Right? That’s my thing, look at airlines and their Razer thin margins. They just built this megastructure and can’t operate any of it without completely depending on gas prices.

Even without the green aspects no one stopped to think about the return on investment of layering the entire place in solar? 5 years from now? 20?

I tried marketplace but its a cesspool. Ended up selling mine to Carmax, may be surprised, I got a grand more than I expected. If it wasn’t for bottom feeders who lowball everything I would have tried longer online.

Real men build their own girlfriends, they don’t wait for some beta company to do it for them.

There how I’ve reframed it every time I hear it. So how are you reducing your need for gas? I’m biking and taking transit so it has stopped hurting so much. Try to alter their thinking from “this is unavoidable” to “I guess we could do fewer trips”

Its hard to be mad at them when they haven’t even figured out their own personality so they just copied what they’re told.

Oh sorry, no thank you, I’ve been shaking too many hands lately, you know how it is fellow world leader

Is it even doxxing to call out a username? It’s his @, we can all see it

I feel sorry that it didn’t happen weeks before the holidays like what he did to his own employees. Let him sit with failure through Christmas dinner.

Read the end again. We did move it.

AI isn’t evil. Generative AI isn’t evil. AI has existed for 20+ years now, I studied it back in my uni days.

Corporations, how they trained it, how they use it now, how they are willing to pave the planet to force it down our throats is evil.

This is one of those things as tech people we have to come to terms with and understand. No technology is inherently good or evil, it’s what people do with it.

Didn’t read the article did you.

Quality reference

I try to be very open and forgiving, as it’s the same as what if I have a sick parent or spouse that I need to take care of. Same thing.

HOWEVER. I have a WFH job that is very heads down and forgiving on time, and most days we have 1, count it ONE meeting that lasts 15 minutes. A daily standup. I have coworkers with kids who miss it DAILY, usually because of childcare. How, how do you miss our ONE meeting? If your kids are at home then how do I trust that you are actually working most of the day if you can’t set aside 15 minutes daily? If your kids need to be dropped off then I’m sorry but how does it take that exact 15 minute period every day? Can’t drop them off 15 minutes earlier or later? (And yes, we’ve adjusted our daily times, but then after a month or so it starts happening again). To be fair I think they’re just blaming the childcare.

This community has been here much longer than you have been.

Hey same, except my mom’s mom went through the depression here in the states and it rubbed off on her.

She loves to call out how particular I am about food, when actually I love trying new foods! I simply don’t like getting food poisoning from whatever hot dish/casserole she made 4 months ago that has been sitting in the fridge. At Christmas one year she brought out canned whipped cream, rediwhip, and it was 3 years expired! I didn’t notice and was sick for a week!

Just six weeks ago, Night School had released Unhinged, a novel 30-minute first-person horror game, streamable on TVs to Netflix users.

Prior to its Netflix tenure, Night School had developed the award-winning supernatural thriller Oxenfree.

Netflix attributed the studio closures to a prioritization around kids gaming, party games, story-driven fare and games with mainstream hooks, such as a recently released FIFA game.

Ah yes from their history I can see how it would be impossible for them to pivot from story based ges to party, fits, and uh, story based games.

Nothing made me care so little about buying things than the corporations desperate want for me to buy them.

New games? Eh I’ll replay mass effect or skyrim. New hardware (before the crisis), looks real nice, don’t think I need it. The more they pushed me to buy the less I cared. If they all started chilling out maybe I’d get back into it, but doesn’t look like it.

It was always our intention to reveal this until Stella violated her confidentiality clause and revealed this before we were ready.

Put down your pitchforks everyone, it’s okay he was totally going to tell us!

You have a whole agenda that is unrelated to what I am talking about. I’m not playing into it. you’ve left 3 comments pushing your agenda and this will be my only response. Make your own post about this if you believe so and deeply care about it.

I think it’s both. I do think they’re in the room, they have elbowed in a spot at the table and I’ve seen it first hand, however I don’t think like in the video they are the only say. I think you’re spot on in saying that bit, “If a product is appealing to everyone, it appeals to no one.”

I think HR in the room is another symptom, I think it’s executives trying to make sure no one feels put off by a game so that everyone plays it and they have the biggest audience. Then you have Legal come in and neutralize more dialogue because it could be considered rude or offensive. Then marketing comes in and says that they don’t know how to market this to this group, and then at the end you get a very boring game that is perfectly safe for everyone to play, but that no one wants to play.

It’s simply that corporations don’t understand creative work. Creative work and art are subjective, and they are meant to heighten emotions and make people think about it. They are meant quite literally to go counter to everything a corporate environment pushes for.

I also agree that I have been going Indie more because you can tell they aren’t as over-encumbered by corporate pressure. They have something they want to make or say, they are passionate and they get it done. I guess my thesis, seperate from Laura’s, is that HR and these other teams need to let creatives be creatives. Step in when you need to for sure, but stop at that line and go no further. HR should be there for HR reasons, Legal should protect the company from liability, and marketers should market the product, but none of them (or the executives) should be swaying the creative process to make their jobs easier. It’s their jobs to protect the creative process, not the other way around.