Shacknews Hiring

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• Go Kayn!!! : edgewise
• Go John!!!! : Sgt_Boomstick
• Go Larry!!!!! : Psychic Potato

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  OMG. You're in Okinawa! I need a set of standard size (3' x 6') Japanese silk-screen hanging brackets. ... : sHugamom
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    I can not find anything called -Japanese silk-screen hanging brackets on the web. Are you looking for 3*6... : brutal
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      Here's the best (fuzzy) picture that I can find on the web of said brackets, on an ebay listing. Problem... : sHugamom
      • Ok now I know what I looking for. Wish me good hunting . : brutal
    • Your question also inspired me to check with Shirokiya. Both Shirokiya and Iida have stores at Ala Moana... : sHugamom
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    Bump for Okinawa love. A++ Would Go Back Again In A Fucking Heartbeat : roushimsx
    • that's really strange, i've heard such conflicting stories of those stationed in okinawa. i've heard it s... : draconic

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• a girl? you blow my mind sir : tigeN
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  I just checked out that site and you're right. They even have a "token girl" listed on staff. Yay for th... : sHugamom
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    Hey guys, Thanks for your comments about Idle Thumbs! You brought a smile and a tear to the face of the T... : spaff
    • Dude! You're not supposed to tell them about the emotions! : dtabacco
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  wait...Alec was a guy? : gsfx
  • Quite a hottie at that. http://moblog.shacknews.com/Alec_Kevin.jpg : SpiderMonkey

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  i'm not sure how we'd get the salary of our own job posting wrong. : Maarten Goldstein
  • matrin how you type so stupid! : Luminair
  • I'm happily surprised to see that a news website can offer such competitive salary : derean
  • You know, I come here every day and I don't get jack! Where's my money, Maarten! : Wyvern
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  shacknews makes enough money to pay someone 50k?! : yqbd
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    exactly my point : derean
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      never says "dollars" anywhere .... : Dread Pirate Roberts
      • shit you figured us out :( : Maarten Goldstein
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    Yea, you wouldn't believe how much money internet website do. : larcho
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      Ok ... "internet websites" sounds a bit lame. : larcho
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        you're hired! : Steve Gibson
        • Wouldn't that be funny. Non understandable LNC all over the place. : larcho
      • He misspelled "Internets" : tomservo
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    I'm actually surprised people's reactions to those figures. I always thought that it was tough to get by... : fluffy64
    • it completely depends on your cost of living, and what you're used to in terms of $. : Crimson
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      It's not that, I was surprised that the shack even had 50k to begin with. It's the same thing that happen... : eldiablo01
      • They probably got that every evening just off jon stewart during the election : Neech
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      You just live in an expensive place. Its very easy to get by on 50K in some areas. : suicidemachine
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        even in london $50k is a ton (and london is one of the most, if not THE most expensive cities in the worl... : gsfx
        • oops, reply was to #173 : gsfx
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          What country's currency? One pound is a bit more than one US dollar. : walker270
          • $50k is £30k. average salary here for starting people is about 16-20k, national average is mid 2... : gsfx
    • Tough to "get by" on an above average income? : DinK
    • i make about 42k US up here in montreal as a games programmer around here that's considered pretty hig... : derean
  • 50K would be for a very good, very experienced writer that would supply this site with a daily stream of ... : DinK
• I'll write stories about gay zombie aliens for half that. : [fry]

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  Old Man Murray is hilarious, but they were a little brutal when the Shack was going through rough times. ... : helvetica
  • Oh wait, I remember that now. Yeah that was kind of rough. I guess we'll have to settle for Psychonauts. : azshack
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  Erik's a great writer, however he's off the market. He now works for a (very cool, but very secretive, un... : jason bergman
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    not so secret? http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/xbox/data/561517.html : Judecca
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      Wow long did I mourn that OMM wasn't alive and that I wasn't getting to appreciate the writing talent tha... : SpiderMonkey
      • Well as the story goes (and anyone can correct me if I'm wrong) I think he only worked on that for a year... : azshack
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      Erik's no longer at Doublefine, but I don't know if he wants it known where he does work at this time. Bu... : rudds
      • I heard he was at the place that made The Guy Game : Judecca

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• also, the orbital song haylcon on and on is damn nice, hackers ost, mortal kombat ost, other osts, and so... : ggj00rpwnd

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  "Whoever lands this gig has a cherry job and the best to them." You're on serious crack. I was mulling... : Gauss
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    Not to mention you aren't guaranteed job safety for any significant amount of time. : zuga
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      Very few people ever are. : themelon
      • haha no shit... i'm only as good as my previous months numbers... : Jayx77
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      umm... who is? : vigilante
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        Anyone with an MD : cam3lt0sis
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          One of the reasons I am becoming one. Job security! : freshyk
          • same : cam3lt0sis
      • pirates. yar. : porp
      • Government employees. : walker270
      • Oh yeah, tenured professors. : freshyk
      • Anyone with the last name of Bush. : TheArtMan
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    Having run a gaming new site full time for a salary within that range, I can tell you, it's not a "Dream"... : Matto357
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      god I'm retarded scratch gaming news add in hardware review/news. : Matto357
      • I can imagine hardware being even more tedious. "Yes, how will I describe The Fastest Graphics Card Yet R... : SpiderMonkey
      • Then obviously it wasn't for you. Someone who can write it can be handy dandy dream candy. : rosewood

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  Snag him or polansk. : Wyvern
  • OK, I'll try to talk to Polansk. A LNC written by him would be the greatest thing ever. : melancoholicz
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  I would love to see him, though I assume hes getting paid a good amount more. Maybe he can do both since ... : Jaxle
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    I think the words you are looking for are "conflicting interests" : carazy
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      No the word is deep linking. : schnitz76
      • Oh, he was so close! : TheArtMan
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  Let's see... At CNN, I get to hang with the anchors you all lust over. At Shack, I get HWM... Hmm, ok, th... : MorrisatCNN
  • +INF for this most outstanding comparison of job oppurtunity. : notd665
  • at Microsoft you get free soda....you should come here! Plus you could kick Bill Gate's ass. : cltcprd
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    New CM perk: Monthly supply of shacksnacks as personal sHugabonus. : sHugamom
    • Are cookies taxable? : filtersweep
    • haha -- I was gonna say, "shugamom cookies > all!" : marblehead
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      Madam, you make an intriguing offer... Would these include Oatmeal Raisin? We shall talk at QuakeCon! (Pl... : MorrisatCNN
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        It's basicly settled then. Alrighty! Got your and your Mrs. a reserved seat on the Shackbus and a fresh... : sHugamom
        • This is a rad thread. : SLUDGE^
        • All job offers should involve cookies : d fluke
  • But Shacknews gets you chicks... : Kiriakos
  • Did u just hear the collective awwwwwww? : xphil
  • Steve, I told you. Stop being cheap with the cookies. : TheArtMan
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    But...CNN needs to stfu. : GeorgeB3DR
    • I get jokes : rosewood
• Damn, he would be good. : deep gray

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• Just to be clear: I'm really referring to one specific 'theme' here, and that's industry contacts. I t... : zakk

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  the new guy better be damn good. : R.Cade
  • I'm sure they will be. There's a lot of talent to pull from in the shack community. : jrock
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  me too, he's been doing the LNC stuff for over a year now. doesn't seem like it, but that's a long ti... : pyide
  • can't we have *2* writer guys or smthn? :( : packav
• what happened to him? move on to bigger and better things? : prime8

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• You dirty tease. : stelth
• If you apply, I'll match whatever Steve pays you to seal the deal.* *to be paid in non-negotiable RAPE : Ajax
• bwahahaha : Halen
• I miss your stuff here!! : suqur
• you cock tease! : Dan 101
• Hah. Seriously though, some of those featured articles you wrote were so good (failed game consoles, etc)... : Serpico74
• LOL : Zero|DPX
• I LOL'd!! : reflex33
• ;-) jason i just dont know if you're LNC material. haha : jigstah
• not fair jason. playing with people's emotions like that : te[R]ror
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  I guess I'm not "old school" enough to know why this is a big deal? :S : notd665
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    as a young boy, mr. bergman sent in console news to Steve on construction paper and spent his years in gr... : jigstah
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      or you could search his post history like I did. : carazy
      • Fool!! : jigstah
  • Jason is sTeve's son, so like he's guaranteed a job.... : askedrelic
  • Quit lying. Its a big deal because he invented the PS2. : Judecca
• i laughed. : jarek99

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  he's not a console guy at all - there is hardly ever any console stuff on blues : smellslikefish
  • They actually do a really great job of rounding up console links these days. Just no commentary. I mix th... : SpiderMonkey
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  ShackBlues! is born! : Wyvern
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    This made me laugh out loud. : aavenr
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      that would be so bizarre and it's about as likely as sHackFoo. : sHugamom
      • Shack Fu? Hmm... Sum Yung Kwai: HMM! Bastard! Try my 13 Heavenly Cockboats stance! Lung Wang: HA : Rotten Deadite
• He's a PC only guy and a link machine, not a writer of original content per se. : Serpico74

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  Then you'd have to edit X number of articles per day/week :D : Gauss
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    Not a problem. :) Sorta like rosewood's saying - I just don't have the stamina to write that much that... : jrock
    • I guess, my editors are frazzled pretty much year round, and they go into shock from about september thro... : Gauss
• I think someone who would be interested in this job might toss out a few dozen writing ideas for upcoming... : rosewood
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  This is a problem with jobs in general. Everyone tells you to get a job doing something you love. They ... : fookilla
  • I totally agree with your first paragraph. The second is strange, in that I didn't have any expectation a... : jrock
• Guess that's why most writing jobs are freelance, aren't they? To compensate for the fact that most write... : SpiderMonkey
• Yeah, but 'articles' on the shack are more like just news posts with a little bit of content. It's not li... : tomservo
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  "forced" writing? That's why it's called a JOB right? I sure wouldn't want to pay a writer to sit in hi... : DinK
  • That was funny! : Ajax
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    what if you paid them per article? : Nation
    • Then it would be freelance, right? In the shack's case, it needs a steady, predictable, yet limited st... : DinK
  • Clearly the level of writing required before it feels 'forced' differs for every writer. A mandate to wri... : jrock

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  answer your shackmsgs : armybob
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    weird, i didnt get a popup : emocore
    • ya happens to me sometimes to : armybob
• Yeah, Louisiana public schools don't learn ya too good. : Rotten Deadite

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  Gamespy stole your article, now maybe you can steal one of their quality writers! : drabid
  • Are there such things @ GameSpy? I Kid, I Kid Maybe : V3N0M

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• www.shacknewssweatshop.com : intothefray

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• There's no state income tax in Texas, IIRC, so it's a non-issue. : Vincent Grayson
• No, you would not. Unless you make money in two different states. : gnoleb
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  I work in georgia and live in tn. You pay your state tax in the state you work. Tn also doesn't have a ... : carazy
  • you are incorrect (or just posted it backwards) .... you pay state income taxes only in the state you liv : Nation

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• lol :x : xenoeye

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  Seriously, I loved Redwood's shit when he was doing his site. The Stomped.com stuff sucked but that was a... : Phreakin
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    i liked stomped, as a matter of fact i liked it better than sugashack : X-GOUKI
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      Stomped was accutally my favorite site when it was around. I did not come to the shack until after Stompe... : Jaxle
      • yeah it was blues redwood and sCary's... those were my everyday stops. : phatl
  • That'd be fucking sweet if Redwood came back. : timmie

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• Too bad hookers and blow are so fucking expensive or steve might be able to put some of it into savings o... : [fry]

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• Hired! Here's your 2k per year paycheck in advance. Now start working slave!!! : aavenr
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  I think part of the reason for that kind of compensation is perhaps because you'd be doing enough work th... : Vincent Grayson
  • What is with the perception that having a job in the games industry or gaming media isn't a "real job" ? : gndagger
• So I guess that means they'll pay you what you're worth. : vaniah

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  luckily they wont be able to read this! : Steve Gibson
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    It is possible, providing the text was translated from English to Japanese, then back to English again, a... : Orange Pylon
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      lol Bash.org to the rescue: <h|tler> HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU TELL THAT I'M 13 BY LOOKING AT WHAT I'M WRIT : Svperstarr
      • Bwahahahaha : Zero|DPX
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  i swear to this day that rpgs helped me to learn how to read much more quickly, just like FPSs stressed m... : Crimson
  • Same here. I was supposedly reading at a college level by sixth grade, and I mainly played console RPGs a... : Orange Pylon
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    sierra adventure games made me learn to type : sludge vohaul
    • Nice Space Quest name. Me too about the sierra games. Especially the earlier ones that didn't pause the... : Judecca
  • On a related note, I learned to add small numbers very quickly by playing Monopoly (the board game, not t... : crummynz

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  Hahaha, I concur. STEVE: Slow news today rookie? Well make your own damnit! : aavenr
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    Today, Nintendo buys Sony in attempt to take over next-gen console market. : notd665
    • Nintendo states the new Revolution will work better if the user doesn't wear pants!! : askedrelic

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• Would be better if all Pron was writeoffs. Now you got something! : jonin