I spoke with several employees of Sweet Baby Inc. to learn what the company actually does and how the misunderstanding of its role in the industry highlights a far broader problem.

You don’t know what Sweet Baby Inc. does, but you assume the people complaining about SBI must be incorrect? Do journalists in any other sector of the market fall all over themselves rushing to defend companies like they do in game development?

After the first sentence, I thought, “Was that a moldy orange or something?”

Yeah, I wasn’t very clear about what I meant.

I was talking about this part:

I generally prefer not to have a shared identity across communities

Same. It makes it much easier for someone to doxx you.

I’m doing my part.

All of my encounters with individuals who feel liberal arts are useless and STEM is the way seem to, at their core, feel that way because of earning potential

You were saying a group of people believe that value as a person is determined by their contributions to STEM fields and finance.

Now you’re saying that this group of people believe that value as a person is determined by earnings potential. Those are not the same things.

a person’s intrinsic value and overall value to society is not determined by their contributions to STEM fields and finance

I don’t think anyone who views contributions in STEM fields as the most valuable to society has any respect for finance.

Star Trek TNG Ambient Engine Noise (Idling for 24 hrs)

White noise sounds like radio static.

https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/whiteNoiseGenerator.php

People listen to it for many reasons.

Yes, it is different.

There’s recently been some conspiracy nonsense about a hand gesture in games there.

par for the course: https://www.npr.org/2019/09/26/764728163/the-ok-hand-gesture-is-now-listed-as-a-symbol-of-hate

I really don’t like that the graphs aren’t across the same period of time.

I don’t think refusing to accept a compromise is a logical fallacy.

debian in opposition to ubuntu gives you a choice at install

That’s nice.

KDE is the default DE for Debian these days?

I liked the hat in the first movie

I need to think about it some.

I don’t think I like this guy.

The kinda shitty part is that everybody is a full time employee but you still get frequent layoffs after projects end. That’s the worst of both worlds, especially in the US where there are basically zero mandatory protections. In places with actual labor regulations it’s… kinda expensive and self-defeating.

Something like 60% of EA employees live outside the U.S.A.