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  now you can open up a quizno's and make the big money. : crypt420
  • Mmm, toasty. : CoreContingency
• Congratulations! : Kentor
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  Where are you going next? : pimpium
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    I'm headed to the left coast to work for a studio in Irvine. : rmjackson
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      The Blizzard building is pretty awesome. : cetra00
      • or here: http://www.doublehelixgames.com/games/ : dedgecko
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        Who place is amazing. : rmjackson
        • whole* : rmjackson
      • Mike Morhaime took myself and a few of my fraternity brothers on a personal tour of the facility a few ye... : thetangent
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      Sweet! I understand there is vegetarian Chinese there. http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23122209 : dognose
      • It's a pretty amazing cafeteria for sure :) : rmjackson
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      Obsidian? : azshack
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        If this is the one, find the guy in charge of boss balancing for Alpha Protocol and kick the fuck out of : ArcKnight
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          inorite... i'd expected so much more :( : rmjackson
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            I'm completely stonewalled on the last mission in Rome. Apparently the only tactics that work are usin... : ArcKnight
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              And all the bosses are like this, because they're immune to any kind of status effects, being knocked dow... : ArcKnight
              • yeah that fucking shithead from Moscow almost killed me two or three times before I realized that you jus... : Majuju
    • I've never heard the west coast referred to as "left" coast before. : thetangent
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    so it's literally pick and move after a project is completed? must be hard to have a life outside of work : cptstern
    • Nah, Id' been with EA for a few years. It was just time for something new. : rmjackson
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  can you say which games you worked on? How was the environment? What were yours like? Is it as bad as ... : kgargs
  • I want to know this. And where you are going. : VictoriouSecret
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    I worked for the predominate RPG-based studio within EA. You generally find incredibly passionate people ... : rmjackson
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      I don't think anybody says that the environment at a game studio is bad, just that the workload is hellis... : Zek
      • It can be, but when you really love what you do, it's not something that's just terrible for you either. ... : rmjackson
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      What's the most time-consuming part or most likely bottleneck that occurs when making a AAA title? Waiti... : Xin Jing Client 1a
      • Bug fixes, getting out of alpha, load testing and the tuning that comes afterwards. Most studios hire ... : rmjackson
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      If you are not relocating, I'd say you are either going to Bethesda or Firaxis. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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        http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23122929#itemanchor_23122929 : zerog83
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          LEFT coast? Really? : Mad Brahmin Disease
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            lol why not, funny that I meant to type west coast... ;p : rmjackson
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              you mean lesser coast : dahanese
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                What? Oh come on...certainly you like living in California more than New York, right?? : virus
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                  no way. : dahanese
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                    and, to be fair, i'm very negative about california on the shack and there are perks to this place. the w... : dahanese
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                      Oh dude, you and mikey are out in SF? Next time I head to the mothership I'll sm you guys, maybe we can g... : daVinci1980
                      • yep, we're here! : dahanese
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                      It's funny, having just moved back to Marin after three years in Manhattan, I have the exam opposite conc... : pgharavi
                      • exact. : pgharavi
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                        i think it probably matters where you grew up. the cultures are very different, so you are probably most ... : dahanese
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                          To be honest, I'm more comfortable with being uncomfortable (hence, my love of traveling/living/working ... : pgharavi
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                            i think you might be taking my statements in an over-generalized way and applying it to way more than i m... : dahanese
                            • Come on, nothing needs defending. If three years in NYC can't toughen someone up, nothing can ;) : pgharavi
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                            I lived in Westwood - I don't know how you survived without A/C. Last couple of years I lived there (whic... : thetangent
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                              Jesus, I graduated in 2006. It never got THAT bad. There'd be like a week with more humidity than I'd c... : pgharavi
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                                Yeah - I lived just off of campus, right next to the Chevron station. It was getting ridiculously hot, es... : thetangent
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                                  haha. I lived right near there too. Levering? : pgharavi
                                  • Yup - I was in the apartments on the hill side, so you had to climb a ridiculously huge staircase to get ... : thetangent
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                      It's funny that your East Coast vs West Coast comparison is actually NYC vs SF. : midgetherder
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                        not true - my comparison is philly/boston/new york to the san francisco bay area. and i wouldn't try and ... : dahanese
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                          I've been almost everywhere (visited anyway) in the western half of the country (and all the way up and d... : thetangent
                          • if we're talking travel, i've been all over the country - all along the east and west coast and along the... : dahanese
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                        that's because the other areas on both coasts don't count : mikecyb
                        • I agree - posting from the Marin County Civic Center LIbrary (like a God damned hobo) haha. : pgharavi
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                        From my travels across the world, that seams to be the way foreigners look at the US and the coasts. : pgharavi
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                          Which is hilarious and wrong because it's two hardcore (and unique) extremes which bear little resemblanc... : thetangent
                          • but it's what foreigners want to see! : pgharavi
                        • seems. Jesus my brain is fried. : pgharavi
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                      I firmly believe anybody who is from one coast can never have an objective opinion about the other. I in... : MaxPete82
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                        typical california response!! : mikecyb
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                          I'll have an opinion about california and you'll like it!! : mikecyb
                          • only hippies and fags come from california, which are you?!?! : ArcKnight
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                        What about Northern California verses Southern? Is objectivity wanting there as well? : pgharavi
                        • Everybody has their own biases. : MaxPete82
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                        it's subjective anyway... that's the whole thing about an opinion. i mean, they're just different. : dahanese
                        • Yeah, I guess I was just stating the obvious. : MaxPete82
              • West coast is the best coast. : thetangent
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              left-wing coast perhaps : Mad Brahmin Disease
              • No, he's moving to Irvine. It's got more neo-cons than Texas. : BlackCat9
          • Also known as the Wrong Coast. See, when you were here, you were on the Right Coast. Get it??? : Wadmaasi
          • It's the best coast. : Haxim
    • Pretty classy response. With that said what is a fine gentlemen like yourself doing on Shacknews? We shun... : erebus
    • Crunch hasn't become the norm, it's been the norm since the garage days of the game industry. : daVinci1980
  • No, it's not. : not work safe
  • My friends works at EA montreal and from the way he talks about it, they are very VERY well treated.. : razlebol
• Can you say what you were working on? : WhatIsThisFor
• free at last. : Hoax
• Congrats!$#@!!! : CrustaR
• plz don't go to activision : lukej1337
• Grats! Hopefully it ended well. It can be tough to leave a game company without at least some people gett... : byorn
• Interesting thoughts and comments about your time and experience with EA rmjackson, really appreciated an... : Navy Spitfire
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  did you quit or were you let go? : mayooms
  • he's going to be beta testing at bigfish games now : jane911
  • I left on my own terms this time :) : rmjackson
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  I didn't know mythic was in fairfax (google'd EA fairfax va) : gmd
  • Yea Mythic is here, as is BioWare. : rmjackson