Omg! Thank you!

Turns out it was this one: https://www.lemon64.com/game/microdeal-shuttle

Been gaming since 1984 or some such.

By number of hours played: Factorio

By number of hours I can monologue about a game at you: also Factorio

By how much I think it affected gaming industry and culture: Doom

Xenon 2?

Haha, that’s the attitude :)

I did say, in a nice way, that “they are your competitors either way”.

And yeah, companies treating interviews as a one-way evaluation is a red flag.

There was this book that was hype around 2010, called “Are you smart enough to work at Google?”. It was full of interview questions and brainteasers that I strongly suspected I’d find interesting, but I couldn’t get over the title. I wanted to scream “Fuck you, book! Is Google smart enough to hire ME?!”

We are, as a profession, systematically manipulated via these interview processes to feel stupid and inferior to drive down wages. I’d rather come off as slightly too arrogant now and then, rather than submit to that.

Real conversation, not exaggerated. Actually slightly toned down:

“We offer a competitive salary! It’s $number!”

“I have 2 offers 10% higher, from a shipping company and a finance company, in the same city”

“We don’t compete with the finance and shipping sectors”

“And 15% higher in one of the consultancies”

“We don’t compete with consultancies either”

(I think I’m going to put Reigninh Monarch of Norway on my CV. I just don’t compete with King Harald.)

The naming pattern makes it easier to have different “models” per major retailer. This hinders consumer price comparisons.

Guns 'n Poses? Guns 'n Ropes? …hmm still kinda cool.

Guys 'n Roses? Buns 'n Roses?

Fleetwood Man

Scooner

Guts 'n Roses

The Olsen Brothels

The Fillers

Thanks!

?, Jenkins, RedDot, Litterbox, Toonhole, C&H

If you express your viewpoint in a kind way, that’s genuinely the most “winning” you can possibly achieve.

Convincing people in one go is not achievable by just finding the right words.

People may disagree. They may downvote you to hell. They may thank you. They may agree. They may misunderstand.

But as long as you write kindly, people will read what you say and give it thought. Maybe it plants a seed for them to change their mind another time.

Go for it! Let your enemies learn that you can come for them any time!

Ditch her.

Basically “litany against fear” but for “emotions”?

Thanks.

Where can one find more context? Just looking at this tweet, it looks like she is straight up calling Elon a literal nazi.

I can criticize a broken product. The jobs deserve thing is creative reading on your part.

https://godotengine.org/

There’s no need for Unity anymore. Godot is excellent for at least 2D games the same way Unity used to be. Unreal is easy to pick up for 3D. GameMaker Studio is going strong.

I think it’s “learned helplessness”, sadly. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness

Like much of math, people are often eager to talk about the cool stuff and make it sound hard because they are proud they understood it. For a newcomer, this is just a brick in the face.

Real programmers modulate their voice and scream precisely into the microphone such that the recorded audio file is valid machine code.