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Funi Raccoon is another wonderful pile of rubble to sift through on your computer
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Funi Raccoon is another wonderful pile of rubble to sift through on your computer

This much is certain: I am a raccoon, somewhere in Norwich, and I am trying to catch a train. The trains are regular but they move past at such speed I can barely see them. I attempt to board and am launched like a squashy varmint bullet, hurtling beyond the level boundary into oozy pink checkerboard oblivion. The drunken background music alternates between welcoming me to the Water Zone and telling me to get the fuck out. The Easter Island head on the platform grumbles at me, so I hurl it int

"As soon as it fired up, he'd get up and go to lunch": How Age of Empires' developers tested mission difficulty
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"As soon as it fired up, he'd get up and go to lunch": How Age of Empires' developers tested mission difficulty

When bosses have assessed my work over the years it's usually taken the form of nervously watching their cursor bounce around a Google Doc. They would delete overwrought lines here, add detail to unclear statements there, and sometimes strike our intros that weren't getting to the point – thank goodness I learned my lesson there. It's a nerve-wracking and humbling experience (especially when you've managed to misspell 'RTS'). Naturally, every job has its own assessments, but the level des