I knew this was coming, and I have some... inside contacts, so I knew it was going to be bad. It's not a surprise that it's bad.

But I'm utterly baffled at the thought process behind the way it was developed and released. Literally all they had to do was make sure it ran smoothly without bugs. That's all. The design, planning, and so on all exist from the original version.

Instead, they've somehow stitched 3D rendering onto the shambling corpse of the Genie engine, made significant changes to the UI (pretty unambiguously for the worse), released it riddled with bugs, and dedicated a great deal of effort to hiding how bad things were pre-release.

I just don't understand. What were their priorities? What consumed all their dev time? Who was phone? If they weren't willing to delay release, how did they not see this happening when they set out the development roadmap? Why is the game still running on a single-threaded engine? Why is Microsoft allergic to making good decisions about AoE?

Ah, the lunatics hear the sweet call of the celestial spheres.

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OrangeWizard was not all that bad, as I recall. He could get very passionate about things though, which is what I suspect got him the ban.

OW was incredibly chill 99.9% of the time, he just had a pretty laissez-faire attitude to slurs (in particular). He got banned for making a somewhat tasteless joke about lynchings.

Regrettably, I am being paid in packing peanuts. Regular peanuts would be a step up. I wish my payment were commensurate with what they expect from me, but I can't actually figure out what this company's priorities are.