phonyphanty

@phonyphanty@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disco Elysium standalone expansion reportedly cancelled and quarter of staff facing redundancy at ZA/UM⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like we’re maybe getting confused about terminology here? “Redundancy” is a specific term for a specific form of dismissal. It’s not a euphemism for “firing” because firing someone is a different kind of dismissal. Terms like rightsizing, reset, re-allocating resources, trimming the fat – these are certainly euphemisms for redundancy that should be called out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disco Elysium standalone expansion reportedly cancelled and quarter of staff facing redundancy at ZA/UM⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I get the sentiment. But to me personally, “redundancy” is pretty clear and doesn’t mask the pain that comes with being let go. There’s also generally a difference between being “fired” and being “made redundant”. Redundancy suggests that their job doesn’t need to be done anymore b/c of a restructure, bankruptcy, merger, and the company needs to meet certain obligations for that redundancy not to be considered an “unfair dismissal”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silent Hill 2 Remake - Gameplay Reveal Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure is a videogame

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to keep a man⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This how You keep a spirit of the Black Lodge …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually works⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, but that’s a pretty arrogant thing to say

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually works⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d love to, but none of my friends use it unfortunately

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We always imagine that if humans had tails they'd be furry tails but they'd actually probably be hairless like our bodies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t tell the furries

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What did you pay for your democracy sausage?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I grieve for you 😭🌭

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Referendum Results, Congratulations, Comiserations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Races of people exist in our society. Observing that, or mentioning race in any contents, isn’t racism. I totally agree though – all Australians should be treated equally. Unfortunately, since colonisation, Indigenous people have not been treated as equal to the settlers. In fact, they’ve been treated like shit. The system they live under is incentivised to treat them like shit, because it gives other people money and power and land. Crafting special solutions for them, based on their race in a racist system, their culture, their individual needs – that’s the only effective way to help. Every other way is blind. This goes for any group of people. We can give separate, necessary privileges to both Indigenous and Chinese people. It’s not a zero sum game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What did you pay for your democracy sausage?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m guessing you’re not from Aus. Weird to think that democracy snags are a purely Australian thing… If I didn’t eat a sausage after voting I don’t know what I’d do with myself. Our democracy might as well collapse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Referendum Results, Congratulations, Comiserations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry man, but that’s not racism. That’s equity. Some kinds of people need certain kinds of privileges, because they’ve been disenfranchised by a racist system for years and years and years. Giving them a leg up is a reasonable and empathetic thing to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox will have a built-in ‘fake reviews detector’ — Amazon is in trouble⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s definitely coming as a browser feature, Firefox has confirmed it :) …mozilla.org/…/review-checker-review-quality

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drivers Co-op is doing a kickstarter to expand their Uber alternative thats owned by the drivers.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, I see what you mean, so there’d be a power imbalance there. From my perspective, if drivers buddy-buddied with each other to that degree, customers would just flock back to Uber and the business would tank pretty fast. It would be more beneficial for the drivers to treat their customers well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drivers Co-op is doing a kickstarter to expand their Uber alternative thats owned by the drivers.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha, how are those quotes relevant? This just reads like nonsense to me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drivers Co-op is doing a kickstarter to expand their Uber alternative thats owned by the drivers.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  How come?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion [1]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah fair enough, I can see why you’d get into it. I think the humour wasn’t for me and I found the plot to be too low stakes. Art was great though.

  Finished Oxenfree II, completely agree, writing was excellent. Characters are far more complex and the story was super thematically rich

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion [1]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A bit of Oxenfree II. It’s good so far. Their previous game Afterparty was a pretty limp experience IMO, but they’ve won me back. It’s been a weirdly nostalgic time and the writing is solid. It leans on much of the lore of the first title, which means the mystery isn’t so interesting this time around. But we’ll see how it goes, it might surprise me.