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- Comment on Building game worlds with creative lifehacks from the field of writing 1 day ago:
You know what they call bad writers?
Hacks.
So… this tracks.
Seriously, good writing doesn’t happen with “lifehacks,” that’s how you get worthless shit like Max Landis writing Bright.
I recall almost two decades ago I got into it with a woman who was going to school at Digipen, and she told me what Digipen taught students about writing a game.
She said the point was to create the most everyman main character, so you could have the most customers identify with them, and be able to sell more units.
Which I basically said “They’re teaching you the worst writing techniques possible. Literature students would faint at this idea.”
She didn’t care, she claimed this was “good writing.”
No wonder so many games have such dogshit writing if this is how we’re teaching game writers to write for fucks sake. Pick up a god damned book and get thoughtful, people.
- Comment on Amazon Customer Service has become awful 1 day ago:
Or, if possible, order directly from the manufacturer.
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 3 days ago:
Not sure “liberals” is the right word, because it kind of encompasses all of the left, of which liberals are more center than left.
Anyway…
Because it’s at odds with with our moral compass and our knowledge of how human psychology works. We believe in people’s ability to learn, change, adapt, and become a better person. We see it practiced better in Europe than America, at least very often in respect to the criminal justice system, which the American version is abusive, unhelpful, and, well, conservative. On the other hand, the left thinks that even the conservatives that hate us deserve at least a bare opportunity at education and redemption. (Or at least most of the left anyway, tankies notwithstanding, of course.) We have science that supports compassion and conversion works better than abuse and ostracism. It takes a lot of fucking time and effort. A lot more than many would say they’re worth, and I get that, but it doesn’t mean it’s impossible.
We don’t hate them the same way because we’re not in a brainwashed cult like they are. While a lot of them may be too far gone, not all of them are, and as things spin out of control in the conservative world, increasing numbers of them are starting to question what they’re backing. It’s part of why the crowds protesting for Trump have slowly dwindled to pathetic numbers and have gotten increasingly strange and unhinged. Only the true believers are left, and their numbers are already dwindling in terms of those willing to come out and risk it for Trump.
Even when understanding the Paradox of Tolerance, you’d be hard pressed to find large numbers of leftists who think the best solution is the same kind of senseless eradication of the enemy that conservatives want. You’d find a large number of them who increasingly want to be armed and prepared if they are attacked by violent conservatives, but far fewer that want to be the one to fire the first shot in such a war.
- Comment on Elon Musk reveals Tesla software-locked cheapest Model Y, offers 40-60 more miles of range 4 days ago:
I remember when Intel tried to do this with their chips and people absolutely lost their shit.
Tesla’s popularity is on such a downtown, people won’t lose their shit but instead just go: “Ah, Musk is doing dumb shit again.”
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 4 days ago:
A lot of these are non-profit or literally extensions of a public library. My public library has a “Library of Things” that costs as much as it does to check out a book. Free, with late fees if you return it late. It doesn’t go as far as expensive power tools, but it has some basic stuff folks might need from time to time, like a basic toolkit.
Yes, private, profit-oriented ones will increase prices to increase profits, but thankfully not all of these are rooted in that.
- Comment on Here’s How That Disney 360° Treadmill Works 4 days ago:
Still cool to have been contacted by their recruiters at all for such a neat job!
- Comment on Here’s How That Disney 360° Treadmill Works 4 days ago:
Niantic was already killing interest in the game long before COVID wrecked it up a good bit, and they haven’t let up on pissing off the Pokemon Go gaming community since.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey departs Bluesky board | TechCrunch 4 days ago:
This butchered it. He actually said:
don’t depend on corporations to grant you rights. defend them yourself using freedom technology. (you’re on one)
He’s back to praising Musk.
Pretty sure he left Bluesky because he was mad about them having a block feature. Basically when Musk turned a block into a mute, he turned tail from people actually trying to build a not-dogshit-product and ran back to his former dogshit product.
- Comment on Here’s How That Disney 360° Treadmill Works 4 days ago:
Pretty sure companies like that get bought by companies like Disney…
- Comment on I'm so annoyed that they're calling the new hobbit game 'A The Lord of the Rings Game' 4 days ago:
Also, the trailer refers to Hobbits as “creatures” instead of “people.”
What’s with a little fantasy dehumanization, eh, eh?
- Comment on That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit 4 days ago:
a lot of these successful people are riding on luck rather than intelligence it seems
All of them, you mean.
- Comment on Kagi silently removed all references to Google's index from their website 5 days ago:
The author was aware. They made a post regarding it getting posted to hackernews stating “I specifically requested for this not to happen.”
so the CEO probably felt the need to contact the author to “correct” their post.
This still makes the CEO seem like an unhinged fucking freak who does not respect personal boundaries, it literally makes him look no better, no matter how he came across it.
- Comment on Kagi silently removed all references to Google's index from their website 5 days ago:
If they are allowed to change the rules for profit: Eventually, they will.
- Comment on Kagi silently removed all references to Google's index from their website 5 days ago:
This will never stop being relevant about the Kagi CEO:
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
I mean, to have a YouTube channel at all, you gotta be some kind of exhibitionist.
So I’d say it tracks.
- Comment on How do passkeys work across devices? 5 days ago:
Short answer: they don’t very well yet.
- Comment on No, you don't need a 'very bespoke AOSP' to turn your phone into a Rabbit R1 — here's proof 5 days ago:
I got into TE because of the Pocket Operators, which are built incredibly solidly and are reasonably priced for all they can do, in my opinion.
…or they were anyway. Prior to COVID they were about $60 a pop.
Now they’re pushing $100, which is a lot less in line with the price point I originally bought some at.
- Comment on No, you don't need a 'very bespoke AOSP' to turn your phone into a Rabbit R1 — here's proof 6 days ago:
They have so much quality audio equipment, it’s understandable why people would stump for this because of the TE involvement alone.
Funnily enough, despite being a TE enthusiast, this is my first time hearing that they had anything to do with this joke of a product.
…which kind of does make me sort look at TE like… wtf were you thinking?
- Comment on Flood of AI-Generated Submissions ‘Final Straw’ for Small 22-Year-Old Publisher 1 week ago:
Two to three times a month, I need to fight with Amazon over negative reviews that get spammed on multiple books because an author got upset about a story being rejected. Or I get some snark response back about how my reviewers need better training, or that I am not a “real” editor, or something outright vulgar. Or I get a prank call to my phone. These sort of people have always lurked around the industry, so I am not unaccustomed to dealing with them. But it seems like they have grown more emboldened, and there seems to be this weird social currency tied to the bad behavior now.
Dawson really nails down something that has been bothering me a long time. I think she’s absolutely right that people with bad behavior are emboldened and that there is this weird social currency among the people exhibiting this behavior. It’s been the downside of the internet, it seems like the biggest bullies and people with the worst behavioral problems have all found each other and decided to pump each other up about being total pieces of shit. It’s maddening.
- Comment on Why data centers want to have their own nuclear reactors 1 week ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNP-3_and_WNP-5
WNP-2 was the only unit of the five that was completed and put into operation. WNP-3 and WNP-5 are located on 1,600 acres (650 ha) on the Satsop Site near Elma in Grays Harbor County, Washington. Today the site hosts the Satsop Business Park and the Overstock.com Call Center.
Not sure if this is still accurate, but definitely know that they never actually finished or started up these reactors and now it’s a generic business park. So it at least has some sort of precedent, even though this isn’t exactly the same as having the facilities generating power for the business.
- Comment on Bitwarden has launched a new authenticator app 1 week ago:
I mean, Aegis is 2FA? That’s literally all it is? It generates One Time Pad codes for various sites and apps that support authentication apps.
So, I’m not sure what you mean?
- Comment on LinkedIn is the latest company to get in on gaming 1 week ago:
Because what LinkedIn really needed was Xbox ecosystem integration.
- Comment on Higher-paid employees looking for work are having a tough time, and it could be a sign of a shift in the workplace 1 week ago:
I wonder if that had anything to do with low interests rates and Venture Capitalists practically throwing cash at startups?
Other industries just simply didn’t have the same advantages, and now that tech companies no longer have those advantages either, they’re becoming just like any other corporation.
- Comment on Higher-paid employees looking for work are having a tough time, and it could be a sign of a shift in the workplace 1 week ago:
Brutal. I’m so sorry to hear about that for you man. Loyalty is always a one-way street with these people. They demand loyalty but will turn you out to the street the second its profitable for them.
- Comment on Bitwarden has launched a new authenticator app 1 week ago:
…but wouldn’t that undermine the fact that it’s standalone and offline?
- Comment on Bitwarden has launched a new authenticator app 1 week ago:
No, they’re both ostensibly open source and standalone. I’m an avid Bitwarden Free user, but Aegis has been my go-to for a long time.
If it’s a standalone completely offline app, like Aegis, I’m at a loss to what they could offer that is any different than what Aegis already offers.
- Comment on Higher-paid employees looking for work are having a tough time, and it could be a sign of a shift in the workplace 1 week ago:
Even when senior management or executive roles are available, the terror of nepotism usually rears its ugly head.
- Comment on Higher-paid employees looking for work are having a tough time, and it could be a sign of a shift in the workplace 1 week ago:
“You’ll own nothing and be happy” should have been taken as the threat that it was when the WEF first promoted the notion.
The “be happy” part is the threat, they want us smiling as we suffer.
- Comment on Higher-paid employees looking for work are having a tough time, and it could be a sign of a shift in the workplace 1 week ago:
This is called “kicking you off the ladder so they can finish pulling it up behind them.”