MoonMelon

joined 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

I wouldn't be surprised. If the tariffs go through and prices skyrocket the admin will need a scapegoat, and I don't think "woke" will resonate. My guess is they attack unions. Despite the absurdity of that notion it has a proven track record. Whip up a furor, use it to kill the NLRB. Nothing changes but by then six months have gone by and nobody cares.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Broodwar remaster was also good. If they faithfully uprez the graphics, fix severe bugs, and do nothing else then there's hope. The 2D remasters have a good track record so far.

That said, had anyone played WC2 recently? It's pretty rough. It's fun for nostalgia sake and if you're into the lore of Warcraft or the history of RTS, but it doesn't hold up like Broodwar still does.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

When my sibling first started teaching high school, decades ago, none of the public schools were hiring because of America's perpetual budget crisis in public education (tons of vacancies, but zero openings). The only option was a Yeshiva. We're not Jewish, or even religious, but the rabbis didn't care. Every other private school was Christian, and they all required every employee to sign a "loyalty oath" affirming all kinds of shit that would otherwise be illegal but somehow isn't because of their status as a "religious institute".

So this has been happening for a long time. It all worked out though and fortunately my sibling never had to subject themselves to such a place.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

One of my favorite old school game illustrators. If you like his work check out Phil Hale as well.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (13 children)

It's the Trolley Problem. Many people finding themselves in that problem would say, "Of course I flip the switch, one person is less than five people".

But if you take a step back it's reasonable to ask, "WHY did I suddenly find myself in this Trolley Problem? Trolleys don't spring into existence fully formed like Athena springing from Zeus' forehead. They are designed and built, piece by piece. The switch was setup by the agency of someone. People were kidnapped and tied down by force. I was placed here on purpose."

So given that realization it's also reasonable when told you must choose to say, "Why? You designed this system. You tied the people down. You could have done it differently and instead deliberately did THIS. I had nothing to do with it and I refuse the premise that I must participate in your fucked up game. No matter what happens the blood is on your hands and I refuse to share in your guilt."

That's the essential argument. There's the realpolitik decision to do "less harm", but you can also reject the fucked up premise.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Not me, but someone I was dating. Her family owned a Chevrolet dealership and she was always driving some kind of lightly used mid-range sedan. Two of them catastrophically failed and one of them would randomly shut off when going over slight bumps. Like going over an expansion joint on a bridge could do a full shut off, no power steering, etc. These were all sub 20k mile cars. She would just get it towed back to the lot and get another one, like a disposable product. The family laughed about ripping off customers. The whole operation was banking off soccer moms buying enormous Suburbans and boomer nostalgia for Corvette. Basically just rent seeking an ancient contract to be the dealer for a large territory. Needless to say I will never buy a Chevy.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Toxic megacolon. Sounds like a metal band.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

A soil probe and sample boxes. You use the probe to take what looks like a little core sample and send it off in the box to get a soil analysis from the local university extension (for a nominal fee).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Denethor prefers tomatoes raw. More explosive power.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Back in the day TCL was used in a few places in Pixar's Renderman renderer (called PRMan), and in its connection to Maya. You could write little TCL scripts within the Renderman Artist Tools (RAT) that would be evaluated during scene export. I think this still exists in some form inside Tractor, which is their renderfarm management software.

It's been a long time since I used prman but generally Python has replaced everything as the "glue" language, which honestly makes things a lot easier. VFX and game dev used to have a hundred different scripting languages rolling around.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

I ran into a guy from high school and it turns out he worked for Microsoft back in the Windows Mobile days. He said that changing even a single button on a submenu would take six months of meetings, and if it involved other departments they would actively sabotage any progress due to the way MS internally made departments compete, so you could basically forget it. He said they literally backdoored software so they could sidestep other departments to get features in.

I think about that a lot.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

I worked there during this time, and this pretty much confirms what everyone feared when the merger was announced. Part of me wants to read this book, but I know it will make me really mad.

Just a little anecdote, we had a meeting shortly after where Frank Pierce told us that major changes would basically happen over Morhaime's dead body. So when he left (and Pierce also) it was clear that it was over.

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