LoamImprovement @ LoamImprovement @beehaw.org

Oh god, please don't make me talk about myself.

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It's poverty all the way down.

It's already too late, it's probably been too late for a while now. At this point, I'm just focused on enjoying myself, not having kids, and waiting for the end. We had a good run.

It's a weird dichotomy, where capitalism breeds and enshrines these people who need to be told no at critical junctures in order to ensure the health of the product, but absolutely nobody can or will without risking their livelihood, so the mania goes unchecked.

Hell yeah

"Up and atom!"

It can't really be surprising from the series that tends to go above and beyond in their diversions. I can't think of a Yakuza/Judgement that didn't have half a dozen other Sega games, shogi, mahjong, cho-han, blackjack, hanafuda, collectible card games, cabaret club management, and slot car racing, to name a few, each with their own powerups and rewards.

This is not my beautiful ship!

This is not my beautiful number two!

BISMILLAH NO! WE WILL NOT LET YOU GO!

Bosses have gotten bad because the c-suite has metricized everything. Thirty years ago there was none of this constant NPS feedback or strongly agree/disagree surveys. You remember when the cashiers at fast food places started asking you to fill out those surveys and earn a free double whatever on your next visit? That was an executive making up one more number to justify their bloated salary at the expense of every employee beneath them in the hierarchy. These days it is all about the numbers, and the people who are best at making the numbers higher are fucking sociopaths who bring those numbers up by crushing the humanity out of people, so they float to the top like the megalomaniacal turds they are.

Ask yourself when the last time you had honest feedback directly from your boss, that wasn't veiled in three layers of web forms and paper trails designed to make it impossible for you to get a raise for the good work you were doing. For me, it was five years ago, before the pandemic, when my boss advocated for me directly to her supervisor, cut right through the shit and told them, "if you do not pay him what he's worth, we will lose him and this department will be underwater." She didn't need a meeting to tell me what my peers thought of my work and how it could be improved, like so many MBA managers who don't know their ass from a hole in the ground when it comes to my skillset, we worked together and when I fucked up, she let me know and showed me how to fix it, because she knew how to do the job she was asking me to do.

She left because she got tired of dealing with the CEO, son of former CEO, who thought he could charisma his way through massive failures to our partners and clients because of his incompetent leadership. He decided that the reason it didn't work was because the crew didn't read enough Patrick Lencioni new age management books, so we all got to read about the fucking Fantasyland workplace where everyone who aligns to the metrics he pulled out of his ass gets to go to corporate blowjob heaven, and also every hug between two men has to be underscored "100% NOT GAY."

Yeah, that's kind of the whole problem with people being one missed paycheck away from being homeless - when it actually happens, and happens to enough people, shit gets wild.

This is a good reminder of both why they take you out of the cockpit forever if you so much as hint that you may have any sort of mental/emotional issue, and why we need better processes in place to solve the problems that lead pilots to that breaking point.

It shouldn't have gotten to the point where one wobbly Jenga brick in the stack kept 83+ people from dying that day.

But why? He's just a li'l guy?

The same thing that's been happening for the last decade or so - they throw all the money at marketing and marketable assets and then they try to shove the shit back into the horse with the pittance left over for everything else. Then they tell their customers it's a hardware issue when the game inevitably runs like triple ass on their PCs because nobody can afford a dev machine to play the damn thing.

I hope the dev gets some serious mileage out of the engine they built because that game is one of the precious few that makes the act of 'getting from A to B' a hell of a lot of fun. The shmoovement is real.

You can't say that and not show your work to the class.

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hell yeah

I think almost all of them can be answered with "It's an AI-generated image."

Look up 'Gumbo Slice' for more.

I mean, I prefer them because they're legumes, so they don't cause me to go into anaphylactic shock, but that's just me.

Well, only poor people do. Rich people can have anything they want because they're rich, and god's rewarding them for magic sky daddy reasons so we have to as well.