I do nice things for other people when I’m up to it, but I hesitate to call myself a ‘nice person’ because niceness isn’t necessarily an intrinsic quality, in the same way that I can be a transient dumbass at times without thinking of myself as an idiot.

People want to be Nazis without other people knowing they’re Nazis.

Respecting the LGBTQ+ community.

What fucking red line?

As a lifelong customer of Dwarven Forge, I understand your pain.

“I’m especially good at defenestrating!”

I look like the archetypical IT guy. 30s, balding, overweight, like I’m constantly about to have a nervous breakdown (I am.)

Well yeah, but have you thought about how doing something might impact profits this quarter? Unacceptable!

After the Helldivers fiasco, I think it’s time to raise the plank and hoist the sails, Yarr.

It’s funny, boots theory has been largely retired since the rich can no longer get the kind of quality that lasts decades. They could certainly afford it, it’s just not available for purchase - capitalism killed it off.

I mean, I’m not trying to play DA for shitty-ass Boeing here, but coincidences do happen. I’m certainly more likely to believe this death was a result of bad luck than the suicide from a guy who told his family, and I quote: “If anything happens, it’s not suicide.”

I mean, let’s not pretend Ford was paying his employees well and setting workweek standards because it was the right thing to do either - he did it because he wanted to retain productive employees and also to make them customers, and that it happened to actually be beneficial for them and the working world at large is a byproduct. Not often mentioned with that $5 workday is the fact that he would send agents to employees’ homes to ensure they were being kept clean and that the employees themselves weren’t drinking.

No discredit to R.E.M. but my world’s been ending for over a decade and I feel like dogshit constantly. Nobody told me the apocalypse would be heralded by the dumbest fucking cryptobros and AI prompters the world’s ever seen.

Meta acquiring Oculus

As someone with industry experience working with VR, I can tell you it’s a mixed bag. I think there’s certainly no way Oculus (and consumer VR in general) takes off the way it did without Facebook’s dollars behind it, and it’s certainly paved the way to the outstanding quality of standalone HMDs that are on offer today. However, it killed the initiative for PCVR hardware with the non-consolation that Meta, Pico, and HTC offer “Link mode” on all their headsets and it’s iffy on good days, which makes B2B PCVR very difficult to facilitate without some serious legwork on lowering latency over the air connections. Would that we could revive the Rift S, that headset was perfect for our needs.

U.S. workers already shoulder the losses of their corporations. Almost every business runs a skeleton crew to maximize profits for the people at the top and when the whole thing inevitably falls apart, they get shit-canned and the C-Suite gets golden parachutes on their way to the next cannibalization.

The “Just work a little harder and you can have a comfortable life” to “Just work a little harder and you can live long enough to work a little harder tomorrow” pipeline in full effect.

Most of us in the mentally disturbed neighbor have known for years, but we’re powerless to change it because the system has always been ruled by money and, quelle fucking surprise, we have none.

I’m just waiting to die at this point.

Linda…

Probably doesn’t help that, at the very least, there’s a stigma about those jobs not being able to provide a comfortable living. I know I’d sweep floors if it paid $50 an hour.

I mean, let’s be clear, the U.S. isn’t all that rosy either, wages tend to suck unless you’re management or C-Suite and we get jerked around by employers with the lack of healthcare. We could use a steamrolling down here too.