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Anyone else? Will be recording this tomorrow. I feel like @Shaka might have some fun questions.

Just for fun as well, here's my secondary VHL location aka my suite at work.

If I can keep up with putting these together maybe I'll get around to having people in to chat with me. Would probably be pretty easy to set up a Discord chat for people to join.

Come on guys, need some stuff to talk about. Hoping to record this Wednesday night. @McNeil you and I had this idea years ago so I want some questions from you! Also, @Phil @DollarAndADream @Ahma @Molholt @boom @ADwyer87

Man that photo from mine is out of date, wasn't even at my apartment in NB yet and left that months ago. Here's an updated one: Added 2 more hard drives (5 total now) and upgrades my keyboard to a full size one. Also added an Elgato and Astro A40's. Most importantly though I got a big enough desk haha

McNeil: Ales Blasek - 1 TPE

Oh I'm plenty terrible haha. The stream is archived if you want to check it out. CoD 4 was the first chunk but CS:GO was after that.

Going to go live sometime within the next hour I believe with my first ever CS:GO experience if you want to laugh at how terrible I am. I believe @Phil would enjoy it. Actually going to do CoD 4 on PC first but CS: GO will be later. Going live soon.

I sent him the link this morning, he seemed impressed that we’re coming up on 50 seasons. *fingers crossed*

In the short team, a pretty big hit to their economy I would imagine as people are hesitant without quite knowing how the new trade rules will work out. If you believe the propaganda it will save them 350 million pounds a week in fees but that number is actually far lower and they'll likely end up spending it to get the benefits they had before anyway. Also according to the propaganda they'll be able to govern their own immigration and borders but it's been said before that that might also not be the case and immigration might stay exactly the same. John Oliver actually went over a good amount of the issues with it before the vote, not that people listened apparently. Worth a watch if you are interested:

Everyone move to Canada. Saves you from Trump and from the incoming economic crash of Britain. What's funny is one of my British CoD friends seems to think it won't affect him at all. Says that because he doesn't deal with anything internationally a declining British Pound means nothing. I'm biting my tongue and not wanting to tell him that the companies he buys things from sure as hell deal internationally and their rates are about to go up since their money became 12% less useful overnight. It's why Canadians are paying $20 more for games, $5-$10 per month more for cell / ISP and a pile more for groceries than we were 2 years ago... On second thought to my original point, maybe coming to Canada isn't for everyone.

I'm just glad I don't have stock in the British Pound. Took the Canadian dollar a year to fall as much as the pound did overnight.

First one went over well. Give me more questions and I'll get to recording a new one soon!

Glad you guys enjoyed this, I'll try to get another recorded soon.

Many phone decided to give the Americans a new logo; I like it.

Processing is done. Not sure if it's 1080 yet (not at my computer to check) but it'll at least play

That's also an option. I think I want to record though in case I want to do some edits. We'll see though.

It was estimating an hour so I'd say 40ish minutes it'll be ready. Keep in mind this is processing an hour of 1080p footage.

As of posting this the video is still processing so give it a bit of time; just wanted to post in case I don’t get a chance to later. Posting it as a Podcast since it’s much closer in style to that than a regular video PT. Still ran into a few technical issues; mainly that I realized my Elgato software can live stream my facecam but can’t record it. In the future I’ll load up Bootcamp and use the Windows version to have the facecam but in this one it isn’t present. My microphone quality also might be a tad iffy, I think I was peaking pretty bad., I have also gotten that sorted out now so we should be good to go in the future. Also, as you can tell by the title and the video itself, ironically enough, the first CoDCast doesn’t feature CoD. I explain in the video I believe but essentially there was a 12GB update I didn’t have time to download so I played battlefront instead.

I think that's more than fair. The chances of anyone even hitting a cap of 3 or 4 consistently is pretty low; even if the amounts needed stayed the same. Last month or so aside I don't think I've gotten over 4 before and even getting 4 was rare. It is fair that we shouldn't be able to replace a PT fully with grading (I'll be honest after finishing grading 6 TPE worth I was probably pushing a bit further than needed) but I think being capped at only 2 is a little extreme when obviously in low times we get way more than that done.

And that's being done but why not both? Turnaround on PT Staff is very high, right now it's GFX but a few months ago it was Writing that was taking the hit which is why Dollar wound up with so much banked. Definitely more people are needed and the application is open but why does that fact negate the simple fact that imposing a limit, especially such a strict one, just doesn't make sense. When the staff is understaffed a limit simply incentivizes us to work less. Why should I do 6 TPE worth of reviews and get paid for 2 when I could just stop at the 2? When the staff is all working well, no one will ever claim more than 2 anyway so that crowd stays happy. However, when the inevitable instability of the job catches up and we are understaffed the ones who are doing their job get a little (and still capped) incentive to keep doing good work until more help arrives.

I'm with you in this. I like Phil's idea to split it up further but it's a logistics nightmare with all the old indexes being erased. 50 is a solid milestone to do it at and isn't just an arbitrary number so if it's going to be done now makes sense.

With a proper GFX staff that would easily be the case as well. Things get graded faster and no one hits more than 2 TPE a week anyway. However right now we are understaffed and therefore overworked. Upping the limit would allow for a bit of time to hire and give the graders who remained active an incentive to tackle the overwhelming list of things to grade.

I think that's kinda what Milholt is suggesting here but on the basis of starting at S50 since it wouldn't be nearly as hard to do as going back to S30. As an old fart of the league part of me wants to keep the old records; however you are right that they are untouchable. I'm not sure exactly what made the early seasons so different (sliders maybe?) but we aren't ever going to see those kind of numbers again. I think as long as we keep the old record books around this could be a good idea. Obviously trashing all the old records and starting fresh 50 seasons later makes no sense but having unattainable records doesn't make much sense either.

So essentially it's an archaic limit that has only sporadically been enforced. Why again do we need it? Tons of rules have changed since S1 and we've already established that this has been basically bypassed depending on who was updating at varying times so it hardly seems necessary to keep around. Like I said before, at he very least it should be increased to 3 or 4. Those wouldn't be the easiest to hit but would give decent incentive if they were.