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Giant Bomb #19 | Patrick Wins 2-1

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Khezu

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How well have written articles done on the site in the past?
I guess good enough to warrant this?

Maybe it's bad to say this, but I think I would probably skip any article not written by the actual staff, unless it got a lot of praise in this thread or something.
 

Fantastapotamus

Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Awesome, XCom 2 is here, I have ~4 hours to play it and it only takes 10 hours and 58 minutes to unpack. It's probably faster for me to delete it and redownload it.
 

popo

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How well have written articles done on the site in the past?
I guess good enough to warrant this?

Maybe it's bad to say this, but I think I would probably skip any article not written by the actual staff, unless it got a lot of praise in this thread or something.

Good enough for Jeff to have pushed for this since well before Patrick left.

I am not sure this means they traffic well - but it is a prestige thing. Austin, Jeff - and to some extent the others too (maybe not Dan) - still seem to value a well written piece and having new voices on the site isn't a bad thing.

Austin has said that they're paying all their freelancer a competitive rate. I have no idea what that is. But they've been talking about a "freelance budget" for a reason.

A relatively short piece like these? Probably less than they spent on the Lego Dimensions QL and it has to be a better use of budget than buying Angry Birds on Xbone.
 
Austin has said that they're paying all their freelancer a competitive rate. I have no idea what that is. But they've been talking about a "freelance budget" for a reason.

I imagine that the article rate is around $50-$125 per article.

Then again I know nothing about the rates.
 

Myggen

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Thought I would be able to catch UPF live this week for the first time in a couple of months, but turns out I'm gonna work all weekend. Don't start the new thread while I'm asleep now!

Forgot that I never watched the last episode of the LiS playdate. Surprise GB content is the best content.
 

Brashnir

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Wait, you just found out you have to work all weekend? That sucks, man.

I though you Europeans worked like 12 hours a week or some shit.
 
Kinda wish I knew how to write freelance. I feel like at this point I can't seem to be hired for anything, so maybe writing? But that's not the new hotness so idk.
 

Myggen

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Wait, you just found out you have to work all weekend? That sucks, man.

I though you Europeans worked like 12 hours a week or some shit.

I think even Greece realized that that wasn't a very good idea :p Or maybe not with the government they voted into power. Yeah, I've got an unpredictable job like that. At least I'll be able to have UPF on on a second monitor. Hope GBEast does a Friday stream too, need as much content as possible.
 
I think even Greece realized that that wasn't a very good idea :p Or maybe not with the government they voted into power. Yeah, I've got an unpredictable job like that. At least I'll be able to have UPF on on a second monitor. Hope GBEast does a Friday stream too, need as much content as possible.

I've got some bad news for you...
 

Lunar FC

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I think even Greece realized that that wasn't a very good idea :p Or maybe not with the government they voted into power. Yeah, I've got an unpredictable job like that. At least I'll be able to have UPF on on a second monitor. Hope GBEast does a Friday stream too, need as much content as possible.

That's rough to basically be on call 7 days a week, how do you plan anything?
 

Myggen

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That's rough to basically be on call 7 days a week, how do you plan anything?

I basically can't unless there's a vacation, and even then... I'm sure I'd go into government work or something if I got a family, I've never understood how people could balance a job like this with having a family.

Enough personal shit from me. Finished watching the latest OGS, hope they continue doing something with that game.
 

TraBuch

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Gotta disagree with Dan about that new Nashville chicken from KFC. They put way too much spice in the breading, it kinda overwhelms the chicken.
 

TraBuch

Banned
Also, holy shit, Dave Mirra killed himself. What a bummer. I was always one of those weird people that preferred Dave Mirra's BMX to THPS.
 
My apartment complex has been without running water for two days now. This experience has made me certain that come the apocalypse, I am going to be one of the masked hoodlums killing whomever they must to get what they need.
 
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