It’s possible. For example, the quality assurance department finds 9001 critical bugs, but whoever is in charge says “ship it lol” regardless of those bugs. In fact I think this might be the problem with CS2, I wouldn’t be surprised if Paradox was the one doing the QA for Colossal Order.

Still a bad QA matter, though. And it’ll get worse.

Worst hypothesis, why not create a community for that? Something like “vgrecords” or similar.

Relevant to note the publisher (Paradox Interactive) is also known for extremely poor in-house QA. Both game and DLC releases are known to be extremely buggy.

[Hallikainen] We’re confident that the franchise will continue to thrive under Paradox’s leadership

That’s corpo speech for “we lost the franchise, PI has it under its direct control now”. Note Iceflake Studios is “part of Paradox Interactive”.

The series is dead. Nothing to see here. Move on, gentle folks.

*Yawn* shitty text.

The core is an idiocy/fallacy/stupidity called faulty generalisation: since some middleman jobs are useful, the author assumes “middlemen jobs” in general are useful. Even if those “middleman jobs” have barely to do with each other, except by not being directly involved into the production. (Cue to the examples: what do logistics and leadership have to do with each other?)

I think many people have some intuition that work can be separated between “real work“ (farming, say, or building trains) and “middlemen“ […] Like many populist [SIC] intuitions, this intuition is completely backwards. Middlemen are extremely important!

It’s rather disingenuous how the author only contradicts the popular intuition partially - note how the text still relies on its artificial division between “real jobs” and “middleman jobs”.

The rest of the text is as worth dissecting as Skibidi Toilet is.

I’m not vegan but do you mind a suggestion? Instead of trying to “hack” a substitute for the cheese, you could try a similar recipe that doesn’t use it.

Like focaccia. A well made focaccia is amazing, and you can make it with vegan only toppings: dried tomatoes, mushrooms, sliced and smoked seitan, figs, onions, some rosemary, and coarse salt. And lots of good quality olive oil.

Insert rant against dichotomies: this stinks “it’s either as big as Reddit or empty” from a distance.

My best experience with forums was one where we celebrated the day we got 300 users at the same time. It still felt vibrant, active, nice to be there. In comparison with that forum, 38 000 monthly active users is huge.

Plus those muppets behave like they really want to wallow in their own misery.

Yup, that’s part of the deal: cat shit is preferable over elephant shit. The other part is that cat shit is still shit, and it’s still undesirable.

Now look at the discussion in this thread. Gabe Newell is cat shit; some comments are trying to defend him as not shit, some trying to pretend his behaviour is exactly as bad as elephant shit (your typical billionaire). Between a billionaire like Newell spending money on a research yacht versus one like Musk fuelling some random dictatorship, Newell is preferable. And he’s still undesirable as any of those money-hoarding psychopaths.

Sis’ eye surgery went out great.

Kika loved her new cardboard house. Now hopefully she’ll stop taking dibs on Frieda’s tank, the later did her "she stole my toy ;_; " face every time it happened.

My mum is busy with her oil paintings, the good type of busy. Kind of funny when I call her for lunch and she pops up with some paint on her arm or face.

I’ve prepared some apple cinnamon rolls and they became an instant hit. I’ll try making some with pineapple and coconut next time.

Elephant shit for you then :)
(just kidding.)

I am talking about the sort of everyday interaction that would make a 5yo get scolded for not being nice. This is clear by context.

Her 5yo got it right.

By default you should be nice to people. Care about their needs, avoid offending them (and if you do, apologise), avoid unnecessary lies, all that thing. And since most people are surprisingly reasonable, they’ll do the same towards you.

However. There’s always “that” arsehole, petty, assumptive person. No matter how nice you are towards them, they won’t be nice to you. Don’t be nice to them - even if on the outside it’s irrelevant, it’ll eat you from the inside and make you feel like shit. Or, like she said, “hurt your energies”.

Nah. Your government is doing the right thing here.

Two reasons to not redenominate currency:

1. It’s messy. The old and new coins need to coexist for some time, and people get confused. Specially bad in the presence of disingenuous = dumb = malicious actors; picture your typical Karen saying “it doesn’t specify in which currency it should be, so I’m entitled to pay it in the old currency! I DEMAND TO TALK WITH YOUR MANAGER!!!”.
2. It’s costly. Reprinting all money would cost more than just stop minting the lowest value coins, and slowly remove them from circulation (as they hit the banks).

Because of both things, you’ll only see redenomination without hyperinflation once in a blue moon; it’s simply not worth the trouble, unless you’re cutting off three zeroes or more at once. Also, note trying to solve one of the issues makes the other worse.

Source: I’ve seen my country’s currency being redenominated twice. (Technically four times, but I was too young to remember two of them.)

Most comments ITT boil down to two things:

• “cat shit is shit, so it’s the same as elephant shit”
• “cat shit is not the same as elephant shit, so it’s not shit”

It doesn’t even work on people.

That said, actual mental techniques made for humans would not work on a bot. Even if the clanker had a “mind”, it would be completely different from ours.

Yup, same “hide it behind a wall of babble” strategy. With a key difference: what is being hidden.

Trump typically uses this strategy to conceal outrageous claims, like this:

by the way and if she gets the pick, if she gets the pick, her judges, nothing you can do folks, although the Second Amendment people there is I don’t know but

He can’t say “if Clinton gets elected, please start a civil war” in the open, right? So he hides it behind babble.

Davaluri, though? He’s hiding… nothing. That’s the point, his comment says nothing of value. Social pressure forced Microsoft to release a public statement, and MS had three choices:

1. Tell complainers to fuck off. People get pissed, ditch MS products, margin of profit goes slightly lower.
2. Listen to the complainers’ demands. People get happy in the short term, but then really pissed since MS won’t change shit, and people hate to be lied to.
3. Say nothing. Complainers get louder and louder.

He picked #3, but disguised it as #2.

Kill Bill. Both volumes.

I’m not a big fan of violent movies, I often sleep midway as I’m watching them. Kill Bill though? There’s art in every drop of blood.

Title:

Article:

[Doug Henwood] Maybe I need to take some more drugs before I make any sense of this.

Nah. It doesn’t make sense, not even if you’re high.

Before reading the link, lemme guess: “we’ll dress it in a different way, and still ship it. Regards, Microsoft.”

After reading the link: wow! I managed to overestimate Microsoft!

[Davaluri] Hey Gergely, I am responding here, and I think this applies to a bunch of the comments that people have made. I mean, a lot of comments . The team (and I) take in a ton of feedback

“Feedback”: mincing words for “backslash”.

We balance what we see in our product feedback systems with what we hear directly. They don’t always match, but both are important.

Emphasis mine. So, the data of those “feedback systems” clash with user complains. Are the systems broken? Naaah, it must be the users /s

I’ve read through the comments and see focus on things like reliability, performance, ease of use and more. But I want to spend a moment just on the point you are making, and I’ll boil it down, we care deeply about developers.

He’s babbling “we care about you” to distract the reader. Diversion tactic.

We know we have work to do on the experience, both on the everyday usability, from inconsistent dialogs to power user experiences. When we meet as a team, we discuss these paint points and others in detail, because we want developers to choose Windows.

Blah blah blah. Diversion tactic still going…

We know words aren’t enough

Implicit: “trust us (be gullible trash), this will be more than just words”.

Specially hilarious because he’s babbling a lot, but in no moment he says anything MS will do to address the complains.

it’s on us to continue improving and shipping. Would love to connect with you about what the team is doing to address these areas if you are open to it.

“Let me pretend this is a problem with you, as if you were the only one complaining about this. And let’s make it personal.”

[Jawad] It’s good to see Microsoft’s Windows chief at least acknowledging feedback

He isn’t.

while Davaluri’s comments on the direction of Windows are slightly encouraging

If you think corporate babble is “slightly encouraging”, I have bad news for you.

AI could have written both Davaluri’s quote and the article as a whole.

I’m glad the governor of my state made this shit illegal. Basically: if you can acquire a service through a certain channel/medium, cancellation must be available through that same channel/medium. The law is from 2007; it was originally made to address a few traditional roach motels (newspaper, TV, gyms, credit cards, internet providers), but it works wonders against this sort of e-arsehole too.

I believe they’re common here in Brazil. As well as fake kidnapping ones.

…I wish those scammers worked as voice actors when dubbing anime. Seriously they put way more emotion on the calls than most dubbing groups here.