chiliedogg
@chiliedogg@lemmy.world
- Comment on Ubisoft begin removing Ubisoft Connect from Steam with the new Ubisoft Connect Services 1 day ago:
There was also a time when you also didn’t need Steam. You would buy a game, install it, and play it without having to connect to the internet at all. Growing up, a lot of friends had gaming PCs in their bedrooms with no internet connection at all.
And if you did do stuff online, it was secondary and the publisher didn’t want a cut. StarCraft actually let you play online without owning the game - it specifically included an installer (The Spawn) that was for installing the multiplayer for free on friends’ systems. You only needed the disc to play singleplayer.
- Comment on Congrats on your big win!!! 1 day ago:
It’s essentially someone to man the front desk, route phone calls, process simple single-trade building permits, and manage the contractor registry for the building department. It requires either a degree (of any kind just to show minimum qualifications) or experience in administrative duties or in an office or municipal setting.
Our one applicant has never held a job more than 4 months and it’s mostly been retail or restaurant work.
The catch with the job is the commute sucks. It’s a very wealthy area. Literally every homeowner in the city is at least a multi-millionaire, with multiple billionaires, so exactly 0 staff members live in town. We actually pay a pretty large monthly gas stipend on top of every employee’s salary.
And while it shouldn’t impact a permit tech, the legal fights we have with residents are wild. The average person we end up in disputes with has more financial resources than the city itself, which is weird. Every city has residents c9nstantly threatening to sue over everything, and 99.99% of the time it’s hot air, but with us they actually follow through. Which, oddly enough, makes us less likely to respond to legal threats since we’re used to going to court at this point.
- Comment on Congrats on your big win!!! 1 day ago:
For us it’s an issue with marketing the position in a manner thay doesn’t result in 5,000 automated applications from an Indian headhunter firm that blindly clicks everything.
I’ve had a job opening at my city for weeks that pays higher than any other city in the state does for the same position, and we’ve had a grand total of one applicant who wasn’t qualified.
- Comment on No Man's Sky 10th anniversary Cosmos update is here, and that means orbital bases, space station ownership - and yes, you can finally fly to the sun 2 days ago:
I’ve tried it several times through the years wanting to like it because it sounds like something I’d enjoy, but it just never sinks its teeth in.
And that’s okay. Not every game has to be made for me. I love that people love it and that the developers have worked so hard to deliver on everything they promised and more. I don’t enjoy the game but I’m so glad it exists for those who do.
- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 2 days ago:
Most fertilizer contains animal waste, so are you allowed to use it to grow plants? Bees are also pollinators, so many plabts also depend on labor from bees. We live in a biosphere and interact with each other, so everyone needs to decide where their line is.
- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 2 days ago:
How is that easy?
- Comment on Fox News sharing billionaire propaganda 3 days ago:
Fast food is a crazy example they point to. You’ll spend 12-15 dollars a person easily at fast food places these days, and they serve hundreds of customer an hour. Giving the entire staff a $15/hr raise would be an extra 2-4% to the cost of a meal.
- Comment on Min wage in most states is so sad 4 days ago:
Monkeys paw. They comply, but don’t say which stocks they’ve already bought or are planning to sell.
- Comment on Video games 1 week ago:
The showrunner of TLOS was also the head writer for the game.
- Comment on How about instead, a longer healthier retirement? 1 week ago:
Make no mistake - you have always been expected to work until you stopped being useful, then die. Social Security was there to deal with the remaining husks of those who beat the odds instead of having homeless old people dying in the streets where everyone could see it.
When the retirement age was set at 65, it was higher than the average life expectancy of Americans. Most people weren’t expected to reach that age. But then we started living longer and fucking up the math.
- Comment on Life is hard 1 week ago:
It depends. The air conditioning will remove moisture from the air while cooling th cab, so the condensation can only form on the outside, where you have wind and windshield wipers to wipe off the condensation.
- Comment on Walmart actually teaches their employees how to get food stamps 1 week ago:
Tying benefits to employers is idiotic. Even if you want to tie benefits to work requirements, this system fucks the millions of people with multiple part-time jobs.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Gamerant is saying the studio was legitimately out of funds and they were furloughed weeks prior to launch and that dozens gave already been brought back.
This was their first game, and if they do bring back the team members (with back pay) now that the game is a sucess, I would actually be much more understanding.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
So to reduce time spent looking for new jobs, devs should make sure games take even longer to develop and are in even worse shape at release so they have to hold onto the team for bug fixes.
- Comment on Park benches don't "open" until 10am 1 week ago:
We need societal-level solutions to homelessness. We need housing, free healthcare, free mental healthcare, criminal justice reform, and more. But until we can do that, the reality is, concentrations of the homeless are associated with higher crime, reduced patronage of businesses, and decreased property values.
It super duper sucks, but homelessness is a really difficult problem for cities and property owners they aren’t equipped to address. Since they can’t fix the problem, they instead focus on keeping the problem away.
It’s all so fucked.
- Comment on Hot Ones trying to sneak in the package protection 1 week ago:
The Credit Card fee makes sense if they accept non-card payments. If they just build the 3% into all prices, then they’re effectively collecting the fee for people who pay via other means as well.
- Comment on There are solutions to our problems... 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. I work in municipal development and people think we’re just a bunch of officious pricks making people do unnecessary paperwork.
Things you don’t think about can kill people. Yeah - you don’t see a lot of people dying from building collapses and fires, but that’s because we make people address the complicated issues. Want to build a guesthouse? Great. We don’t care. What we do care about is that you put in a safe building and don’t grade in the floodway blocking the path of water causing the house to get carried away or diverting the natural watercourse into your neighbor’s house or the street.
Yes - you have to hire an engineer, and no, you can’t just do whatever you want because it’s your property. What you do impacts neighbor’s, the city, its infrastructure, your guests, and the next person who owns the property. It’s complicated and expensive no matter how much you contractor insists he does good work and you don’t have to worry. Contractors are liars who don’t know what the hell they’re doing half the time because they operate based on their gut and whatever is cheapest.
- Comment on An American city has been without power for 2 weeks, unacceptable. 2 weeks ago:
It’s the place that knew me when.
- Comment on This camouflaged speed bump 2 weeks ago:
Most speed bumps/humps these days require you to go below the speed limit to avoid damage to the car unless you’re driving some jacked-up monster with loose suspension.
- Comment on Greatest unsolved mysteries 2 weeks ago:
Looking at the TV’s legs and the surface it was on, the culprit appears to be physics.
- Comment on When the lunacy of the absurd job application finally puts you over the edge 2 weeks ago:
No. I’m being paid to keep the city running, and finding someone qualified to fill open positions in my department is one part of that. Accurate record-keeping is an important part of our work and a legal requirement. Someone who doesn’t understand or care that using a standard format for the recording and analysis of information is important isn’t worth considering any further. Hiring someone so arrogant or lazy is worse than leaving the position open, because they cause more issues down the line than they resolve.
- Comment on When the lunacy of the absurd job application finally puts you over the edge 2 weeks ago:
When I have dozens or hundreds of applications to sift through, why should I look at yours if you can’t be bothered to complete it when others have?
- Comment on Peacock has ads when pausing a movie to read the text 2 weeks ago:
That configuration is a bit of a deal though.
A big part of it is discovery. I discover a lot of movies and TV shows by browsing what’s avaliable. With Jellyfin I need to plan ahead instead of pushing the magic button and doomscrolling until I pick something.
- Comment on I wanna be a maelstrom in 1714 C.E. 2 weeks ago:
How about the 3 drunk bears in his stomach?
- Comment on I wanna be a maelstrom in 1714 C.E. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on When the lunacy of the absurd job application finally puts you over the edge 2 weeks ago:
The interview is the final test if an AI cover letter slips by us. Anyone trying that nonsense will quickly be exposed at the interview when they clearly don’t know what the hell they’re doing.
- Comment on "No precedent in American history!" NYT would have defended child labor. 2 weeks ago:
We even have it here. Medicare/aid supplemental insurance is a massive market.
- Comment on When the lunacy of the absurd job application finally puts you over the edge 2 weeks ago:
If I’m physically in the room with them im the interview, I’m pretty sure I’d notice if they’re using an AI for their responses.
- Comment on When the lunacy of the absurd job application finally puts you over the edge 2 weeks ago:
I’d love to see someone try and perform in an interview with ChatGPT or Claude without me noticing from the other side of the table.
- Comment on When the lunacy of the absurd job application finally puts you over the edge 2 weeks ago:
The fields let me filter out whether someone meets the bare minimum at a glance in a standard format. If someone gets through that, I’ll read the resume, CV, and cover letter they prepared. If they get through that, they get an interview. If they get through that I’ll check references and make an offer.
Larger organizations take it a step further and have a computer auto-filter candidates based on the fields.