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- Comment on 'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup 1 day ago:
What are the Spotify alternatives people recommend?
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 3 days ago:
The problem is there’s a fair amount of tech CEOs that insist this is the future and everyone needs to hop on which between the hype train, the amount of software peeps out of a job because of layoffs and the amount of snake oils salesmen out of a job because this eats google’s lunch this bubble is just ballooning. You have a lot of people hitching on this bandwagon hoping to sell shovels to the next gold rush.
And for awhile everything is just gonna get shittier.
- Comment on YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3 5 days ago:
Oh boy, a button that generates ai shorts. Combining my 2 least favorite things about YouTube.
- Comment on Shhhhh 6 days ago:
House abducts kids now?
- Comment on Anyone else see the large-jawed grey-stubbled game character face? 1 week ago:
No?
- Comment on Amazon boss tells staff AI means their jobs are at risk in coming years 1 week ago:
It’s a bit misleading for engineering.
Every Engineer starts at L4. That’s the junior position.
L5 is the mid-senior level. Most SDEs in Amazon are L5 and that’s considered a terminal position. For management this is the “junior” (for lack of a better term) tier
L6 is Senior but it’s closer to staff engineers at other companies. You tend to do more cross team work. This is also where a glut of managers are at
L7 is Principal engineer and senior manager. Only about 2% of engineers get here. Managers at this lever oversee multiple teams.
L8+ is fancy external hires and directors.
The problem is that Amazon expects a lot of people to churn out before you hit the L6/7 levels. They dangle a carrot of super high pay for those tiers but don’t actually expect to pay it long term. There’s quite a few that have stayed longer than expected. And it’s hard to get out because they know how to game the system to demonstrate “impact”. Now that isn’t to say there aren’t a lot of good managers and engineers at this tier either. There are really good people at this tier. It’s just Amazon doesn’t want that many at this tier for long.
Also if the idea of having an expected churn and dangling pay that no one can hit sounds dystopian and awful it is. Amazon sucks.
- Comment on "Devil May Cry HD Collection" and "Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition" got added to GOG's Preservation Program 1 week ago:
I got the Steam version of 1-3 a week ago. Had I known I would have waited for the gog versions
- Comment on Amazon boss tells staff AI means their jobs are at risk in coming years 1 week ago:
When I was last there a while ago people were leaving but they were hoping for a lot more of an exodus. Particularly in the L6/7 level.
Has that changed?
- Comment on A story old as time 1 week ago:
Thank you for the context.
Also eww.
- Comment on Amazon boss tells staff AI means their jobs are at risk in coming years 1 week ago:
No. Amazon has been trying to cut head count for years now. They were hoping RTO5 would do the trick but because everyone is trying to do the same thing people didn’t have a ship to jump to.
“Our AI is so great!” Is a way to mask that their finances aren’t good and they dramatically made the wrong bet in 2021 hiring so much.
Honestly most of the time at Amazon you’re doing more meetings and red tape than you are coding so I don’t expect AI to magically fix shit for them.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 1 week ago:
Fallout 3 for me works well as a sandbox and less as a narrative driven RPG. I had a lot of fun with it but I know if you went in expecting it to be something it’s not (like the first 2 fallout games) you’re gonna be disappointed.
- Comment on MindsEye Becomes 2025’s Worst-Rated Game As Reviews Creep In 1 week ago:
Aww boo. Bad writing can still be fun.
- Comment on MindsEye Becomes 2025’s Worst-Rated Game As Reviews Creep In 1 week ago:
Is this like an Balan Wonderworld bad? Where it’s polished but just an awful experience? Or is it just buggy and meh?
Balans are some of my favorite because there’s something fascinating about a well polished turd that you can’t look away from.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 1 week ago:
I loved Yoshi’s Story as a kid. Never knew there was hate for it for a long time.
- Comment on Pick-ups from the Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo 1 week ago:
I played this as a kid. I was so bad at this game. I wanted to get farther but I think the third or fourth level broke me.
- Comment on The Supreme Leader 2 weeks ago:
AI Slop + Japanese politics = ?
- Comment on we are not the same 2 weeks ago:
And then you weirdly end up pissing in the sink.
- Comment on PS5’s Wolverine game finally just made an appearance after several years of silence, and it’s not dead after all 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on PS5’s Wolverine game finally just made an appearance after several years of silence, and it’s not dead after all 2 weeks ago:
This is the one written by the guy that did spec ops the line right? I have a soft spot for it and hope it does well.
- Comment on Alternatively 2 weeks ago:
A machamp? I’d buy one to avoid having to find someone to trade with.
- Comment on Super Meat Boy 3D Announcement Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Woo!
- Comment on Super Meat Boy 3D Announcement Trailer 2 weeks ago:
So no steam release? Lame.
- Comment on Super Meat Boy 3D Announcement Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Hot take. I’m excited this is going 3d. I think it has a chance to outshine the original and give it extra depth.
Also random question, wtf is Xbox PC? Is that just their branding of the PC version? Or is it exclusively on their store/client?
- Comment on Bloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement - Announce Trailer 3 weeks ago:
Fuck. Yes. I’ve been waiting for a new bloodstained entry for ages.
- Comment on Meta is now a defense contractor 3 weeks ago:
All military personnel will require Facebook accounts to use Meta AR goggles.
- Comment on Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Now Promotes Microtransactions When You Swap Weapons 3 weeks ago:
Activision has always been awful but they’ve really done their damndest to ensure I never want to play a COD game again
- Requires a phone number to play online
- Their UI is the absolute worst thing I’ve laid eyes on. It spends more time advertising other products instead of showing, yknow, how to launch the game I paid money for. I quite literally had to google how to launch the CoD remake because their UI was so confusing
- install sizes are absurd. I still remember the COD remake took 500GB to install
- and now micro transactions in loadout screens
And this doesn’t even include all the fuckery with their C-Suite.
I don’t know why they make it so awful to try to play the game you paid full price for.
- Comment on Captcha 4 weeks ago:
You missed one
- Comment on I they they're trying to murder me and steal my brain 4 weeks ago:
Nah they just wanna replace it with Gen AI
- Comment on Companies are using Ribbon AI, an AI interviewer to screen candidates. 4 weeks ago:
Eventually all of this slop will pass when they realize it does not work. But for a couple years everyone is gonna have to put up with companies trying bullshit like this until the metrics show that it doesn’t do anything for the cash.
- Comment on Asmongold's Underwear 4 weeks ago:
Ah thank you for the context!