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I hate working in a lightless air-conditioned cave, but apparently my coworkers hate light and fresh air 
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The lightless area here is inexplicably the lighters. I don't get it.
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Aug 23, 2012 21:23
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I am also a windows-open coder. But it sucks to be the dude actually backed up against the window. Glare-o-rama. Windows work better when you're not in one of those goofy "everyone faces every which way" offices. The units near windows need to be facing the windows, not backed up against them.
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Aug 23, 2012 21:45
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Shalinor posted:I am also a windows-open coder. while that'd be even worse for me, I currently have my machine below a window and because we here in ROYAL Leamington Spa seem to love our classic Upstairs Downstairs white-painted buildings, there just so happens to be one in front of my window and the sun shines on it on the afternoons, so the contrast effect crushes the dark colours on my screen to the point where i can't tell black from a dark blue :C a problem if you're painting.  I could slide up a space but I like fresh air on me too much  first world problemsalso the walls are the wrong shade of cream, fucks with the feng shui yknow? GeeCee fucked around with this message at 21:54 on Aug 23, 2012 |
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Aug 23, 2012 21:49
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Shalinor posted:But it sucks to be the dude actually backed up against the window. hello! This was me in Austin. One of our other animators would do everything he could to open them, unfortunately with them open I couldn't see my screen. We finally agreed on "blinds open in the morning, closed in the afternoon" since ya know, couldn't see my screen. Here we have screens that let light through vs. blinds. It's really nice, keeps it dark but still lets some sunlight and color through especially in the afternoon. Basically it's as if it were perpetually overcast (though its pretty drat dark when it is overcast)
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Aug 23, 2012 21:53
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Aliginge posted:while that'd be even worse for me, I currently have my machine below a window and because we here in ROYAL Leamington Spa seem to love our classic Upstairs Downstairs white-painted buildings, there just so happens to be one in front of my window and the sun shines on it on the afternoons, so the contrast effect crushes the dark colours on my screen to the point where i can't tell black from a dark blue :C a problem if you're painting. The roof of our entire studio is a giant sky light. Summer is hell after 2pm.
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Aug 23, 2012 21:57
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Monster w21 Faces posted:The roof of our entire studio is a giant sky light. Summer is hell after 2pm. You work at Ion Storm Dallas? Can you get me John Romero's autograph? 
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Aug 23, 2012 22:01
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My studio has two offices in our main studio building. The artist/programming/systems office is dark with blinded windows, while the designer/community/marketting offices are a lot brighter and noisier.
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Aug 23, 2012 22:02
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Aliginge posted:You work at Ion Storm Dallas? Can you get me John Romero's autograph? $50.
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Aug 23, 2012 22:03
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What about views? I only bring it up as an excuse to brag about mine:  Edit: Ok, the abandoned parking garage that someone got stabbed in once isn't the greatest, but the other stuff is pretty nice.
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Aug 23, 2012 22:04
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We've embraced the darkness in our design area, most of the ceiling lights are covered in dim filters and we have chunky industrial light fixtures pointing at odd angles for accents. We couldn't even make it bright in here if we tried. I hope we get to show off what this place looks like in a making-of video or something, it's kind of crazy.
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Aug 23, 2012 22:12
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Our windows don't open, but I might be in the running for best office view. Luckily we have a half-setting for the over head flourescents, so it's dark enough for the dark-lovers and the light lovers have their precious light.
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Aug 23, 2012 22:18
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I'm very much a "sunlight and open windows for gentle breeze" kinda person. Surprised to hear that's an anomaly for programmer/technical types.
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Aug 23, 2012 22:38
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Yeah my view is pretty sweet too, oh wait.
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Aug 23, 2012 22:43
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concerned mom posted:Yeah my view is pretty sweet too, oh wait. Average day in coventry tbh
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Aug 23, 2012 22:46
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concerned mom posted:Yeah my view is pretty sweet too, oh wait. What's wrong with watching your competitor's building burn down I don't get it 
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Aug 23, 2012 22:50
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Well, I have to take some photos out the window tomorrow now. Our office is in the middle of a wildlife conservancy area, which means there are a bunch of lakes full of ducks and huge carp and grassy fields with bunnies and birdies everywhere... literally outside the window. We had an email the other week asking people to be careful coming into the car park cause there's a pond by the road where some moorhens have been hatching a couple clutches of eggs, and some babies got squashed the other day there 
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Aug 23, 2012 23:03
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concerned mom posted:Yeah my view is pretty sweet too, oh wait. You at Full Fat? Was easy for me to find since it was the only building that could have a 15th floor, so figure that's the only place that could have been taken.
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Aug 23, 2012 23:33
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concerned mom posted:Yeah my view is pretty sweet too, oh wait. I always wondered what that view was like. Dear mucky old Cov looks almost nice in that picture.
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Aug 23, 2012 23:37
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I end up having to move my desk every 9 months or so, but I always demand a window seat.
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Aug 23, 2012 23:38
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We have a view of the office building next door and the one across the street. We're in a one story building
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Aug 24, 2012 00:17
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Irish Taxi Driver posted:We have a view of the office building next door and the one across the street. We're in a one story building Ground floor of a two story building on the corner of a street where all of the most aggressive dickhole drivers in the West Midlands* like to pull out onto the main street with minor wheelspins. Still, beats working about a Kwik Fit. * A misnomer, all drivers in the west midlands seem to be aggressive dickholes. I think it's the fresh air and lack of things to complain about.
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Aug 24, 2012 00:25
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Compared to where I lived last, I hear a nice, distinct lack of people peeling out in the middle of the night. Between that, the lack of bugs and nice weather, Wisconsin owns pretty hard. But the downside is its Wisconsin.
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Aug 24, 2012 00:39
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aww ye
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Aug 24, 2012 01:27
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Monster w21 Faces posted:The roof of our entire studio is a giant sky light. Summer is hell after 2pm. Aren't you in Dundee? Summer only lasts for two days, man up.
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Aug 24, 2012 01:28
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waffledoodle posted:I end up having to move my desk every 9 months or so, but I always demand a window seat. That's gorgeous. Where is that exactly?
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Aug 24, 2012 01:30
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icking fudiot posted:aww ye I just bid farewell to my fourth-floor window overlooking Balboa Park, as the company is moving its operations over to Mission Valley
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Aug 24, 2012 01:42
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wasabimilkshake posted:Hey, I recognize that bridge! ...and those conspicuous, omnipresent cranes. that is tragic now you can overlook Nordstrom Rack and Fuddrucker's.
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Aug 24, 2012 01:44
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SnafuAl posted:Aren't you in Dundee? Summer only lasts for two days, man up. Hey! Dundee is Scotland's sunniest city, apparently. I think I've posted this before, but this was the view from my desk (until a fortnight ago):  Monster's giant skylight is to the right and forward a bit, incidentally.
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Aug 24, 2012 02:00
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mutata posted:What about views? I only bring it up as an excuse to brag about mine: I remember parking on that abandoned garage. We couldn't park on the bottom because cement from the top floor would fall down. The gaps were so big you could fall through it. Also, showed up one weekend during crunch and saw the most horrifying thing happening in the stair well between two homeless people. Ugh. That was before the parking lot to the east. Crazy seeing those trees so tall.
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Aug 24, 2012 02:20
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 But it's six of us crammed in a single room office with an integrated kitchen and a tiny bathroom. Yay third world developers! It's funny when someone says there's a meeting and then everyone just turns in their chairs.
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Aug 24, 2012 02:52
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Smegbot posted:Hey! Dundee is Scotland's sunniest city, apparently. HEY CAN I COME IN I WANNA PLAY YOUR GAME HEY HEY LEMME IN
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Aug 24, 2012 02:53
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Catagorical posted:That's gorgeous. Where is that exactly? Up in good ol' Austin hill country, around the corner from Vigil actually.
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Aug 24, 2012 03:39
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wasabimilkshake posted:I just bid farewell to my fourth-floor window overlooking Balboa Park, as the company is moving its operations over to Mission Valley
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Aug 24, 2012 03:50
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If I go to the nearest window, I can see another converted airplane hanger identical to the one I am in. I wish I had a picture from last summer, 17 stories up looking out at Mt Ranier 
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Aug 24, 2012 04:04
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Are there any Australians in here? Preferably Animators? I'm starting an animation course next year at one of two places (tossing up between Quantm and JMC) and it would be good to pick someones brain on where they studied, what indie studios are around, how soon I'll have to piss off to America or Europe etc.
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Aug 24, 2012 05:28
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Adraeus posted:Zynga? I hear they have a 100-person studio somewhere in San Diego. I believe Zynga is in north county.
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Aug 24, 2012 06:30
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I wish my house ... errr ... office, was in a better location now. When I look out my window, all I see is bioware, a strip joint, a superstore, and a half dozen hotels. and the brewery I suppose.
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Aug 24, 2012 06:43
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Smegbot posted:Hey! Dundee is Scotland's sunniest city, apparently. Did you apply to us btw?
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I'm in Vietnam, gently caress opening the windows and thank god for AC.
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