Glide

@Glide@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Attitudes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I appreciate the sentiment, but I get paid decent money, too. The “teachers don’t make anything” myth is really just select portions of the US. Once I am finished my masters, I’ll be well above the 6-digit mark in CAD.

  Though you’re certainly on to something in that more impactful jobs tend to get paid less. Even in the school, watching the support staff who work with our highest need students, knowing that I’m probably a tax bracket above them… Well, it feels very unfair, to say the least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Attitudes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, it’s because I’m well into my 30s that I appreciate them. They give me perspective that I won’t find elsewhere in my life, and make me feel like my job is having a real impact. There are lives out there that are a little better for having me in them, and that feeds back into me, too. And being around them helps me from becoming some jaded old dude.

  Obviously some of them annoy the shit out of me, and even the best of them has more energy than I can find over the course of the day. But I only have them until ~3 and then they go back to their parents and I get to relax. I think it’s easy find the good in every type of kid when you know that your time with them is fleeting.

  And when I think about getting paid a salary to do this as opposed to anything else in the world? I mean, yeah, it feels like a genuine treat. I don’t have to come home tired and covered in sterilized grease the way I did in college, when I cooked my way through my degree, and I don’t need to come home physically worn and covered in motor oil the way my father did. Saying “I get to hang out with kids all day” is definitely downplaying the real work a bit, of which there is a ton, but at the end of the day, I really do genuinely feel lucky to have this way of living available to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Attitudes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So, I’m a teacher, and I love my career. The fact that I get paid good money to hang out with teenagers and make a difference in so many lives is almost mind-boggling to me. But it’s still work. The job is exhausting, prep work and grading both suck, and I’m never happy to wake up at 7am. I’d never do it for free, and I’m always excited to have a day off.

  The days off make me appreciate my job, and the shitty, boring parts of the job make me appreciate my time off. There’s a gap between “I love my job” and “my job isn’t even work,” and many people struggle to grasp that.

  As an aside, the anti-work sentiment around here is less a rejection of engaging with a task that betters society, and more about the current system of work and pay, where our labour disproportionately benefits others. Most “anti-work” people want to have a task that adds value to the world, and despise aimless, soulless corporate tasks that benefit CEOs and share holders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s be straight: as amazing as Baldur’s Gate 3 is today, Act 3 launched half baked and half broken. My first playthrough experience was horrible, largely thanks to broken flags and missing content from the Upper City, and I’d be lying if I said I didn’t have comparable experiences with early versions of Original Sin 2. Hell, they rewrote basically the entire final act of that game with the definitive edition, and I’m under the impression Original Sin 1 had a similiar situation, though I didn’t play it enough between the original and the definitive edition to experience it.

  Now, part of all this is because Larian opts to make decisions to cut content and reduce scope rather than abuse their staff or delay a project. In Baldur’s Gate specificslly, I won’t say I am perfectly happy with the outcome, but they are a good studio that practices reasonable employee ethics, and ultimately puts in the work to get there with the product as well. I’d have no issue buying Divinity day one or even pre-ordering, but I do not expect a perfectly complete and polished experience on release.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Divinity - Cinematic Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t just expect people to actively interpret media. We have entire school systems designed to avoid educating them with those skills.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corn or something idk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course it was. Of course Christianity took a line intended to protect children from abuse and “mistranslated” it to be homophobic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Architects of AI' named Time Magazine's Person of the Year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh god, the replacement of he iron workers in the skyscraper with the ruling elite class who literally contribute a tiny fraction of what they take from society is perhaps the most tone deaf take I have ever seen. Just absolutely disgusting, gutwrenching comparison, yet strangely poignant, as their goal is to make the working class disappear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bits & Bops, a rhythm minigame collection, has been released on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Boys, my little rhythm gamer heart has quite possibly never been as blessed as it is this week. Rhythm Doctor, unbeatable, now Bits and Bops?

  We just need Tango Gameworks to officially announce that their studio is up and running working on Hi-Fi Rush 2, and my cup will have completely run over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Stop saying he was killed by a gun! It was the blood loss that did him in!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a fan of GabeN⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Usually accurately displayed on the PCGamingWiki, at least. I’ve tested games that it listed as having SteamDRM and discovered that they’re actually DRM free. My experience is that new entries on Steam are likely to be listed as using SteamDRM. People usually just assume when they’re making the initial page.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rhythm Doctor 1.0 is Out Now!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Played the entire thing start to finish last night. The new content is incredible, as expected.

  Come for the quircky, one-button rhythm game. Stay for the character driven story about the weight of the expectations we place on ourselves and each other, and the way that effects our mental health, physical health, relationships, and worldview.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox is a problem — but it’s a symptom of something worse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He did not explicity state this, no. But the entire premise of the invisible hand metaphor is to show that a core function of the capitalist system is that it moves wealth to those that bring good to their society. The natural inference from this is that wealth is representative of virtue, ie, if Roblox was doing net bad things, it wouldn’t be worth millions.

  Don’t get me wrong, fuck the various Catholic attempts to justify wealth as a virtue too, but the issue is as prevalent in the secular world as it is in the non-secular.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox is a problem — but it’s a symptom of something worse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s even worse than that.

  At it’s root, capitalism, as shown via Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” theory, infers that wealth equals virtue. To receive wealth is to have provided a benefit to society, and to be bereft of wealth is to contribute little while taking much. This system inadvertedly places a dollar value on the abuse of minors in Roblox: any suffering caused is of no consequence to the great good being provided to society, otherwise Roblox would go bankrupt.

  CEOs and corporations take the moral high ground because they live within a system that tells them that wealth is virtue, and they are overflowing in wealth. Until we accept that the core principals of capitalism are flawed, we will never begin holding bad actor’s appropriately accountable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which countries combine high quality of life and strong equality?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be clear, I am extremely pro-immigration, but many of the immigration policies as written are tools used to suppress wages. This is the reason we see so many immigrants, often with degrees and training we refuse to recognize in Canada, in low paying, minimum wage jobs. I personally had the pleasure of working with a wonderful woman from the middle east who was a qualified teacher, stuck working 30 hours a week in a grocery store deli because we refused to recognize her degree or decade of experience. She spoke perfect English and was incredibly pleasant, and visibly intelligent and well-mannered, but she’s a brown immigrant, so fuck it, minimum wage for her.

  We can take immigrants at the rate we have been while not using them to further wealth inequalities. But as a friend of mine says, the purpose of a system is what it does, and the current iteration is not about creating a multi-cultural nation.

  For additional clarity, this isn’t to say that you’re wrong and immigration isn’t being used as a scapegoat. I’d just argue that the problem is more substantial than simply calling the issue a scapegoat suggests. There is a real problem, but it’s not in that we’re accepting immigrants at all; it’s the conditions we’ve agreed to accept them under.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What the fuck do you mean some people don’t have an inner monologue. How do they… Think thoughts? I literally cannot comprehend how they work through thoughts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Many Top MAGA Trolls Aren’t Even in the U.S - Elon Musk’s new X feature has been very revealing.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The most interesting part of this is that Musk allowed it to happen. Either he genuinely does not realize he had been working with and supporting other foreign actors attempting to destabilize the US, or some X dev is about to get fired/disappear/“fall” out of a window. There’s no way Musk both knew these accounts were dishonest foreign astroturfers and permitted this feature go live.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are people who exist between “I build, format and otherwise manage my own gaming rig,” and “I don’t need a PC for games.”

  My partner is a perfect example. She has my old PC shell, with some $500 of GPU, internal memory, and accessories, hooked up to the TV. She uses it daily, almost exclusively for Steam games and streaming services that she finds more comfortable to navigate with a keyboard and mouse. A smaller, quieter, streamlined, “this more or less will do the things you want to do straight out of the box” product would have saved both her (and I, because that thing has has some troubleshooting) a lot of headache, while looking far more presentable to boot.

  Maybe she’s the odd one out and the target audience is more niche than my bias’ recognize, but I guess we’ll see for sure when this thing releases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Racism restaurant ⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there’s a huge difference between an intentional allegory used as an attack on a marginalized group, and a word being used to durogatorily refer to a non-living, non-feeling group of machines which are actively damaging the world.

  yea, i guess someone saying “screws will not replace us” or “13% of the code, 50% of the bugs” (both real things i’ve seen people say)

  I would agree that these things are not okay, becuase they’re imitating insults that literally only exist to put forward racist ideology, and I’d tell anyone who used them around me as much.

  cause it’s the same shit with clanker and other assorted nonsense, you’re making racist jokes but swapping racialized people for an acceptable target. but guess what, it’s still racism! you’re still doing a racist joke!

  So, how about “chud” then, intended to refer to right-wing-minded hate mongers? Or, here’s a better one, how about when we call right-wing extremists nazis as a durogatory insult? I mean they’re certainly not all members of the third reich. We’re using the term to equate them to something they strictly aren’t, even if they share more ideology than is okay. We’re still using words to categorize groups of people, and using them in intentionally insulting ways. Such durogatory terms are a part of our natural language. They’re not nice, sure, but I don’t want to be nice to people who are actively calling for violence against marginalized groups. But most importantly, we don’t think of these words as slurs. Slurs are durogatory terms that target marginalized groups, unlike “chud,” “nazi,” or yes, “clanker.”

  I think there’s far too much nuance here to make blanket insinuations like “durogatory terms used to refer to things we don’t like are stand-ins for racist remarks.” But considering some of the other connections you’ve seen people make, I can certainly understand the trepidation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Racism restaurant ⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Slurs target a marginalized group. “Clanker” does not a marginalized group, because generative AI is not part of a marginalized group. It is not even alive, therefore it is not a slur in the sense tou!rr equating it to.

  Please don’t call other people “clueless” if you don’t understand the things you’re getting worked up over. Equating non-thinking computer processing models to oppressed minorities is doing far more damage than anyone using the term “clanker,” ironically or otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pot crashing out the kettle⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lmfao, valid. Ty for nothing the typo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pot crashing out the kettle⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Skibidi toilet is this generations “badger badger badger.”

  Yes, some of the memes kids are absorbing is absolute brainrot. So we’re some of the memes I absorbed frowning up.

  Good on you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just seen the latest American Opinion polls.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  America has, since inception, been absolutely fine with violence, often celebrating it, and completely disgusted with sexuality. It’s perhaps the single most backwards thing about North American culture, imo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Turning into? Sony has been worse than Nintendo or Disney for years. They’re the OG “we’re going to silently brick your machine to protect our digital assets.”

  At least Nintendo had the decency to put in their EULA that they’re going to fuck you for trying to pirate content on their proprietary hardware. Sony just bricked your personal PC because fuck you and then lied about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Turbulent, Seven-Year Saga Behind Hit Game ‘Dispatch’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to spoiler it and talk about it, because I am genuinely interested in other people’s opinion/experiences on this.

  Spoilers for late chapter 1, early chapter 2

  This is mostly centered around the kiss. Save the “proposition” innuendo, it became pretty clear that Blonde Blazer’s whole schtick was to recruit Robert. Even in the moment when she moved close to him, she kind of sizes him up like someone looking at a horses teeth as opposed to someone losing themselves in the eyes of a prospective lover, so I didn’t kiss her, and save making a joke on the “proposition” comment, didn’t say anything overly romantic of flirty. This made the whole conversation the next day feel weird and out of place. It was toned like Robert DID kiss her, as Blazer just constantly apologized, and the responses I had options for (“I don’t think it was a mistake” met with “it was, for reasons I’ll explain later”) kept that same awkward connotation. Blonde Blazer acted like she did something incredibly inappropriate in… being slightly drunk when she offered Robert a job? But as a result of my options, there really was nothing to act like this about. But the conversation HAD to be toned this way, otherwise Invisigirl overhearing and responding with “what, you two fuck?” wouldn’t make any sense. The game didn’t “assume I made choices I didn’t” as much as they clearly wrote it with an expectation in mind, but my choices didn’t meet those expectations, leaving the whole section flowing weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Turbulent, Seven-Year Saga Behind Hit Game ‘Dispatch’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just finished Chapter 3 of 8. It has some very classic Telltale foibles: sometimes the script seems to assume you made a decisions that you didn’t make and it makes the dialogue feel awkward, or the sarcastic tone in a written dialogue choice isn’t clear when you select the option and the resulting scene isn’t at all what you thought you were suggesting.

  Despite these fairly common for Telltale problems, it’s an incredibly witty and entertaining piece of entertainment. They use the “dispatch” mechanic to engage you as a player and they tie it into the narrative in ways that feel clever. Everyone is at each others throats because of a story beat? People are actively sabotaging each other on the job and it’s making your job as their dispatcher harder. The writing is laugh-out-loud funny, the voice acting and character animation is top notch, and there’s an interesting story and world holding it all together.

  It’s very good. Not perfect, but very good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop stressing my GPU and start hiring artists⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Monster Hunter Rise was more visually satisfying that Wilds. Prove me wrong (you can’t).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do Republicans hate the poor so much?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Capitalism is built on the notion that wealth is virtue.

  If you are rich, you made good decisions and the invisible hand has guided money to your pockets. You’ve created things that contribute to the comfort/progress of society as a whole, and your reward for it is to be held above others.

  If you are poor, you have not been actively contributing to society. You have instead been a drain, and the invisible hand is punishing you got this. Your inability to find meaningful ways to contribute is a vice, which should be looked down on. Ultimately, if you cannot afford to live, that is survival of the fittest, and the world is better off without you.

  If you believe any of the above to be true, you are delusional scum of the earth, and you are the reason everything sucks. You’d also feel right at home with the right-wing chuds currently undoing decades of progress.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Olympics ends Esports plans with Saudi Arabia after just one year | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Olympics ends Esports plans

  Aww…

  with Saudi Arabia

  Oh. Nevermind, carry on, then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨here comes the truth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How can we accept transgender people for who they are / if they can’t accept themselves for who I see them as

  Fixed your shitty, degenerate, transphobic meme for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh, yeah. Using other people as a means to your end is pretty well defined as immoral. Don’t try and throw your moral bankruptcy back at the whole world like we all feel the same.