When are the devs going to dev again?
scorpydude
Join Date: 2005-03-05 Member: 43603Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">When are the devs going to dev again?</div>Ermm... so are they seriously taking over a 30day break from development? It's still november for christ sake... when they said they were taking a xmas break i was thinking more around the 22-28th of December, not a month before hand...
When are they expected back developing after xmas?
When are they expected back developing after xmas?
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They said a break for thanksgiving, and like anyone else I assume that in christmas they will do it again, as on new year, but they never said a month.
They are currently working.
2010 date
October 11, 2010 (Canada);
November 25, 2010 (USA)
why you guys need two days to celebrate 'jesus' and stuff is beyond me... but whatever.
is they are working then how come the progress tracker isnt changing?
By the way, the progress page has been updated, so they are coding again :)
pretty much it is another excuse to eat and complain about family
In Argentina we don't have a national day for it, but in many towns in the country are different celebrations for that moment.
If you worked these guys any harder, they would probably be better off in some of the work camps in North Korea.
Your "thorough" investigation of what Thanksgiving is apparently didn't uncover that Thanksgiving is not a religious holiday and has nothing to do with Jesus. I'm sure Australia has some holidays that foreigners would find confusing, but don't come here and whine when you don't even know what you're talking about.
2010 date
October 11, 2010 (Canada);
November 25, 2010 (USA)
why you guys need two days to celebrate 'jesus' and stuff is beyond me... but whatever.
is they are working then how come the progress tracker isnt changing?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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Thanksgiving is a day we celebrate settlement into America, or others may say such as my hippy professor, Indigenousness Slaughter week
QFE, hilarious misunderstanding of an American holiday...Understandable, but given that he said he did research, he clearly didn't read carefully enough eh?
Edit: OP, as others have explained, Thanksgiving is a secular holiday. The background is that we're celebrating early colonization of America (although, as someone hinted, it's really in poor taste as the holiday directly relates to the slaughter of natives), and it's TOTALLY secular. There's no religious relation to it...it isn't about Jesus.
The modern-day Thanksgiving is just about spending time with your family, and eating turkey, mashed potatoes, etc...It's about good food and familial bonding. Oh, and Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving) is about ridiculously awesome sales at stores.
Ya really I swear we need a "serious NS2 discussion" sub-forum either well moderated, requiring a minimum post count, or both. It's not that I don't find ignorance and sarcasm entertaining, but there is just too much of it in the main forum. Plus trolls know nobody's reading the I&S forum :)
God forbid the devs having families or interests outside of NS2 :P
It's all about the careful balance between motivation, and staph infections in open wounds from the whip.
Is this an epic troll?
In case it isn't, "Thanksgiving Day" isn't set aside for "Jesus and stuff". It was originally a harvest celebration but, in 1863 Abraham Lincoln declared it a national day of thanks. He did so for religious reasons (the bible instructs Christians to set aside one day for the giving of thanks) but, those reasons weren't to celebrate Jesus and Lincoln's motivations for creating the holiday don't mean that it is a religious holiday.
I'm not even religious and I know this. GO READ A BOOK.
Actually, our "religious" holidays are becoming less and less religious because people are becoming more intelligent and realizing that the two invisible super powers are not real. The holidays here are becoming more about Family....and Capitalism is becoming to powerful that more and more places are actually open normal hours during these days we're supposed to take a break and spend time with family.
Customer: "I feel so bad for you *as he piles merchandise on the counter* why do they make you work on the holiday? *reaching for his wallet* "
Me: Cause of a-holes like you who can't take responsibility seriously and get everything you need THE DAY BEFORE! And because people like you are actually SHOPPING on a nationally recognized holiday. JERK!" And if you forget to get your unneeded stuff...it would be like the old days...YOU JUST DO WITHOUT! THANKS! Now get into a car wreck on the way home and don't die...just simply for the fact you might actually be grateful for what you have and realize other people who are working today were already grateful for their families and would rather be spending time with them...NOT SERVING YOU!"
Regarding the tangent this has sparked, last time I checked, the US was CONSTITUTIONALLY SECULAR.
Does that make anyone roflcopter? Most Americans probably don't know it, half would be insulted if they knew, and a good third probably wants to start writing letters to their congressman having confirmed this fact while fingering their chosen book of fairytales.
As with politics, thanksgiving is not secular in practice, at all. It has been usurped by the church, as was the Winter Solstice, etc etc etc etc etc.
Our species is still utterly swamped by sub-intelligent religious primitives propogating lies and deceit of themselves and others, often for selfish profit. I see no distinction between religious teachings and practices, and the schitzophrenic motivations of the potentially lethally psychotic.
But I'll stop there before I really get going. Like mentioning that brainwashing the young with any form of theism is stark, maniacal child abuse.
AMEN! brother!
"praise-a tha lord-a - and put a dolla in tha box-a!"
2010 date
October 11, 2010 (Canada);
November 25, 2010 (USA)
why you guys need two days to celebrate 'jesus' and stuff is beyond me... but whatever.
is they are working then how come the progress tracker isnt changing?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Thanksgiving isn't a religious holiday, it's something to do with the early colonisation of north america.
I'm Christian, y'all can bite me.
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Devs have begun to dev again. They took a few days off for a national holiday, and it's over now. Even if it WAS to celebrate a "Jesus thing," or for any other reason, why not? They're giving us a game that's important to us - if they need a day or two to celebrate something that's important to them (or to just take a breather), let 'em.
I mean, a 30 day break!?!?!?!?!?
That's re######ulous.
And why you call it holiday if it has no religious meaning? You know, holy day...
Some really needs to investigate a little before write. Thanksgiving, a day to thanks the lord for the good harvest. Almost all known civilizations with different religions have or had a similar or equal celebration in all human history (at least on the written history).
Some of you must read all the posts before posting. Some are ranting against the thread starter but didn't read after that first post and went whining all over. Others rant against religion without the proper knowledge. And some, sadly the few ones, are just being kind to a guy that confused a date because is not american and don't have to know everything about this culture.
Ignorance is power, said an old tyrant. And the people, the ignorants, believed all what he said.
Week off is a good idea, games development is really strenuous and can seriously burn people out at crunch time. You'll get more done if you don't work people too hard, and you also run less risk of actually harming your team.
People can seriously work days on end with no sleep, or 18 hour days, or god knows what else. So I wouldn't complain about UWE taking time off.