Oof. This is a pet peeve of mine.

As manager, I shut this conversation down via direct messages to each team member involved.

I remind them that they agreed during retro to live with the current set of decisions for exactly two weeks until next retro.

I don’t dictate much, but I do dictate that Slack isn’t an acceptable place for this kind of discussion, on my team.

The only related thing, that belongs in slack, on my team, is a link to the current accepted team standard - which will be open for review and changes again during next retro.

Alternately, if there’s no strandard for this yet then my team knows they’re encouraged to wing it until we discuss at next retro.

And yeah, I’ve had to open an issue to revisit a variable name after retro, lol.

My team are an opinionated bunch, and they’re often perfectionists.

If we need to ask whether something belongs on this list, the answer is yes.

Except Babylon 5. For Babylon 5, the answer is a new language concept called a triple-yes.

Good point. Most people suck.

I do miss the goofballs from my old WoW server though. They were pretty great.

Oof.

“The COVID-19 pandemic made team stability difficult,”

Makes me suspect they were woefully behind the rest of the field in development practices. My team, and many others, gained productivity when all the wasteful manager ego stroking in-person meetings stopped.

Alternately, it tells us they rely on a weird dev kit with a lot of esoteric hardware. Though I would still call that out as being super out of date. Nothing is particularly hard to emulate today, for teams that prioritize having rebuildable test environmenta.

Just wild.

Bummer about the layoffs. Probably won’t fix their agility problem, though.

Right. Becubs my node id cyogged.

“Smart as paint, ye are lads! Smart as paint!” - Long John Silver

“He’s got one leg, Jim! Count 'em: … … One …”

I’m still playing endless Luanti while waiting for Guild Wars 2 to get SteamDeck verified.

Edit: Downvoter can’t handle that Luanti is an MMO, now. I can’t help that I’m the world’s most accomplished self-hoster.

Planet Money podcast did a bit where they followed up with people who fell for buying cheap pharmaceuticals from spam emails.

The assumption was that people paid the too good to be true prices, and then never got anything in the mail.

The weird twist was that everyone interviewed was really satisfied with the product they received.

Now, all disclaimers certainly apply: don’t trust a spammer with your life, there’s nothing to stop imitator scammers from joining the legitimate?! spammers, and people’s satisfaction is a poor measure of drug safety and efficacy.

But it does seem like a sign that someone is doing some of this already.

The other dwarf game I played was The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria.

Ha. I suppose that counts!

Yeah. I knew better, but it just didn’t occur to me until I was confirming my backups later.

Yeah. Absolutely. Even having been robbed a few times really messed with my head. I would hate to have to live with worse.

But I still figure people have a right to seek a safe place to be, and cornered people have a right to use violence, to reach a safe place.

I’ll allow there might even be other times when violence might be moral, since life can get pretty complex, but I hope to live my life without having to make that call.

But I believe that when cornered is the only time a human can use violence with a totally free conscience.

It’s why Sun Tzu advised we always give even our worst enemy an escape route. It’s much better to not have to fight at all, than to have to win a fight with a desperate enemy.

Honestly, not much difference between that and chihuahua. Fight to kill out of fear.

Yeah. Everyone has a right to pursue a safe place to be.

If someone or something puts me in an unsafe enough position, I might have to go through them instead of around them to get to safety.

There’s no shame in that. It’s also nothing to be proud of. It just is.

North America is just the Continental United States, now.

Canada and Mexico have gone into witness protection to avoid getting wrapped up in our bullshit.

“Sounds Swedish.”

Later, baby’s first words were: “Look, ma! I want to cut you in on the take, but you gotta help me be sure you won’t squeal when the feds come around.”

Yeah. I’m imagining Sharknado production levels and Sharknado pacing, but following the Hallmark formula, and with really mundane absurdist details.

• Those fragile little precious moments figurines and limited edition Star Trek ornaments need to be a recurring favored snack for the competing love interests who are lovable but wrong for our heroes.
• One of those little Christmas village decorations sets needs to turn out to be an undiscovered life saving medication, when ground down to a fine glittery paste. Feeding it to someone’s niece gives her the strength to learn to walk again.
• Someone’s talent for cross stitch needs to solve a decades old mystery about someone else’s estranged and now tragically dead parent.
• A poorly gifted and then ignored-for-years art set needs to be part of the big “they truly love me” reveal moment.

I think we have a potential masterpiece, here.

“Dwarf” getting added as a category was a publicity stunt write in campaign by Deep Rock Galactic players, if I recall correctly.

There’s not a ton of games with the tag, but both DRG and Dwarf Fortress tend to get a lot of play hours by their players, I think.

That’s why I buy myself projects that frustrate me for several days, before they make me feel better for a day or less, and then I go back to how I did before.

I really get my money’s worth that way…I guess…

This is like interviewing the child of a programmer and hiring based off of that.

I could land a job that way, but I’m just that fucking good. Lol.

I kind of get that. I stopped buying PlayStations when the PS3 was so hard to get, for so long.

I’ve loved every PlayStation I’ve owned.