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- Comment on do you use non violent communication at the workplace? 1 day ago:
As it turns out… yes, although I was unaware that there was a codified definition for this. There are parts of this that I’m not doing, so thank you for linking such a useful resource!
IMO, doing this is really non-negotiable. Not behaving in this manner can be counterproductive at best, and land you in hot water with HR at the worst. People are on the lookout, and rightly so, for bias, discrimination, bullying, and malice. So having strong and warm relationships is important to make sure your worst days are not misinterpreted by others. This is even more crucial if you’re in management. Having a solid communication strategy is paramount to enabling the best in all relationships, and having a good experience for yourself at the same tie.
Going by the written-word on Wikipedia… yeah, this is a lot. I honestly think this is the kind of thing that goes better with practice, and maybe having a small note (phone, paper, whatever) with the critical points to hit, would make that easier than recalling two pages of instructions. You can also be up-front with people, explaining “I’m trying something new, please indulge me for a moment”. After all, who doesn’t mind getting extra care and attention?
- Comment on What's your favourite kind of restaurant? 2 days ago:
Besides, everything here is fried in self-heating hydrogenated oil.
But since you’re headed to the fission restaurant, can you pick me up a bottle of heavy water? I’m parched. It’s way too hot in here.
- Comment on Anon doesn't understand streamer fans 2 days ago:
I miss it too. If I had to guess, Arin sees a day with wall-to-wall recording sessions and meetings, and misses those chaotic early days.
I look at it this way: it’s a lot less home-grown now that it’s grown up. In exchange, they employ people, make Starbomb tours actually possible, and fund wildly off-the-wall games. Along the way, Dan was propelled into modest stardom, a lot of other folks from their camp got a boost for their endeavors, and they got to make some memorable moments with a few celebs. They’re not at “Liquid Game Grumps” levels yet, but it’s amazing to watch unfold. Maybe that’s worth it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
I know a padded resume when I see one. Dude is having a hard time getting dates, so he threw a handful of more desirable keywords in there.
- Comment on Anon doesn't understand streamer fans 2 days ago:
As someone that works in software, what he does to turn running code inside out, is kinda sexy. The guy is like a bloodhound for bugs and poorly-built software.
Game developers: Yeah, buy our game and play it however you want. It’s all for fun!
Josh: ::proceeds to out-QA the publisher’s QA department, breaking the game in the most egregious ways imaginable::
Game developers: No, not like that!
- Comment on Anon doesn't understand streamer fans 2 days ago:
The only “streaming” I can watch are Game Grumps, but I get that’s not live, and it’s by and for a completely different demographic.
I’ve tried, but I find a lot of Twitch play-throughs to be low-stimulation, low-information, and low-entertainment. I think they’re better suited to a dual-screen kind of situation, but then I’d rather be doing far more engaging things like playing games myself.
- Comment on Dazzling! 5 days ago:
You dumb bastard, it’s not a schooner, it’s a sailboat!
- Comment on My credit union no longer allows me to payoff pending purchases made on my credit card 1 week ago:
Hook that up to digital auto-pay and you pretty much have what OP had before the policy change.
- Comment on Every flight should have at least one sitting in a passenger seat 1 week ago:
It’s a little worse than that. Consider the intimate the contact between fido’s hindquarters and that seat.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I went with “two potatoes from different fields”, as it sounds more folksy:
- Comment on Cooking 1 week ago:
Well, now you have charcoal to cook the next batch correctly.
- Comment on Hollow Knight Sequel 'Silksong' Crashed Game Stores, as $20 Price Irks Competitors 1 week ago:
It’s not that they don’t understand it. It’s that they literally can’t afford to adopt it.
Corporate ownership, combined with being publicly traded or privately investor funded, means that you have to increase shareholder value. Stock dividends aren’t enough. So, they use the only play that they know: scale the company up.
Problem is: you can scale art, but scaling software is very hard. Book publishers and record labels figured this out ages ago: keep adding more artists and more products. Meanwhile, AAA game studios keep stacking bodies onto existing IPs, making fewer yet bigger software products instead. Meanwhile, they keep getting bodied by small upstarts like Team Cherry, because they’re practically a garage band in comparison. If everyone just ran their game companies like Penguin Random House instead of Microsoft, they’d be in better shape.
- Comment on Cavity City 1 week ago:
My gums hurt just looking at this.
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 1 week ago:
There’s a version of this where 3rd person movement controls are logical to the avatar, rather than to the screen. Only in this case, it’s the developers who are wrong. I’m looking at you, Resident Evil 1.
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 1 week ago:
I did most of a Dark Souls playthrough with a PS3 controller that was breaking down. There’s a tiny foam block on the inside that, after some years of abuse, will flatten out and trigger spurious inputs if some controls are pressed too hard. This caused an interesting challenge, since after panic-rolling, I would usually stand back up disarmed (d-pad alt right/left swaps that hand out for an alt item which was empty). It seemed kinda/sorta natural that way, and didn’t know that wasn’t a game mechanic (in this already ludicrously hard game) until I talked to some friends about it.
- Comment on Brad buys a house 2 weeks ago:
More like: Brad discovers the American equivalent of a Hanko, along with all the pain that creates.
- Comment on Just a little bit more 3 weeks ago:
You may also want to push on the valve-stem push valve with a “jesus stick”. This is literally “I wouldn’t touch that with a ten-foot-pole” territory, so go find an eleven foot one with a sharp point at the end.
- Comment on Just a little bit more 3 weeks ago:
Tires are the enemy.
- Comment on Just a little bit more 3 weeks ago:
Lot of people been asking me why my voice beeps all the fking time. The Torgue shareholders wired my voicebox with a digital censor, so I can’t say stuff like St ck py or fkin-dkballs. That’s like half my vocabulary, it’s goddamn bulls*t!!
- Comment on No brainer 3 weeks ago:
The text just says look 10 hours younger. To me, that means un-doing all the apparent signs of aging: superficial stuff. Less wrinkles, fewer sunspots/freckles, hair is back where it used to be, no more cataracts, etc. Meanwhile, your internal organs, bones, and muscles keep going with the usual aging process.
- Comment on No brainer 3 weeks ago:
I imagine this working in a monkey’s paw kind of way. First, the local gravel suppliers just keep mis-delivering things to places where you happen to be. Then they start talking and figure out how to get rid of you so you stop costing them so much business. You survive, skip town, only to start again. You get incredibly wealthy from re-selling all this free gravel. Eventually, mountaintops start dissapearing due to all the illegal quarrying going on…
- Comment on No brainer 3 weeks ago:
- Sheer horror. You’ll never be able to eat these again.
- This has been brought up before. Gravel isn’t cheap. This is basically infinite money.
- If used continuously, you’re basically The Flash.
- Just a bad idea unless you can put it inside your existing nose for double the sniff-sensitivity.
- Okay, that’s just fun.
- Again, used continuously, this is the fountain of youth. You’ll still die of old age though.
- Only useful under very specific circumstances. Also, define a “container”.
- Unless the Khitan civilization knew things we don’t, this isn’t useful at all.
- Fast as he is now or when he was alive?
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
As one of the horde of neurodivergent folks that love Hank’s content, Ikind of need it this way. Chris Boden is another one. Long, still, static shots, just punch me right in the attention span and are hard to get through. It takes way more effort than the occasional jump-cut to pull off.
- Comment on Electricity Consumption 5 weeks ago:
Rabbit hole time.
So there actually was some electrical research being conducted in 1705, but it was all static electricity. It could be argued that there was a non-zero amount generated and consumed, but it’s really, really small. ChatGPT threw out a value of “20 milliwatts” for this, citing that it was “about the power of a dim LED”.
- Comment on BE NOT AFRAID, MORTAL 5 weeks ago:
Good days are in short supply right now. Why you do this?
- Comment on I could use some serious advice as to whether or not to do this 5 weeks ago:
Only if both spouses were previously married, and you ask first. With the right crowd, that’s a howler.
- Comment on Help. 5 weeks ago:
Jebus that’s awful. OpenAI took away his friend.
- Comment on Help. 5 weeks ago:
Honestly, cringy nomenclature aside, this is just porn that got a little too real. Some people are into the narrative, after all.
To me the story begins and ends with some user that thinks the LLM sounds a little too life-like. Play with these things enough, and they’ll crawl out of the uncanny valley a bit from time to time. Trick is: that’s all in your head. Yeah, it might screw up your goon session and break the role-play a bit, but it’s not about to go all SkyNet on you.
- Comment on Anon goes home 1 month ago:
You can never really go home.
Fuck.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 1 month ago:
Thank you.
