Why don’t we want to dismantle the business?

Tabletop RPGs. I’m sick of DND. Hard to find good groups for other games. There’s a meetup I go to every once in a while but I want a regular group building a big story together

I want to say that everyone hates that kind of purple job prose, but I suspect there’s some small minority of people who actually think and talk like that.

I kind of want to build a LinkedIn but you’re only allowed to talk like a real person. If you post slop or whatever that kind of shit is, you’re banned and we all pledge not to work with you.

The whole venture capitalism thing is bullshit. It’s just vibes and rich man hubris.

They’re bad people and too many folks are pretending they’re not.

Is this happening on android, too?

What I was trying to get at is something can be worthwhile even if you don’t personally enjoy it.

Conservatism, probably. The whole in-group supremacy thing is pretty bad.

I think a lot about how “good” and “fun” are two different things.

You can have a game that’s a fascinating exploration of a theme that really unifies mechanics and story, but is an absolute downer of misery to play.

You can also have a game that’s a glorified slot machine with bugs, no real player input, and abusive monetization, but people’s brains light up playing it.

There’s some subjectivity of course, but sometimes I see games that are good at what they’re trying to be, but I don’t have any fun with them. Some people seem to demand those overlap all the time.

Not in any way I can discern! She’s in the planning meetings but her entire role seems to be sharing her screen so people can tell her what to click on. (This is excruciating to witness. It is so slow.)

Sometimes she’ll say “remember to check your capacity!”, but two other people on the team say that too.

She seems to be entirely non-technical, too, so she doesn’t have much input on any of the discussion. The inter-team stuff is handled by two other people. (A lady of importance whose title I don’t know, and some sort of business analyst)

Maybe shame and embarrassment would work, but the kind of people who drive this kind of car are probably anti-social assholes who don’t care about other people very much.

But these people get off on being jerks. There’s something wrong with their brain so empathy doesn’t work right.

I only saw them once, so my memory might be foggy. I remember thinking Force Awakens was pretty okay. The Last Jedi was pretty okay. Rise of skywalker was a steaming pile of shit.

There was a build-up towards “it doesn’t matter who your parents are - anybody can be important” that got completely reversed in the last film.

The place I work at I wouldn’t say is “over staffed” but it is maybe “wrong-staffed”.

They have a full time “scrum master” and from what I can tell all she does it share her screen so people can awkwardly tell her which tickets to click on, and she calls on people in order during the morning meeting. That’s a whole-ass job. Meanwhile, devops is like crying blood because there’s like 2 of them managing decades of systems, and no senior engineering roles have been backfilled after people left for years.

That doesn’t sound so bad

I was trying to convince my boss that buying skills (ie: learning) is better than renting them forever from the AI, but I don’t think I convinced him

Fuck cars. Fuck big private tech.

If fines scaled with wealth that might create an incentive for the police to harass rich people instead of poor people. It won’t, because the police serve the wealthy, but it’s a nice day fantasy.

I hope I never become so befuddled that pushing one chat bubble icon instead of the other is confounding.

I don’t understand how some people who are ordinarily reasonably smart just turn into subhuman intelligence when faced with a new computer thing.

My dad is quite elderly and he manages to run ubuntu fine. My mother, on the other hand, gets confused and angry if anything changes at all on her phone or laptop.

I’m so tired of every job posting frothing at the mouth over AI. “We’re ai native” , “we want employees who are excited about ai tools”, “agenic workflows”

Just fuck off.

Even if all of this stuff was a real productivity increase, who is keeping that extra production? Not the workers!

Because the current process means constant merge conflicts that I have to deal with, and constant bugs I have to deal with.

But, on the other hand, maybe you’re right and I should just check out and spend a day “fixing git problems” too