They’ll hook him to a billion machines to make him functionally immortal and declare him Emperor.

This is like those “NEVER USE ADVERBS!!!11one” people.

They’re absurdly(!) ridiculous and silly, to hold “I don’t use basic tools” over the heads of their fellows. That is all.

I suppose this makes sense for those with slower connections. (I remember 6GB games taking ~6 hours on DSL.)

But I have family members on my household’s modern broadband that can download an obscene amount of data, like, Witcher 3 in 15 minutes or something, that still preorder games.

And not even from small studios who need every fundraising tactic they can to get to the finish line. I’m talking major releases. It befuddles me so.

Especially when there’s been a large number of majorly hyped titles in recent memory that have flopped on release, and end up half price like 6 months later.

I dunno, I have like 500+ games I optimistically hoped to get to at some point, maybe I’m just a patient gamer. I can’t help but be a little jealous of the time someone must have, when they can game so hard that they’re like “I gotta play this new game NOW!!!” 😂

Also you used to get really cool physical “feelies” for preorders like maps, patches, stickers, comics, statues (OMG Assassin’s Creed II)…now it’s like …“Play GTA6 with a Shovel Knight helmet.” LOL

Lol yeah, that’s what I meant, digitally delivered videogames. I remember having to secure my copy of like, Halo 3 or Skyrim in advance so I could play it on release. :D

For some people? Pre-ordering digital games. I mean huh? What are ye even doin there Jimmy-Bob? You afraid they’re gonna run out of copies? O.o

Edit: digitally delivered, like say, Steam or GoG games.

AI and subscriptions

“Aw no, darn it! Nameless Junior Engineer/intern/contractor lost all your data to the open web and a forced update corrupted your C: Drive…Again! Such a shame. Anyway you’re gonna love what’s new in M$ 365 / Azur€ / Gam£₱a$$ / Window$ €£€V€N / ¢o₱i£ot…”

–Micro$£o₱, every time

guess what comes next.

Impossible and user-violating arbitrary standards pushed via legislation that only their OSes conveniently meet?

All good, and I respect your perspective!

I know you were like “flame me!” Lol, But hope I wasn’t sounding too judgy. I think it’s hard not to have strong opinions on the topic either way these days. (And I’m already prone to soapboxing haha.)

Wishing you the best out there. :)

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“…enabled me to deliver value in a fraction of the time I expected.”

I don’t wanna flame you for it.

This is kinda where I see vibe coding taking off the most: The same phenomenon as using LLMs to summarize and reply to pithy business emails.

Business gets so unbearably businessy, people are using machines to bypass the inherently un-human “professionalism performance” for them.

It might not be work anybody can claim to be proud of, but right now success for the professional-managerial class runs on looking busy and circling back to synergizing the workflow with best practices for optimal returns regarding key performance metrics 🤢 or whatnot.

I don’t blame people for it, in a work context. Looking impressive with AI tools is now a survival tactic when working under normies holding the purse strings and investing stupid amounts of money into the bubble. They’ve forced people to be part of a circular, self-reinforcing imaginary reality they’re profiting from.

So, I don’t wanna flame you. I just hope you’re doing something fundamentally human to keep your soul alive on the side, at least. Something you as a unique human being on this earth can be proud of. <3

Lovely work! So much appeal!

Oh and the lady character and the goose are cute too! :p

“Astro” which has no gender, also, no ethnicity, wears several costumes on top of each other AND has no mouth.

… And it must scream … Because it’s involved with Salesforce.

If a search engine can’t crawl it so you could search up posts, like a good ol’ forum, than yep!

Same with any member pages past a login. (Hence why nobody can just ‘google’ your bank account balance lol.)

DemenTIA, from CompTIA. Some of those exam questions really make you wonder. . .

Can’t believe people don’t link sources anymore. Anyway yeah it just happened today.

I love Debian, I love Void, Ubuntu can die in a fire, etc.

“You’re cool, you’re cool, screw you tho , you’re cool…” XD

Have I been on 10 years? I dunno, but I like to think I’m pretty experienced for an amateur.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed! It rolls! It games! It works with newer hardware and gets along sorta reasonably with Nvidia!

Best part? If any of that ISN’T true (rarely after an update), it seamlessly integrates BTRFS snapshots with the boot menu, to just roll back and wait like a week til the wonderful souls working on it, fix stuff.

The community is also very supportive.

For that reason VGAs could make really good grappling hooks. 😂