That weird thing tech workers from CA do upon meeting you. In the first five minutes you will learn:
What they do for a living (okay)
How much money they make
How much they pay on their rent/mortgage which is presented as anguished pain/suffering
How much money they spent on drinks for a group/an expensive meal the night before
I encounter this at my work but...oh it sucks because I run across it frequently at cons. You haven't even told me something important yet - like what kind of beer you enjoy - so I probably don't need to know how much your home value has increased in the past three years? Why is this even presented as introductory information?
@keirFox Positional goods allow people to, well, position themselves relative to one another.
Occasionally I get the impression that it's saying, "I know I'm at a furry convention, but I'm not a loser, promise! I'm successful!" It might also be nerves: if you don't know whether or not someone is going to like you (because you've just met), you may overshare to try and "make a case for worthiness" in a hurry.
In both cases I wonder, "how can I make myself feel safer to this person?"
There’s an all-hands meeting at work this morning and I can’t take it, I literally just left. It’s nothing but self-congratulatory capitalist wankery, name dropping about Davos, and AI hype. God, the AI hype. Actual quote: “Our challenge to you: Everyone MUST build a product that incorporates AI this year!” Nothing about “these problems seem ripe for AI so we should look into how it can help,” no, it’s literally “Figure out how to use AI and use it, we don’t care how”. OK, have fun with that, you’ll be doing it without me.
@tilton I admit I also feel the emptiness in the tech industry. It's been six months since I left my last SWE job, and as I spend more time away I feel like it would be a huge risk to my mental and emotional well-being to get another job in the same field.
There are probably exceptions, but the list of companies that seem to have a net positive impact on the world is rather short. This is especially true as more and more companies take the "AI at any cost" stance to appeal to investors.
@eniko Palworld? I haven't played it, but the combination of realistic firearms and store brand Pokemon was a big turnoff. I personally don't want AK-47s in my colorful cute creature world.
Our cat Tyson is not feeling well tonight, and I’m worried about him. I don’t feel well. No distractions are distracting enough. We went through this last month, too.
Right now he’s resting, but I don’t know. You never know, I guess. ❤️🩹
Tyson is doing better this morning. He hasn't eaten much today, but his behavior is back to normal. I still don't want to be far from him for very long.
@DuskDargent I imagine these are especially useful at MAGFest. When I attended in the past, it would always take ~30 minutes each way to go to and from my hotel room. 😔
I tried playing "Eagle Eye Mysteries," but it crashed with "decompression error!" when I went to accuse someone of robbing a bank–twice, in the same place. I'll figure it out... I guess the culprit hacked me from inside the game, thirty years ago!
In the meantime, this has got to be the coolest tree house I've ever seen. It certainly beats the treehouse in "The Adventures of Willy Beamish." So jealous.
This Telegram update is making me want to go back to just using UUCP for communications.
You don't have a right to know when I'm currently online, and you don't have a right to know whether I've read your messages or not yet, and I don't owe anybody an immediate reply.
@tilton I agree with this generally–especially at work. Lately I have been craving synchronous communication, though; usually this means something in person or with a phone/video call. Sync text communication isn't it.
These days I don't have an expectation of any reply, or even that someone will read the messages I send them. Frequently, neither of these things happen. Instead, I check Telegram like email: I open it once or twice a day to see if there's anything there. Usually, there isn't.
I didn’t enjoy waking up early to preorder the #visionPro but at least it was actually necessary since the ship date quickly slipped significantly.
Apple initially rejected my prescription since it’s more than a year old (they’re good for two years in WA) but Zeiss had no trouble with it when I uploaded an image later.
Now we wait to see what this thing can really do! I’m very excited to watch Dune in 3D.
After some "research" (very quick survey of games I already know) into detective game deduction interfaces, I found two excellent videos on the topic from GMTK. (They're five years apart, notably separated by the release of "Return of the Obra Dinn.")
Of course they're "excellent" because they confirm my biases: too many interfaces cheat the player out of genuine deduction through prompting.
Something I thought was interesting: "Return of the Obra Dinn," "Case of the Golden Idol," and "Eagle Eye Mysteries" (from 1993) all require the player to choose sets of items before validating whether the player is right.
This is a good way to avoid the brute force guessing that can happen with the Ace Attorney games. I love those games, but I don't usually get the thrill of solving something myself. (Instead, the thrills come from spicy story revelations! I try to predict them.)
@tilton I had a hard blocker on relocating to SCV. But if I didn't, I would have a really hard time balancing housing costs and commute time following the industry-wide remote work backlash.
At this point in my life, it's hard to justify working really hard to pay off someone else's mortgage by renting to avoid spending 2+ hours in traffic each day.
(Supply is constrained by property tax lock-in, too. People won't sell because it means a new tax assessment.)
