Other What currently makes your life awesome?

I received an offer from my CEO to stay. This would be a completely different role, no more consulting. Since we'll see Jimmy Carr live on Thursday in Rotterdam, my wife and I arrived here today. This week, I'll work in our headquarters, having the "big talk" about whether or not the new role (and everything around it) is enough to keep me in this company tomorrow afternoon.

I wanted to come here anyway this week (Jimmy Carr), but now this'll be a big week for both myself and the company. Exciting!

Since they're pretty desperate to keep me, I'll try to carve out a niche for myself in the company, get the job I want with the support I need. If I get the feeling tomorrow that this ain't happening, I'll be outta here end of this year. I quite literally cannot lose in this situation.

 

Don't forget to tell HR to "suck it" on the way past!

 

Our HR manager (first actual HR employee) will start in a month's time.

First round of talks was positive. Looks like I'll stay, decision still pending, though. But I should get another raise out of this as an added bonus.

TBC tomorrow

 

Titanfall 2 has randomly been updated and fixed by Respawn, no announcement, no warning. The DDOS attack appears (note, appears) to have been resolved.

45'000 players in matchmaking across Steam/Origin.

Result.

 

Didn't know anything about this, but nearly downloaded T2 to the SeXbox last night after having a dabble in Hawken (got MechW5 in the queue as well... need to clear some space on that minuscule internal drive).

I'll have a poke and see what the SP is online/cross-platform.

 

Got 2 awesome confirmations this morning, my esta and eTA have both been approved.
Part one of my birthday plans for June are underway.

Sam

 

Ahh... New router is now set up and running. Everything just works

Get lost in that closet eero, you're gathering dust from now

 

Couple big sales last night made it my biggest sales day so far. Both coming from my last auction lot so owe me probably about 75p… nioce!

I only have the remainder of my overdraft to clear before I can officially say I’m debt free. I figured by the time I’m paid by work I’d be there but I’m starting to think I might get there before that.

If so, the only thing I’ll have left to do with my wages/sales come the end of the month is save it!

 

So, you're going to both 'Murica & Canuckistan?

 

Not quiet. All shall be revealed... soon.

Sam

 

IIRC you need them even if just passing through Canadia and/or Murkier...

 

Correct, I had to renew my esta a couple of months ago for a 3 hour transit layover to another country.

 

It why certain sections of america/canada losing their **** over ETIAS was so funny...

...like you've been doing the same **** for years.

 

I accidentally put washing up liquid in the rinse air recepticle. Why is it in this thread? For some reason the viscous liquid coming out was so absurd that I burst out laughing, most I've laughed in months

 

Latest update:

I'm staying at the company, moving into a new role (training manager) end of October. I'm also taking the team lead of the consultants on an interim base and was added to the management team yesterday (again, interim).

This escalated quickly.

On an unrelated note: went to a Jimmy Carr gig yesterday night with my wife, laughed our asses off.

 

the "My God" moments you get after installing a new GPU

 

I know a lot of people dunk on raytracing, but when CP2077 looks good it looks very ****ing good.

Is this with ray reconstruction enabled?

 

yep, everything and I do mean everything including pathtracing cranked also, toss in DLSS 3 and its magically racing along happily at 120+fps

 

DLSS3.5/Frame Gen/SuperLowLatency Mode, is ridiculous, at 1440p max settings with RT on Pyscho I can get 70-90 fps depending on area, or with RT off 120-130fps +... Even native I can still do 1440p maxed out without RT on, for someone that hasn't chosen a top tier card and just wanted to see what the enemy team was like in real life versus online troll reviews I've been rather impressed! I take it you went 4080/4090?

Oh give Control a go if you want to see some spicy RT in the darker/creepier sections, I much enjoyed haha!

What currently makes my life awesome, buying my Mum a present for her Birthday that she deemed too expensive to buy herself and couldn't justify the surprise shall be decent

 

4090, and damn she is a big lady

oh I loved control and am genuinly curious how they're going to continue it on with Control 2.