Welcome to the team, Dan! Can’t wait to see where you take things. :)

The fascist part is: Ohh humans are the problem Okay, which humans? Who decides who gets what? Who lives and who dies? Is there any consideration for the power dynamics in our society (spoiler, no there is not)

That’s the part that always gets me. When I hear that argument it usually goes like this:

“There’s too many humans, we’re killing our planet :(”

“Yeah good thing you’re not one of those! Oh wait you are so…Okay, are you gonna be first in line to sacrifice yourself for the alleged Greater Good or. . .?”

“. . .”

“. . .well?”

Interesting (scribbles on clipboard)…and for how many football fields would it span, exactly? And weigh how many Ford F150s?

but it’ll cost way way more, and the budget isn’t unlimited.

I wish things weren’t always so short-sighted by default. I mean sometimes things evolve so maybe it’s better to leave room for teardown and improvement or whatnot.

But it seems if you’re not thinking in “quarterlies”, infrastructure that’s built once and simply maintained should cost a lot less in the long run.

But then I guess the contractors would dry up if they didn’t have to come rebuild it a dozen times a decade. :p

OMG, preach! Louder for the kids in the back!

People are far too eager to identify under monolithic cults that demand perfection, instead of just, doing their best at what they feel is a good thing.

This is how I feel about work. I got a new job, I liked a lot of the tasks, they feel meaningful and it’s a heckuva lot better than the one that I used to have!

Less than six months in and I’m like "Okay, this is no longer new to me. I’ve already peaked here. Sure it generates currency but I have to come back already?? "

I’m trying to remind myself I don’t want a job that’s consistently a new and novel challenge, because that will burn me out on choosing new and novel challenges for myself.

Still! Frustrating. If this was skilled work like the 2014-ish tech industry I could just jump in 6 more months and double my salary, but it’s not. Lol

Seriously if we just hardcore PSA’d even basic media literacy skills into our culture, MAYBE people would stop thinking that random internet anecdotes (which are likely largely bot-driven these days) constitute “scientific evidence.”

LOL I wish it were like that. The “kids and their superior grasp of technology.” That’s how it’s supposed to be. They’re supposed to be smarter than us.

Indeed, with desktops and internet forums it really did seem to be going that way…and then with smartphones becoming specialized as content consumption and attention-capture devices, the kids started going backwards.

Yeah, they can swipe their lil’ fingers and use instagram now, but so can a chimp. It’s designed that way.

Using files and folders or printing their homework? Relegated back to the esoteric and arcane arts. It’s tragic.

But this kids who do make a point to learn and teach themselves are doing incredible things.

So I guess, the average has dropped, and now we’re seeing more dramatic extremes on either end of the spectrum. 🤔

…/TED_talk lol

There’s your “Loading screen game tip” for today lol.

This reminds me of an excerpt in David Graeber’s “Bullshit Jobs”, where he quotes a sailor from like, the East India Company or something.

Something along the lines of “Many suspect the monkeys of the island can speak, but wisely choose not to, knowing they would be taught English and put to work.”

Haha yeah I always thought it was like the Japanese or Portuguese “Ne?” , or British “In’nit?”

It’s like a statement followed by a “You agree too, right?” Lol

So much. It feels like an offshoot cousin of clickbait, basically.

Weak ideas with writing that tries to sound strong.

I move to make this the new definition of “Marketing”.

Yeah, when I get the urge to buy, I go through my library and pretend it’s a “store”, and “shop” for something I haven’t played.

Small psychological trick that…seems to mostly work. :)

Also if you wanna go real oldschool, Divine Divinity and Beyond Divinity go for like 70¢ occasionally. :D

I love 3D art, and I want to make games eventually. I remember using my cracked copy of 3D Studio MAX to experiment and try things “just to see real quick!” when I was supposed to be doing more boring homework like report writing.

I even kept my obsession after a community college semester with the most joy-killing professor on the subject you could ever meet.

I dropped out of college because of life and found Blender, and kept learning as much as I could because I thought it was my ticket to a real job that didn’t involve “How may I help you?” every single day. It was going to be my way out.

Well, just a year or so ago I FINALLY got paid to do a freelance character sculpt. And…It took way longer than I hoped, I hammered on it like every single day, and I haven’t touched Blender since wrapping that project.

I really want to get back to modeling, but it made me realize I definitely don’t want to be an “industry” 3D artist making stuff to someone else’s exacting specifications for money. I still would love to sell a game on Steam or something some day.

…But I put a lot of skill points into these skills already, following what I love…so I’m kinda lost. Business and work is a realm that just makes me nauseous and anxious to think about as the water keeps rising, so to speak.

So I guess I’m saying: don’t make the thing you love your lifeline to surviving capitalist society, because unless that thing is “making money”, doing it for money or clientelle chokes the joy out of most human endeavors.

This but at a larger timescale.

“Well today is work and tomorrow is work and the next day is some thing I gotta do and the next day is errands and then work again and then…the month’s basically already over.”

First, we’ll deep dive into “What is a variable?”, then together we’ll examine “Who sets a variable?”, “What is an LLM?” and finally, “Who would set a variable without using an LLM?”

You’ll be a coding pro in no time!

How does that sound?

(I felt gross writing this lmao)

…and the kid who drew the orange was paid by the…local orange juice cartel, or something…who were making tons of money off of this entire kerfuffle.