Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

Here lies a corpse decorated for the comfort of the living. The former owner is no longer present, regardless of their beliefs.

This is pretty smart! The “twist” ending of him going chaos darksided (for love!) would be great!

Yep, Voyager!

That blows but I’m not surprised. Reddit has gone full lockdown on anything opposing glorious leader, his politics, and the money Spez presume will soon flow to him as just reward. The LA sub was already super conservative anyway. Even the fucking NOLA sub is shockingly conservative for this town. The Money doesn’t like to be reminded of inconvenient truths.

Well, I’ve labelled you as an LA local. If we keep posting and building up a fediverse LA community, I know we’ll eventually get to critical mass here!

Reminds me a bit of the old default Gtk look. Or maybe early Java Swing… The flat look, primary colors, and some other elements to me; it’s very nostalgic. Not sure of any themes that fit it though, sorry, haha

Someone on another mission trip is Acolyte Paul! I assign the names, otherwise we’d have a bunch of Jews dead from an argument over who gets to be Acolyte John. So, you are Acolyte Pink!

MOV AX! RB da X!

https://youtu.be/tw429JGL5zo

Obviously the pope’s protective glass box is permanent, and must be slotted into the truck. The moment they decide you’re pope, into the safety box you go.

(Theres a 40K\golden-throne joke in there somewhere but I’m feeling lazy today.)

Dirty, partly broken, and yet still up somehow?

Can you make a movie out of pure lore? Maybe a prequel, like The Fall of Hoarah Loux or Ranni’s Rebellion? Will the audience be required to parry things?

I should probably standardize my tags a bit, but like others I mainly use it to label argumentative people with mean names as a reminder not to argue with them and their dumbass\shithead\moron\cia-psyop views.

I should also start tagging locals when I suspect them. Maybe all 3 of us can have a Lemmy NOLA meetup sometime?

And no OP, you haven’t “earned” a label yet.

I have now tagged you as “Label-Curious”

Works for me. I got stuck on the puppet king second phase and gave up. Not like rage quit, I just never went back to the game after like a dozen attempts, uninstalled it months later to free up space.

I love difficulty adjustments. Tuning a game to be right for every audience is impossible, better to let the end client have some control over fine tuning their experience.

Control is an excellent example of this for me. My GOTY when it came out, still an all time fav. I love the story and setting, but the combat is tedious after a while. In that case, lowering enemy health made the game less boring without being substantially easier, giving me the kind of experience I could enjoy.

I get people’s intentions behind this, ignorant though it is. I think medicated ADHD folks get a little defensive about it too though. I took adderall and then vyvanse for about 15 years total. Now I don’t take anything for it; I meditate and do THC recreationally (which was how I discovered the ADHD in the first place.)

I don’t think medication is bad, I think it helps people live they way they feel like they want or must. I realized that I was caught up in the hustle trap, taking meds to optimize my brain for the purpose of being a better capitalist worker.

I actually really like my default state. I’m extremely flexible and creative, I get a mix of tasks done, and my emotions are well regulated. On Vyvanse I got a lot of work done, but i was also a rage zombie, and I was prone to falling into “productivity mode” where I could hammer out line after line of code that was all boilerplate or data entry, other easy work to focus on. The kind of thing my ADHD brain would force me to find an easier (better designed) way to do the task if I wasn’t medicated into docile compliance.

So I’m not an advocate for either way: treat your mind the unique way you need to. But i really think the majority of ADHD folks are medicating themselves into acceptance of a broken and diseased system, when our brains have already been adapting to the actual needs of our information-overdense society.

Some poboy shops here sell a long burger. My gym buddy used to regularly eat the 8 patty footlong double. Must have been a pound of meat on it, never mind the cheese and other toppings.

Oh shit, Nottoway burned down? That fucking rules! Yeah it was just a resort and popular wedding destination for racists white people.

It’s sad and interesting to read that front cover and feel almost like that zine could come out today and be just as relevant. Racism, fascism, “Palestine pogroms,” like damn, what have we been doing for 100 years?

People have been falling for the lies of big tech companies for too long. We desperately need unions, and those unions need to push back on these kinds of ineffectual, time-wasting hiring processes.

Look at this asshole though. The image cuts off right when he’s starting into the mealy-mouthed hustle culture part of the linkedin post. Gotta show that you, special magical you, are the one developer who doesn’t mind the exploitation. You stay positive and give 110% to everything, even when they’re fucking you over.

There’s always a stupid as shit hustle bro willing to scab and do the work, they can vibe code through it I guess. If this god forsaken industry had any solidarity at all, then no tech company you’ve ever heard of would be able to hire a single person any more.

Also, I’m quitting tomorrow and you’re in charge of MysteryTool maintenance. I’d start by upgrading the .NET version, that baby’s still running on Framework 4.5!

As discussed previously, browsers are quite complex and so adding a new feature (subtitles) is actually adding several features, on top of existing features (video player) that aren’t really (arguably) core to the web experience.

(I think olds like me want to believe the web is still “for” text and static images, but the majority of users today are (allegedly) all-in on video.)

Anyway, what sub-features make up “simple” subtitles? Oh the usual: where are they sourced? What format? What language? What encoding? (Utf8 one can only pray) Left to right support? Asian character support? What font are you using? System fonts? Are they widely supported? Does any of it work on mobile? Who holds the relevant patents? Etc.