I work at a shitty megacorp where they hire people as “contractors” and then have them act like full time employees, but without any paid time off or health insurance.

I have made this joke a few times when people were like “work late to finish the thing!”

The ICs found it funny. The corporate ghouls and boot lickers did not.

It’s not trivial to leave. Finding work is hard. Housing is hard, especially if you’re not physically there to look at places. Getting permanent status is difficult. For many people in the US, they only speak English. Maybe Spanish. So that’s limiting.

Feels pretty good living in one of the few parts of the US where you don’t need a car. Just walk or take transit.

Moving to such a place isn’t practical for everyone, sadly.

And that’s the end of using reddit, right?

If it’s going to make LLMs it’s not as useful as the other things I listed. Paying a bunch of software engineers $300k each to work on LLM nonsense instead of something useful is a shame. Sure, the money isn’t set on fire, but the opportunity cost is large.

That’s a lot of money that could have been spent on healthcare, food security, housing, transit, climate change problems…

This is why gamers will own nothing and love it.

It’s just children eating marshmallows.

Being mildly uncomfortable and skipping the new hotness is just unthinkable for a lot of people.

It’s the poor empathy thing again. They can’t really imagine someone else as different than themselves.

I actually never played much XCOM, but I did play a lot of final fantasy tactics. And the original fallout.

I think Baldur’s gate 3 cheats though, since with karmic dice off I rolled four natural 1s in a row, twice.

I’ve played a lot of games with random factors. Sometimes you miss that 99% shot three times in a row. People kind of assume anything above 80% is 100%, which is silly.

These people need to be ruined. Lose their job. Barred from working in similar roles for life. Put their boss on notice- if their underlings pull this again then they go, too.

A woman who was arrested on Saturday after she drove a truck through a youth soccer game in Wichita, Kansas – killing a boy and a man – has been released from custody without charges pending further investigation, according to authorities.

Once again, the best way to do some murder is with a car. People just accept it

I had someone get mad at me once because I ended an otherwise innocuous text with a period. I was like, it doesn’t mean anything. I was going to write another sentence, but then didn’t. Stop imagining secret meanings.

I think they were my worst ex partner, come to think of it.

“He’s not as good at this as he thinks he is,” said Christopher Preble, senior fellow and director of the Reimagining U.S. Grand Strategy program at the Stimson Center, an international security think tank.

Yeah. He’s an idiot.

Cooperative sports would be interesting. Two teams come in, and they need to get a ball through some obstacles together…

It is kind of funny how the US simultaneously exalts FREEDOM and tyranny. The tyranny being the private realm, where your boss has total control

We are ruled by idiots. It’s probably been that way for the majority of history.

Most places I’ve worked, management has been a negative force.

I didn’t hear anything about these protests. Not even on Lemmy. But I don’t use Facebook products nor reddit, so my information sources are a little spotty.

I feel like if I was playing a scheduled game, I’d rather just play a tabletop RPG than be tied down to this game engine. But I guess the scale is different here and that might be interesting.

I did recently start a tabletop game, though with a system I like a thousand times more than DND.

I recently reinstalled nwn enhanced to see if I would enjoy it so many years later. The answer is no. DND 3rd is a bad system and nwn is slow and clunky. So much time is spent just watching animations. No tactical decisions. Just watch animations as it rolls dice.

It doesn’t help that the original campaign is bad.

Maybe it’s better in multiplayer, which admittedly is the main topic here. But the single player was so bad I can’t imagine wanting more.