Wow jory, congratulations!! And good luck, you'll need it
I think you are the first interguildian to become a parent!

Lol atvelonis ninja

Congratulations Jorster! What possible names are you thinking of?  

Oh boy, right now we're playing with the idea of Harrison, but we're not 100% sold on it

if it's a girl you can just name it Harridaughter
edit: whoops i didn't notice you already said it's a boy

Lol yimmy nice

I'll offer a universally cool name: Adam.


If you want,byou can also think that it is symbolic in that he is the first of the interguildian community.

I'm honestly and quite admiringly glad for you, Jory.

In other news, we found the best day to visit Edinburgh. The weather was so crazy that they closed the CASTLE early.

Me? I WAS PREPARED FOR AN ISRAELI WINTER WEATHER.

Had to buy some more clothes here....

In advance of my last year trip to Edinburgh, the only advice I kept hearing was "if you don't like the weather, then wait one minute" and, not surprisingly, it came out true. It's also funny to watch my photos from the castle where the sky looked like if every photo had been taken on completely individual days.
Regarding the clothes, the ones I've got from Edinburgh actually happen to be the ones I predominantly wear, even though they are most likely the cheapest I've got.
Not even mentioning the percentage (or the lack of it) of the words I've understood in Scottish accent

Adam is neat.
You never realize how many names are ruined for you until you try naming a child haha

Lol.

In Israel the most you ever wear in the coldest point in the country in the coldest day of the coldest winter is just about... Pants, a shirt and a coat.

Here I go with thermal socks, thermal pants, pants, short shirt, a sweater, another sweater, a ski coat, gloves, neck-thing, and a hat. And I'm still cold

At least there are cute reindeers and no little whiny Israeli kids lol

Huh, didn't know there were reindeer in Scotland. I thought they were only common in Scandinavia. They sure are cool. I remember during my family's vacation to Norway a few years ago we saw one outside a convenience store or something in the middle of nowhere and at first we didn't realize it was alive because it was so still. There was also one place outside the Viking ship museum in Oslo that sold reindeer burgers, although I didn't try one.  

Good day everyone!

After accidentally writing Bmwsu instead of BMW the other day and after seeing this sign on a building I decided my subconsciousness had been doing enough hinting. So here I am again.

As for where I was, I got into a depression and started isolating me from basically everyone. I had already been very stressed out due to university for a long time. This got worse during my thesis, which eventually turned into a burn-out. I didn't recognize the burn-out and thought I was just being lazy, so I tried to power through it. This ended up making everything worse, which led to my depression, which led to my results dropping even further, which led to more stress and a more severe depression.

Eventually I managed to get everything under control long enough to complete my thesis and graduate, after which I got a job in IT as a test engineer. This actually helped me out a lot with my depression and burn-out. The hours were stable, the work was challenging and varied yet not too stressful and the coworkers were great. I gradually started improving and now here I am again.

From what I understand you created a HatPC clone since I was gone. That is pretty cool. Anything else interesting happen in the past two years?

livio disappeared even more

a lot of interguild members suffer or suffered from depression or other mental issues, so do not feel alone with regards to that

jorster is becoming a father

droidfreak develops various games

original hatpc seems nigh unplayable for everyone

sefro makes music now

bmwsu is still dead.


hope youre doing fine. been missing you around these parts

i've thought about asking bmwsu what happened to him... that whole situation is really weird.  

What happened to bmwsu?

Hello hello! - this was supposed to be jell but autocorrect has done it's work and I found it hilarious so I left it. I'm glad to hear you are doing well now, and I feel your pain. It took me almost 14 months to get my thesis through, and only a couple of weeks ago I submitted an article on it. So much frustrating stuff.

But here's some fun facts; 1 in 4 students will get into deep depression during their thesis, so you are definitely not alone; aaaand, you are now officially one in the prestigious very small percentage of the world who will ever get a thesis done (you physics, right?). So respect yourself, you deserve it

Hey, if you have something that got published, post a link here!

It's great that you're back!

A few quick questions: What do you do as a test engineer? What do you like/dislike about it? Also, will we see the revival of threads like "Ask Sprout" and "Jerk Genie"?  

https://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.php?f=84&t=23781

I was reading some old mafia games and stumbled upon one with shos in it :O

EDIT: whew, was reading through another one

https://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=62533

That setup looks fun

me and shos played together once i think

i also played a game with thomas. we were both scum i think and won

Hey jell!


I wanted to make Thomas the serial killer in my game here but I decided to do all the assignments randomly instead. I sorta wish I had though, would have been interesting. (I skimmed through that game a few days ago)

I have re-hidden the interbot thing per Jorster's request. Feel free to resume your incessant searching of it.

Also hai jell long time no see. I am mildly disappointed that I was in no way part of your subconscious that reminded you of the interguild and ultimately led you to come back and make a single post. Glad to hear all is going well.

You're speaking in past tense here. Does that mean you've moved on from that job already, or am I just reading too much into words?

Life is busy, last two weeks especially so, so let me answer all your posts now.

@Quirvy: No, I'm still doing the same work. I just used the past tense because I wanted to emphasize how this change to regularity helped me improve.

@Mympo: I won't be reviving those any time soon. I still need to figure things out here again before committing myself to something like that.
As for being a test engineer, I work as part of software development team. The developers tend to think their software works perfectly, it is my job to prove it doesn't. More specifically I need to go through generic checklists every release to see if everything still works as intended, I need to try to reproduce issues from the field and I need to develop both automated and manual testsets to execute in the future. Right now I'm part of an integration team, which means we don't develop anything ourselves, we simply get components from other teams, double check everything still works when put together and release everything to the costumer (in this case BMW). I also need to communicate with the teams behind the various components to get them to figure out why their components are introducing bugs and to make sure they make everything according to spec. This can be pain, as these teams are located not just in the Netherlands, but also in India, Germany, Taiwan and a few other countries, and the work culture is just completely different in each country.
I am called a test engineer because I work with embedded systems rather than pure software, which means there is also a hardware component, but this distinction isn't really important.

@Shos: I know, and I am not the only person I know who burned out in college. There is a serious problem going on there, the burdens are getting worse while the material keeps getting more difficult and because everything is now done online you basically never really have any off time either. You are always expected to be reachable and expected to do work, even at home. I hope the politicians will eventually realize that things can't really go on like this much longer.

Certain countries actually have laws to restrict or limit the amount of hours one may work per week. We don't.. I guess you don't either :/

We do. They don't apply to universities.

man when did Sefro turn into Darvince