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- Comment on Saber CEO scorns writer who says she was fired in favor of AI with confusing, combative statement 6 hours ago:
I wish I could blame it all on these kinds of people. In reality it’s about 60% of the story or so. They’ve always been around but they weren’t this bold a decade ago.
A small part is the political climate over the last decade. That’s a topic worth its own encyclopedia one day, and games is affected as well.
A large part is that games just isn’t doing well financially right now. Because everyone in tech wants to invest in AI so there’s a lot less money in the space. Smaller or medium sized teams can’t get funding and less pitches get approved. Larger studios are “fine” but companies are using this time to cash out. Which is why you hear about Activision selling out to Microsoft and EA to Saudi Arabia. Layoffs at small companies happen because they need to (or companies simply shut down) , layoffs at large companies happen to make the number go up.
Last decent chunk of the problem is the landscape of games is changing. Converging more on “forever games” rather than traditional console experiences. This is an emerging problem that will get worse over the coming years, something even the consoles themselves are trying to shape itself around.
- Comment on Saber CEO scorns writer who says she was fired in favor of AI with confusing, combative statement 6 hours ago:
And to the people, not knowing your employees (or giving a damn to look them up) implies a structure where leadership is disconnected from the craftsmen that actually bring value to the company. Making leadership look out of touch, unrelatable, and outright crass.
Not to mention that he proves the writer correct in their accusation by admitting he does use AI and relishes in it.
- Comment on Saber CEO scorns writer who says she was fired in favor of AI with confusing, combative statement 6 hours ago:
Untitled Avatar: The Last Airbender title
That one was already cancelled, by the way.
- Comment on Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps. 1 day ago:
Yes, those things are true, but it’s kind of like an ACAB situation.
Cops are unionized and work as a team. Ultimately, most therapists work by themselves. Not to mention that systematic abuse of power gives cops that reputation. Which is a hard argument to make for therapists.
So I don’t really think the comparison applies here. If you feel you were wronged: since it’s a licensed profession, there is a board you can report to. It varies by state, though. If what they did was especially egrigious in terms of the rules in your state, you can get their license revoked.
Short of that, you can be as terrible a therapist as long as you can keep getting clients.
A license is to make sure they follow the laws and regulations of their state. Not to make sure they are “a good therapist”. The license is to meet a minimum bar of quality and from there make sure they stay in good standing with laws. Just like how a driver’s license can be given to people of varying skill levels.
The closest aspect to your scenario is a therapist’s rating and testimony. Most services (if not, a 3rd party website) will have a review board for such thigs to read and a scathing review can be a softer way to damage their reputation than the licensing board.
That tells me that professionalization of therapy isn’t being done to help and protect clients, but to help and protect therapists.
If you look at any job cynically enough, you can apply this to anything, and anyone. A firefighter doesn’t want to put out fires, they want to protect their job. An athlete doesn’t care about the game, they just want to be famous and get sponsors. [insert literally any job ever] is only doing it for the paycheck.
At the end of the day, it come down to trust. if you can’t trust your professional, you shouldn’t hire them. That’s for all of life. But your lack of trust alone isn’t enough to invalidate an entire field.
- Comment on All part of their scam plan 1 day ago:
I will:
“The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.
There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
I didn’t read this Steinbeck in school (I read Of Mice and Men), but I thought back then “I’m glad we moved past this. We wouldn’t allow such work today so blatantly”.
Well, education definitely isn’t wisdom. And it sure isn’t experience.
- Comment on More People Are Pre-ordering The $100 Edition Of GTA 6 1 day ago:
the answer to your question is “K-shaped Economy”. Lot of people doing this are in fact doing way better than they were 4 years ago. Some of them are indeed taking out more debt to do this, but most haven’t felt the pain of this modern economy.
- Comment on More People Are Pre-ordering The $100 Edition Of GTA 6 1 day ago:
I would argue that Valve should’ve just have upgraded the Steam Deck and I find that a far more worthwhile device.
They still do plan making a Steam Deck 2. But given that the Steam Deck OLED also needed a 300 dollar price hike, it’s clear that it would have had a similar fate. IDK how many steam deck players being ready to pay 4 figures for a handheld.
( I say this owning an 800 dollar GPD Win 4).
- Comment on More People Are Pre-ordering The $100 Edition Of GTA 6 1 day ago:
- Comment on Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps. 1 day ago:
I know, it can be bad. I had a sudden hospial scare and was in there for a few days without insurance. If I had to pay everything out of pocket (and holy shit there is so many 3rd party bills) it would have been 11k.
But that’s the thing: 11k isn’t 100k. An accident bad enough to drain 100k is probably way more debilitating.
- Comment on Supermassive Games announces layoffs, up to 75 positions to be affected 1 day ago:
well that makes the hiring or trial process much easier, no? I don’t think the problem here is “I can’t tell if my employee gives a fuck”.
And I can tell you that passion is not something lacking in the games industry.
- Comment on Supermassive Games announces layoffs, up to 75 positions to be affected 1 day ago:
systematic solutions don’t guarantee fixing every single company’s problems. But it usually does mitigate it.
- Comment on Supermassive Games announces layoffs, up to 75 positions to be affected 1 day ago:
How is a small company realistically going to test if someone is worth hiring or not.
we got into this stupid market because we spent decades neglecting training. When you don’t train for what you need, you don’t get good at identifying what skills you really need in order to succeed.
So this question is already too far gone. If someone has most skills but is missing one: train them for it. Even if the training is as informal as "give them a few weeks in a low stakes environment to work on less valuable (but less risky) work.
- Comment on Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps. 2 days ago:
this post is talking about “your” problems. Not society’s problems. Societal fixes need to be more subtle than “give everyone a million dollars”. But giving one person 10k dollars can be life changing money.
We separate the two fields for a reason.
- Comment on Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps. 2 days ago:
Don’t know why you’re talking about income when I’m talking about assets.
www.census.gov/library/…/acs-rent-burden.html
any gains in household income was completely cancelled out by the fact that everything got more expensive, and more people were impacted by layoffs. Homelessness also increased, and those without a home (or who move into their parents’ home) do not count for household income
- Comment on Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps. 2 days ago:
There are ways in which therapy can disempower you: it can teach you to ignore your instincts, paper over your concerns
Any therapist telling you to “ignore your instincts” without diagnosing you with a relevant condition (e.g. PTSD, OCD) isn’t worth their salt. And not all therapists are licensed to diagnose you, so you’d need to be referred to a potentially different professional.
It’s like any other professional. You try stuff they suggest, and sometimes it doesn’t work out or you simply want 2nd opinion on a matter. It’s not perfect, but generally it helps.
so I’m really hesitant to recommend it to people blindly with no caveats.
Worst case, they waste a few hundred dollars and learn its not for them. I’ve wasted more money with worse things. I think the risk of getting “addicted to therapy” is much smaller than gambling or drugs.
- Comment on Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps. 2 days ago:
If you can’t get a better job, maybe your money and time would be better spent with a job coach or resume services than a therapist?
I have considered it, yes. In a better market, if I was struggling it may in fact be worth it just to get a few weeks of guidance on how to redirect my career. It’s also less ambiguous because many people’s goals are met when they can get a job or get that promotion or whatever.
However, reality can set in very quickly when I go to a temp job service and even they (which can generally find an odd job for you in a few weeks ) just outright say “yeah, there’s not much out there right now”. That’s the judement between “you need professional help” and “this didn’t work. job coaches are a scam!”. Job coaches aren’t magicians that pull labor out of a hat.
Instead, a therapist can make some vague promise of some emotional or mental shift that will somehow make a difference when months or years of job searching have not? Doesn’t that seem kind of bogus to you?
Not a surprise to me. a job is pretty obvious. your mind isn’t. And it’s biased towards yourself as well. I’d hope we’d advanced enough to start to take aspects of the mind like stress seriously. But at the same time we still have a lot to learn and a lot of old prejudice to overcome.
The main goal of a mental health coach is to at least help you look outside yourself. Sometimes the job market is bad and it’s not your fault even if you blame yourself for some random decision years ago. Sometimes it is in fact all your fault and they help you realize you’ve been actively cock-blocking yourself out of success over several opportunities you had to get a job. Because you’re depressed.
The goal of a job coach doesn’t care how you feel as long as you got your goal done. The goal of a mental health coach is to remove those bigger blockers. And that doesn’t always feel good. Confronting your demons rarely does.
I also see it being a much more lucrative vector for absolute fraud.
That’s why therapists need to be licensed, while a job coach doesn’t. Licensed don’t guarantee competency, let alone compatibility. But it mitigates the risk of someone pretending to be a voice of authority and telling you to kill yourself for the greater good.
- Comment on Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps. 2 days ago:
That’s all I’m saying, yea. Therapists aren’t any different from any other professional you seek for improvement. But generally, in the wide spectrum of 100s of millions of people, professional guidance improves you.
Biggest sin of social media is people further misunderstanding statistics and acting like an individual failure is a societal letdown. Sometimes you just have a shit teacher. doesn’t mean all teachers are shit.
- Comment on Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps. 2 days ago:
relatively cheap money and growing incomes
where have you been the last 3 years? It’s because assets have been outpacing inflation to the point where it’s destablizing society. the American GDP is being carried by AI speculation. Not productivity: hype.
Meanwhile, compensation has only been outpacing inflation if you’re an executive.
- Comment on Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps. 2 days ago:
a million would eliminate my need to worry about next month’s rent and let me sit down and properly create stuff without worry for a few years (more like a decade, but I’d want plenty of buffer room). Sure, it’s easy to waste a milion and it won’t fix all my demons. But it’d take most of my stressors away instantly.
- Comment on Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps. 2 days ago:
You probably have bigger problems (and a shit insurance) if a medical emergency is big enough to drain 6 figures.
- Comment on Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps. 2 days ago:
we have no way to deal with suffering other than to pay a separately trained and certified and regulated professional to deal with it, one-on-one.
There are plenty of ways. The issue is that some are individualistic and some are systematic. A therapist cannot fix a systematic issue; it cannot get you a better job, but maybe it can get you in a mindset to try and improve youself to get a better job (despite the job market being shit). It can’t build third places but it can prod you to look for the little pockets where some still remain.
It’s not a magic bullet. But sometimes a little perspective can help you improve your life.
- Comment on Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps. 2 days ago:
it would be really hard to earn enough money on your own to create your ideal environment.
In this economy, yes. Because any savings goes into increasing cost of living.
Maybe the real solution is finding friends who’d help you build that life.
They too busy working too,
- Comment on Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps. 2 days ago:
I find it kind of repulsive how therapist imply you WILL get better if you just put in the time
Like literally anything else in life? Yes. put in the time, get results.
Are there exceptions? Yes. medical conditions can make you not see gains in the gym, learning impediments can hinder progress in acedemics. Maybe it’s a bad teacher sometimes, but for the most part: put in time, see results.
I’ve NEVER had a therapist terminate me because I wasn’t getting better, even though I never got better with any therapist no matter how long I´d seen them.
Okay. That’s personal responsibility too. How many trainers terminate because you aren’t getting gains fast enough? How many teachers stop tutoring you and say you’re hopleless?
You can call it perverse incentive, but at the end of the day you gotta speak up for yourself and figure out what works best for you. Sure, if you really have 10 sessions talking to a person and you feel no better than ranting to a friend, you probably need a different approach, But therapists aren’t some magical exception to capitalism.
- Comment on Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps. 2 days ago:
Pretty much what I try to tell my parents. I don’t need therapy. I know exactly what stresses me out and it’s this extended fall from grace from saving up for my own house to taking up any gig in my ability to keep the lights on in the span of 3 years. The ladder was pulled up and they actively pushed me out of the floor.
- Comment on 92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an… 2 days ago:
if it killed even 1 we’d have a bill passed next week. For the billionaires, ofc. But they’d react fast.
Never fall under the delusion that the government needs everything to move like molasses.
- Comment on 92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an… 2 days ago:
Universal healthcare is actually a bipartisan issue among the people. But as you expect, one side is really good at reframing terms to make it sound like It benefits the “non-deserving”. The main “issue” over the decades is that everytime they try to creep this into making all insurance worse they get pushback.
So, kinda.
- Comment on Housing prices 3 days ago:
Math.
fred.stlouisfed.org/data/MSPUS
Plug 23900 into an inflation calculator
data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=23900&year1…
I got 211,149.54.
Guess they had different numbers or calculator, but similar sentiment. Housing grew some 5x+ faster than inflation.
- Comment on Dev at id Software says Microsoft 'burned a lot of bridges' in the industry: 'They fundamentally don't understand art, they don't understand games' 3 days ago:
They bought out Rare and did nothing with them for 15 years. Now they are just “The Sea of Thieves” devs.
Imagine a timeline where they became a 2nd party Nintendo studio instead.
- Comment on Dev at id Software says Microsoft 'burned a lot of bridges' in the industry: 'They fundamentally don't understand art, they don't understand games' 3 days ago:
You’d think they’d understand tech at the bare minimum. But slashing your team of highly technical people who made engines for almost 30 years sure disproves that notion.
- Comment on Centrists have such a Hard Choice. 3 days ago:
Probably because “radial left” has no real leg to stand on right now and the big talking points of what the GOP call “radical left” are just this. Exhibit A.
We can theorize about radical left. Meanwhile, radical right is happening in real time.
