In false-friendly spaces like OP describes, people who are non-conforming can be singled out and treated poorly.

I quit my last job because they pulled us back to the office. That’s going to be a lot harder to do next time becauee of BS like this.

Everyone just has to sit on their hands and strike in-office to drive home the point. Something that’ll never happen in unorganized workplaces.

It’s funny. Before ChatGPT 3 hit the internet and LLMs became this big corporate white elephant obsession, I wpuld get pulled into meetings with my manager to discuss the “harsh tone” of my emails.

Now my bosses are pushing for us to use LLMs for basically everything, and my emails are no longer an issue.

I imported the JSON files from the Foundry VTT module into a Pandas dataframe in Python and randomly select from there, using the party’s casting rank +1 as an upper limit.

I hope we’re more chill here about the, uh, familial relationship between games than they are on Reddit.

The Mozilla trick

He’s Etobicoke Ralph Klein. This is his version of drunkenly throwing pennies at the homeless.

On the plus side, the province has demonstrated that the work nurses do is worth that much to it. Should be fun pointing that out in contracr negotiations.

“Private” here is being used to mean “private sector”, not “personal”.

Not who you replied to, but I’ve experienced it on both vanilla Element and on Schildichat over and over, as well as repeated logouts that require signin approval from one of my other active sessions.

That are on devices on different floors of the house, or even in different parts of the city.

Shit’s jankey as hell.

And is just an extension to their licensing nonsense and publishing deals thst came beforex

Anyone surprised by any of this doesn’t care about Nintendo’s behaviour, just the impact the current move is having on their current fun.

A lot of games developers don’t understand trends in gaming that aren’t explicitly gamist. Even as walking sinulators and cozy games have garnered audiences that make those genres viable, many in the industry have refused to actually look at them with an eye to understand who they appeal to, why, and what about them is doing the connecting with their audiences.

I worked on a mobile PvP project that rejected purely aesthetic elements because none of the director, designer, not “monetization specialist” could understand why anyone would want them, even as Fortnite was bursting onto the scene making its money on its emotes and paper doll elements.

Art driven paper doll games were also eating our lunch in the mobile space.

There are clearly some in the industry who understand the appeal, but most of them are not decision makers in development studios. The decision makers got there by coming up in a much more focused, much less casual, much less inclusive era in gaming, and have a pretty fixed idea of what a game “is” or “is supposed to be”.

Because of this,aAs things shift towards more IP licensing deal, the results are going to be a lot of conflicts between tone and gameplay on these projects.

I want a public fibre network, not for-profit space junk.

Or at least a suggestion.

"We falsely claim to be society’s bodyguard, and this is how we’re treated? As people you just expect to put themselves in harms way for your safety?

"The fuck is up with that?

“No, I don’t know what a bodyguard does. Why do you ask?”

Oh no. Won’t someone think of the people who are attracted to and hold a state monopoly on violence.

This. One of the points of this whole endeavour is self-hosting, in the name of resisting centralization.

Imagine if Mozilla had hostes its website on Geocities.

And won’t somebody think of the private sector! It just doesn’t have enough control over the public good!

corporate profits decrease very slightly

This is the thing that people will reflexively point to, but this:

quality of life increases

This is the real issue. If quality of life increases, workers are less desperate, and are less willing to put up with their employers BS. Moreover, if other jobs are also paying a living wage, it’s much easier to quit.

We have seen, over and over, that businesses are willing to spend money to exert control over workers. They’ll do it even if it means a decline in profits, or even in revenue. Because at the end of the day, if you have your needs met, any money left over is just power, and power is meant to be used to control others.

Maybe people should just understand that you don’t @ me if you don’t want me to chime in. It’s actually pretty fucking rude.