2008-2014, I think it had value as a public square where journalists of all stripes really engaged. Now it’s a cesspool. Anyone still hanging out at the nazi bar should really stop and think about the ramifications.

CBD joints

Genuinely curious as I’m a pot user and this made me wonder - why not just… joints? if I were looking for just cbd I’d consumer it other than smoking.

Feel free to dm response heh

looks dense. Would love to try it.

AAA devs should only release games they have invested hundreds of millions of dollars into making once they are absolutely finished and bug free with no expensive future DLCs or microtransactions, absolutely no ongoing subscription costs for the absolute minimum price they think they can sell it for and not go out of business but it should also be DRM free and nobody should buy it anyway because its digital and you shouldnt feel bad downloading it for free because it doesnt cost money to make another digital copy its just corporate greed.”

Honestly I think it’s a lot more complicated and nuanced regarding this here than reddit. When I was a wee lad, I yo-ho-ho some sweet software and games via bbs’s but mostly went legit as I aged. I don’t think there’s more piracy justification here than reddit, but also, I think we’re in a ‘golden-shower-age’ of enshitiffication where services paid for won’t be rendered and that, justifiably, moves the sentiment.

That said, as a game dev, I don’t think people are asking for your proposed argument overwhelmingly - they just want AAA devs to treat their paying userbase better. Some of those considerations are unrealistic, but often they’re justified.

I’m finding Lemmy’s audience to be very similar to 2008 reddit, it’s not perfect, but it’s better than current day reddit and I thank the lemmy creators for having a viable alternative.

FUCK SPEZ.

I’m more worried about North Korea’s program. Iran is, strangely, the paragon of reason and predictability - compared to North Korea.

-_-

But also I’m blown away that most grocery stores don’t list inventory and prices on the website. I can only think this is because they don’t want to show prices in an attempt to get you to go to the store.

yuuup.

everywhere they natively lived

sorry ma’am, your child was one of thirty five killed when we reintroduced wolves to kindercare because they were native here in the 1300s, but their comeback is something to behold, and the survivors have quite a story!

I kid, but also, reintroduce them to areas where they’re least likely to bump up against population, all the areas they natively lived in the past are, unfortunately, overrun by humans. I live in Washington state, where we’re seeing grey wolves slowly come back. I’m all for it. And here in Seattle, we’ve always had Coyotes living around the town, on the large greenways. Keep your cats inside if you love them!

And your elected leaders are fighting it: https://www.newsweek.com/wolves-reintroduced-colorado-lauren-boebert-1853656

goddamn she’s dumb.

Are these prices 1950 aus shillings? trying to make sense of it, thanks.

Neat, is it because it was a cutting?

yup.

makes me wonder when people are going to start caring about the power draw from PC’s and consoles.

I love gaming. Grew up gaming. Make my living working in the fringes of the game industry. And it makes me wonder when we’re going to discuss the clock cycles in the room…

I take comfort that the coal rollers and assholes who fly 40 miles for nachos far outweigh any contributions my aging PC generates but I do worry in the aggregate: we’re powering machines to generate heat to provide entertainment, and at some point that’s going to come under examination.

depends on where you’re located. here in Seattle we have IGDA Seattle and Seattle Indies putting on events every week.

you can look at all the job listings in the world, without a portfolio to show you won’t get any offers.

I know, it sucks, but this is one of those things you can’t talk your way around.

A moron would follow this line of thought so I’m not surprised to see you pursuing it. Your grand children will curse your name, if a woman is ever reduced to the state where they have to procreate with you.

Dev from Seattle here: game jams/hackathons are awesome for learning new systems (godot, defold, etc) and generate assets you can use to sell your portfolio of work.

Of course, linked-in and finding devs in your region to network with. That’s how I’ve found most of my gigs - networking and linked-in. Wish I could offer better advice.

"¯ \ (ツ)/¯ "

fuckin’a, tyvm for this link.

If you haven’t, read his books - braindroppings, napalm and silly putty, class clown, when will jesus bring the porkchops, and last words. they’re all fantastic.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/11/17/2206375/-Heat-Index-in-Rio-de-Janeiro-hits-137-3-degrees-Fahrenheit?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web (this is during the ‘spring’ - our fall - and includes the heat index).

For their winter - on Aug 27, Rio witnessed its highest temperature of the winter, reaching 39.2°C

https://en.mercopress.com/2023/08/27/hot-weather-hits-rio-de-janeiro-this-winter

for winter, these temps are just bonkers.

You should look at the winter that recently ended in the southern hemisphere - record ice shelf losses during winter, record high temps in Rio and other cities. In winter.

And it’s just getting more and more brutal.

Exactly my point, there will always be people like you to apologize and say “oh the end of civilization won’t be that bad, stop demonizing the very fucks that got us into this mess.”

Thanks.