Recent content by IvanKaramazov

Maybe next year.

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Same. I've passed on internal promotions twice because I've seen what those positions do to people. I got lucky a while back (going on ten years now) and got to fill in on an interim basis when the person above me left for another institution. That interim position ended up lasting a year and a...

I work in the public sector, and I gather that Max does as well, from his posts in the "government employee" thread. This isn't about free enterprise, or capitalism, or whatever. It's just life in a highly-bureaucratized organization. I'm sure there are Fortune 500 companies out there with...

This is correct. "Just pay everybody more" is bad advice. I can't do that. First of all, our budget is pretty limited. Second, a little over 90% of my unit's budget goes to salary and benefits. There's nothing for me to cut to increase salaries. Third, we have a system-level HR system that...

Yeah, I always forget about the money tree out back. That's my blind spot as a leader.

"You should just offer higher salaries" works great, until your new hire is making more than people who have been there for 10 years and our salaries are all public record.

Comes out next week. You know it's going to be good because they apparently skimped on marketing to devote as many resources to gameplay as possible. This goes directly on my Wishlist.

I didn't realize there was a new Sniper Elite game coming out. Cool. I'm about ready for another stealth-action game.

Life isn't fair, and the reason why we can't take your word on it is because you've already told us that you'll lie about this sort of thing.

I don't have anything in particular against the Chiefs, but if the Bills don't win it all, I'm rooting for Washington. The fans who stuck with that franchise deserve something good.

When I posted this, we were teed up for a game against Lamar Jackson, and Mahomes was on deck. The road out of the AFC is difficult. Imagine if CIN had won one more game somewhere along the line. To reach the Super Bowl, we would have had to beat Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson, and Patrick Mahomes...

So Dragon Age: The Veilgaurd missed its sales expectations by about 50%, which caused EA stock to fall about 17% today. Disclaimer: If you played DA:V and liked it, and you don't own stock in EA, great. It's a single player game so there's no immediate reason for you to care about sales. You...

I get that, and I think a lot about how challenging it must have been for the pioneers. I just don't need to see a guy scalped up close is all. (The rape scene was also too much for me TBH). This never really occurred to me until a few days ago, but I actually do wonder if the existence of...

And to put it in perspective, those PPG numbers would actually both be well below the 2024 team average (30.9). (Not a prediction -- the Chiefs have a great defense of course. Just noting that offense has been good even by Allen's standards this year).