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My team became champions today and there is nothing more comradery like than celebrating the championship for 2 whole days drink like a motherfucker.
Congrats from an Ajacied!
This day 206 years ago comrade Karl Marx was born. 🫡
Historical materialism wouldve been developed regardless but damn did he accelerate the development of this theory by decades.
It is very humbling (and equally depressing) to understand that the trailblazers and martyrs of their time have been fighting and dying for this truth for over a century and a half and things are still the way they are; and yet I find myself feeling things will come to a head this decade or the next. Imagine if it does. Happy birthday and rest in peace, Karl. The wheel of time is in motion and it will vindicate us all.
We stand in the shoulder of giants!
Is this a real account?
Thinking about the Tito fridge magnet I declined to buy at a tobacco stand in rural Croatia cause it was of highly dubious quality and the lady wanted €4, wish I had it on my fridge now smh
SXSW absolutely turned to shit
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
In what can only be described as a quarter life crisis I have decided to get a buzz cut and dye my hair blonde lmao
Tennis ball looking
that one regular show episode
So youre basically eminem?
Communem
The Collective farm's spaghetti
Just now?
Yeah lol. I'm sorry you have to meet me this way.
heh
There is some free software on which I occasionally provide feedback, and I decided to go to the developers’ forum and submit my feedback there. This time my feedback was about typos, which for a coder should be the easiest thing in the world to fix. (Am I wrong?) I reused somebody else’s thread on the same problem, to which the designers had happily attended earlier, until I contributed to it. This was their reply to the typos that I found:
You can submit a pull request with corrections.
First of all, no, I can’t, and second… can they seriously not figure out how to take notes from others? Why do I need to submit a ‘pull request’ for a typographical error? What is the g‐ddamn point in handling this issue bureaucratically? I mean, if these were professionals who worked on this for a living, then yeah, I’d expect them to act grossly incompetent. But when it’s volunteers doing it, that’s something else.
At least they try to work on this software on a regular basis. With nearly all professional game designers, it’s pump and dump. For example, I submitted requests to Nightdive Studios and Bethesda Softworks for some very simple fixes: implementing some unused sounds, implementing some unused animations, restoring a few sounds (which I happily provided), implementing some unused text messages, and implementing an NPC sequence. None of those except for one could be described as ‘ambitious’ for a coder. Do you know how many of my requests they implemented? Zero. Zero of my requests.
I was not the only one screwed over either. A couple of years ago I saw somebody describe a level that crashes when a player touches a certain spot, and I saw an employé explicitly acknowledge it. It’s been two years, and yep, the crash is still there; anybody can trigger it simply by moving into the spot. Judas Priest, this is the kind of shit that a modder could fix and yet somehow the professionals can’t be bothered.
Speaking as a FOSS maintainer, typos should be trivial to fix as long as it's in a language the devs are fluent in. The kind of up front work you mentioned putting in to your tickets is practically the platonic ideal of a good issue.
Speaking also as a corpo codemonkey (like the people at Bethesda), management and product consistently — through short-sighted schemes and giving zero shits about what actually goes into making a software product — raise a shit ton of barriers to getting even simple things done. This leaves little choice but to make quick but shoddy ways of implementing features to meet the deadline, which in turn creates tech-debt which is itself a barrier.
I could understand the "just make a pull request, bro" response if someone comes in demanding a vaguely defined feature that seemingly no one else has expressed interest in. We've used that answer several times for issues raised for Lemmy. In your case though, the response seems unwarranted.
Must be a bureucratic mess to not even bother fixing simple stuff, or the devs are overloaded with work from other projects, or they are just lazy af.
Especially on Bethesda, like i bought F04 last week and the game is barely playable, they even made a "next gen patch" last week but i still can't play above 60fps because dialogue breaks.
Am I wrong
Only if it is translated and they use the original english as the "key", i.e. changing the English breaks the translations. Otherwise it is very easy.
It would be cool if indie devs were immune to this but I've had early access devs argue with me about why they shouldn't have to fix bugs which broke the main questline in their game etc. Generally am pirating that shit because fuck Eaccess
Oh wow, that is awful. I thought that these designers were being difficult for neglecting some aesthetic issues, but refusing to address game‐breaking bugs? The only excuse that they have is that they are so tired from work or family life that they don’t feel like jacking around with their projects. In which case, it would be better to officially put them on hold rather than arguing with people. Otherwise, it’s a waste of time for everyone.
Yeah I then found out other people had the same issue and had even been told to turn on cheats in response to bugs in a survival character permadeath game lol
Went to the university i'm going to next fall's encampment. It's crazy to go from high school where i could barely find anyone supportive of palestine(supportive enough to actually take action. most people were supportive but like no one did anything which pisses me off to no end but tangent aside) to a full on encampment. food was bussin tho
The HelloChinese app is fairly good, i've been steadily learning characters for over a month now.
Alienation is really getting pretty bad for me
https://time.com/6961171/india-british-rule-income-inequality/
how much of this is true? actually a lot of it is true. but it’s time
Read about the Free State out of curiosity. Wtf this is so fucked up.
Semester 4 starts tomorrow and it’s going to be a doozy due to the fact that it’s a expedited semester (13 weeks of course content condensed into 2.5 weeks, ouch). This semester of Political Science is about the history, so we have to read Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Politics, also a guy named Augustine. For this class I have to write an Exegesis as well, it’s something I’ve never heard of before but it seems hard (I have to write one on a book/“chapter” from Plato’s Republic), I’ve never done something like this. I am nervous due to the amount of readings and papers; and each class is 3 hours a day!
This is just History of Politics Part 1, Part 2 is held in June and both are separate classes (meaning they have their own credits). I also have a history course that spans May and June (it’s online) and is about post-1867, in this class I have to write a paper about the unsolved murder of William Robinson with the goal of figuring out who killed him.
This is going to be a strange semester…
Also as a side note, I hate how there are separate students loans (provincial vs federal). I’ve been taking out provincial ones when I should’ve been taking out federal as they don’t have an interest rate anymore. Provincial loans will have an interest rate 12 months after school, that’s fucking dumb, why are they different? They should be the same thing. I want to understand provincial sovereignty but at the same time I find it incredibly annoying. Semester 5 and onwards (including Masters) will be with federal loans because fuck interest rates. The interest still shouldn’t apply until I’m out of school but I’ll make sure to call my province’s loan people to make sure I don’t have to pay early because I switched to federal.
Fun fact (has nothing to do with school) I have a document on my tablet that just lists a bunch of ideas for posts I want to make here. If I have a “good” question/theme for a post I write it in the document so I don’t forget and when I have the time/willpower I can write it here.
I just finished the Republic. Interesting book, kinda weird. I can see the connections to modern politics.
Re post ideas - I write any idea I have for a meme or whatever in my journal along with all my other thoughts.
I just learned the Schwarzschild (the guy who solved Einstein's equation for perfectly spherical, unmoving mass) had volunteered to do ballistic calculation for the german army on the eastern front during ww2 💀
That was during WWI. He died in 1916