Maybe not the strangest but here are 2 from my vacation to London last month:

2 women walking past. One of them says:

“I talk a lot of shit, but my fart is bigger than my shit.”

Then in Covent Garden I met a very polite drug dealer:

Excuse me, do you need any weed or coke? No, well then have a very good evening.

Nice guy, big smile.

What year is this? This was a scare back in the 1970.

Un-fortify the wheat now!

/s

Have a looks at the Hobart’s Funnies designs section:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobart's_Funnies

Hitler’s generals we’re largely good generals. Many came from the Prussian school of war.

The Allies didn’t try to assassinate Hitler because Hitler was causing so many military blunders by thinking he knew better than his generals and overruling them.

I’ve never seen one before, no one has, but I’m guessing it’s a white hole

The mountains of madnesses would be a very good fit for the Tin Tin vibe as well.

I’d read this.

The discussion of nuclear power, much like the discussion of communism, is met with entrenched positions on Lemmy.

Break them up!

Might have been black flag. I dont think it was the 1st one.

I remember un skippable cut scenes and the inability to run.

One of the AC games, I forget which, had levels in a games company’s office. I think they were developing games using the animus.

Turns out, the corp was evil and there was an AC fight to escape.

If they’d have been WFH then that evil corp wouldn’t have been uncovered.

Just saying this is maybe a bad move for corporate.

P.S. I’m pretty sure the antagonist (CEO?) was French?

I’m going from 10 year old memory banks so may be misremembering (in case my incredibly solid account threw you).

Agreed but I still agree with op :)

Ahh yes the: we can’t have self signed certificates for security reasons but also can’t open up the environment to the web, and we dont have our own CA server, trifecta.

Solution: awkward, manual, certificate import process from a 3rd party vendor.

I finished an email with “Breast regards” once. I’m very glad someone pointed that out :D

I do this:

1. Tell myself I’m not going to do it. What ever it is, I’m not going to do it.

2. Do the bare minimum thing like: open up a word document, turn on a tap to wash dishes, take something out of a box.

3. By commencing the task I’ll usually default into doing the next part like reading the document, washing a dish, sorting something out.

Additional tips:

• Break big things into small chunks.
• Dont get overloaded. If your a room do it one draw at a time so you can stop when ever. Getting trapped in a “I can’t sleep until this is finished” task is a trap.
• Lists to keep track.

P.S. I was in recruitment 13 years ago and once thought about throwing myself down the stairs to get out of work. I did that job for 2x years and used it to move to a better industry.

You can make change in your life.

Good luck, we’re all counting on you :)

I get your logic but Source was developed as a foundation engine and it had a road map to improve its performance and graphics. Example: HL2 vs Dear Ester.

Cry Engine again, designed to be perormant and push graphics. Opened up to multiple developers as a service.

Bethesda’s engine is tuned for RPG elements, fair enough. But there is apparently a limit to how graphically rich it can get.

Bethesda have pushed there engine as far as it’ll go. There ex dev is saying “it isnt the engines fault the RPG was bad.” These are 2x separate issues.

There will always be tech debt making large scale IT changes.

RE the point on Risk, I’d write it like this:

IF the engine is changed THEN there could be a delay to current projects. Mitigation: finish projects in flight. Start new projects on a new engine.

How about this risk:

IF the engine is not able to be modernized THEN there is a risk that Bethesda games fall beind their competition. Mitigation:

1. Better RPG elements (Dev says this didn’t work).

2. Migrate to a new engine in a rush when the next project doesn’t sell (cutting corners on the tech debt).

P.s. do you have a good definition of tech debt? Ive always used “Something we need fix in the future.” Quite loose but ive had lots of arguments about this lol

What happens to a steam account when someone dies? Its not like Steam does a lookup against a deaths register.

If the password is handed on, is the account auto deleted after 120 years?

If someone dies at 20 does the account live on for another 100 years?

I get the legality aspect, but how is this handled in practice?

I think were seeing diminishing returns in graphics. Some games are almost photo realistic.

This means that any engine capable of these graphics will be largely future proof.

They should bite the bullet and build/move to a new engine. It likely won’t need changing unless there is a major breakthrough.

I don’t think total accumulation of wealth would be a problem in itself IF it was taxed properly.

If I was in charge I’d do the following:

1. Simplify the tax code and remove exemptions.
2. Set a threshold for inheritance tax, say $5m, and tax anything above that at close to 100%.
3. Setup a department to review and adapt to tax avoidance strategies I.e. billionaires taking out loans to avoid paying themselves in dividends, which would have been taxed.
4. Make the tax code progressive e.g. you pay more tax the more you earn. Set this up for capital, income, pension etc. Tax it all at the same level.

I think this provides enough of an incentive to work hard but removes the inter generational plutocracy issues.

Equality of opportunity and all that.

P.S. In my opinion, the accountancy profession should not need to exist. Rules should be simple enough for an average person to follow.

Hear me out, this isnt a flame.

The word liberal has lost some of its historic connotations.

I am a believer in Economic Liberalism, broadly defined as;

Economic liberals tend to oppose government intervention and protectionism in the market economy when it inhibits free trade and competition, but tend to support government intervention where it protects property rights, opens new markets or funds market growth, and resolves market failures.[2]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_liberalism

Genuine question: Which party do I vote for?

As I see it, none of them are championing economic liberalism.

Note: before someone replies with: what about climate change, inequality etc. These are market failures that Economic liberals believe should be fixed by government.

As I see it, liberal economics is politically dead.