It’s because the decision makers are fucking stupid.

I would be happier at work if we could just solve interesting problems. Instead we have mandates from management to do nonsense, or work in nonsense ways.

The people at the top are so removed from how work gets done, and how normal people live, they’re useless. Worse than useless.

It would still be anti-labor and a force multiplier for confident stupidity.

LinkedIn should just be a big honey pot to get people into therapy and community service.

Controversial take: doom 1 is better than doom 2. Doom 2 has a bunch of awful levels.

I didn’t really like doom2016 or eternal that much, either. Too much start-and-stop.

Microsoft and Bethesda are creatively incompetent. They don’t really want to say anything. They just want a funny theme park full of kitschy shit so they can pander to fans.

They’re fucking soulless morons.

The first fallout was interesting because it was pretty fresh. The 2nd was a bigger exploration, with some interesting questions about remnants. I don’t really remember 3 but it had some weird narrative problems, I think.

New Vegas actually asked a new interesting question: who rebuilds after?

And then 4 just shits the bed because Bethesda has no soul. It’s also mechanically a mess. Power armor in the intro, except it sucks? Fuck everyone who thought that was a good idea.

I use spite as a motivator. I do spite driven charity. Those fuckers aren’t giving so fuck them I’ll be better than them.

I am a dude and I always fully close the toilet when I’m done. Keeps the cats out. Less likely to drop something into it.

I will laugh really hard at any ice agent who shocks his dick while trying to piss. Even if he dies. Especially if he dies.

This seems a good excuse to repost his fascinating post about estrangement: https://issendai.com/psychology/estrangement/missing-missing-reasons/

I’m happy not using blizzard or other Microsoft products.

I bet they’ll try to buy discord soon.

I read the meaning as someone thinking it weird to text back immediately. That was the offense. As if you should play it cool and wait to respond.

I personally respond quickly if I’m holding my phone and the message comes in, usually.

Most people don’t really care about abstract or long term things. You can tell them that buying the game supports bad stuff, and they could at least wait for a sale, but they’re no better than a toddler.

Capitalism is pretty inherently authoritarian. The boss calls the shots.

Seems like your reading comprehension is lacking.

I mostly get music from Bandcamp. They have a pretty big library, but it’s mostly newer and independent bands on there. You won’t find, like, the beatles or taylor swift.

Sometimes I’ll buy stuff directly from bands, if it’s not on bandcamp, via their store or label or whatever. I used to get CDs, too, and rip them, but I haven’t done that in a while.

Making the first move is a skill. Many women are not practiced in that skill, for various reasons. Anyone’s early attempts at a skill will likely be awkward and ineffective.

Thus, many women are bad at first messages and find the experience unpleasant.

On top of that, many men are shit. Just absolute trash to talk to.

So not only are many women floundering with this new skill of “send a good first message”, when they get responses it’s often men responding badly.

So it makes sense they’d give up. They’re not going to fight against all the social norms.

Stop using reddit. You can’t fix it through any reasonable means. (You’re not going to be an action movie hero that fixes it that way, but I would consume media showing that)

I will continue to not use Spotify. Buying drm free music is a long term win.

Well, if you don’t ban or otherwise moderate unpleasant people, your community will rot until it’s nothing but unpleasant people and those who can tolerate them. So that’s not a desirable outcome.

Communities should have rules. People who repeatedly break those rules should be banned. This is true online and offline.

The more challenging question is “what are the best rules to make?”

Most places will disallow porn and gore, or require them to be appropriately labeled or quarantined. That makes sense to me.

Many places will ban anything too violent. Threats against individuals I understand. Saying you can’t even imagine violence against organizations doing violence (eg: ice, the Republican party) is lending support to horrible people, so I’m not keen on that. I can see wanting to keep it from turning into revenge porn, or wanting to avoid drawing the attention of the state.

“No personal attacks on members” was a rule on a place I used to post. Was pretty nice, usually.

You cannot assume that the people making decisions are rational, smart, people. They may believe falsehoods, and act accordingly. They may be chasing a hidden goal (eg: “I get a bonus if I hit X metric, so I’ll kill good parts of the site to do it”)

I worked at a place where management was like “we want to increase time on site”, and the lead dev was like “I can just add loading spinners everywhere then”. Luckily management was a little smarter and move involved than that, and didn’t approve that strategy.