The way they’re planning to go back to brunch if Harris wins or go back to brunch (terrified) if Trump wins is really telling.

Exactly man.

This’d be a joke election of the Dems were a real political party. With total control of all cities they could shut the regime down at any time with strikes among countless other tactics. Instead they’re utterly, utterly helpless to take any acvt6ion at all.

FUCKIN EXACTLY MAN!

Two things.

1.) Liberals should have never learned the phrase “extinction-level”. One they don’t apply it correctly ever. Two if they were concerned about “extinction-level” events they would do something about one that’s happening right now. To us, by us.

2.) I hate this fervor to protect democracy nonsense so much. It’s the same nationalism, patriotism, jingoism they say the RNC does. Rather than MAGA, it’s more so “If he gets elected again America will become ungreat. It’s great as it is now, he is a threat to that”.

I hate libs so much dude

Personally, I don’t like Ava as a character because the narrative gives her zero options/opportunities to grow. She is a victim of a story that doesn’t give her (or anyone else) any depth or complexity. Don’t get me wrong, I totally understand that she is a teenager and teen characters tend to act as teens do which is fine to me. Even a zany world like Borderlands kids are gonna be irksome and immature, that I totally get and actually kinda dig.

The reason I don’t like her is the same reason I don’t like the majority of BL3, she is full of narrative potential that doesn’t really go anywhere. Ava doesn’t go much beyond teen siren. She remains two dimensional in the same way that the rest of the cast remains two dimensional. Though I suppose it is worth noting that some of the cast is one dimensional when they don’t have to be.

She is annoying yes, but I don’t think she is in any way a worse character than anyone else in the game. I think she unfortunately, is a girl and gamers hate girls existing or speaking or thinking or being. I think the whole cast (except for maybe Wainwright) has the same issues that she does but because she is a girl people latched onto her.

Borderlands 3’d base game narratives and characters never really clicked for me. I do think the stories and characters in the DLCs are much better mostly because they are slightly smaller and scale and scope. The game doesn’t need to be super deep or radical, but games stories should have some nuaince even if they are trying to a loony tune.

End of the year coming up fast my goal of doing a pull up I think on track

OKAY NOW @Wmill pull up!!

Corvo is technically a fed, but I love him anyways. The art/visual/city design of Dishonored is unmatched. Love those titles so much. They are in my journal of games I want to take influence from in my hobby development for sure.

I’m still getting my teeth kicked by life. However, I remain resolute in that I will find positive way forward. I’m not in grave or dire condition or anything like that, but things just aren’t going my way the last 30 days or so. Regardless, I’m going to find a way forward, a way to grow stronger from this. I’m not gonna get salty from my negative experiences anymore. I’m going to take the L (though to be frank I’d like the L taking part to be over ), examine the L, reflect on the L, study the L, harness the hidden power of the L, and ultimately turn it into a W through the alchemy of optimism. It’s kinda corny, but I have really been on some “yeah shit is bad, but I’m not gonna give into that” wave. Not sure why or what, but I’m determined to become greater than my conditions. Am i romanticizing my own misfortune? Maybe. However, I think it’s truly good to see yourself as the hero and overcoming the bad stuff without becoming a bad person is rad to me. Don’t get me wrong I love being a hater, but I’m done hating on me.

It’s so strange/refreshing to see an MMO without 29258 batrillion icons on the screen.

Also support the homies in a Palestine. Be a big communism builder.

I still think game could have been mid/okay-ish to even decent if it was just a co-op hero shooter rather than a PVP thing. Like somewhere between a Destiny and a Borderlands. Also being PvE would have been one of the things it could have done to distinguish itself rather than just being yet another hero-shooter map control cart-pushing game.

I genuinely kinda liked the look and visual design. Honestly with i think co-op PVE could have been a big play for them.

having to discuss the minutiae of how long something will take because management got the idea that this will make the estimates “more accurate” is many times worse.

BIG AGREE on that one

What I really, really, really hate is the time registration tyranny where you have to do estimates, have meetings about estimates, remember to turn on and off timers, fiddle with timesheets when you forget about the timers, answer questions like “how will this change that everyone agrees needs to be done affect the estimates?” and defend why a task that was estimated to six hours took eight to complete.

Same. The time tracking is one of those things the more you spend time doing the more you realize it’s a waste of time.

I have ADHD, I have trouble making a realistic estimate on how long it takes to cook pasta and you expect me to be able to accurately predict how long it takes to compete a 3000+ hour project with a ton of external dependencies, arcane legacy code and agile constantly evolving requirements?

That’s one big reason I hate how individualized software development. It’s crazy that it’s all YOUR job to handle all that. There is no team, no collective, just single nodes in a collection of nodes. It’s really a shame.

SCRUM is middle-management capture and all the middle-managers know they are not necessary.

Exactly. Management in the since of coordinating teams/organizations is not a fake job in and of itself, but the amount of bloat/inflation that has occurred to management has made a solid 90% of the “job” a make-work job.

I hope all my EMPOC homies stay safe. Shit is getting weird. Please plug in with some friends/family/comrade and build healthy networks. There is a real see and unseen vibe shift. Stay woke

A former co-worker once joked “we should find a way to make fixing infrastructure a new feature”. Fixing the giant holes in our code-base as a service.

Getting my ass beat by reality. I refuse to give. I’m in my “Building emotional and spiritual resilience” arc

It really is. It’s crazy how the manufacturing mindset really is all of industry.

I think about this all the time. Before I got laid off from my MEGACORP software gig, we always had time for stupid bullshit, but never any time to fix the core issues in our software that was like years old. Delivering new things is the only thing that matters in most firms. Fixing existing things is a negative which is so goddamn backwards.

“AGILE”™®© wouldn’t be so bad if any of it weren’t a manager tool. Like all “project management” paradigms AGILE™®© is driven by sales, marketing, and business types. There is a lot of worthwhile “Project management” frameworks and tools, but because of the stupid profit motive and other capital-driven nonsense all of them turn into them into eternal sprints into oblivion.

No time for retrospective analysis, to build quality worthwhile solutions, no time to do the “Agile” stuff really.

It’s really stupid that software has been MBA’ed into whatever the current abomination it has currently become. “Agile” assumes that developers have autonomy to create great software, build meaningful relationships with stakeholders, and even have the power to say no. Of course, AGILE™®© removes that on purpose. AGILE™®© is a tool for managers and bosses, not for the actual people who do the actual work.

As always, the capital holders and their minions love to wear the skin of systems or frameworks “benefit” workers but as always they are just the skin of the thing not actually a thing that would help workers.

Oh one more thing, the rise of AGILE™®©/SCRUM™®© has created so many “Bullshit Jobs”. David Graber really nailed when he described “Duct tapers”, software development in most shops is just duct taping problems because there is “never time” to actually fix the problem or address the root because we have to sprint on to something else.

Only a stupid system like neoliberal capitalism would allow for the creation of “Agile Industrial Complex”. The amount of branding and certifications and all that nonesense is such a waste of time and resources.

I have zero knowledge of whateer she is talking about in this speech. She does not have that shit on for real

It’s why I feel Midnighter and Apollo’s relationship works, which adds depth to their characters

Agreed! It’s a bit of a shame the two of them were born out of what I would call a low-point in Wildstorm’s edgy history but they are objectively a interesting couple. Yes they are “What if Batman and Superman… but gay?”, which is reductive and lame but there are much more than that. They are two people who have complex and nuanced feelings for each other and their relationship has WAYYYYY more depth that most of the mainstays of the genre. Which is crazy because If I recall Midnighter correctly we was like the precursor to Billy Butch creatively speaking. Which is an odd thing to think about.

I haven’t been keeping up with whatever the modern incarnate of the character is,

Allowing her lasting happiness with Poison Ivy means something might lastingly change and the hogs can’t have that.

As a comic dork I always hated how comics treat relationships. Outside of some comics like Saga (which is a great read), most comic relationships traditional/atypical/gay/straight/committed/flings/whatever are treated more as plot devices rather than things that make a character interesting. Which is a shame because love and relationships when they mean something is what makes them cool. For good or bad, it’s just a good place for storytelling. There is nothing worse than seeing Ivy and Harley hinted at knowing that it will be dissolved in like next month’s issue. That sort of eternal tease of a relationship is just so wack to me.

Fuck man that’s part of the reason Mr.Freeze is a such a good character to me because that he is defined by the love his wife. Literally a wife-guy but the good platonic ideal of it. That’s just a cool character trait, like being motivated by love in a world of super-people and all that insanity really gives a wonderfully human. Which

Part of what I hate about lazy “multiverse” crossover gimmicks is they just about require default state or even Flanderized versions of such characters.

Exactly man. Fuckin’ exactly. A “multiverse” creates a boundless space for exploring what makes a character a character. What are their defining traits, what is their core identity, what are the things that make them who they are across all versions of themselves. What are the things they think are a part of them but happen to just be cicumstance. Would they be different if things were different? Would they always find a way to create the version of themselves we know?

Really plainly cool writing space if you ask me, but because that involves risk, they don’t really show characters or ideas explore outside of “What if Character X, but with a mild cosmetic change or different background”. Which is such a bummer because you can really do some cool stuff, you can explore the very idea of identity cross the infinite expanse of the multiverse.