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  • M MehreenTahir

    Just heard back from the people I was undergoing interviews with and they had a positive feedback for my work and they're ready to make a final offer to me. Though I might start a little late because of on-going quarantine but just the news that I got the job is enough to make my day. :) P.S. On that note, does that make me the first person to be hired during the bad bad times? That's what they said. ;P

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    Mark_Wallace
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    All the contracts I had a line on dried up like they'd been hit by a solar flare. Still, the missus wants a new cold frame, the balcony railing needs replacing, and I've just bought Ni No Kuni 2*, so it's not like I'll be bored. * There's not really any point in playing "Guess the Priority Item", is there?

    I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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    • M MehreenTahir

      Just heard back from the people I was undergoing interviews with and they had a positive feedback for my work and they're ready to make a final offer to me. Though I might start a little late because of on-going quarantine but just the news that I got the job is enough to make my day. :) P.S. On that note, does that make me the first person to be hired during the bad bad times? That's what they said. ;P

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      Nelek
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      MehreenTahir wrote:

      and they're ready to make a final offer to me.

      Glad for you, but as long as you don't have the contract signed by them in your hands don't get anything as granted. Not the first time I see a company steping back in the last second and not the first time a final offer was still a bad offer.

      M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

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        MehreenTahir wrote:

        and they're ready to make a final offer to me.

        Glad for you, but as long as you don't have the contract signed by them in your hands don't get anything as granted. Not the first time I see a company steping back in the last second and not the first time a final offer was still a bad offer.

        M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

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        MehreenTahir
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        Nelek wrote:

        not the first time a final offer was still a bad offer

        Trust me no offer could be bad at this point. Desperate times LOL :-D

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        • Greg UtasG Greg Utas

          Congratulations!

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          MehreenTahir
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          Thanks. :)

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          • M MehreenTahir

            Nelek wrote:

            not the first time a final offer was still a bad offer

            Trust me no offer could be bad at this point. Desperate times LOL :-D

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            Then, let's hope they offer comes and that it is good :)

            M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

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            • M Mark_Wallace

              All the contracts I had a line on dried up like they'd been hit by a solar flare. Still, the missus wants a new cold frame, the balcony railing needs replacing, and I've just bought Ni No Kuni 2*, so it's not like I'll be bored. * There's not really any point in playing "Guess the Priority Item", is there?

              I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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              Sander Rossel
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              Mark_Wallace wrote:

              Ni No Kuni 2

              Still on my list! Loved Ni No Kuni (played last Christmas). Finishing Borderlands 3 first though :) Maybe I'll save Ni No Kuni 2 until Christmas again.

              Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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              • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

                Mark_Wallace wrote:

                Ni No Kuni 2

                Still on my list! Loved Ni No Kuni (played last Christmas). Finishing Borderlands 3 first though :) Maybe I'll save Ni No Kuni 2 until Christmas again.

                Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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                I picked up Ni No Kuni cheap for the PS3, after being severely annoyed by Dragon Quest XI -- not because DQ XI is an annoying game (it's nearly as good as DQ VII, and a lot prettier), but because the damned thing kept crashing. By the time I'd finished Ni No Kuni, a DQ XI patch had been released, and it was playable again -- but the similarities between the two games were so many that I kept forgetting what I was supposed to be doing (and there's an identical section of a castle that appears in both games). I still haven't finished DQ XI.  I can't stand racing games (or anything on a timer -- IMO, games are supposed to be fun, not hard work), and you have to win a bunch of horse races to get the ingredients for the uber-mocha-banana-pomfrey sword, or some such, that you're supposed to use in a long, grinding, hard-work battle against the final boss (which I can live without). Ni No Kuni 2 is looking good, so far.  The story and the gameplay are a lot more polished, and it keeps hinting that there'll be a Suikoden-type element to it (which I see as a good thing).

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                • M Mark_Wallace

                  I picked up Ni No Kuni cheap for the PS3, after being severely annoyed by Dragon Quest XI -- not because DQ XI is an annoying game (it's nearly as good as DQ VII, and a lot prettier), but because the damned thing kept crashing. By the time I'd finished Ni No Kuni, a DQ XI patch had been released, and it was playable again -- but the similarities between the two games were so many that I kept forgetting what I was supposed to be doing (and there's an identical section of a castle that appears in both games). I still haven't finished DQ XI.  I can't stand racing games (or anything on a timer -- IMO, games are supposed to be fun, not hard work), and you have to win a bunch of horse races to get the ingredients for the uber-mocha-banana-pomfrey sword, or some such, that you're supposed to use in a long, grinding, hard-work battle against the final boss (which I can live without). Ni No Kuni 2 is looking good, so far.  The story and the gameplay are a lot more polished, and it keeps hinting that there'll be a Suikoden-type element to it (which I see as a good thing).

                  I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                  Sander Rossel
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                  Mark_Wallace wrote:

                  after being severely annoyed by Dragon Quest XI

                  I got both for PS4 so crashes are rare (if I had any at all). I also played both games last year, so I probably got all patches since the games are a few years old already.

                  Mark_Wallace wrote:

                  I can't stand racing games (or anything on a timer -- IMO, games are supposed to be fun, not hard work)

                  Agreed! Although I can't remember this specific part of DQ XI and I finished it. Got 100% of the trophies/achievements as well. The horse races annoyed the hell out of me though X|

                  Mark_Wallace wrote:

                  a Suikoden-type element

                  Never played Suikoden, but I'm already looking forward to Ni No Kuni 2 :D

                  Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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                    MehreenTahir wrote:

                    and they're ready to make a final offer to me.

                    Glad for you, but as long as you don't have the contract signed by them in your hands don't get anything as granted. Not the first time I see a company steping back in the last second and not the first time a final offer was still a bad offer.

                    M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

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                    Nelek wrote:

                    Glad for you, but as long as you don't have the contract signed by them in your hands don't get anything as granted you won't catch the virus off them .

                    FTFY

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                    • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

                      Mark_Wallace wrote:

                      after being severely annoyed by Dragon Quest XI

                      I got both for PS4 so crashes are rare (if I had any at all). I also played both games last year, so I probably got all patches since the games are a few years old already.

                      Mark_Wallace wrote:

                      I can't stand racing games (or anything on a timer -- IMO, games are supposed to be fun, not hard work)

                      Agreed! Although I can't remember this specific part of DQ XI and I finished it. Got 100% of the trophies/achievements as well. The horse races annoyed the hell out of me though X|

                      Mark_Wallace wrote:

                      a Suikoden-type element

                      Never played Suikoden, but I'm already looking forward to Ni No Kuni 2 :D

                      Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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                      Sander Rossel wrote:

                      Although I can't remember this specific part of DQ XI and I finished it. Got 100% of the trophies/achievements as well. The horse races annoyed the hell out of me though

                      I still have to (not really, but I might get around it on a rainy day): • Get one of every kind of monster (except maybe the big boss).  I'm only short a few.  Fortunately, the in-game guide tells you where to find them, and which ones are in the area you're in. • Find all "treasures", using the thing from the guy with the daughter (Connie?) • Do quite a bit of crafting with the forge, which means quite a lot of grinding to get materials (using the in-game guide, again). And I never did find the fluffy white cat (not a quest, but two NPCs in the desert city talk of it being missing, so it has to be somewhere in the game). It gave me a lot of hours of fun (and one very unexpected "Aw, Jeeze, no!" moment.  A damned good game. DQ8, though, I've played the whole game all the way through (including the dragiwhatzit trials) three times (the last time with no weapons -- I had so much money to spare!) Nothing left to do at all, in that one, but I never could figure out why all horses in the game faced South, at certain times.

                      I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                      • M Mark_Wallace

                        Sander Rossel wrote:

                        Although I can't remember this specific part of DQ XI and I finished it. Got 100% of the trophies/achievements as well. The horse races annoyed the hell out of me though

                        I still have to (not really, but I might get around it on a rainy day): • Get one of every kind of monster (except maybe the big boss).  I'm only short a few.  Fortunately, the in-game guide tells you where to find them, and which ones are in the area you're in. • Find all "treasures", using the thing from the guy with the daughter (Connie?) • Do quite a bit of crafting with the forge, which means quite a lot of grinding to get materials (using the in-game guide, again). And I never did find the fluffy white cat (not a quest, but two NPCs in the desert city talk of it being missing, so it has to be somewhere in the game). It gave me a lot of hours of fun (and one very unexpected "Aw, Jeeze, no!" moment.  A damned good game. DQ8, though, I've played the whole game all the way through (including the dragiwhatzit trials) three times (the last time with no weapons -- I had so much money to spare!) Nothing left to do at all, in that one, but I never could figure out why all horses in the game faced South, at certain times.

                        I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                        Mark_Wallace wrote:

                        DQ8, though

                        DQ XI was my first :-O Based on that I'm going to play DQ XII too though :D If older versions ever make it to PS4 I might play those too.

                        Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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                        • M MehreenTahir

                          Just heard back from the people I was undergoing interviews with and they had a positive feedback for my work and they're ready to make a final offer to me. Though I might start a little late because of on-going quarantine but just the news that I got the job is enough to make my day. :) P.S. On that note, does that make me the first person to be hired during the bad bad times? That's what they said. ;P

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                          :thumbsup: Congratulations !

                          «One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali

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