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- Comment on Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle. 1 hour ago:
Exactly right. Most of us older coders have been warning of this for years. It was not benevolence that Microsoft, Google, Amazon so gleefully pushed for more coders and coding boot camps. They wanted a flood of labor to bring down salaries. They knew this was going to happen, and I’ve been calling it out for years. This is exactly what they wanted.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x05 "Through the Lens of Time" 2 days ago:
Yeah something is … I believe the technical term is fucky. Something is fucky there.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x05 "Through the Lens of Time" 2 days ago:
Now that the gorn were swept away I think this is going to be our next big baddie. Also this was the mid season episode, I have a feeling it’ll be the focus for the season ender
- Comment on Tech giants turning blind eye to child sex abuse, Australian watchdog says 3 days ago:
I mean, where is the profit in moderating it? They’re not here to be q fairy godmother or anything
- Comment on Home Depot and Lowe's Share Data From Hundreds of AI Cameras With Cops | 404 Media 4 days ago:
Literally what fox warned about, no one should have this power. And here it is, in the hands of those already with the most
- Comment on Qwen-Image: Crafting with Native Text Rendering Apache 2.0 licensed 6 days ago:
Thanks! Hm, honestly not seeing anything amazing that stands out tbh.
- Comment on Qwen-Image: Crafting with Native Text Rendering Apache 2.0 licensed 6 days ago:
Interested to see how it compares to flux, if it’s not done already. Most of my workflows are fairly flux native, but I’ll convert if it’s worth it
- Comment on Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe signed off on legislation repealing paid sick leave provision 6 days ago:
Whenever I hear of news out of Missouri it’s another reason why I wouldn’t want to be in Missouri.
It was 1 hour per 30 hours of work. That’s a half day per month. 1 day per 2 months, 6 days a year (for part timers it gets around the 32 hours totally isn’t a full week loophole). Not vacation, but sick time.
I had the flu this year. I was down for over a week. If I worked for a shitty part-time job in Missouri I’d have to decide between going unpaid for a week (and probably pissing off my jr supervisor with the management skills of a tomato) or going in sick and getting everyone else sick (also somehow pissing off the produce-quality supervisor)
What’s the governor’s sick leave? I bet he gets more than 6 days a year. Shameful he overturned his own voters - and worse they’ll probably still vote him in again.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 6 days ago:
Agreed. It could have been such an interesting concept if it was literally any other place. Zeta halo could have been so cool, but it felt so detached from the universe
- Comment on 2K comment on reports Bioshock 4 is in trouble: "we have a good game, but we are committed to delivering a great one" 6 days ago:
Yeah, all this gaming BS has taught me to never trust the official PR/marketing departments from these games. They will do anything to spin and hype, that’s their job. The truth is irrelevant.
Also, why would marketing or PR be the people who would know how the game is doing? They are at least 6 layers removed from the people who make the game. In my experience as an engineer it’s rare I’d even be allowed in the same meetings as them.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 6 days ago:
343 could have done something really interesting if they had started with that idea vs just trying to go right for a mainline Chief story
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 6 days ago:
Librarian, Didact, people they didn’t even take the time to introduce well and we were supposed to just jump on board with it. Buck was literally the only saving grace for Halo 5 in my opinion - and they introduced him in ODST
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 6 days ago:
Watched a recent video on magic and writing and it applies for scifi too. Every time you add to the lore you now have to remember and support it forever. 4 just added so much that they clearly didn’t think through like that. Bungie dishes out lore in small bits from 1-3, and it was so exciting when you got just the small tiny bit of backstory. 4 and 5 then just dumped in on your plate in healing portions.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 6 days ago:
4 felt like such a cash grab to me. No deep lore or story telling like with 1 through reach. Exposition was just spoon fed to us rather than a great mystery. Still, I plugged through, hoping maybe it’d turn around.
Then 5 came out and I gave up all hope on the franchise. Spent more time playing as Locke than we did Chief, story was more compelling than 4 but the storytelling and pacing were clunky, and it was completely disconnected from 4.
Infinite just got worse. “We lost, chief” (but we have no frame of reference, we have no idea what that means , we don’t know how the rest of the world has been affected, and then we’re put against some no name character when we really just want to know what the hell is happening off world)
- Comment on GOG Launches NSFW Game Giveaway "To Raise Awareness On Censorship In Gaming" 1 week ago:
“Found themselves”? Wdym by that?
- Comment on GOG Launches NSFW Game Giveaway "To Raise Awareness On Censorship In Gaming" 1 week ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on GOG Launches NSFW Game Giveaway "To Raise Awareness On Censorship In Gaming" 1 week ago:
Neat, I have no shame in admitting I picked it up, I’ve never played any of these - but if someone tells me I can’t try something (or tries to block access because of prudish reasons) I want to immediately see what the fuss is about.
So, anyone recommend one of these to start with? How would you recommend I try to run these on Linux? (It’s also my first experience with GoG, but seems neat!)
- Comment on GOG Launches NSFW Game Giveaway "To Raise Awareness On Censorship In Gaming" 1 week ago:
Working retail and food service taught me even if you literally give something away for free, people will still find a reason to complain. “Free hamburgers today” But I don’t like hamburgers. “Today only, get a free 6 months to Spotify if you sign up for something else” But I don’t use Spotify.
Just, okay? Like fine it’s not for you, it doesn’t matter, it’s free.
- Comment on Developer wants to build 60 apartments and 24 parking spots. New York politician tells him to build less housing and more parking spots 1 week ago:
Hear it loud folks, cars are more important than people. Sure it’s only a few blocks away from the Q line, but that doesn’t matter. Where will people have cars?
- Comment on Bat flies into woman's mouth in Arizona, costing her nearly $21,000 in medical bills 1 week ago:
Oh I agree the system is fucked and cobra is equally bad. Being forced into this system though I would urge people to have enough in savings so that if they are dropped tomorrow from insurance they can at least rest easy knowing they have health care. Individually be ready for that rainy day. Societally yes let’s rip down our healthcare system
- Comment on GOG and game publishers launch FreedomToBuy.games to raise awareness on censorship in gaming – GOG Pressroom 1 week ago:
Yeah steams silence has been deafening through this. Itch came out and explained what was happening, GoG did this. All quiet from Steam.
- Comment on Bat flies into woman's mouth in Arizona, costing her nearly $21,000 in medical bills 1 week ago:
Kahn said looking back, she should have secured private health insurance as soon as she was laid off.
“I should have done COBRA, even though it was very expensive,” Kahn said. “But yeah, hindsight is 20/20.”
The near-$21,000 burden will probably lead to fewer vacations and a delay in having central air conditioning installed at her place, Kahn said.
She said she hopes others can learn from her misstep.
“It was my fault. I took the risk of not doing COBRA and that’s forever on me,” she said. "But if one person gets covered because they saw this story, then I would be happy about that.
Our system is fucked, that is for 100% sure. There should be no way that someone goes into medical debt because they were laid off, and we should fight to have a better system.
However, viewing the problem at the societal level and the individual level are different things. Societally we need to push for health care for all. Individually though - get COBRA, get on a spouse’s plan, whatever you need to do. Don’t risk it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
we’ve had quite a bit of spam from new accounts lately, that and added that you’re from a notoriously troll-y instance is probably why.
- Comment on Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal 1 week ago:
Means they’re aware of libre office and they’re scared, so that’s positive. I’m guessing the European countries switching over is making them nervous.
- Comment on DAE? 1 week ago:
I think I have…
- Comment on Battlefield 6 won't cost $80, but EA aren't ruling out future price hikes "to capture the full spectrum of pricing" 1 week ago:
Battlefield has always had a cheating and skill issue. Battlefield 1 got the closest to being okay, I’d get in, have some fun, get heads hotter a few times and drop.
5 though was horrible. I’d have legit cheaters who could shoot me through mountains and people way higher skill than me. It wasn’t a place where I could just go and have some fun.
So yeah, I don’t see me picking up a new one
- Comment on Itch.io are seeking out new payment processors who are more comfortable with adult material 1 week ago:
It’s important to know that it may not be visa and MasterCard directly, but rather Stripe, a popular middleware that provides an easy API for developers to access the card networks. To a user it’d be more or less transparent if they’re just swapping them out
- Comment on Warner Bros. Games is working on another live-service game, despite Suicide Squad flop 1 week ago:
What, you mean like a game you only buy once and just play online for free after that? Why would anyone want that?
- Comment on looks like the one 1% can't be everywhere. 2 weeks ago:
Oh I’m not surprised used it’s slowed down at all. Vegas is second only to Florida where more rural (and poorer) Midwestern and southern people go in the US, it’s no surprise they aren’t traveling as much. Less about Vegas and more about how people are doing as a whole.
Completely agree with you, this is just engagement bait
- Comment on Ubisoft's annual report dictates that the consumers are the problem 2 weeks ago:
Yeah honestly I really can’t put my finger on it I like this guy or not.