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  • It wasn't made political: it's always been political. Just because it's old doesn't mean it wasn't political then or isn't political now.

    There are entire political parties functionally dedicated to the opposition of this statement.

  • I'm glad some managers see it that way. I wish it were easier to get junior headcount. Our mobile team is very small so we have huge bus factor at all times. A couple of junior devs, say 1 for each of the mobile components in our stack (backend, iOS, android) would help mitigate those risks for comparatively cheap, on top of improving our overall velocity.

    You never hire somebody senior and find they can do twice as much as you thought.

    Generally juniors are expensive for their performance though. If they can do double what you thought it's great but I'm not sure how much of a cost savings that is against an engineer coming in as a senior (not lead or staff - just a vetted competent programmer who works). Then again I'm not in management at all: I could have the performance-per-dollar figure entirely wrong.

  • Rogue was the start of the genre - games that came after we're always measured against it.

    Rogue was a dungeon crawler - a type of game that had been done plenty of times before. Starting over on death had also been done.

    But it became genre defining by being the best at both.

    Spire I'd say is similar. It is genre defining because the combination of gameplay elements was so perfectly executed that it will become the measuring stick against which all roguelike deck builders will be measured. So Spirelike fits, I think.

  • Everyone wants to hire senior devs, nobody wants to train junior devs.

    It makes sense: juniors are a way bigger risk than seniors and usually leave a company right around the time that they're getting good.

    And they have every reason to: companies aren't loyal to workers why should workers be loyal to companies?

    But to a corporation that means they spent senior dev time training juniors into seniors for another company to use.

    ... I'm constantly arguing that we should have more junior devs on the team but we have none.

  • You define a politician as one who does politics for the same reason you define an artist as one who does art.

    Everything you mentioned above is political but that doesn't make it politics.

    It's defined as "the activities associated with the governance of a country or other area, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping to achieve power."

    Politics is what politicians, aspiring or otherwise, do. Just like art is what artists do. And music is what musicians make.

    You're using words wrong and then bitching at people for not using words wrong with you.

  • Politics = activities associated with governance

    News = current events. Sometimes this includes reports on the activities associated with governance.

    When politics shows up on your feed it's news.

    But when a cancer breakthrough shows up on your feed it's also news.

    Politics often makes the news but the news consists of more than politics.

    These are really simple concepts. I'm starting to think you must be trolling.

    You're arguing semantics without knowing basic definitions. You're conflating terms that a simple dictionary could clarify for you.

    Is English your second language?

  • A viewer has no role in determining if it's art. Art is solely determined by an artist intending to make art.

    A viewer decides if they like it, decides if they appreciate it and decides what messages they take from it... But they don't decide if it's art. Art is what an artist makes.

  • ???

    Politics is a very clear content type what the fuck are you on about?

    I'm not saying politics like "if a game has a brown person that's politics". That's wrong - a brown person in a game is political because Republicans can't accept that diversity is real.

    I'm saying if your entire feed is politics like "Today the White House said Palestinians aren't people" and "Today Trump tweeted incoherent nonsense again! Can you believe it" or "Marjorie Taylor Greene is being outrageous again: watch this video and be mad!"

    That's politics. Everything is political - absolutely. That's different than politicians and politicking.

    Politics as generally used is activities associated with the governance of a country.

    You don't know what politics means. But you're right to say everything is political.

  • It's art because it's intentional.

    The point is to make you think it's bullshit. That was the artist's intent.

    AI has no intent. The person prompting it might... But usually it's not intent so much as "I tried until this was pretty"

    Which is still art - just not noteworthy.

  • Sure but interpretations like pilot wave have more evidence against them than for them and while multiverse is deterministic it's only technically so. It's effectively probabilistic in that everything happens and therefore nothing is determined strictly by current state.

  • Remember you live in a tiny bubble and think that your experience is reflective of broader trends because it's all you see in your bubble.

    Basically nobody modified their YouTube. Less than a fraction of a percent.