CaptPretentious
@CaptPretentious@lemmy.world
- Comment on Microsoft Teams status 10 minutes ago:
Micromanagement. If you go “AFK” in just 2 minutes… your boss might start asking questions. Where did you go? Why weren’t you working? All sorts of bullshit every bad manager would pull out. In a misguided attempt to try to ensure you give “110%” performance!
I had a manager years ago, she tried to enforce phone codes. She would then compile a report. Trying to determine when you were on break, when you went to use the bathroom, how much time you weren’t in the phone queue, etc. She was eventually demoted from her position for basically making enemies of everyone she managed. And that report didn’t help any meaningful metric.
- Comment on Settle a debate can potato's and noodles go together and taste great with sauce and other things? (I say it can) However my mother says two starches should never be cooked because it's too much. 1 day ago:
No sauce is fixing what you’re getting at Olive Garden.
- Comment on Valid point 2 days ago:
Perhaps its different there, Europe has far better general consumer protection policies. But in the US, generally, if someone gets your debit card info, they can drain your account and the bank won’t do anything. The money is gone.
- Comment on Valid point 2 days ago:
If you can, I’d suggest switching to a credit card and just pay it off every month. The general lack of consumer protection on debit cards is frightening. So many companies put minimum effort in protecting your data.
- Comment on The end of civilization costs $5 6 days ago:
You don’t need specialized equipment. It’s easy enough to be done at home.
- Comment on This is why we have two-factor authentication. 1 week ago:
What, how’d you get my IP! You haxxor!?
- Comment on #StopPayingGames 1 week ago:
So really the list should show all the subsidaries. Because there’s probably a decent number of people that don’t know.
- Comment on Operation enduring algae 2 weeks ago:
Fine, call the necromancers!
- Comment on Don’t forget to regularly check your eyes! 3 weeks ago:
I tried reading it, but I got lost…
- Comment on Self sacrifice is honorable 1 month ago:
But if AI executes it…
If AI is so smart (it’s not) it can take your job, then it should clearly recognize what is clearly meant as a joke…
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Is the question why is it moving engine? Where’s the question why is unreal engine 6 coming out?
- Comment on PlayStation boss says single-player games won’t come to PC going forward | VGC 1 month ago:
Kind of like Epic to be honest. They pay out the nose for exclusive rights, thinking shit today works like it did 20 years ago.
- 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 1 month ago:
For me, it’s the way better warranty. Granted, most of these companies aren’t what they used to be.
- Comment on Just say no 1 month ago:
This is so accurate. And, I had “friends” back in high school, who were very much into meth and very much into sharing.
But every single big meeting at work, is just about AI. it’s just a sales pitch, nothing specific. One of the senior managers emails multiple times a week about fake “wins” due to AI. How, because of AI, some random API is now 4x better! (He doesn’t know what API is…) When I teams opens up, it’s just “AI Bootcamps” plastered everywhere. The intranet homepage, 3 of the 5 things on the carousel is just AI. Multiple “demo days” have just been people showing how they’ve been fucking around in AI and not doing work.
Someone in mgmt, has made it a goal for more AI usage. Put teams on blast who weren’t “using it enough”. Fake metrics of how much good code it’s generated (with no actual examples of course). And yeah, now they’re tracking usage to ensure we get enough AI “touches” a month. They’re monitoring our badge-in (due to RTO) and now they’re monitoring AI adoption and usage.
But just ignore the massive outsourcing to India/SEA… no need to worry about that.
- Comment on That kid was the WORST 1 month ago:
I’d say probably. But would be very sad in how little we ride bike now (used to be all the time, year round, rain, snow, or sunshine). But we’re not yelled at every single day! Got a good job that even teenager me would think is cool.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The first seems reasonable, until the reasoning is given, which reveals the whole message is batshit
Yeah, that’s what I meant. Like, expressing yourself to someone you’re dating, like “This made me uncomfortable,” generally should be ok. This proved to be the exception.
someone getting upset at being told they are lucky to be with the person they are with is kinda full of themselves and reading way too much into it
Well, what if the bartender was being a piece of shit, say someone who has cerebral palsy, saying they’re even lucky to be with someone… Would you still say that person is full of themselves? I think telling anyone they’re “lucky” to be with someone, from an outside perspective, is intentionally demeaning to one of the two people. Now, if someone in a relationship says they feel lucky to have found someone, that’s different. But clearly, it’s open to interpretation. And changes in context.
Little personal story to add, I dated a girl a while back, and ALL her friends and co-workers would say how lucky she was and how good I was for her. We all knew why, she was overweight and I wasn’t. They didn’t even just hint and maybe I read that wrong, they were BLUNT about it. I was doing home cooking for us instead of doing fast food. I worked out, did 5k races, I was in great shape. And I was exposing her to that life and she was noticeably losing weight. But the look on her face when people said “she was lucky”, was defeat.
- Comment on I stil don't know why they thought it was ok to be this on saturday morning cartoons for young kids to watch back on the day. Ren and Stimpy 2 months ago:
People are way to fragile today I feel. When I was a kid, I watched this with my parents. It was perfectly fine then and it should be now.
- Comment on Pokémon scalpers 2 months ago:
Fucking christ, I was hoping this was a joke. Nope, fucking scalped soup on eBay. I hope scalpers stub the same toe every morning. Scalping is not a job, scalping is not part of the process, scalping just makes everything worse for everyone.
- Comment on Your Truck is Stupid Big 2 months ago:
So you can buy a mini van/suv, BUT say you have a truck! Because beer beer, truck truck, girls in tight jeans
- Comment on 2/10 people on Lemmy, is that you? 2 months ago:
It’s a large number of family members. It sucks, because I grew up looking up to these people, only to lose respect because they believe whatever they see on Facebook.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
First 2 sentenses are reasonable. But then… You get to everything else, and it just falls off a cliff. Assuming this is real, of course.
- Comment on Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days 2 months ago:
I’ve not played those, do you have a screen shot or something showing this? I’ve seen the shooting, and I’ve seen the arrow mini game thing, but I’ve not seen both at the same time.
- Comment on Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days 2 months ago:
I can’t think of a single game that has a mini puzzle while shooting. Plenty of games with those at independent times.
- Comment on Pickmon to Pickmos 2 months ago:
We have a billion FPS to games but there’s been little in this genre and Pokemon sells on nostalgia instead of quality. If it was a new IP today, it would flop. I’ve been such of Nintendo gaslighting everyone into thinking they invented any of it.
- Comment on Live fearlessly 2 months ago:
I could understand an 8 year old. But 18!
- Comment on Intellectual Debate 2 months ago:
Well, maybe. Or they’d have the most developed 42 pack abs you’ve ever seen.
- Comment on Live fearlessly 2 months ago:
I mean, it would increase sales. But that’s because light saber. When I was a kid I would have pissed off so many women, because dumb kid + ‘lightsaber’ = pissed off adults
- Comment on What was the worst movie to game adapation you've played? 3 months ago:
So many good ones already listed I’ll add a unique one.
Street Fighter: The Movie
It was a game, based on the movie, based on the original games.
- Comment on I've been waiting for this for a long time. 3 months ago:
This was the best April fools prank I’ve seen today
- Comment on SlopOS 11 3 months ago:
No, what they’re asking for is Copilot^Copilot^
Not to be confused with Copilot, or Copilot+, or Copilot 365, or Copilot Pro, or Github Copilot, or Copilot Studio, or Security Copilot…