Ulvain
@Ulvain@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head? 3 hours ago:
“ow! Ok ok, i will work!”
- Comment on Enshrouded's "largest update so far" is out with a new mountain region, pets and single-player pausing 2 weeks ago:
Been playing for the last month - it’s an awesome game, how come it wasn’t lauded with fanfare and trumpets by the community?!
- Comment on Subnautica 2 - Official Teaser Trailer 5 weeks ago:
Sure - the story is built around 4 characters - 4 teens, basically miniaturized to an ant’s size, must navigate a backyard filled with dangers, craft tools, and find a way to return to normal size.
The multiplayer element is integrated by allowing up to four players to team up and work together in real-time to explore, fight enemies, and complete story objectives, fostering cooperation in survival and discovery.
When you connect to the game you select one of the 4 teens as your avatar - only esthetics and voice impact, no material change - and the game is well balanced so it’s feasible whether you’re 1, 2, 3 or 4 players joining…
- Comment on Subnautica 2 is coming in 2025 with four player co-op - here's the announcement trailer 5 weeks ago:
I hope they inspired themselves from how Grounded integrated multiplayer, sandbox world building and storytelling together
- Comment on Subnautica 2 - Official Teaser Trailer 5 weeks ago:
I hope they use the Grounded formula for multiplayer and bases, that was super well integrated!
- Comment on Please don't crash. Please don't crash. Please don't crash. 5 weeks ago:
No, it’s full of goblins!
- Comment on Where does the music go? 5 weeks ago:
I’m not a scientist by a long shot, but my understanding is that sound if indeed a wave, carried by a medium (air, water, etc). Upon hitting your eardrum, this wave is converted by your eardrum and your auditory nerve into signals your brain decodes. The remainder of the wave continues though, until it runs out of medium, hits an obstacle (basically another medium) or dissipates. Again, just my layman’s understanding!
- Comment on Mystic Triangles 2 months ago:
I’m getting Oxenfree vibes
- Comment on Dynamic pricing 2 months ago:
Start volunteering for the person running against them!
- Comment on Dynamic pricing 2 months ago:
Call your house representatives, have them legislate on and forbid this practice, be explicit about not voting for them if they don’t make it part of their platform.
- Comment on Anon sets the mood 3 months ago:
Jellyfin > plex?
- Comment on Here kitty kitty 3 months ago:
You’re right! I read a few paragraphs about this.
- Comment on Why no one wants to host the Olympics 3 months ago:
Why not make an Olympic bid be for 20 years, 5 games? With summer and winter bids offset, so for instance you’d have Paris be the summer games city 2024-2044 and Vancouver 2030-2050, something like that… Would give plenty of time to monetize the infrastructure investment, but not so long as massive repairs are needed…
While we’re at it, all projects should include plans and funding to convert Olympic facilities into good quality low cost housing after the 20y are up, why not…
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- Comment on TIL the clearest photo ever of the Kuiper belt was taken in 1964. 3 months ago:
Ha ha. Come-on dad, do better!
- Comment on Tacos. 5 months ago:
It seriously feels good to see this written down sometimes. I hate that religion somehow laid claim to morality.
- Comment on Living 6 months ago:
Dude (or dudette) they fucking WERE. Image
- Comment on Checkmate, science 6 months ago:
What cracks me up is the piece of metal, labeled metal, attached to the one metric ton of… Metal
- Comment on We can do all three things at once 6 months ago:
Just insulting people will always make them buck against your points, however valid and informed. Bad approach.
The problem with radioactive waste isn’t the fact that it’s dangerous now, it’s the fact that it remains dangerous for much longer than we’re even remotely able to plan for. People will likely have to deal with that danger in waaaay longer than civilization has existed on earth so far.
So the horizontal borehole for instance: amazing idea for the next century - or even, heck, few millenia!! - but how do you make sure our ancestors in 50,000 years never drill a new borehole right there?
- Comment on I bet this is what Colin Jost did 8 months ago:
Well huh. I was going to post: “you know who wouldn’t have fallen for that? Esteemed academy awards nominated actress Margot Robbie, that’s who”.
But I enter the thread and who do I see, posting in the middle of the work day no less?
You guessed it. Esteemed academy awards nominated actress Margot Robbie.
Tsk tsk.
- Comment on The Steam Spring Sale is now in full swing 8 months ago:
Make sure the virtual packaging is never opened!! The moment that “hours played” marker isn’t 0 anymore, it looses all collectability value
- Comment on Swoon 8 months ago:
Idk… there’s about 150,000 ants per pound. Let’s call it 200 pounds of ants, so 30,000,000 ants attacking you all at once?
Even with an incredibly efficient stomping methodology, you’d let some through, which would start crawling on and in you rather quickly.
After a few thousand ants (a fraction of a fraction of the total mind you) get inside your ears, nose, butthole and urethra, biting, chewing and slicing one micro-cut at a time, I’m fairly sure you’re out of commission, going stark mad and opening the way for the remaining millions of ants to quite systematically kill you and methodically cut you in small carryable pieces to bring back to the nest.
But hey, hopefully shoes and soap will help ;)
- Comment on How to lose friends and alienate people 10 months ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Cloudflare Employee records her final meeting where HR tries to fire her 10 months ago:
I get your point, but just playing Devil’s advocate here: don’t work in real estate because it’s fraud and landlords are thieves, don’t work for McDonald’s because your work make people fat and unhealthy, don’t work retail or manufacturing because your work encourages capitalism and all its evils…? I mean… don’t like 90% of all jobs require you to do shitty things?
Most people in HR went in the field with pretty decent intentions. They have debts and families to feed and the job they landed is sometimes for a shitty employer.
If you want to hate someone, don’t hate the HR person who’s dealing with their own shitty problems, blame the uber rich, that maintain everyone else in a constant state of infighting while they lobby or buy lawmakers to ensure the poor get poorer so they get richer. There the ones maintaining a hyper capitalistic society and making sure executives are ordering the cuts (often ending with cutting the HR folks after they finish the layoffs)
- Comment on Cloudflare Employee records her final meeting where HR tries to fire her 10 months ago:
Please allow me to offer a nuance on the topic of HR. I see a lot of hate about HR on this thread and quite a bit is founded… But on the other hand, two things:
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the HR folks themselves are not to blame for the fact that the company overhired, are cutting people, or even to some extent some shitty strategies like pretending people are fire for cause instead of laid off. It’s decided by executives ans the CEO, and HR operationalizes. I’ll fully grant though that they sometimes (often) operationalize shittily.
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and more importantly, HR is shitty in a shitty company, and pretty decent in a (quite rare) decent company. Fundamentally HR’s job is to help manage humans as a resource, and among other tasks it means to protect the company against human-related risks. There are different fundamental beliefs and philosophies companies can have around how to avoid that risk - and their HR strategy is set accordingly.
Some decent (rare) employers believe that to avoid risks like being sued or unionizing, the best strategy is to provide employees with a healthy work environment, competitive pay and to remove toxic managers and executives quickly. In these companies HR plays a very strong policing role ensuring that managers don’t cause human related risk by abusing workers. I know it sounds idealistic and I’ll 100% grant that it applies unfortunately to a very small sample of employers, but it’s true.
Of course way more common are companies with the philosophy that to avoid these risks you need to squash people, back your managers at all cost, never admit a fault, etc - and that’s the shitty strategy operationalized by shitty a HR department.
Lastly the governmental labour laws framework of a country plays a big role too - in some countries where those laws are super weak like the US, particularly if your employer is your only way to access half decent healthcare, you can’t afford to change employer - and the shitty strategy becomes a much lower cost than the decent one (found a bit more often in Canada, way more in Europe and even more in Scandinavian countries)
Sorry for the walltext rambling
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- Comment on Cloudflare Employee records her final meeting where HR tries to fire her 10 months ago:
100% on the recording, fair pt.
On the letter: that’d be good - go ahead and give me written evidence…
- Comment on Cloudflare Employee records her final meeting where HR tries to fire her 10 months ago:
She did really good! Almost drove it home, she was so close… As a former manager in HR, here are my two cents. Note that I’m from canada, might not apply as I have it in mind in the US. If they’re trying to frame a layoff as a firing for cause and poor performance, her first way of handling it is excellent. Ask pointed specific questions on what about your performance was lacking and more importantly can you demonstrate to me that I’ve been communicated clear quantifiable and Timely objectives that I’ve been communicated means and ways to be coached and trained to meet those objectives and that I’ve been communicated milestones of me not meeting objectives, with proper corrective measures and coaching to then change course before a firing for poor performance.
If you can’t communicate any of these to me, the objectives, my performance against his objectives, the milestones, and the coaching I received to meet objectives when I did not, then this is not a poor performance related firing. If you’re missing any of these information then I am not yet terminated and I am at your employment until a subsequent meeting where you can come back with that information. On the other hand if what you meant to say is that this is a layoff because you have hired too many people, and that this letting Go has nothing to do with my performance, okay no problem, let’s talk, but in this case it will be with X months of severance and a glowing recommendation letter.
Lastly I want to make you aware that I’ve recorded this conversation, in which it’s now clearly documented that you have no clear tangible indication of any notion of documented poor performance about me, and thus I am still at the employed of my employer until you either provide those, or provide me with coaching that I then fail to put into practice to meet objectives, or until you come back with the severance package for a layoff that has nothing to do with my performance.
Something along those lines…
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 10 months ago:
I played the one, all the way to the big fight at the end, failed it and got too exhausted to reload and redo it… But it was a really good game though , it’s true! Is the 2 as good/better?
- Comment on Can an app decide if a language lives or dies? Not if Welsh speakers have anything to do with it 10 months ago:
Want to share a couple of random facts about how Hometown only locals could?
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 10 months ago:
I finished Baldur’s Gate 3, so i fell in the post-great-game melancholy. I reinstalled Hades and Stardew Valley, but ya know
- Comment on Truly inspirational 10 months ago:
How many pebbles in a stone, and stone in a boulder? It’s a convenient measurement, I’m sure.
