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[SlimySnake]

UPDATE FROM BUNGIE DEV (on era)

Lotta hot takes flying in this thread…pun intended.

As some have guessed already, it was a combination of things:
- Bungie is working remotely, so most are at home.
- Apartments and houses don’t have AC by default, as the area tends to be mild for the summer.
- We got (literally) record-breaking heat multiple days in a row. 105-110 depending on you live.
- The buildings where we house services were getting very hot, and the HVAC was struggling to keep up due to the unprecedented heat wave.

The choice was either shut down internal services or lose equipment. I think they made a good call.

I’ve never felt heat like this in Seattle, and I’ve been here 15 years. So happy it’s 80f now.

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For those who dont know. There is a heat wave going on in the U.S Pacific Northwest. Bungie has shutdown production presumably because people are still working from home, and apparently laptops are overheating.




Schreier has taken this opportunity to remind us that Climate Change is real.



I have a completely different take. Make people go back to the offices to work already. If your house doesnt have proper ventilation and your laptop is overheating then get your ass to the office and do your job.

As for Schreier, shouldn't he be looking into why 100 degree weather is preventing video game production at Bungie? Temperatures regularly exceed 100 degrees in some parts of the U.S. No one complains. Every office building in the world is equipped to handle those temperatures. Game development is already pretty unproductive with very few next gen games releasing in the next couple of years, everything getting delayed left and right, and we are going to blame it all on climate change now?

I think us millennials are unfairly blamed for a lot of things, but not working because it's too hot has to be the most snowflake thing I have ever heard. It's not like we are out there laying brick in 100 degree weather.

 

[SCB3]

It was hotter here where I am in the UK yesterday and I worked a full 8 hour day at home just fine

Remember also, AC is rare in the UK

 

[Birdo]

Today I learned that not all american homes have AC.

 

[JimboJones]

Is Schreier blaming gamers for global warming now?

 

[GHG]

*laughs in the arabian peninsula*

 

[Cert.in.Death]

116 degrees F in the Pacific NW. As a sand person myself, that’s hot as balls.

EDIT: To you European lobsterbacks and their imperialized subjects, that’s 47 C.

 

[Interfectum]

Global warming is the new COVID for excuses why people can't do their job.

 

[ShigeruMiyamoto]

Today I learned that not all american homes have AC.

Not all American homes even have potable water.

Also this hot take is a stupid one, the take-away from Bungie's heat problems could be a discussion about companies shifting resources to better accommodating work-from-home employees instead of "shut up and obey your capitalist overlords, drones".

 

[GHG]

Is Schreier blaming gamers for global warming now?

Nobody tell him how it's possible that his tweets are available for consumption 24/7.

 

[omegasc]

I have a completely different take. Make people go back to the offices to work already. If your house doesnt have proper ventilation and your laptop is overheating then get your ass to the office and do your job.

the first tweet seems to be about shutting down the company servers, so it is not a matter of the employees getting back to the office. It is affecting the company's infra.

 

[Negotiator101]

It was hotter here where I am in the UK yesterday and I worked a full 8 hour day at home just fine

Remember also, AC is rare in the UK

Was it? I'm in Wales and I don't remember it being that warm, where you residing?

 

[Graciaus]

Try working in a factory.

 

[SlimySnake]

116 degrees F in the Pacific NW. As a sand person myself, that’s hot as balls.

EDIT: To you European lobsterbacks and their imperialized subjects, that’s 47 C.

What city? Seattle where Bungie is located maxed out at 100 degrees yesterday when these tweets were posted.

 

[JimboJones]

Nobody tell him how it's possible that his tweets are available for consumption 24/7.

How depressing, the planet will burn just to host Shreier's tweet.

 

[Interfectum]

How depressing, the planet will burn just to host Shreier's tweet.

Global Warming is powered by the might of his smug.

 

[Cert.in.Death]

What city? Seattle where Bungie is located maxed out at 100 degrees yesterday when these tweets were posted.

Portland

 

[JimboJones]

Global Warming is powered by the might of his smug.

We are truly fucked

 

[DeepEnigma]

Laughs in Florida.

 

[StormCell]

GAF, I've been there and done that in the PNW. Last time it got this hot, I was in central Washington fishing all week. If I can fish through 110 F, surely they can work from home or, oh no, go to a coffee shop!

 

[kretos]

poor americans don't have ac wasted all their money on gender research, too bad oh well

 

[GHG]

How depressing, the planet will burn just to host Shreier's tweet.

That's the sweet irony of all this moaning that happens surrounding the subject via social media of all things. These people are clueless.

 

[Kev Kev]

Today I learned that not all american homes have AC.

i also learned that this week from these kinds of stories

as a Floridian, central AC is a must. but i guess in other parts of the country they still dont all have that. they rely on window units or nothing to get through the summer, i guess bc there summers are so short. my question is, why dont these people all have window units? i mean, its not quite as hot for as long (compared to FL) but it still gets hot af, and my ass would still have a window unit in that bitch for those ridiculously hot summer days (and nights).

seems really retarded and short sighted to not fork over the money for one of those units. and then to complain about it? i dont get it. get a window unit ya jack ass

 

[Herr Edgy]

116 degrees F in the Pacific NW. As a sand person myself, that’s hot as balls.

EDIT: To you European lobsterbacks and their imperialized subjects, that’s 47 C.

That's agony. Hottest I've ever been to was 42°C about 6 years ago, in Germany. I skipped some lectures to go to the pool instead.

 

[Elpidio Valdés]

Laughs in Florida.

Actually it's been really nice down here. It's been raining all week, at least in Miami. It's a comfy 81 degrees right now.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Actually it's been really nice down here. It's been raining all week, at least in Miami. It's a comfy 81 degrees right now.

And the week prior when it was 95+ with a humidity level of 99% so the heat index was 100+. Business as usual.

 

[Tiamat2san]

116 degrees F in the Pacific NW. As a sand person myself, that’s hot as balls.

EDIT: To you European lobsterbacks and their imperialized subjects, that’s 47 C.

Above 30C (85F) I cease to function.
I love cold.

 

[AeonGaidenRaiden]

Really, 2021 and people dont have ACs? I live in Vietnam where its 40C every day of the year yet my apartment is like north pole. If for WHATEVER reason your house doesnt have central AC...ever thought of buying a portable unit, a walled unit?

ShigeruMiyamoto
"Not all American homes even have potable water."

Im sure thats the case but I dont expect you to be a country side bum living in a horse shed and programing for Bungie of all people. Its laughable that this is even an issue, back in the 90s yes because were rare and expensive as fuck. A unit costs you like $200. But hey I work for Bungie, earn $4-5k a month but dont have money for an AC. American logic right there. Its all good as long as you have your Netflix, HBO, Disney+, Hulu, Spotify and all other subscriptions in order because thats what matters most.

 

[Interfectum]

It's too hot to work but not too hot to get them Tweets in. Poor guys.

 

[Punished Miku]

This is all pretty non-controversial. I guess hearing anyone discussing climate change is triggering for certain people. Reminds me of a frog boiling in water calling everyone else stupid for saying the water is hot.

1) If a private company is having equipment issues, it makes sense they'd shut off the equipment and then work on fixing it.
2) Man affecting climate change is not controversial at this point. The US military war-games out all the numerous possibilities for the upcoming unrest and potential resource wars. Just read the first sentence. https://www.army.mil/standto/archive/2021/05/14/

Seattle just hit the all-time high for recorded temperatures twice in a row this week.

 

[JOEVIAL]

These people probably didn't want to work in the first place, they would rather get handouts from their employer or their overlords...

No work... no pay...

 

[LordCBH]

Wait. There are places in America that don’t have AC?! I’d die if it was ever above 64 in my house

 

[MDSLKTR]

Laziest devs in the business.

 

[Coloress_Kafka]

WTF I live in Alabama and I’ve always dreamed of moving to the PNW to escape the heat.

Can we just start nuclear winter already???

 

[Kev Kev]

This is all pretty non-controversial. I guess hearing anyone discussing climate change is triggering for certain people. Reminds me of a frog boiling in water calling everyone else stupid for saying the water is hot.

1) If a private company is having equipment issues, it makes sense they'd shut off the equipment and then work on fixing it.
2) Man affecting climate change is not controversial at this point. The US military war-games out all the numerous possibilities for the upcoming unrest and potential resource wars. Just read the first sentence. https://www.army.mil/standto/archive/2021/05/14/

Seattle just hit the all-time high for recorded temperatures twice in a row this week.

shut up, jason

 

[THEAP99]

Lazy ass millennial developers

 

[Punished Miku]

shut up, jason

Maybe you guys should actually look inward, sincerely, and think about why you are triggered by anything in the OP. None of it is controversial.

I guess the Army is too lazy and needs to go get their coffee and avocado toast refills, hurr hurr ba durr

 

[ResilientBanana]

Divas

 

[Kimahri]

For those who dont know. There is a heat wave going on in the U.S Pacific Northwest. Bungie has shutdown production presumably because people are still working from home, and apparently laptops are overheating.




Schreier has taken this opportunity to remind us that Climate Change is real.



I have a completely different take. Make people go back to the offices to work already. If your house doesnt have proper ventilation and your laptop is overheating then get your ass to the office and do your job.

As for Schreier, shouldn't he be looking into why 100 degree weather is preventing video game production at Bungie? Temperatures regularly exceed 100 degrees in some parts of the U.S. No one complains. Every office building in the world is equipped to handle those temperatures. Game development is already pretty unproductive with very few next gen games releasing in the next couple of years, everything getting delayed left and right, and we are going to blame it all on climate change now?

I think us millennials are unfairly blamed for a lot of things, but not working because it's too hot has to be the most snowflake thing I have ever heard. It's not like we are out there laying brick in 100 degree weather.

I'll put it this way, many homes, offices and work places around the world are not equipped to deal with immense heat because it's such a rare occurence that nobody ever planned for it.

Over the past few years my work place has had to send people home because it's been too hot for our ac to handle. You can laugh at that and call it poor, but things are bult to accomodate the climate in the location in which they are to be used.

Summers have just gotten increasingly hot, and they used to be pretty cool.

 

[SafeOrAlone]

Is Schreier blaming gamers for global warming now?

I think it hints that he despises his readers. It’s a pretty patronizing post, which can’t help but imply that “gamers” don’t care about anything but playing games.

 

[Mediocre Arachno-Lad]

Global warming is the new COVID for excuses why people can't do their FUCKING DESK JOB.

A small correction. Imagine COVID screws over restaurants, and heatwaves screw over roofers, etc.
But stop whining about how hard it is to push buttons on your laptop from the comfort of your home.
Stop pretending that hours of daily commute magically turning into free time has hurt your productivity.
"This has been a really tough time for our game studio due to COVID, but we soldiered on and managed to deliver on time in spite of everything".
FUCK.
OFF.

 

[Kev Kev]

Maybe you guys should actually look inward, sincerely, and think about why you are triggered by anything in the OP. None of it is controversial.

I guess the Army is too lazy and needs to go get their coffee and avocado toast refills, hurr hurr ba durr

shut up, jason

 

[G Boaty]

It was hotter here where I am in the UK yesterday and I worked a full 8 hour day at home just fine

Remember also, AC is rare in the UK

The UK has literally never hit 40c, it was 47 in Portland yesterday.

Highest I've experienced was 43c in Las Vegas and it was almost too hot to function. 47 sounds like actual torture.

 

[Represent.]

It was 48 in BC, Canada yesterday. get back to work

 

[StreetsofBeige]

People dont have AC in the NW part of the US?

Solution: Get yer ass to the office

 

[Killer Sakoman]

You guys need to try 51 degrees C

 

[LimanimaPT]

But... but... it can't be! Global warming is fake!!

 

[Bigfroth]

Cool off as I did back in the '80s by following city workers around as they flushed hydrants lol

 

[Platinumstorm]

Wait. There are places in America that don’t have AC?! I’d die if it was ever above 64 in my house

I used to be this way, but in an effort to be more environmentally friendly I've learned to turn the thermostat up, actually haven't used it in the last 5 or so days since we're now having the spring that didn't happen for the second year in a row.

I think it's quite easy to teach yourself to sleep up to at least the lower 70s.

 

[Kholinar]

Love people calling developers lazy when their state is literally experiencing the hottest recorded temperatures ever. What is this 'pull yourself by the bootstraps' boomer mindset bullshit? If it's too hot, it's too hot. No wonder developers don't post here anymore.

 

[ethomaz]

Yeap some places are really hot that is why we have AC.
At least in my city here in Brazil you see AC in 9 of 10 houses... it is very rare nowdays to see a home without at least one.

And yes we reach here pretty easy over 40C in summer but now is Winter... right now 12C... so cold.
In the mid night it reached 4C.

BTW high temperatures are really bad... AC is a heaven made electronic... even more to sleep.