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- Comment on business is business 1 day ago:
Price transparency != Marketing strategy.
- Comment on business is business 1 day ago:
… did you market yourself as a stuck up prick who can’t budget well?
Or did you maybe save that for some stage of contract negotiations?
There are ways to dance the dance; hers seems to be the equivalent of loudly complain that no one is picking her to dance because no one can afford her.
Just not a good strategy.
- Comment on business is business 1 day ago:
Advertising yourself as:
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Bad at internal budgeting
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Full of yourself
… is a bold marketing strategy during an economic depression, for a freelance/contract worker.
Best of luck Nat.
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- Comment on Oh how the turn tables 1 day ago:
Well its based off of a ditty that’s meant to be a broad guide for how to not be killed by snakes… just, any snakes, that fit the descriptions in the ditty.
So… its not broadly useful, maybe qualify it?
- Comment on Oh how the turn tables 2 days ago:
… I think Hezbollah is gonna put up a fight.
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 2 days ago:
Alright, I’ll have a cigarette for both of us then.
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 2 days ago:
do you like to hurt people intensifies
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 2 days ago:
The name’s V.
So uh, totally awesome and also completely fucked.
- Comment on I want to ride my bicycle 3 days ago:
I bet they are actually both trying to figure out which one is the killer queen, dynamite, with a laser beam.
- Comment on Those moutains are so quaint 1 week ago:
I learned how to drive in the snow because I grew up in the foothills, the boonies. Snow and inclines, flash floods, windstorms take down so many trees that all the routes to … fucking anywhere are blocked for days to a week.
I, foolishly, expected that that was normal, that everybody learned how treacherous weather can be on driving.
All these damn city slickers just be fucking playing bumper cars, watchin their tiktoks, gorramit!
Ptooie!
- Comment on Those moutains are so quaint 1 week ago:
Its not small pp shit, its intentionally being a troll and watching what bites, ahahahah!
Yeah, obviously I didn’t build the mountains, I don’t care about this that much, ahahah!
Its just funny watching people get mad over stupid shit.
Should we do sportsball next?
Ahahhah!
- Comment on Those moutains are so quaint 1 week ago:
Lol at all the East Coasters in this thread.
Our mountains are old, show some respect!
Our mountains are haunted, oooo scaaaarrrry!!!
Hahahahah!
Nah, nah.
Scary is a semi truck with failed brakes barreling down a 14 degree grade with a 1000ft drop awaiting it if it can’t maintain control untill it hits a designated crash zone a 5 miles away.
Scary is a literal fucking volcano exploding with the force of many nuclear weapons.
Scary is whenever the Cascadia superquake hits and maybe also triggers the San Andreas fault at the same time, and turns the West Coast into an actual 90s/00s disaster movie.
- Comment on Those moutains are so quaint 1 week ago:
Seattle, just the city limits of Seattle, has hills taller than things I’ve heard people in the midwest call mountains.
That being said, yeah, you are absolutely correct that almost fucking nobody in the PNW knows jack shit about driving in the snow.
They also know jack shit about driving in the rain, which is… baffling for hopefully obvious reasons.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
This kind of thing happens because the devs traverse the dunning kruger curve, as they develop the game.
They often initially think things will be easier than they actually are. Then, the reality of the complexities of game dev hits them in the mouth. After that… they become more measured in their public promises.
Better to underpromise and overdeliver, than to overpromise and underdeliver.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I can’t speak to Terraria specifically, but just with most games in general?
An actual bugfix often means you changed the underlying guts of some system, some system that had appeared to work, but actually, had a fundamental flaw, even if minor.
With that kind of a fix… well, often mods essentially work by creating their own uses of, or work-arounds for the old buggy system.
So, when that system is reworked, to remove the bug… well now some of the guts of the mod may need to be reworked as well.
- Comment on Housing prices 1 week ago:
We got rid of pensions.
Homes and 401ks thus became financial retirement plans.
And we allowed significant interplay between the 401ks, and homes, in financial markets. It became an entire speculative industry, all intertwined and intermingled, a free for all for both old money finance and ‘entrepenuerial’ home flippers and petty landlords.
So that’s why they inflated more, basically.
Yeah it is more complicated than that but… that is the ultimate truth of it, imo.
We turned homes into speculative financial assets, so obviously, their prices became inflated and volatile.
- Comment on Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: 'Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers' 1 week ago:
This has been fucking obvious for at least 2 years, more like 4, really.
What this has been the whole time is naked power grab to establish a technate, a techno-oligarchy.
When, not if, this fully fucking detonates the West’s finances and economies, most of these people will still be very wealthy, most of our 401k/pensions/net worth will mostly no longer exist, and we will end up with all but formal aristocracy.
That is their plan. They have been open about that for 20-30 years; they despise democracy, they think the world should be hard deliniated into haves and have-nots.
It doesn’t matter if the tech works or is profitable.
What matters who will be on top when the dust settles.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Tbf, there are mods that have just kept on getting more and more features and content added to them, and/or took a stupid amount of time to get to basically v1.0.
Black Mesa Source, the HL1 remake in HL2 engine… pretty sure that took a decade, was originally a mod.
Yes, by far most mods for most games are more… hah, ‘modular’, and tend to be basically just a single or few releases, but there are much more expansive mods of much larger scope, for many different games.
Basically, most ‘total conversion’ mods tend to be more like that… years of development toward a kind of end goal state, because they are basically making an entirely or massively different game, based on whatever particular original game.
- Comment on Hmmm 1 week ago:
I mean, im of the ‘poptart is basically a dessert calzone’ persuasion, so… yeah, sure why not.
There are differences, but basically yes.
- Comment on Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi Arabia 2 weeks ago:
The Sims.
You do not want to know how many ‘dlc’ there are for your digital dollhouse.
As well as entire community of enthusiastic corporate boot lickers with a ‘cozy’ aesthetic.
- Comment on Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi Arabia 2 weeks ago:
I will never forgive EA for destroying Maxis.
- Comment on Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi Arabia 2 weeks ago:
Kind of yes, but actually no.
We just see that debt now, its explicit.
EA … was subject to a leveraged buy out, that they sought out. They did this… because they needed cash, now.
What that means is that their internal financials were an absolute shit show… that they had, up untill that point, basically just legally lied about, hid, downplayed.
They fluffed up their balances and returns and cashflows in ways that are legal to do, but if you actually do due dilligence, you could read the writing on the wall.
Its basically the same as any other US company that got bought out / sold itself to private equity in the last 10 or 15 years.
Difference is, EA is so huge, it had to be bought out by essentially a sovereign wealth fund.
- Comment on Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi Arabia 2 weeks ago:
All games with kernel level anticheat, that isnt’t open souce.
There, fixed it for you.
- Comment on Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi Arabia 2 weeks ago:
Anyone who did not see this coming is an idiot.
- Comment on Anon survives a flood 2 weeks ago:
Thats honestly hilarious.
Like a joke in a Coen brothers film, ahahah!
- Comment on Absolutely true 2 weeks ago:
Mhmrm.
- Comment on Horrible bruise from being hit by a baseball 2 weeks ago:
Yowza, fuck.
Hope nothing fractured.
Just… yeeesh. Dang.
- Comment on Hey Lemmy. I hate Facebook. But I miss Marketplace. So I built Garage as a means to reclaim Melb's 2nd hand marketplace from Meta (cause fuck Zuck). It's pretty new but check it out below 2 weeks ago:
With something like this… maybe a model where the codenisn open source, but also, somehow, a listing costs a small amount, to help cover server costs, would make sense?
A ‘membership’ regular payment model probably would not work… for anyone other than ‘supersellers’…
Or, maybe, there could be a way to… federate/distribute the server processing itself.
Allow vokunteers to run an process that basicslly serves as a distibuted host.
… hrm…
- Comment on Hey Lemmy. I hate Facebook. But I miss Marketplace. So I built Garage as a means to reclaim Melb's 2nd hand marketplace from Meta (cause fuck Zuck). It's pretty new but check it out below 2 weeks ago:
Fucking hell yes!
American, so, not gonna be able to participate locally, but yeah, if we could all somehow have an opensource, federated version of craigslist/FB market?
Absolutely yes.
And even if not, still a great project!
- Comment on How polite 2 weeks ago:
If you want to bulk up a bit more, I suspect you’re already good at jogging. Do that a bit more regularly, and then also, pushups and crunches, basically.
I’m sure an actual body builder type person or comm could give you more detailed advice, but broadly… if you want more pecs, use em more often lol, pushups with proper form, or other excercizes that target them.
