Pelontrix

I HAVE MANY RAGE

  • it/its, he/him, whatever's funny

20, probably has adhd.


geometric
@geometric

you should not be a 10x engineer or whatever, you should be focusing on the vision and ideas and emotions that make your project interesting and beautiful and touching. some of the greatest indie games of all time have absolutely nightmarish codebases because the creator was rightly focused on the player experience



tef
@tef

as a 7x engineer myself, let me just point out one thing: this is actually great engineering

it's a game, it has a state field, that state field represents all the possible values of "in a game" "in a cutscene"

  • it's easy to add new scenes to the game
  • it's easy to transition from one scene to the next
  • there's no real performance overhead
  • it's pretty easy to refactor or clean up, too

the feral men online who sneer at this sort of code will tell you "i could write something cleaner" or "it's ugly", but these men only know how to write code that demonstrates they have knowledge—it's how they passed exams, it's how they passed a tech interview, and it's absolutely nothing to do with actual good engineering

it's not to say that gamedevs don't do code crimes, i'm just real tired of programmers whos idea of "i could do better" is "i can demonstrate i know more features than you"


quat
@quat
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samwise-the-gay
@samwise-the-gay

The cross posting from tumblr begins now.

The infographic over there has a whole bunch more pages but I don't feel like posting all of them, here's the link if you want to look at it in full. https://www.tumblr.com/bellybuttonblue2/726484348216459264

I am resigned to a future on fire.

One of my dearest friends responded to this with "yeah but we should all do our best to still minimize our footprint" and I can't square my opinion of them as a rational person with this statement.

  1. Million. Years.

And that's just one company. I only added the images for the oil companies (having issues getting formatting right on here) but Amazon, Apple, Shein, Coca-Cola, are all way up there.

Friends of mine have worked at Starbucks and can attest to going through dozens of gallons of milk a day at a single store. If recycling is easy and set up, they'll do it. If not? That's one store. As of 2023 there are over 35k Starbucks worldwide. And that's just one company.

As long as companies get to dump oil in the oceans and get a slap on the wrist, as long as the rich in their private jets get to dump more CO2 into the atmosphere in an hour than I could in a year, I'm going to get pissed about anyone preaching personal responsibility around climate change.



samwise-the-gay
@samwise-the-gay

This only even came up because we were discussing a different post about people with chronic illnesses and disabilities feeling terrible about using disposable silverware and such and not always recycling.

The point was that while minimizing your climate footprint is a worthy goal

you can't just decide to not be disabled anymore


rotsharp
@rotsharp

but especially it kills disabled people

and specifically it kills disabled people as a distraction from not hanging those executives

capitalist overproduction means there is not an amount of personal waste you can commit that is not utterly eclipsed by that of the grocery stores in your region. it is not our fault that we need things and the only way to get things is to exist in the evil world! the crime was the transformation of resources into garbage in the first place, not trying to live in the garbage pile we were all left!


DecayWTF
@DecayWTF

We could all revert to stone knives and bearskins - I assure you, I know how to hunt bear if I had to, although I've never done it with bow and spear - and it would not begin to counterbalance even the US military, let alone any large capitalists. It's nothing but misdirection and victim-blaming. Fascist propaganda.



MOOMANiBE
@MOOMANiBE

we all knew that AI generated crap was going to get people killed but this is an exceptionally awful way to die


MOOMANiBE
@MOOMANiBE
  • they look almost identical to several edible species
  • they taste extremely normal and after eating one you will feel relatively normal for 4-6 hours afterward.
  • cooking and other methods of preparation have no effect on the toxins the mushrooms contain
  • By the time symptoms manifest you are already dead - even half a single mushroom is lethal to adults
  • death caps contain upwards of 3 different toxins that cause, among other things, cell rupture and you will experience total organ failure within 72 hours and there is absolutely nothing that can be done to save you

to describe writing a "mushroom guidebook" using AI as dangerous and irresponsible is the largest possible understatement. This could genuinely, easily get people killed.


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NireBryce
@NireBryce

thinking about how the more you surveill people such that they can't commit crimes OR have privacy, the more likely you are to have an insurgency because once you make most actions illegal-until-questioned-by-a-cop more and more, the less people will care to remain civil because you've now flattened the spectrum.

In most if not all cities, and a lot of other non-cities, policing is an occupation, not in the job sense, but in the invasion sense. And as they shift your rights away to make their job easier, less and less becomes impossible, because anything that isn't home, car, office, car, store, car, gas station, car, home becomes under suspicion. So why not do things suspicious?

Military Police aren't as militarized as the police in major american cities, these days. and MPs don't get a massive surveillance operation over their area -- the drones are tasked elsewhere.