There's two variants of Debian: Debian, and "damn, this distro is not as flexible as I'd like, I guess I should have just installed Debian in the first place".

I have a headache and the coffee isn't working. I read that one heading as "avoid instant reptiles".

That's right, I already avoid instant reptiles. I prefer the slightly slower reptiles. Turtles are very cool. 🐢

Just use #.

It was just an obscure character, toiling in the sidelines. Then Twitter happened.

Funny thing, the anti-DEI people are usually crying that this should be a meritocracy. Don't fill diversity quotas, honour the worthy people, they say.

Let's see here. Should they name the aircraft carrier after a war hero, or the bone spurs guy? Hmm, this is a toughie.

MacGyver? My childhood hero? Oh what do I think about the series oh boy [5 hours of gushing omitted for brevity]

I have the DVD box right on the shelf in case I have a MacGyver emergency and need to watch MacGyver

Layoffs always lead to loss of tacit institutional knowledge. In other words, they end up firing the people who know how shit really works.

Games are creative projects, so this is even more of a problem. They fire people who made the first game and knew exactly why the game was made that way, and it comes as no surprise that the new hires end up making the sequel completely different way. The new people can see the big picture but not the reasoning behind the tiniest details.

Historical tangent: Electronic Arts was originally supposed to be named "Electronic Artists" (as a play on United Artists, the film company). The whole reason the company was founded was because Atari and Activision made game designers anonymous cogs in the machine. EA was like "we'll actually pay solid compensations and we'll actually put your name on the cover, how's that sound?" But, of course, the founders noticed that they weren't the artists in question, the game designers were, so they changed it.

Skyrim.

Oh yeah, the world is going to fear my stealth archery powers.

EA has always employed warming kettle strategy. Buy an awesome and beloved independent studio, let them just keep doing awesome stuff, and then go "well, looks like you're not keeping up with our growth targets, guys, guess we need to keep a closer eye on how you're doing." And again. And again.

I'm in my 40s, and last time when I was at McD I saw some 20-somethings sitting at their table, looking at the liner notes of an AC/DC CD they had no doubt grabbed from the second hand store one block over.

I almost went over to say "oh wow, am I ever happy to see you kids enjoy classical music, eh?" but I didn't, because this is Finland and talking to random people at McD is considered weird, of course.

In Musk logic: it's not bad when he does it. It's bad when people start discussing it, because they might come to a disapproving conclusion.

Oh wow, Elon figured out how we'll finally get AGI. The key thing is to publish an automatic mobile client update every single hour of the day! That was the secret productivity metric that every single other company was missing. Thanks, big brain business boy!

Boomers in the 1980s: "Those damn robots took our darn jorbs"

Trump in 2025: "We're giving these jorbs to the robots"

Short summary: Elon gives Elon some Elon and congratulates Elon for being such an Elon, that big money boy he is. Money!

I didn't know that this is the perfect way to enjoy memes. Posted to Twitter, screenshotted, discussed further in Tumblr, printed out, faxed, scanned, and then posted to Lemmy.

This initiative sure would make things more complicated for the game publishers, yes.

Because they're currently not doing the bare minimum.

If they weren't so accustomed to not doing the bare minimum, maybe they would have different opinions! Just saying.

Edit: Just signed the petition. Didn't think this was necessary before because, as soon as I heard of it, Finland was already top of the list percentage wise. But I did sign it, just for the hell yeah of it.

What do publishers do? Editing, layout, other parts of design (e.g. covers), most importantly printing, marketing and distribution.

Oh you mean what do scientific publishers do? Um... that's a good one, huh... they just kinda take the money and leave everyone else to do the actual work?

a purely financial decision

🤨 ... riiiiiiiiight ...

Remember: even in the most repressive autocracies, the leaders realised that jesters serve a purpose. Because if people can't joke about how shitty things are at the present, they might see that as a sign that things are pretty bad, actually.

If the comedy is mucked with, that's a sure sign that the politicians are getting a tad bit touchy.

I'm a trans girl, and this shit is the only thing that has even mildly piqued my testosterones in recent years:

(Doom Mower: Lawn of the Dead mod)

This makes about as much sense as calling Linux users "Windows vegans".

Choosing to not use AI isn't some wacky contrarian position, it's a tame position that can easily be justified. (Don't want to use AI? Then don't.) If anything, trying to assert that constantly using AI for everything would be the new normal is the wacky position.