Ask The Staff!

Well, since we kind of went overboard asking Jaerik questions, I figure we may as well have a topic devoted to our billion questions to the mods and admins.

Please, to keep it neat, address who you want to ask (or the group), keep it tactful, and play nice.

I'll start us off.

Jaerik: Do you follow my story? :3

The Pale Chocobo stuff? I do.

Jaerik how do you know so much about everything?

WOOOO That just made my evening!

Next question...

Jaerik/Scragg (if he ever stumbles upon this topic), what sort of education/degrees/whatnot do you guys have that let you know how to take on such massive projects as this site, and whatever you do in your real work environments?

proper capitalization grammar a forced moderate perspective and generally sticking to what you know go a long way

for everything else...

there's google

Do you live in Mountain View? ^^

(I live in San Jose. Don't worry...no knives or cinder blocks coming your way if you say "yes".) :p

I get lucky because the "everything" folks talk about here tends to be stuff I have a lot of experience with. And the stuff I have no clue about, I just stay away from.

"Better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt."

Suppose there is a town with just one male barber; and that every man in the town keeps himself clean-shaven: some by shaving themselves, some by attending the barber. It seems reasonable to imagine that the barber obeys the following rule: He shaves all and only those men in town who do not shave themselves.

Under this scenario, we can ask the following question: Does the barber shave himself?

Yes. The barber himself is an exception to the rule.

I got a question,

Jaerik, what browser do you use?

Love that quote JaeJae

A lot of it actually comes from being a GM when I was young. When you're forced to use proper capitalization and grammar, even in such things as /tells and IMs, (or be fired as unprofessional), hitting shift and period, etc, becomes muscle memory. You don't even have to think about it anymore, and it actually becomes unnatural not to type that way.

No, I live in San Diego, at Playdom South. Although I'm frequently in Mountain View.

If I'm not jammed with work while I'm up there, I'm always open to meeting new folks. I've met a number of people from this site in RL, and I'm pretty much the same way here as I am in person. =p

I have two bachelor's in computer science and Japanese, an equivalent in electrical engineering, and a minor in psychology.

Ultimately, the degrees only serve as a way to get your foot in the door, though. Once you get your first job, it's your work experience and reputation that determine everything from that point forward. For example, Cliff is entirely self-taught, and rode quickly up the industry ladder on smarts and coding talent alone.

Oooo i got one, are you married jaerik?

Oh that means ***, I pretend I am a idiot on here, 8D.

Jaerik do u party hard?

Or Hardly party.

I use Firefox. I think Chrome is very promising, but some of Firefox's plugins are mandatory for what I do.

I am not. Even at 30, I'm still having too much fun being single.

And if not, would you like to be. Wink wink

Why do hot dogs come in a pack of ten but the buns come in a pack of eight?

So they can get you to buy the extra pack of buns.

Less so these days, but I sure as hell used to. I'm finding that as I get older, the hangovers are getting more and more debilitating.

so you can buy 8 packs of hotdogs and 10 packs of buns

where do babys come from

So you have two hotdogs that will sit in your refrigerator and go bad, only to have to 'Spring Clean' 3 days later.

Storks, duh

rl footage.

Have you ever met Scragg IRL?

babies, baby girl

inb4 darki destroys this thread :/

my mom told me they grew in cabbage patches.

I actually have not, although I've met Cliff.

The logistics were difficult, because for a long time I was in Southern California and Scragg was in Florida.