I want a canvas painting of this image nicely framed to hang inside my small warehouse that I built inside my wooden cabin. As a reminder that things aren't always as they seem.

Behind the scenes the code calls them "guilds".

I made it through another workday. You could say I'm an expert at dodging lava and quicksand.

I gotta tell ya, the number of times as an adult I've been attacked by hammer throwing turtles or an angry sun is too high.

Good point.

Why have we not arrested the criminal that has now vandalized the east wing or the rose garden or the oval office or the reflecting pool?

And my axe And lava flows! I always imagined avoiding lava and quicksand would be a daily occurrence as an adult.

I loved the Dresden Files. I wanted more!

We are spending countless billions into AI bullshit and forcing everyone to train it to replace their own careers with no plan for them when that happens, most places haven't been even giving CoL raises or promotions, most forced everyone to start driving back into the office for no reason even though we all proved that remote work was far better in every metric, again wasting even more of their time and money. Everything is becoming 1984 dystopian, everything is being tracked and monitored and videoed and data collected on you all just to maximize how much they can exploit out of you. And we work our asses off for all that and take home just enough pay to hopefully not starve or go homeless. (And more than ever are sinking below that baseline)

And the C suit morons STILL can't figure out why millions of workers are at an all-time low morale?

Incredible. These guys could throw a rock at the ground and miss. They would starve in a grocery store. They couldn't find a tree in a forest. And other mocking jests.

Crazy thought. Let people WFH again. Pay them a living wage at MINIMUM. Reign in the AI bullshit and only use it where it makes sense, don't force it. Treat your employees as humans. Don't be evil. Tell the truth. Value their contributions and skill and knowledge and ethics. Stop punishing them and instead set them up for success and enable them and watch what happens.

This sick strange darkness, comes creeping on so haunting every time.

Guess the racists and MAGAs can become better after all. Cost is cheap, results are immediate.

I don't know about you guys, but my company just mandated RTO a few months ago.

As expected, we now spend waste 8 hours: Commuting, Walking to and from meeting rooms, etc.

And the meetings, and the "collaboration", which are basically non stop all day long now, are just us talking round and round about all the things we need to do and how to do them for the 8th time, without actually doing them. But we sure LOOK really productive and busy. And I guess that's what management wants? Who knows.

With remote work I would do my job for 8+ hours per workday in pure focus mode. Knocking out solution after solution. You want XYZ to happen? Already done, here's a link to it. Have a meeting? Click join Teams call 1 minute early, listen and talk, while continuing to working on XYZ. You think we should try ABC for the XYZ project? Ok, I'll have it ready by tomorrow.

In office work is now spent walking from meeting to meeting, and you gotta leave 15 minutes before and it takes 15 minutes to get back and settled and you did not work on anything during. And they ask "so, how is project XYZ going?" "Good, good. Should be done in a few more weeks." And you maybe work on XYZ for 30 minutes uninterrupted that entire day, decide to skip any testing or QC, skip those extra features, skip checking with other teams if it will impact them, you have to skip all that to get it done on time. And it takes 3 weeks to do a 5 minute task. And it's inferior. And you talk about XYZ every meeting of every day, time after time, updates and statuses and comments on the ticket. And you finally announce you got XYZ completed and it's "yay good job" and management asks how the RTO is going and everyone is terrified to say "this is stupid and a gigantic waste of everyone's time and your money to put us in a giant expensive building just to not work on work, but to talk about working on work and we are getting only 10% done vs remote work". So we say "oh, fine" and management puts a little golden star on their report they made for themselves and they feel all warm and fuzzy that work is going great.

And thus, project XYZ was finally completed. A task that would have taken 1 person a few hours to do remotely, has now taken 8 people, 3 weeks of in office meetings and status updates and endless interruptions and discussions over every aspect of the project over and over again to finally complete. But we all LOOKED super busy doing it. And that's the important thing.

I'm personally, loving the RTO. I thought I would hate it, but I get to talk with friends all day and sit in meetings and daydream and the day flies by and I barely turned my brain on.

I'm happy to just do my job at home uninterrupted at my desk, but they sure don't seem to want that, so fine. Hope that works out.

My entire life has been a constant trend of prices going up, wages staying flat. That's now spanned across like 7 different administrations for me.

Some have been dramatically worse, like Trump, others just mild, but the trend has been the same for decades and it really all ties back to Reagan. Since then it's been a steady decline for 99% of Americans and a steady increase for the 1%.

But everyone keeps voting to help the 1% while simultaneously bemoaning the costs and pointing fingers at each other. It's wild.

They stopped making them out of gasoline.

My big company just did a full RTO mandate after 5 years full WFH since COVID started. It quickly swung from a good enjoyable job with plenty of work able to be done during all the bullshit meetings to an open office cubicle farm nightmare with harsh bright lights, tons of noise and distractions, and having to physically move from home to office and from desk to meeting room on different floors all the time eating up every last second of available time to do my ACTUAL job. And we are doing a bastardized version of Scrum and it's miserable.

I got reprimanded one day because in our daily standup I simply said that I had not made any progress on my tasks since yesterday because I was in meetings all day. Apparently that wasn't being a team player.

There are approximately 146,000 people named Mario in the US alone. Any one of them could do the FUNNIEST THING.

All these things haven't suddenly become woke, YOU JUST BECAME A RACIST BIGOTED XENOPHOBIC ASSHOLE!!! AKA MAGA.

Typical parent.

The jar got stuck in my drain.

Whoa whoa whoa! You forgot grifter, conman, asshole, buffoon, ancient, out of touch, spoiled, narcissistic, evil, bully, dumb little bitch.

Peak has been an incredibly fun game and WELL worth the price even if they never released any updates at all ever again.

But not only is the game fun and cheap to buy, but has a lot of replay potential and the devs release new updates and biomes and items and mechanics and even silly stuff like this April fools and the bbno$ concert thing. It's been a blast playing off and on as the game evolves.

I can't imagine how anyone could still complain after all that.