theneverfox

theneverfox, 1 day ago

At this point? The moment I hear the heritage foundation is involved in anything, I either think “of course they would be” or “what hidden implication am I missing?”

theneverfox, 3 days ago

What’s a CD?

theneverfox, 3 days ago

Why don’t presidents fight the war?

theneverfox, 3 days ago

Democracies hate this one simple trick…

When lawmakers want to take a bribe, all they have to do is legalize it. Or, skip all that and go for the goal - convince executives and the courts it’s legal, because you did bribery with extra steps. It’s a totally new thing I just made up

theneverfox, 5 days ago

My digital friends are way more willing to accommodate my bullshit

theneverfox, 6 days ago

But the switch isn’t just an underpowered console… It’s a handheld with an HDMI port

theneverfox, 4 days ago

I take lots of pictures, I just don’t post them anywhere

theneverfox, 5 days ago

Didn’t you hear then? It’s a key, now start sticking it in things

theneverfox, 7 days ago

To put it simply, I think it’s unrelatable

theneverfox, 8 days ago

Added zip code to the reseller portal when batch-creating transactions in <main-project>

I try to start off descriptive, in case I want to diff a few changes back. After that, sometimes I write notes or general reflections on life in there… Until yesterday I thought no one was reading them

theneverfox, 8 days ago

Do you have any plans to open source your coffee list? I want to add this feature where I get an iced coffee in the morning

theneverfox, 8 days ago

I think long messages are a good habit. Start with something readable in the history, past that who cares? Most people rarely read past the preview, and if they do they want details

I think it’s great because it makes you reflect on what the goal was and what you did. I sometimes stop to make a quick change as I’m writing, or just collect my thoughts before mentally dismissing the task

theneverfox, 8 days ago

I’d be interested

theneverfox, 9 days ago

I received a call to adventure this week. Unfortunately, I can live my life remotely, so I’ll barely miss a beat. Just in a different place for a while, and grinding a quest that could insulate me from the horrors of capitalism (if we succeed)

theneverfox, 9 days ago

Military-aged thing?

theneverfox, 9 days ago

Well I just learned the term today, but it seems to have the implication "these are men who could be military. They could be hidden insurgents

theneverfox, 8 days ago

“We’re just asking questions!”

theneverfox, 8 days ago

Ditto. I’m not going to put in the time to clean up a project working fine for me just to have it ignored or complained about. It’s all expectation, very little reward

And even if I did get volunteers, I’m not coordinating people on my personal projects. Sounds like a great way to take all the joy out of it…

Open source is just broken right now, it runs by draining the passion out of people

theneverfox, 10 days ago

Personally, I love having a ton of them - I wish there were more

I don’t mind standard progression ones, they at least give me a rough idea how far through the storyline I am

But the high end ones are way too few - I like having an unlockable goal to work towards if I’m not done with a game by the time I finish the in game progression. I want them to be hard, maybe even require multiple playthroughs with a severe handicap. Not tedious collecting… But like in Prey when you had to play through with only human, typhoid, or no abilities unlocked. Then you had to save everyone and murder everyone - I had fun trying to combine as many as possible into a playthrough

My problem is that people get upset when 100% is a long and hard road, and a lot of games have lowered the bar to keep them from getting upset. Might as well make prestige achievements that put the total over 100% at this point… Hell if I launch something on steam I might do free DLC just for that

theneverfox, 10 days ago

I’d be careful about that friend

With the aggressively anti-user and poorly thought out moves tech companies have been making lately, I wouldn’t put it past Microsoft to start using little discrepancies like that to go after people

It would be dumb, way more effort than it’s worth, and likely extremely invasiv… Probably not likely, but I would’ve said the same about a lot that’s happened in the last couple years.

But all the same, in your shoes I’d look into blocking that on the off chance it puts a target on your back

theneverfox, 10 days ago

Exactly! I left two achievements in Prey because while I loved it, a fourth playthrough was too much - years later I still remember the map intimately

But then there’s games like saints row 4…I loved it, it was just pure fun. I was having such a great power fantasy I even got all the collectables. I tried to keep going, but I ended up just mindlessly jumping around until I faced reality

Or for a more recent example, satisfactory. It was great fun - I restarted just before the endgame to extend the experience. Then I did everything… There was so much more map left and I could’ve built so much more if I just had a reason. They get a partial pass because it’s still in development and mods could give me a second, longer, playthrough but I wanted to enjoy the updates before I burned up all my desire to play

Give me some stat scaled enemies, maybe a bit more basic progression, and a flimsy reason so I can have my fill of the gam

theneverfox, 10 days ago

As long as you’re not doing it now I wouldn’t worry, you’d need very detailed information to tell you apart from steam. Privileged information I’d never have considered Microsoft yanking a year ago, but a year from now? Unlikely, but not unbelievable anymore

Shooting yourself in the foot trying to punish users seems to be the new SOP for tech giants these days…I no longer would put anything past them

theneverfox, 10 days ago

I always wondered… So in theory trackers are harmless. But for a bird? They’re freaking huge. Birds fold their legs up tight to sleep. It’s a small fraction of their body weight on one side, all the time, for months or years… That can’t just be a minor inconvenience

It’s got to be like wearing a work boot on one foot and a tennis shoe on the other every day

theneverfox, 10 days ago

This is exactly why HR departments exist. Had OP collected evidence, told management with a paper trail, and they failed to stop it? Or worse, told off OP because they don’t want to deal with it?

The jerk could maybe get charged with a misdemeanor related to harassment or misuse of technology… Maybe the UK has something harsher or more specific, but at the end of the day it’s a bit extreme to put someone in jail or pay OPs wages if they were forced out of work

The company on the other hand? They have a legal obligation to maintain a safe work environment. They also have deeper, easier to access pockets. A lot easier to get a lawyer to pursue that, which is expensive even if they win in the end

If they’re clearly shown to have not taken reasonable action, they’d at least be on the hook for any lost wages or medical costs (not sure what decent therapy runs over there, less than the US I’m sure but I’m guessing not cheap). Even if OP quits or decides not to show up, it could be until they get a new job at similar pay with some extra thrown on top

HR’s job is to cut this off before OP needs to be paid off, or much worse finds a lawyer. They don’t care about the employees, so safest could be to fire the guy - the least they’re going to do is officially reprimand the guy and follow up with OP to make sure it’s not worsening and OP isn’t feeling litigious

theneverfox, 12 days ago

My first thought would be “maybe we can be friends”

With the bear, obviously