My team assigns both hours and points to tasks. I’ve never seen the points used for anything but they still spend time on it.

Just stop using reddit.

Has management known that?

A lot of problems seem to be downstream from “management are idiots and assholes”

Of course they are. I’m happy to never use twitch but I feel like most people don’t care or don’t have the self discipline to stop.

I honestly forgot that game even existed!

It’s because the decision makers are fucking stupid.

I would be happier at work if we could just solve interesting problems. Instead we have mandates from management to do nonsense, or work in nonsense ways.

The people at the top are so removed from how work gets done, and how normal people live, they’re useless. Worse than useless.

Controversial take: doom 1 is better than doom 2. Doom 2 has a bunch of awful levels.

I didn’t really like doom2016 or eternal that much, either. Too much start-and-stop.

Microsoft and Bethesda are creatively incompetent. They don’t really want to say anything. They just want a funny theme park full of kitschy shit so they can pander to fans.

They’re fucking soulless morons.

The first fallout was interesting because it was pretty fresh. The 2nd was a bigger exploration, with some interesting questions about remnants. I don’t really remember 3 but it had some weird narrative problems, I think.

New Vegas actually asked a new interesting question: who rebuilds after?

And then 4 just shits the bed because Bethesda has no soul. It’s also mechanically a mess. Power armor in the intro, except it sucks? Fuck everyone who thought that was a good idea.

I’m happy not using blizzard or other Microsoft products.

I bet they’ll try to buy discord soon.

I read the meaning as someone thinking it weird to text back immediately. That was the offense. As if you should play it cool and wait to respond.

I personally respond quickly if I’m holding my phone and the message comes in, usually.

Most people don’t really care about abstract or long term things. You can tell them that buying the game supports bad stuff, and they could at least wait for a sale, but they’re no better than a toddler.

I mostly get music from Bandcamp. They have a pretty big library, but it’s mostly newer and independent bands on there. You won’t find, like, the beatles or taylor swift.

Sometimes I’ll buy stuff directly from bands, if it’s not on bandcamp, via their store or label or whatever. I used to get CDs, too, and rip them, but I haven’t done that in a while.

Stop using reddit. You can’t fix it through any reasonable means. (You’re not going to be an action movie hero that fixes it that way, but I would consume media showing that)

I will continue to not use Spotify. Buying drm free music is a long term win.

You cannot assume that the people making decisions are rational, smart, people. They may believe falsehoods, and act accordingly. They may be chasing a hidden goal (eg: “I get a bonus if I hit X metric, so I’ll kill good parts of the site to do it”)

I worked at a place where management was like “we want to increase time on site”, and the lead dev was like “I can just add loading spinners everywhere then”. Luckily management was a little smarter and move involved than that, and didn’t approve that strategy.

Unfortunately, most people wouldn’t even understand what that means. And many wouldn’t care. People don’t seem to care about things, even as those things chew them up.

Getting peers on board is probably the way to go.

Justices shouldn’t be allowed to have investments. Their wealth should be in some sort of blind trust where they don’t know where it is.

Alito should be removed from power. Any box of justice will do.

Because they’re assholes. They don’t care about making a good product. They care about making money. Even though they already have a lot of money, they need more. No matter the cost.

No shit.

One of the problems is all the people who were fucking wrong don’t suffer any lasting consequences. They will be listened to again.

I’m still in the “Microsoft can fuck off and die” camp, so I don’t imagine I’ll be using this.