Zorque
@Zorque@lemmy.world
- Comment on NieR: Automata Will Continue, Finally Confirms Square Enix as the Game Breaks 10M Units Sold 4 days ago:
They’ll do another raid in FFXIV
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Hey, that song is beautiful!
- Comment on 1 week ago:
“Song”
- Comment on Kira asks Sisko for a runabout... again 1 week ago:
Assisted a terrorist in almost blowing up the wormhole (against her wishes, mind).
Went to rescue a ship of Bajoran prisoners only to bring back Gul Dukat’s daughter.
Those are two more I can think of.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 2 weeks ago:
Did you hit your head? Do we need to call someone for you?
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 2 weeks ago:
Almost like social sites arent monolithic, and different people can be outraged by different things!
- Comment on Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia? 2 weeks ago:
placed by the government in the custody of the Picard family
Is that something included in Picard? Cause it seems like a significant departure from the rest of the idea of the series. The government of the federation doesn’t allow people to do things at it’s whims, it facilitates people’s freedom to do what they want to better themselves.
- Comment on Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia? 2 weeks ago:
His family has had vineyards for generations. Why wouldn’t they be allowed to? Space isnt exactly a luxury since they have dozens of worlds you can move to and have your own.
Keep in mind the “Gay Space Communism” isnt the soviet dictatorship kind where everyone is allotted their resources and you’re only allowed to do what the state says. Its a post-scarcity world where people can follow passions and personal drive just because they want to. (As long as you learn calculus) Something explicitly stated multiple times in the series.
They have the luxury of the philosophy of improving one’s self and the environment for others.
- Comment on Real Struggle 😔 2 weeks ago:
I’m talking about a cultural problem started by Henry Ford over a hundred years ago called the assembly line. Where you only have one job to do and you do it over amd over with little variation. It started in industry, but shows it’s face in every profession.
Im glad your personal experience is better, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t a very dangerous trend in most professions that this entire post is literally complaining about.
Yes, situations should be more ideal for the worker. But they’re not. That is my entire point.
- Comment on Real Struggle 😔 2 weeks ago:
Of course! It can and should be something that is encouraged in most, if not all, workplaces.
Im saying that’s not the case, even going outside engineering. The emphasis is on learning and polishing your primary skill, not tertiary, or even adjacent skillsets. If it happens and improves workload, great! But if we catch you doing it when you could be making money instead, for shame…
I would say in professions like engineering, where you are doing more problem solving, there is a higher tolerance. Especially since a lot of PMs and supervisors are or were engineers themselves. But tolerance is not acceptance.
- Comment on Real Struggle 😔 2 weeks ago:
Working with engineers as my profession, these are not professional requirements, they are personal requirements. They make you a better prospect when hiring, but spending time to learn those skills while actually on the job makes you a liability.
One of the jobs I had when working with engineers was basically doing all the digital document management and word processing/excel tasks.
Again, im not saying those skills, or their equivalent in other professions, shouldn’t be part of the general lexicon. Im saying taking the time to learn them, while also being paid, is discouraged. KPI is a thing, and learning new skills makes that go down.
- Comment on Real Struggle 😔 2 weeks ago:
Because it’s basically a text file. The data doesn’t exist anymore once you open it as a CSV on another computer. It’d basically just add zeros to the end.
They could probably get that info from the other file, but that would mean getting that person to give it to you again.
- Comment on Real Struggle 😔 2 weeks ago:
Considering it is being saved in another format, I’d hardly consider this an excel problem.
CSV has existed since before personal computers, much less Microsoft office.
- Comment on Real Struggle 😔 2 weeks ago:
In a capitalist landscape we are trained to only ever be good at one thing. If you do more than one thing, you are worth less because then clearly youre not as good at your primary profession. Even if those other skills benefit that primary profession.
There are, of course, exceptions where managers understand that well-rounded employees provide a bulwark against mistakes and thus inefficiency. But for the most part, if youre not spending time on things that are not your primary responsibility, like learning tangential skills, youre losing them money.
- Comment on Real Struggle 😔 2 weeks ago:
Is the problem that someone else is wrong and we want to relish in the agony of dealing with it?
- Comment on Real Struggle 😔 2 weeks ago:
I’d say it has more to do with feeling under-appreciated for what they do to help workforce. To their colleagues they’re treated as little more than lowly keyboard jockeys until they’re needed for an IT problem, then they’re sent back to languish in the computer mines.
At the end of the day it’s more a managerial problem, as they arent treated as an equal contributor to the group. Despite how much they contribute to overall efficiency and productivity.
- Comment on London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime 2 weeks ago:
Is this supposed to highlight that he’s white, highlight that there’s non-white admins who powertrip more, or be a play on using irrelevant data to muddy the waters of critical thought?
I just want to be sure what subtext you’re using.
- Comment on What happend with the the new and old Borg after Picard season 2 and 3? 2 weeks ago:
Odo (and I think someone else) do suggest reasons, like a virus or genetic engineering.
How did Enterprise plot out the changes?
Mind you, I’m not trying to imply that Enterprise didn’t have a unique and interesting storyline all its own. I think it did, but they absolutely followed in the footsteps of DS9s own homage.
I think, in the Enterprise episodes, they implied that only a small population of Klingons underwent that change. So there would still be Klingons who appear as they did in TNG (and the movies) and beyond while allowing for the more human appearance of those in TOS. I dont know about Discovery, as I’ve not watched it, though.
- Comment on What happend with the the new and old Borg after Picard season 2 and 3? 3 weeks ago:
Technically there was a throwaway comment in DS9 before the Enterprise episodes. I only mention it because they basically took the lines from that episode and combined them all into one story.
- Comment on 35 Years Ago, Star Trek Retroactively Created New Canon, And No One Noticed 3 weeks ago:
They had a conflict, sure, but by now means a major one. They made mention of other conflicts as well, like with the Zenkethi.
That doesn’t mean their society was all about war and conflict, it means they had border disputes. Conflict with smaller groups, like the Cardassians and Zenkethi, would not have nearly the effect as one with a much larger, much more powerful foe like the Klingons, Romulans, or eventually the Dominion (as shown in DS9).
With the latter, they have to specifically dedicate their resources conflict and war. With the former its mostly peacekeeping. Making sure their colonies and allies are defended while still being able to dedicate the majority of their resources to exploration and diplomacy. They won’t simply overrun the Cardassians, or the Zenkethi, as they’re likely potentially able to do (as im sure is implied with the Terrans in the mirror universe), as that is simply not part of their ideal.
Conflict with the Cardassians, or other smaller powers, is simply the price of being a large power. Conflict with a power more matched to their resource level, like Klingons or Romulans, would have more if an effect. Thus what you see in Yesterday’s Enterprise.
- Comment on 35 Years Ago, Star Trek Retroactively Created New Canon, And No One Noticed 3 weeks ago:
That story didn’t contradict established continuity, just added to it, right? Its not a situation of “we’ve always been at war with Eastasia”, it’s a situation of expanding on what already exists to provide more depth.
I think this kind of flexibility is good… but it also highlights problems I have with certain aspects of modern storytelling. Namely things like The Flux in Doctor Who and The Burn (which I, admittedly, have not watched stories for, only read wiki articles) which seem to fundamentally affect every aspect of the universe at once with far reaching consequences that fundamentally change the nature of the universe of that setting. They do so for the sake of one story, then everything after has to accommodate for this, not because of interesting storytelling elements… but because the storyteller wanted to raise the stakes.
I think the initiating premise of Picard had this, with the destruction of Utopia Planetia causing a massive shift in how Starfleet, and The Federation as a whole, operated.
Alternatively, something like the Dominion war, which had a similar effect on the universe, didn’t encapsulate it as a singular event meant to shake things up. Rather it was a slow build over time that actually showed what was happening as it happened. The story wasn’t “Oh no, thing happened, what do we do?” It was people living their lives as the world moved in a direction they had to deal with.
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 5 weeks ago:
“Amazon announces a cheap way to bank on an existing franchise”
- Comment on Me, a Lemmy instance admin, looking at the new Digg 5 weeks ago:
Name recognition.
- Comment on Rockstar baulks as a Charlie Kirk assassination mission is created in GTA Online, bans it and censors his name, but there's more out there 1 month ago:
I wonder if he ever made a game about driving Lady Di off a road with papparazzi…
- Comment on The 2025 Steam Awards Winners 1 month ago:
No Man’s Sky has added thousands of generic resource gathering tasks by now!
I have tried playing it maybe half a dozen times and come to the same conclusion each time: “This is it?”
It’s a great game for wasting your time in the most banal tasks possible, but not much more.
- Comment on Games then vs now 1 month ago:
Games back then also had to fit on a specific chip in the cartridge. A lot of them would probably have had a lot more fluff if they had more space to put it on.
- Comment on Add a third, larger bar for "knowing the right people" skills 1 month ago:
Shocking how I fit all these criteria and still only got two interviews.
And I’m probably pretty lucky.
- Comment on Add a third, larger bar for "knowing the right people" skills 1 month ago:
Nah, the biggest slice is knowing how to game the application algorithms they use to choose who to even interview.
- Comment on 64$ the ticket, 1040$ surcharge. 1 month ago:
The hotels receipts I’ve seen (I worked approving travel expenses, so I’ve seen a lot) they differentiate between specific locally mandated fees and their own fees (which is probably part of the legislation that compels them).
- Comment on Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month 1 month ago:
Unfortunately they also come with scurvy 😔