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Penny Arcade - Comic - Vassal

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edited June 2016 in The Penny Arcade Hub

imagePenny Arcade - Comic - Vassal

Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.

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  • poipoigirlpoipoigirl Registered User regular
    Who is the guy with the goggles?

  • CEOIIICEOIII Registered User regular
    Does Overwatch have in game matchmaking, or can you play with randoms?

  • RonTheDMRonTheDM Yes, yes Registered User regular
    poipoigirl wrote: »
    Who is the guy with the goggles?

    Charles

  • Commander ZoomCommander Zoom Registered User regular
    "Yyyyeah, fuck that."

  • The Ninth GuardianThe Ninth Guardian Registered User regular
    edited June 2016
    Why is Chuck so green? He looks like a mouldering corpse.

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  • YoungFreyYoungFrey Registered User regular
    The Ninth Guardian wrote: »
    Why is Chuck so green? He looks like a mouldering corpse.

    It's because he's a Satyr. Just look at his leg in panel 2. And those aren't goggles, he files his horns down Hellboy style.

  • Finnish_LineFinnish_Line Registered User regular
    The word "of" missing in first panel, left bubble.

  • OrphaneOrphane rivers of red that run to seaRegistered User regular
    Isn't Overwatch not on Mac though?

  • cB557cB557 voOOP Registered User regular
    The Ninth Guardian wrote: »
    Why is Chuck so green? He looks like a mouldering corpse.
    I think it's supposed to be the lighting because they're in a forest? But it does look pretty weird.

  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    CEOIII wrote: »
    Does Overwatch have in game matchmaking, or can you play with randoms?

    Yes to both.
    Though as I read it those are the same question. Matchmaking puts you with randoms.
    But, you can also group up with up to 5 friends to join matchmaking, or up to 11 others if you do custom games.

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  • Element BrianElement Brian Peanut Butter Shill Registered User regular
    Whoa we can comment on the comics, how long has this been here? Years?

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  • ArbitraryDescriptorArbitraryDescriptor Registered User regular
    Element Brian wrote: »
    Whoa we can comment on the comics, how long has this been here? Years?

    More than one, if not several, yes.

    (The Hub threads are linked to them)

  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    Did Charles catch scurvy?

  • BursarBursar Hee Noooo! PDX areaRegistered User regular
    I think he's irradiated and glowing. You can see the light reflecting off of Tycho's hand.

    Or maybe Charles is green with jealously, because you can't play Overwatch on a Mac. (Though given that he doesn't appear to care about the game, I doubt it)

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  • Ravenhpltc24Ravenhpltc24 So Raven Registered User regular
    missing an 'of' in the first panel, no?

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    Element Brian wrote: »
    Whoa we can comment on the comics, how long has this been here? Years?

    Since around the switch to Vanilla I believe.

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  • flenserflenser Registered User regular
    News page says Robert resigned "a little while ago". Wouldn't surprise me if they're all a bit distracted today...

  • tastydonutstastydonuts Registered User regular
    Aye, common custom in the states says you're supposed to give a 1 week of notice for every 2 years of service.

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  • zerzhulzerzhul Registered User, Moderator mod
    tastydonuts wrote: »
    Aye, common custom in the states says you're supposed to give a 1 week of notice for every 2 years of service.
    I have never heard this before.

  • YoungFreyYoungFrey Registered User regular
    zerzhul wrote: »
    tastydonuts wrote: »
    Aye, common custom in the states says you're supposed to give a 1 week of notice for every 2 years of service.
    I have never heard this before.

    I've always heard it as 2 weeks. People very frequently call quitting, "giving my two week notice". But is a case of friends working together, so I'm sure that Robert gave them the time he thought they needed, or lacking that whatever he could. Right now is pretty optimal. It's about the biggest time between PAXen you get, and West sales have been handled.

  • briguybriguy Registered User regular
    I think Tube said Khoo isn't leaving until July. So I'm sure he's given them plenty of notice.

  • tastydonutstastydonuts Registered User regular
    edited June 2016
    YoungFrey wrote: »
    zerzhul wrote: »
    tastydonuts wrote: »
    Aye, common custom in the states says you're supposed to give a 1 week of notice for every 2 years of service.
    I have never heard this before.

    I've always heard it as 2 weeks. People very frequently call quitting, "giving my two week notice". But is a case of friends working together, so I'm sure that Robert gave them the time he thought they needed, or lacking that whatever he could. Right now is pretty optimal. It's about the biggest time between PAXen you get, and West sales have been handled.

    Putting in "2 week's notice" is really only a thing for non-leadership and lower pay positions. Should you choose to end your employment, you can walk out that day (with exceptions like contracts, etc of course.). But once you get past a certain pay-scale or position in most places of the amount of notice that your employer "prefers" you provide increases. HR usually has guidelines for it.

    I would imagine that even if Khoo wasn't friends with them, he would have given much longer notice than two weeks given the nature of his position.

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  • zerzhulzerzhul Registered User, Moderator mod
    I definitely am not commenting on whatever Robert decided to do.

    I still have no idea where you are getting that information as some sort of industry standard. If you want to do it though, great!

  • tastydonutstastydonuts Registered User regular
    edited June 2016
    Yeah, sorry. it's definitely tangential and not really a "standard" so much as a recommendation. In my particular industry the longer you've been in and the higher your level/etc... the longer notice it's expected for you to give. One organization had someone announce and it was several months before they actually left.

    eta: this line of speculation of speculation is rather distasteful, so I'm not going to comment on it further. Sorry.

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  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    flenser wrote: »
    News page says Robert resigned "a little while ago". Wouldn't surprise me if they're all a bit distracted today...
    This does not bode well...

    ... for their ping pong team.

  • Finnish_LineFinnish_Line Registered User regular
    Finnish_Line wrote: »
    The word "of" missing in first panel, left bubble.

    My OCD is not reacting well to this.

  • dennisdennis aka bingley Registered User regular
    "Two weeks notice" is actually somewhat different in some positions. It's more like "security will escort you out at the end of the day."

  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    Yeah, it depends on the job. Even if you get paid out for the two weeks, if there are security issues you'll leave that day. I've seen that in any job involving developers getting canned.

  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    Well, getting canned is also different than the employee deciding to leave and do something else.

  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    Oh sure, but also if a Facebook dev decides to leave or whatever they just walk them out of the building. Too much access.

  • PsykomaPsykoma Registered User regular
    My dad was a CFO for like twenty years, and his retirement notice was about 8 months so that he could oversee the replacement process and train his replacement for about two months. Other companies will have executive officers walk out the doors the same week as notice is given. Each company's process is different dependent on multiple factors and I'm just guessing Robert's notice was long enough for him to take care of all of those.

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