SnotFlickerman

SnotFlickerman, 1 year ago

I would rather hope that he legalizes and codifies the “flat” management structure, disallowing any one figure head from taking over and fucking things up.

Valve annoys people because it can be slow to choose to do something, because everyone works on what they want to work on, but it means average workers have a lot more agency in how they’re involved in the company.

I’m sure there’s till unofficial cliques and leaders, but having it in legalese for the employees post-Gabe would be nice.

SnotFlickerman, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Because nepotism just works out gangbusters, every time. /s

Seriously, this is worse news than him not having a plan.

SnotFlickerman, 1 year ago

That would be the best outcome, legal framework for the “flat” management structure, making it an employee owned company.

SnotFlickerman, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

I guess you’ve never had a “new boss” come in, huh? Even in a private company?

Man, new bosses love to shake things up, to “make the workplace theirs.” It’s literally one of the most common things to happen when new bosses come, and very often it results in a deep change in company interpersonal politics.

Barry used to be your go-to guy, but the new boss has decided they just don’t like Barry. Why? They couldn’t tell you, but Barry gets under their skin, so it doesn’t matter how he’s the best guy on the team who can handle whatever is thrown at him, his role is going to be dilluted and minimized and he’s going to be pushed and prodded by negative management to try to get him to just quit. Eventually, Barry will just quit because who wants to work under those conditions. Barry found a better job, and now he’s replaced by your new bosses 20-something nephew who doesn’t know what the fuck he is doing at all and everyone can’t stand. He’s a fucking loser who keeps getting promoted by the new boss.

I’ve been through that too many times to pretend it’s just “that easy.” No, generally the kind of people drawn to that role are controlling dickheads who have their own dickhead “vision” of being the biggest dickhead to ever dickhead.

SnotFlickerman, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Look, despite Musk’s PR, I never read a story about Musk like this:

In 2004, Wolpaw was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. Expecting his condition to require a departure from the company, he spoke with managing director Gabe Newell, who surprised him by offering an extended leave with pay. “Your job is to get better,” Newell said. “That is your job description at Valve. So go home to your wife and come back when you are better.”

Gabe Newell isn’t some kind of saint, but he does at least treat his employees like human beings, unlike Musk who famously berates his employees and treats them incredibly badly, especially if they have to (gasp!) miss work for any reason.

So while people shouldn’t be praising Valve as some kind of panacea in the world, because they’re still just a company, the reality is things like this have endeared Newell to the gaming community and made them believe he did care about a quality work environment.

A reminder, 2004 was before Wolpaw had written for multiple hit games from Valve. Portal came out in 2007 with Wolpaw as one half of the writing team. A few years later he would be head writer on Portal 2.

Those games would not have been the same if he had been let go from Valve when he was sick with ulcerative colitis.

Just a different perspective, I think it’s unfair to compare Newell to a fucking slave drive apartheid fuckhead like Musk.

SnotFlickerman, 1 year ago

I think that’s a valid take, and I think Valve has sort of re-evaluated it, because if I recall correctly, they kind of had to “put on hold” the “do whatever you want” bit to get Half Life: Alyx out of the door. So, imho, it seems like they’re capable of doing both. They managed to produce a high quality VR game by putting the “flat” on the backburner, and them coming back to it later.

Although, to be fair, I hadn’t heard anything similar about the SteamDeck or any Valve hardware, really. So if they can make a SteamDeck from scratch, an entire new product category, with the flat management structure, I bet it’s not holding them back half as much as some folks at GlassDoor seem to think.

SnotFlickerman, 1 year ago

I would appreciate propaganda a lot more if they more often used tracks from Huey Lewis & the News’ third album, Sports.

SnotFlickerman, 1 year ago (edited 11 months ago)

I heard Onstad came back and was doing new Achewood content behind a paywall but I have been too poor to pay and see if he has still got the chops.

I miss Ray and Beef and Teodor and Philipe and Cornelius and Lyle and Nice Pete and the rest of the gang, all the way up to Trouble Man and No-No.

Dear god if only he could get the complete Achewood released.

SnotFlickerman, 1 year ago

Who can forget Todd?

SnotFlickerman, 1 year ago

Have you heard of this idea called “taxes?”

More than that, are you familiar with the idea of taxes being spent on more than just bloated military and police?

SnotFlickerman, 1 year ago

A fan of Zizek film analysis? That’s definitely one of his positions, related to how much post-apocalyptic media still portrays capitalism in practice post-apocalypse.

SnotFlickerman, 1 year ago

Slavoj Zizek / Pervert’s Guide to Ideology / Pervert’s Guide to Cinema

SnotFlickerman, 1 year ago

It’s the fault of the pilots for not understanding undocumented things and not having checked plug doors nuts before taking off !

Pretty sure they got away with not fully fixing this one by whining to the FAA that the full fix would be too costly.

Like, what is the fucking use of our institutions like the FAA if all they god damned do is rubber stamp this shit for their corpo fuckwit buddies?

SnotFlickerman, 1 year ago

Obligatory:

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/885/645/454.jpg

SnotFlickerman, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

I mean, isn’t it important to understand the fundamentals so you can understand VLSM better?

Like math, a lot of this knowledge works better when you know the fundamentals and basics, which help you conceptualize the bigger ideas.

On a personal level, I would have had a lot harder time understanding VLSM if I hadn’t had the basic fundamentals of traditional subnetting and classful networking under my belt.

SnotFlickerman, 1 year ago

How are you “restricting” yourself by learning that it exists? Nobody is saying “learn about it and use it and never consider anything else.” They asked what fundamentals they should know for networking, and I dumped what I considered the “fundamentals.”

SnotFlickerman, 1 year ago

Not even an android can escape dad jokes.

They’re like gravity.

SnotFlickerman, 1 year ago

I feel like “billionaire investor” should be enough to know how shitty he is. Those two words speak literal volumes.

SnotFlickerman, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Onemosphere, twomosphere, threemosphere. Atmosphere.

SnotFlickerman, 1 year ago

Not a Fat Girther?

SnotFlickerman, 1 year ago

What a millennium, huh?

SnotFlickerman, 1 year ago

At the Last Light Inn in Act II, before you speak to Isobel and trigger her attempted kidnapping, make sure to use Arcane Lock on all the doors you can (usually all but one of them) to prevent more enemies from flooding her room.

SnotFlickerman, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Notepad is heavily used as an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) by a lot of people. It’s not exactly a good development environment but it is nonetheless. I would actually argue Notepad is used primarily by programmers, and that casual Windows Notepad users are in the extreme minority. The whole reason it’s so heavily used is because unlike WordPad or Word, it doesn’t include formatting data, which can fuck up computer code.

Notepad++ for example is literally built to be more like an actual IDE and supports color-schemes and indentations for numerous computer programming languages.

Microsoft isn’t entirely stupid (just mostly), and in knowing this, they’re pushing to put their programming Copilot where they think it needs to be: Inside IDEs, which to them includes Notepad.

SnotFlickerman, 1 year ago

Reminds me of my friend getting in trouble in high school’s the PC lab for changing all the startup screens from saying “Windows 95” to “Winblows 95.”

SnotFlickerman, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Everything said here in this comment is theoretical and in Minecraft.

If they are shutting down but haven’t shut down yet check to see if any other sites are doing open signups for refugees on your sites forums. That’s how I got elsewhere before baconbits shut down, with it being my only tracker.

The community really is a community and when they know in advance a site is shutting down, they usually get together and put out invites on that sites forums for others to use as an “escape hatch.” They will still want to see an account in good standing.

Also, take screenshots of your account info so when the site shuts down you can still use it as proof you had an account in good standing. Many sites still have open sign ups and good past accounts go a long way to being let in. I’m not sure if Lemmy has an open sign ups thread like reddit did.

If you can, try to “diversify” and get on a handful of sites, choosing ones particular to your interests, of course.

Anyway, good luck in avoiding all of that!