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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
Opt-in = "we assume you are out unless you tell us you want to be in" Opt-out = "we assume you are in unless you tell us you want to be out"
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
Maybe an unpopular opinion but Dragon Age was always kind of a mess. They never could seem to figure out what kind of franchise they wanted the games to be The first game is really clunky as an RPG and is really mostly saved by the characte
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by bluefirebrand 2mo ago
> I'm trying to put a wedge between quality content and slop fodder. I admit slop fodder is increasing exponentially Fair enough, but the increase does make it a lot harder to separate signal from noise > Output in terms of actua
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by bluefirebrand 2mo ago
And Kojima's predictions in MGS2 were based on writings by Richard Dawkins in the 70s
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by bluefirebrand 2mo ago
> I'd argue that supply isn't really increasing. I mean, are we seeing 10x as many movies being released? Steam is releasing 50-70ish games every single day now from what I understand. That's a crazy number. Compared to 20
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by bluefirebrand 2mo ago
Also agree with this, but want to caution: Bring this up as gently as you can Don't accuse them of being ADHD, or insist too strongly If you do bring it up, I would say make sure to really emphasize that you don't think they nee
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by bluefirebrand 2mo ago
I'm ADHD and really struggle with similar things. I've been leading a really lonely life because I tend to isolate after any friction with people, assuming they don't like me anymore. I know to people without this problem it
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by bluefirebrand 2mo ago
What does making money have to do with creating art? Do you only care about professional artists or something? Amateur artists deserve legal protection for their artwork too :/
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by bluefirebrand 2mo ago
I suspect that for 99% of artists, over 99% of their income is from a day job, often minimum wage If you're at the point where you're making money from merch and concert tickets you're probably ahead of 99% of artists I suppo
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by bluefirebrand 2mo ago
Thank you for the recommendations. And I somehow warped "Larry Dixon" into "Troy Gibson" in my brain Absolutely embarrassing. I dislike getting old :) I asked my wife to put some of those books on hold at the library for
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by bluefirebrand 2mo ago
> I wish we could revive Tim Bryce's mind with AI, because I'd love to hear what he'd have to say in a podcast about this topic: If he's anything like how the rest of your post read, he sounds like a pretty awful pers
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by bluefirebrand 2mo ago
I like wuxia films quite a bit so I bet I would like this too. I don't own an e-reader or anything but I'll see what I can find. Thank you for the kind recommendation
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by bluefirebrand 2mo ago
My point is more that as a middle aged dude that grew up reading, the current publishing industry feels awfully hostile to me. I grew up on Redwall, Riftwar, Dragonlance, Mercedes Lackey and Troy Gibson and probably a few others that I&#x27
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by bluefirebrand 2mo ago
Personally, I have basically stopped reading since my 20s, but I used to read a ton. I like pulp fantasy and scifi and noir detectives and other nonsense, no one seems to write that sort of thing anymore. I loved Dragonlance when it was ar
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by bluefirebrand 2mo ago
> Like using feature/xxxxx as the branch name. Last year exactly zero developers used this convention. The AI learned it from somewhere though, it didn't come up with it on its own
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by bluefirebrand 2mo ago
> cats might kill more birds and mammals than humans Well yeah obviously. Cats kill relatively few humans, they're too little
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by bluefirebrand 2mo ago
No one said they are responsible for your career, but they should care about it while you work for them at least. :/ That really doesn't seem like it should be controversial
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by bluefirebrand 2mo ago
What does the writing quality, genius or otherwise, have to do with the boom mic though?
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by bluefirebrand 2mo ago
A manager that does not care about the careers of the people on their team is not a good manager If you care about being a good manager you should care about building your teams careers
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by bluefirebrand 2mo ago
> reading the source code seems like a great way to remain in touch with the implementation Reading code is way less enjoyable than writing it
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by bluefirebrand 2mo ago
Fair enough. Maybe it's just rose colored glasses then, but it certainly feels like we're more divided than ever before
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by bluefirebrand 2mo ago
I think there are gradients to this It would be hard for me to vote against indoor plumbing if that was needed to save the planet I would vote against "Same Day Delivery" in a heartbeat though, if it helped
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by bluefirebrand 2mo ago
I'll vouch for this too This is something I've been working on a lot myself. It's so easy to wind up sliding into the familiar patterns and routines, and reaching for the phone. I'm finding that discipline is less about
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by bluefirebrand 2mo ago
> ngl this is just gatekeeping Gatekeeping serves a useful purpose in any functioning organization of all scales, from a community center to a country, from an open source project to a Fortune 500.
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by bluefirebrand 2mo ago
That's silly. :)
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by bluefirebrand 2mo ago
I think the point you're trying to make is undermined slightly by the fact that the word I think you're looking for is "Kleenex" not Cleanex. It took me a while to figure out what you were talking about, and I did some s
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by bluefirebrand 2mo ago
I read a bit about it. I'm not convinced I think Occam's razor is sufficient to reject this as a concept. Panpsychism would introduce a lot of complexity into our understanding of the world without really increasing our ability to
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by bluefirebrand 2mo ago
In Canada it has been closer to 500k per year Maybe not millions per year but millions over a very short time Close to a quarter of our population are immigrants right now. It's become a pretty fragmented society imo as a result.
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by bluefirebrand 2mo ago
> then they will never become a trillionaire Good!! No one needs or deserves to be a trillionaire!
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by bluefirebrand 2mo ago
If you want to make that argument, I promise I'll read it, give it honest consideration and offer a thoughtful reply. Otherwise don't be stupid. Come on.

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