calliope
@calliope@retrolemmy.com
- Comment on Can someone find a redeeming factor about this game? Like anything good about it. 2 hours ago:
I definitely rented this at one point as a kid and was extremely disappointed!
- Comment on What’s the deal with unrelated content platforms trying to add a games section? 8 hours ago:
I don’t go to bars but I vaguely remember seeing bar-top digital games at some point too.
I can’t remember when this was, I just remember being flabbergasted that someone might pay to play a bejeweled knockoff or something.
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6 Japan setting confirmed 9 hours ago:
It’s not just you! Forza Horizon has been the main series of video game I looked forward to. I loved 3 and 4.
It didn’t take long for 5 to concentrate fully on the weekly bullshit and making the game more about puzzles than driving.
This is the first Horizon game in over a decade that I couldn’t care less about. It just feels like a sad shell of the previous games.
- Comment on Palingenetic Ultranationalism is a concise definition of fascism coined by political theorist Roger Griffin 2 days ago:
Rolls off the tongue!
- Comment on Palingenetic Ultranationalism is a concise definition of fascism coined by political theorist Roger Griffin 2 days ago:
Concise, you say
- Comment on French zoo returns poorly panda and partner to China 3 days ago:
This actually blew my mind, I was like “no way are there any pandas in the world not owned by China!” but I was wrong. lol
- Comment on French zoo returns poorly panda and partner to China 3 days ago:
Correct!
Although China shifted from panda gifts to a policy of high-priced loans in 1984, Mexico has retained ownership of the locally born pandas since their lineage traces to gifted pandas.
In 1981 Ying Ying gave birth to Tohui, who in turn mothered Xin Xin (with Chia Chia, a gifted panda originally at the London Zoo). Xin Xin is the last living panda not owned by China.
From Wikipedia.
- Comment on Clip of Chinese academic dismantling Israeli genocide propagandist goes ultra-viral 3 days ago:
Indeed, and here we are still talking about it.
Something tells me we this post and the Tide Pod challenge meme don’t have a lot in common, and we won’t be talking about this one Chinese academic “dismantling” someone’s argument in 2032.
- Comment on Clip of Chinese academic dismantling Israeli genocide propagandist goes ultra-viral 3 days ago:
I see that anything “viral” has lost all meaning
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 5 days ago:
My company is not a place where you learn how to code, it’s a place where you learn all the stuff which you didn’t think you’d have to do as a software engineer.
This to me is actually the “secret” of software engineering: it’s frequently doing the stuff you didn’t think you’d have to do as a software engineer.
The hard part is often finding someone who can do both while also wanting to work at your company.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
This photo was generated by AI after 2020, not “taken” at all.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
I really appreciate how many different reasons this picture is crap.
I wouldn’t be surprised if AI-Arnold’s watch looks like something that was designed later or something.
- Comment on The internet doesnt really spark any joy. Sure the stuff can be funny but mostly just feels me with dread that for this cat meme I have to watch others suffer. 5 days ago:
My lemmy client lets me filter out posts based on words or phrases.
I found my mood improving when I started filtering out the clickbait and doom.
- Comment on [Eurogamer] Nothing Headphone (1) review: Unlike anything else I've ever seen 5 days ago:
I enjoy reading reviews where the person is trying to write that there’s nothing special about a product, and at the current price point you should get something else… without writing that.
For that price, I might have expected slightly better noise cancelling and a potentially more well-rounded sound…
I know I’ve definitely enjoyed using them for the last few weeks, and if you can still pick them up at the discounted rate I spotted them at recently, then they’re well worth a go.
Let me paraphrase. Are you a “pick me?” These unique fashion-first headphones are for you.
Are you someone who just wants decent headphones? Buy something else unless you can get them on discount.
- Comment on You Turn! - an app that gives you a co-op experience with a friend while emulating (my article) 6 days ago:
What a cool idea!
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 6 days ago:
I believe Tech hiring is more about ego of the hiring managers and team more than it is about hiring qualified people.
I’ve never been on a team or seen a team where this was the case. We just wanted people who could do the job well, and they were hard to find.
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 6 days ago:
Not in the same way… which is the issue.
It’s a skilled profession, so ideally you want someone who is more skilled, and the person who has interest is more skilled.
It works similarly with other skilled professions like carpenters.
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 6 days ago:
This has been my experience as well, since I started in community college in the early 2000s.
There is an unfortunately large difference in tech between a person who has an innate interest and someone who is checking the boxes to get and keep a job.
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 6 days ago:
The first sentence of the article shows the problem.
For years, we heard about the tech talent shortage — that there were a glut of jobs and not enough bodies to fill them.
I worked in tech for a long time, at a bunch of different companies, and I never once worked anywhere that there was a glut of jobs and “not enough bodies” to fill them.
The problem wasn’t ever “bodies,” which people have always misunderstood. It’s qualified workers.
The people going into these careers includes a large number of people who want the money but aren’t qualified do what we’re looking for.
- Comment on China Is Putting Data Centers in the Ocean to Keep Them Cool 1 week ago:
All I hear is “China is heating up the ocean too”
- Comment on The McDonald's employee who called on Luigi has never received their "reward", folks chasing the 100k for Kirk may not either... 2 weeks ago:
You know, I was actually like “Kirk who?” for a second.
May we all move on to “Kirk who?” that quickly.
- Comment on A goodbye to kbin ... 2 weeks ago:
Actually one of the reasons I didn’t join it when I was looking for other instances.
- Comment on Romhacker colorizes all Final Fantasy branded games for the original Game Boy 3 weeks ago:
Whoa, that’s very cool! I had The Final Fantasy Legend for the original Game Boy.
It’s cool to see some color added to the original graphics!