MrFinnbean

@MrFinnbean@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah we use huddles too. But its not like it always clear when this things is going to be involved or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You understand wrong.

  I message somebody --> they take ten minutes to answer, with question --> im doing something else, it takes me few minutes to finish or risking losing my tough then i answer --> maybe with good luck they answer right back, but most likely it takes few minutes again.

  In the office i could have talked to the person and resolve the thing faster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Customer service and sales support. The work is on the basic channels. Phone, email and chat and its pretty much allways some variation of few same questions or complaints.

  Both customer satisfaction and work effiency started to get worse the longer the lockdown went.

  By the way we dont have mandatory office days. Everybody can work from home if they want. The split is now pretty much 60/40 with bigger part working from the office. (I think big part is because it has kindergarden and its in place with good public transport) During summer when parents want to stay at home looking after the kids or when bank holidays make broken week most of the people stay home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah. Coders get slack messages. Only exception is if something is truly fucked and it needs to be fixed asap and for some strange reason i notice it before they do. Mosty happens when they push from test to production.

  We have biweekly check ins with code team and thats enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Every time this comes up i tell my personal and data driven experience as a middle manager in a company, and every time people trash me, but i keep saying it.

  IT FUCKING DEPENDS!

  From purely data point of view (note: this is from my place of work) workers whose work is purely executing more or less the same duties every day had their productivity have a nose dive when working long stretches from home. Also their works quality got worse. Its easy to reinforce bad habits whitout even noticing it, if the feedback comes from email and and not straight from the supervisor.

  BUT with jobs like coders or artists where the job is more open ended instead of monotous labor there was no ill effects.

  Then on the other side communication has gotten much slower with the people working from outside office. Where i used to just walk to the other room and ask something from my collegue i now need to message them in our internal and hope they notice it. Getting answers for questions have turned from 5 minute thing to 10-40 minute things.

  Also from the point of more inventive things on my work we have lost a lot of changes to brainstorm ideas. No more throwing ideas around during lunch or coffee breaks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over 47% of Stop Killing Games Signatures Have Already Been Verified⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What a idiotic take.

  Firstly its not like this is only petition people can sign.

  Secondly this mighy very well be first petition for many young people. Its good stepping stone for them to get knowledge how these work and sign other things in the future. Also this is something imoortant for young people and its important they can get their voice out there.

  Thirdly. Even if gaming might not be the most importand thing in the world, this is good thing to sign to fight for consumers. Companies have allready much power over what we consume and what services we use and this is step on the right way.

  Fourthly. Many other problems have already large goodwill organisations working on them, like red cross, doctors without borders, oxfam etc etc. These organisations already lobby for new laws and are active politicaly. Consunerr rights are also important for everyone who consume and this is goes under that umbrella.

  Fiftly. Its not about hating AAA game studios. Its pretty big thing regarding ever growing digital products and what consumer buys when they buy thise digital products.

  If you cant think things further than just “teenages signing nonsense” i find it little annoying that you have the same voting power than me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does you feel Crash Team Racing was better than Mario Kart?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  CTR has so much higher skill ceiling it changes the game completely when comparing to other kart games.

  In Mario Kart difference between good player and great player is pretty minor and they can both enjoy playing against eachother.

  In CTR good player can think they are playing perfectly, but still they are going to get lapped by great players.

  I personaly loved CTR, but playing with friends that havent played it meant nobody is going to have goodtime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate that i cant find anywhere studies that takes the manure used as a fertilizer account in their calculations. Atleast where i live 100% of the manure from the animals is used as a fertilizer on farms and store bought fertilizers are just supplement. Most countries cant produce fertilizer enough for their agricultural need and need to buy it from outside.

  I would love some real research wich would be better for the enivorent. Stop meat produsing completelly or scale it down so farms get still some benefits like fertilizer and biogas for the vehicles, but people would not eat food on every meal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Im not geneticist, but i grew up on a farm. I always grind my teeth when people talk about miragle plants with high yields.

  The plants need to get their energy and nutritions from somewhere. If you just create gmo plant that can absorb nutrition better from soil it also means you need to fertilize that soil that much more and make the crop rotation that much faster, or risk making the fields arid.

  But plants that survive larger temperature shifts, more extreme weathers and pest might be necessary for us in the not so far future. Lets just hope in the future those are used for humanitys betterment and not making rich richer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean there probably are lots of reasons why we farm only certain plants.

  For example dewberries have short harvest window and as far as i know they need to be hand picked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The same math is there too. They can afford to loose one third of new subscribers to get the same amount of money.

  But their new customer acquisition cost wont get higher at the same pace and they get more valuable customers whose payback period will be shorter.

  Also i dont think its relevant here, but less customers means less operating costs, so they will most likelly save some money on customer service and behind the scenes things like server upkeeps etc., but i dont think these make real difference here.

  Also if for some reason things start to go bad they still have option to create “a budget version” for the people who see the normal subscrition as too expencive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What the fuck? Lol. They are not cartoony villains preying for the old and weak.

  Somebody has made a calculation, that shows that they will make more money from people who takes the deal than they are going to loose money from people who get mad and leave their enviroment.

  In the future they will do test how far they can go using a/b test and/or testing different markets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Except it does work. Its easy to forget that most users dont really know or care that much about their browser or care what their laptop is doing.

  They just click things until something with search bar comes up.

  The tech savy people are not their biggest customer group so they can risk annoying some people as long as they know they are getting more people in to their enviroment than they are loosing their users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand your worries. I was was also concerned about the openworld first, but so far they have nailed the open world part pretty well. Travelling has been fun. There has been always fast travel near when i have wanted to use it. There is enough hidden jokes and easter eggs that i feel rewarded to look around.

  I dont really understand your point. Devs still curate where you meet the enemies. Its not like its procedurally generated map where everything is random.

  I cant remember single time in my 20 hours of gameplay where i have tought that i hate fighting here, or that these enemies dont fit here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why everything should be for everybody? And why artists should care about your opikion when they are creating what they want to create.

  Cup head is great example. Everything in the game is meticiusly hand crafted. The big part why its so popular is the difficulty that forces you to focus on the aninations and sprites. The difficulty also is economical in game as labor intensive as cup head. Because every sprite was hand drawn devs could not just churn unlimited levels and the games lenght came from the difficulty. Making the game easy would ruin the pacing of the game.

  Games are art form like any other. There are mainstream movies, plays, songs, paintings and games etc etc etc. that try to reach as large audience as they can. But there is also obscure art pieces that only small group of people can enjoy. And both ways are fine

  I find it obnoxious when people bitch about desing choices that devs have consciously made. Its not like they have any obligations to make a game in one way or another.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The game screams passion and devs spend seven years making it the way they like it. It is also a dirt cheap.

  Critisism is fair and everybody has right for opininion. My opinion is that people who are bitching about the boss runs can shove it up to theirs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No brainer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Free gravel! Fuck yeah!

  Living in the rural area and having pretty long private road i would be really happy for free gravel.

  Bonus points if i can desite how coarce it is. During winter the yard gets really icy and small gravel would make it better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this month's Humble worth it if I'm not into Persona?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was going to write the same, but im glad you beat me to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teddybears - Punkrocker⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally i like stories where he strugless more with how yo use his powers without becoming a despot.

  Its so intresting tought experiment how much some one who is basically a god should intervine before it is too much.

  At what point enforcing law becomes tyranny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HELP HIM.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. Fuck those scientists. Especially the ones that have created life saving things like penicilling, insuling. And its so shitty they used lab rats to test useless things like covid vaccines lately. I mean why to use poor rats. They could just have tested the vaccines with poor people.

  And fuck cancer treatment too. Lets just treat people blindly, they are going to die anyway, why not make their last moments suffering just because you like mouses. Maybe we just should stop trying to cure cancer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love Clair Obscur, but i hate it when people call it RPG. You know…ROLE PLAYING GAME!

  There is like two or three meaningfull opportunities to role play and one of them is binary choice in the end of the game.

  And you had so many other games you could have said. Like Baldursgate or Cyperpunk where you actually can roleplay.

  Claire Obscur has rpg elements, like level ups, skills and equipment. It also has very jrpg like fighting system, but there is not enough roleplay to call it rpg.

  You are experiencing the story, not shaping the story.

  (As a games i love both)

  Ps. Im really intrested what your definition of rpg is?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So if it's not crabs (carcinization), I guess it'll be anteaters?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The apex crab-eaters would slowly evolve to be more crab-like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While i agree the notion its not that black and white.

  Payment processors are companies. Where you would draw the line when company can and cant decite how they want to manage their product? In the end its their decition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Innövative sölutiön⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the joke here is the one sided part. Paper sheet has two sides.

  The shape student is using is called möbious strip and its pretty famous mathematical object for being shape with only one plane. Another one is Klein bottle and im sure there are other ones too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hah. I would not compare yearly money graps to GTA. Every 3d GTA has been setting the new standard for the genre.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 - State of Play Deep Dive | PS5 Games⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mostly agree with you, but two things.

  1. Movement techniques should always be optional and not necessity to do. Somebody wants to zip around and somebody wants to stay still and fire away. Some mechanics solve problems, but some just are there to give freedom.

  2. Guns. They have spend three main games and four spinoffs building the companies. At this point the manufactorers are basically characters. Why chance it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well played, Todd: You can see Skyrim, or at least its tallest mountain, from the edge of Oblivion Remastered⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Im confused? I have heard mostly positive things about the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why Gates in the picture tough?

  He stepped down as a chairman over 10 years ago and didint he leave the microsoft board like 5 years ago?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 262 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Always love to see Zomboid.

  Do you play modded or vanilla?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 254 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Many openworld games have so much things to do that at some point its easy for the games to start feel like endless stream of meaningless busywork. Its easy to just stop playing or start to just speedrun trough the game.