It’s not so much a problem plaguing fiction in general, but fiction that runs a long time.

If it’s a contained story with defined end that comes relatively soon enough, the stakes can be relatively fixed, arcs can run through to a logical conclusion, etc.

If you have unending, soap-opera like story, then you hit problems. Characters can never actually be fully realized, they have to have their development paused. Any romantic ‘will they/won’t they’ gets ludicrously drawn out. You usually get tougher plot armor because fans are really attached, or a revolving door of characters that you don’t get attached too, or people inevitably managing to be alive after having died. You have power creep where insurmountable challenges get overcome through progress and then something has to reset the new capabilities to table stakes.

Giving us the ow for now, later it’s going to give us the d.

Reminds me of a time when my nephew was playing vintage Super Mario Kart and started trash talking me about how long they had been playing and that I didn’t stand a chance.

“I was playing this since before you were born kid”

Absolute gigafrood energy.

Well that reinforces the point of the critique.

It invents an intent that may be inconsistent with the original vision.

E.g. it just assumes girls should all be wearing makeup, which may be very much at odds with the character or the scenario.

Strong “don’t you have phones” vibes.

With an SPF of 45, you won’t get burned

And this is how I find out that systemd lets a process running as a user get the crypted password of the user:

"privileged" : {
                "hashedPassword" : [
                        "$6$AY98/.dwdtU20LBM$L9fFhaH.E2xA6waYBVmHl/wS4HFSPn5v/JaIlrSW6wLOfKkV6H1Boqggj/109WO/uHXF1J/NkyXsK1BaCRKwx/"
                ]
        },

I mean, why the hell…

Primary school, middle school, sure, good times.

High school and college… I’ll take one job any day over a “job” per subject. Except the long breaks, my adult life really needs those. I get so jealous when work with a European colleague has to go on pause as they take a gigantic time off.

Suits can override their art directors, or replace them with someone willing to play ball.

Mostly hope rests with indie devs, but that’s not too terribly new given the big business of micro transactions and forced online play only.

Well, somewhat good news: The best stuff of the times is generally still available, often legally for cheap, or even cheaper otherwise. As long as you aren’t purist about original copies on original hardware.

Business folks calling the shots over the artists cut back their hours and insist they let the slop generator make up the difference.

Every corner that can be cut to make running the business cheaper does get cut, and this is a pretty big possibility of corners to cut. It’s worthwhile to adamantly express the market for quality work.

Thanks to genai ads, we will all be schizophrenic soon as every electronic device will be taking specifically to each of us constantly.

Back in the 80s, the second any two boomers had some sort of camera at the same time they would immediately take a picture of each other talking each other’s pictures because obviously it would be hilarious. So maybe another gaggle if AI generated people are getting their pictures taken at the same time, and two of the aigen ladies wanted to make sure they had their own copies …

Of course I also see that the go spawns python and does stuff with that…

And there’s lots of other dubious issues that look like an odd mismash of intro level programming stuff with unfortunate performance implications, and a very strong vibe code smell, though the commit interval is a bit larger than I would have presumed with vibe coding, but the volume of changes seem AI sloppy…

Well, broadly it looks like slop, probably AI slop, but either way I wouldn’t go anywhere near this project…

People have repeatedly in this thread talked about how it also added details that were not hinted in the original, and in part it looks like adding makeup, which could totally undermine a character or setting if they are unlikely to care about our have time for makeup.

Characters that have barely survived in the wilderness for weeks somehow wearing lipstick and eyeliner and eyeshadow… That’s the sort of thing that can happen with this approach.

Easy, if it needs that much GPU and even one GPU is hard to find, then it could make someone rent their games from Nvidia to use their GPUs…

Oh. Did you mean justify for the user? Lol, no, only the interests of nvidia matter.

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Meanwhile, I’d be “welcome to the team, you’d do fine here”.

Don’t get the white-knighting for Windows of all things. If you need Windows, ok, but that doesn’t mean everyone needs windows.

refuse to work on Toyotas.

Nah, the analogy that would be closer would be if the shop said you must use some overpriced but notoriously fragile tools and you’ll be on the hook for any tool that breaks and any delay you incur will be your fault while they go buy a new tool. Plus the tools tend to have sharp edges on the handles for some reason and are just painful to use.

Now if the job is “you need to administrate the group policy of the company systems”, then “I refuse to run Windows” is a pretty stupid take. But frequently the job is rooted entirely in Linux based infrastructure for internet facing stuff, and Windows on the entry point is just horribly awkward for that job. You can kind of/sort of get there but I haven’t found a single decent ‘Terminal’ even compared to that being pretty trivial with Mac and Linux. WSL starts to provide something useful, but it is kind of fragile and WSLg sucks with the worst window management possible, even by the standards of Windows broadly. Meanwhile, starting from a Linux system you can use a desktop shell that is probably better for your productivity than anything Windows allows.

There’s not really a whole lot of logic for a lot of “Windows required” jobs in tech. Office365 is mostly fine through a Linux browser. Onedrive works with Linux. If you have some applications that are Windows only, again, sure, but a lot of tech folks don’t need any Windows only tools.

Recent example from my real world, someone was around my desk and asking questions about stuff that required me to hop between a few contexts. They were shocked how quickly I could navigate a bunch of the windows in the discussion, and asked how in the world I got Windows to do that. Of course, I couldn’t.

Besides, the general tone of the conversation could have been just full of redflags about how tortuous the company was going to be. One company blocked SSH between anything saying SSH was insecure, and said that, somehow, we had to do everything through the graphical console of the Linux instances. Which meant no rsync, no scp, having to create some file serving facility to upload files to and then download from. If my daily workflow depended on such draconian crap, I’d be out of there too.