Many words came to mind but never “pretty”. You ever call a shark or a tiger “pretty”? Yeah, me neither.

I’m guessing it’s like hair salons always seem to have the obligatory pun (at least here in France).

“+2 Perception and improved night sight? Nice !”

Brigador is amazing! The flavor text is so good I went out of my way to purchase it all (in game money, but still). Even better, it gives you hints of powerful combos to try out, amongst the many many possible combinations. It’s a fantastic blend of Mechwarrior, with Syndicate graphics, with a brilliant soundtrack. Such a gem!

Ok, so what’s the ref here?

Just out of curiosity, if you know the market is gonna tank like crazy, isn’t that when you try to short stocks? But I suppose that doesn’t work when everybody sees the way the wind is blowing.
I’m just trying to understand how somebody can profit from this madness, because surely someone is, right?
If only by buying stocks for cheap or something… … right?

Press [F] to send thoughts and prayers.

Aha! It is I ! L’Éclair ! Don’t you recognise me?

Ma remarque finale c’est pour le fait que c’est comme ça partout, en vrai. L’enfer c’est les autres. Y’a toujours du drama peu importe où tu vas (j’ai bossé dans plusieurs régions et pas mal à l’étranger). Le truc c’est de se mettre bien avec les gens autour de soi, de se plaire à son poste, et le reste en /ignore.

If you enjoy zombi bashing but don’t care for all the depressive atmosphere of Dying Light, but would rather kick some ass, I would recommend Dead Island (1 or 2). The close combat fighting is visceral and fun and while the story has some real drama at times, it’s generally upbeat.

Seriously, I’ve had Dying Light for years not every time I get too brought down by the overall vibe and constantly feeling so weak. Whereas DI had me shredding a tear at least once but you kick ass throughout.

Would be interesting to see how they distinguish “personal consumption” and “transformative” consumption.

The AI did quite literally what any human educating themselves would have done : reading entire libraries to improve themselves. Then make money from it. So if little Timmy pirates 3DS Max or Photoshop to get a job, it’s fine yeah? Or a student trying to read their course without paying hundreds of dollars?

But wait, when Timmy reads a single virtual book, it’s thievery? It’s the loss of a sale? So how many sales were lost through all those virtual books stolen from paying customers by the AI?

They gotta decide one way or another at some point and stop taking the piss.

Also I wonder if the AI can actually remember the entire content of each book they read though. Or any. And if they do, then can that actually be proof, for each individual book thus regurgitated, that the copyright has been unfairly used since a full reproduction (or close enough as to fool a reader?) would be now available.

That’s gonna be some interesting jurisprudence.

Well, that might be the sign I was waiting for to switch (ha !) my kids to Steam, after all.

Tried to do a proper analysis of a bug in homologation that’s preventing our future customer to test the product, while N+3 and N+4 demand twice-daily updates through video call with ten other managers on it. Two weeks of proper madness, that was.

Stopped the meetings for one fucking day and we had it fixed before 5pm.

For real.
I joined this team two years ago and at 46 was the oldest with our PO. The tech lead had to leave after my first year. Then the PO jumped ship after 19 years at the company. Now our N+2, who’s mostly responsible for our PO leaving, is off dying in some hospital. The tech lead he finally got us, a mate of his, has done exactly 4 tickets in four months (I did 50 in my first four) and with good reason since he knows exactly none of the tech stack we use. At all. He’s ready to quit, just hasn’t found somewhere else.
The N+3, who joined at the same time as him, and knew the shit he was getting in, admitted to me this morning that he’s having a tough time honestly. The guys around me, all in their twenties and with one or two jobs under their belt have never seen shit like this and are all on the verge of ragequitting. Only thing keeping them is the difficulty of finding a job here as we’re in the arse end of France.
The (paid) students are kinda all taking it in mouth agape.

Meanwhile I’m just like “eh, sure it’s not perfect but it ain’t so bad. You should see the last place I was at!”.

And I still have to swallow twenty odd years of this shit?
Fuck me.

I can’t wait to meet the two people who just did a round of interview…

Shit sounds about right

With the hours I’ve spent flying my drone in Ghost Recon : Wildlands, I’m 0% surprised at the games skills IRL, nor their effectiveness on the battlefield. I’m just mighty curious at how easily spotted they are compared to the video game ones.

Only slightly related, but it’s hilarious to hear my surgeon wife being told to start practising her gamepad handling skills on video games so she can better operate using the robot. Well, sweetheart, let me show you what more than thirty years of practice look like! :,D

The camera zoomed in so it adjusted. I think this is the view from the spotter, not the actual sniper.

Well, young guys that are not immediately employable are gonna be super difficult to integrate, to be fair. It sounds like a recipe for disaster unless you have a solid way to help them and what country actually has that, really?

He wasn’t in France at the time, though. Once you’re in, though, we’re not supposed to kick you out if we know you might get killed. This may actually have evolved in recent years, sadly.

But diplomacy is a bitch yeah.
I reckon it would be a very different answer if he made his request right now, though!

I had a very different image in mind, but that’s brilliant!