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Cake day: July 7th, 2023
  • TacticsConsort@yiffit.nettoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•The gender wars continue 🥹English
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    2 months ago

    Man. I get being disappointed. I really do get it.

    But tarring all these guys with “hitler youth” when just like every other group, at worst it’s a 45-55% split… Come on. That’s a hell of an insult to throw towards people, many of whom are doing their best and didn’t vote Trump. Doing your best, doing everything that you can do, and still being met with scorn… I know how bad that hurts. I know how it sucks the will right out of you. I know it drives people away. And even if it doesn’t drive them to Trump because they’re good people, it sure isn’t going to drive them towards finding a solution.

  • TacticsConsort@yiffit.nettoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•Any day now.
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    2 months ago

    People really need to understand that for 3rd party candidates to actually be viable then they need a dedicated support base within the existing government structure.

    You can’t realistically vote in a 3rd party president until you’ve first built up an actually effective support structure of 3rd party mayors, senators, and other politicians to prove that your party can function effectively in government rolls and that it has the reach, policies and platform to actually appeal to voters at large.

    (On god we need Ranked Choice voting though. Here in the UK and in America. Fuck First Past The Post, all my homies hate FPTP)

  • TacticsConsort@yiffit.nettomemes@lemmy.world•the hits just keep rolling in
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    3 months ago

    Oh yeah Bethesda’s actual valuable talents just straight up don’t exist anymore.

    Basically it’s a lot cheaper to bring in underpaid, non-unionized contract workers with short contracts. So as far as I’m aware, Bethesda got rid of all their skilled programmers who were highly familiar with the coding and engines of Bethesda games, and brought in people who didn’t have any talent or familiarity, resulting in terrible outputs just because the actual people that make Bethesda’s games good were all fired for being good at making games (and thus being on ‘permanent hire’ wages instead of ‘shitty short contract’ wages).

    But it gets worse. A lot worse.

    See, Bethesda is pretty notorious in the industry for the low quality of their code documentation. Even in their prime they were notoriously bad at this. Code documentation is essential to allowing people to read and understand code, which is notoriously one of the hardest things in the job to do- code is a lot harder to read than to write. Bethesda keeps little to no documentation, which is why most of their games have so many glitches. But not having documentation is a particularly dastardly combo with frequently cycling your workers to keep their wages low. Because their unfamiliar, underpaid workers now don’t have any way to quickly learn how the code operates. And adding your own code to existing code in this way makes the problem a LOT worse, since now even if someone understands one part

    Frequently cycling workers also makes it a lot harder for workers to communicate with each other. This is primarily useful to companies who want to prevent the formation of unions so they can underpay people, but it’s also something that REALLY shows when making games because people need to talk to each other and work together in order to make assets that all go well together. If people aren’t talking to each other… well, think of all the ways that tasks and goals can be interpreted. Two people assigned to different sections of the same task can produce fundamentally incompatible work.

    I’m sure you can see how this could be all be an obstacle to making classic games with rich environments that are prized for their immersion, storytelling and fun gameplay decades later.

  • TacticsConsort@yiffit.nettoMemes@sopuli.xyz•Bethesda, you just entered the no flight zone
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    3 months ago

    I know it got quashed; I’m not saying there was a revolution. “Free Hong Kong, the revolution of our times” was the anti-oppression slogan said by the victor of a heartstone tournament (which there was no rule or stipulation against), which caused Blizzard to ban the player from all tournaments, and refuse to pay him the prize money he’d won in an attempt to suck up to the chinese government.

    To clarify: I don’t expect a gaming company to stand up to a full blown authoritarian regime. But I certainly won’t support a company that willingly goes the extra mile to sell out to them.

  • TacticsConsort@yiffit.nettoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Most important map
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    5 months ago

    Oh, this is handy, I specifically avoid these guys.

    Not for ethical reasons or anything, just I had these weird frozen meatballs from them when I was like 7 and nearly vomited myself to death in a holiday caravan’s bedroom before collapsing unable to move for an hour, conscious the entire time and simply unable to make my body respond. 1/10, not reccommended.

  • TacticsConsort@yiffit.nettoCyanide and Happiness@lemm.ee•24 June 2024
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    6 months ago

    Actually, this isn’t totally wrong, even if the comic is obviously a comic.

    Fat people (at least, the ones who aren’t bedridden) DO tend to be pretty significantly stronger than skinny people that aren’t doing enough exercise, and it’s literally for this reason. Carrying all that fat around genuinely does provide some training.

    Don’t get me wrong though, someone who’s doing proper exercise will obliterate both of them, but it’s still an interesting fact.