mushroommunk
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- Comment on GOG when available, but what should I choose between PS5 physical and Steam when not? 1 day ago:
Not sure I would commit to GOG that much. They’ve shown some transphobic and Nazi colors often enough.
- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 1 day ago:
That’s not what I’m saying there at all…
- Comment on Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash 2 days ago:
You said you don’t know how people can be happy about the news. That’s mostly what I was addressing.
Ultimately I agree, he should have been tried for his crimes against society and guillotined along with the rest of aristocracy ages ago.
- Comment on Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash 2 days ago:
Claude was a director and deputy CEO. He was on the board. He was directly involved in the technical and business management side for years. Calling him just a stakeholder undercuts his own opinion on what he did at Ubisoft as he expressed in a few interviews himself throughout the years.
Just because you didn’t know who he was doesn’t mean the rest of us didn’t. Yes Yves was the face and CEO, and thus the person directly named in the lawsuit because that’s how it works, but Claude was often cited as the quiet force behind Yves anchoring him, serving as operations officer, advisor, and other titles over time.
- Comment on Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash 2 days ago:
Way to skip over all the documented recent reasons people are posting.
- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 2 days ago:
We all could learn to words more gooder.
I’ve thought for a while adults should go back to school every ten years or so for some basic logic, driving, communication, and math refreshers.
- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 2 days ago:
That doesn’t explain why leadership is valued more.
That’s an argument for both existing. Without leadership the expertise won’t be harnessed, without expertise, leadership means nothing.
- Comment on Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash 2 days ago:
Promoting sexual abusers and trying to cover up their abuse through two lawsuits though? Yeah, not a good look
- Comment on Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash 2 days ago:
He and his brothers still maintain control of Ubisoft (even though an attempted hostile takeover). It’s been shown in documents that management have known about but ignored the pervasive sexual misconduct there (in fact promoting the abusers) as well as extensive union busting, employee abuse, on top of the numerous lawsuits for selling/mismanaging customer data, rug pulls with games, and more. Claude Guillemot was an active founding member of the company and maintained his involvement throughout.
Those alone I believe earn the ire thrown at them. I personally add the moral failings of their early overenthusiastic adoption of NFTs and AI.
They very much are a part of the abusive wealthy class treating the world as their personal misogynistic playground.
To argue he was “maybe really nice” is to straight up ignore his hand in all of that. Try again.
- Comment on I'm a dev who has been working on my game for 2 years and my game title got stolen on Steam and they plan to release before I do. What should I do? 6 days ago:
It’s been a while since I looked in there but aren’t the games installed under a folder with their Steam ID as the title?
- Comment on PC Games like Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 1 week ago:
I would imagine horizon zero dawn and the Witcher would be what you’re looking for.
- Comment on Median pay for CEOs rose nearly 6% in 2025, but some compensation packages were eye-popping 1 week ago:
Woo, my lemons are gonna be huge this year!
- Comment on Pizza 🌟 1 week ago:
And properly made Nigerian Jollof rice.
- Comment on GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers 2 weeks ago:
There was also a period where transphobic comments in their forums seemed to take longer for mods to delete but I can’t find anyone talking about that.
Also of note, GOGs sister company, CD Project RED, makers of Cyberpunk 2077, have been criticized for their handling of Trans people and response to trans critics as well covered some here
- Comment on GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers 2 weeks ago:
Doesn’t matter if it was originally added by an LLM (AI doesn’t exist) or not. They stated they knew what it looked like and that’s why they didn’t send it out in Germany. That makes them fully responsible and aware of the message they were sending
- Comment on Ada Lovelace 2 weeks ago:
The intent of the post, sure. Women and men are equally capable of anything.
But absolutely nobody creating sewing patterns is sitting down and going “alright the integral of e to the x dx is…” Or remembering their laplace transformations.
- Comment on New Halo Campaign Evolved Report Claims Heavy Outsourcing and Major Gameplay Changes 3 weeks ago:
You missed nothing if you didn’t. 5 setup a great story, was morphing into a great galaxy spanning adventure finally ready to move on from covenant vs humans. And then they ignored it all for Infinite which felt more like a DLC for an unreleased game.
- Comment on New Halo Campaign Evolved Report Claims Heavy Outsourcing and Major Gameplay Changes 3 weeks ago:
Sure, and if 343 studios hadn’t burnt so much fan trust with their last two releases people might be willing to go along with that. I think fans are just sick of not getting a good new Halo game and what they’re doing now seems to most fans like just a cash grab.
It’s not like unreal engine is anything new either, they already contract out work so lots of talent to pull from for the actual technical parts.
- Comment on New Halo Campaign Evolved Report Claims Heavy Outsourcing and Major Gameplay Changes 3 weeks ago:
They claim it’s because they’re using Unreal Engine for the first time and wanted to test the waters by remaking a game they know well. Honestly it just makes them sound even lazier in my book. That and the rumors of massive amounts of generative AI used for development.
- Comment on Ken Levine's Judas Could Slip Nearly Three More Years, Putting BioShock Successor Eleven Years Deep in Development 4 weeks ago:
There’s a balance. You want it good before releasing, but you don’t want to spend forever chasing perfection. It’s hard as outsiders to know which they’re doing sadly.
- Comment on Sony PlayStation Accounts Are Reportedly Being Hacked With Ease 4 weeks ago:
Mine went to the spam folder. I don’t always think to check there but maybe try?
- Comment on Mint 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, my buddy’s goat
- Comment on Mint 5 weeks ago:
Kudzu has entered the chat
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 5 weeks ago:
Anecdotally but several of my friends build a new PC and then slide their old one to siblings who game but don’t need high end
- Comment on How to really find friends by interests? 5 weeks ago:
It depends on what aspect of programming you want to network over.
If you want too discuss the intricacies of different algorithms and nerd out over O notation timings and such then you’ll want to inhabit very different spaces then if you want to write videogames which is a different space from if you want to make home automation gadgets and small webpages.
Sure they’re all “programming” but you’ll generally find the people doing them in different spots.
Overall though, broad ways:
- Hackaday.com has a decent community and events
- Hackerspaces will sometimes have networking events
- local college classes
- events at local college
- mentor first robotics team (they often need programming mentors too)
- Make stuff and blog about it
I’ll say though, networking with other programmers isn’t how you get good at programming in my experience (currently as a Senior Software Engineer developing programs for language learning). In my experience being curious and trying to make stuff is how you get good. That billionaire quote only really truly applies to money.
- Comment on How do you pronounce 'Niche'? 5 weeks ago:
I kind of combine them. Neetch.
- Comment on Oh yeah, I forgot we ruined outside too. 5 weeks ago:
It’s supposed to hit 90°F in Pittsburgh this weekend. Several places are experiencing early major heat. The South West is shattering heat records too.
- Comment on What is the type of singing in this track called? 5 weeks ago:
The search term you’re looking for could be “electro swing”. I’m not sure you’ll find a specific term for singing in a fast bouncy way because that’s just what swing usually ends up being.
- Comment on What's the deal with AI datacenters using water for cooling? 1 month ago:
Not really, because you also start depleting the readily available potable water and increasing toxin concentration in remaining sources. See other comments for just how much these things suck up. It’s truly mind staggering amounts of water. There’s very few areas that can handle that amount of water with no issue for extended periods of time. For some reason (read money) the politicians in charge of approving these things are turning a blind eye to those problems.
Low population areas with high amounts of water are usually nature preserves and things we don’t want these data centers anywhere near. If you do chance into finding a low population center with high water that isn’t a needed nature preserve, odds are you won’t have all the infrastructure you need to build the thing and you’ll run into other issues that might have an equally large but different impact. You can’t just plop these anywhere and run a power line and call it good.
That’s why in other sane countries outside the US you see a large number of proposed data centers get blocked during the environmental impact assessment stages.
- Comment on "Public deserves to know”: Harvard Professor says official messaging contradicts hantavirus science 1 month ago:
The video is Joseph Allen, Professor of Exposure Assessment Science at Harvard University, directly explaining his research and communications directly with the doctor on the cruise ship. I’m not sure you can find a more credible source. It’s not edited clips or anything. A news program invited him on, handed him a mic, and then just let him talk. No leading questions or anything even.