One time we spent like more than an hour in a horrible meeting to plan out how long the next step of a project would take. 4 weeks, we said. Management came back and said to do it in 2. Well, why did we fucking have the meeting if they had a deadline in mind already?
On the other hand, at my current job I have seen a lot of "oh that's going to take a couple days" protests for things that are 20 minutes of work.
Seems like the solution is to get rid of out of touch management.
I deeply dislike sarcasm. It's neither funny nor helpful.
There was a guy I worked with that was pretty much always sarcastic.[1]. I'd ask him if he'd written the run book yet and he'd say like "Yes, it's written in the style of a sonnet with hand drawn illustrations", and I'd be like "I don't know if that means you wrote it or not". Everything with him took extra steps because his communication was such a swamp of insincerity.
[1] well, when I asked him to stop being sarcastic he said it wasn't sarcasm. He was merely being ironic. Nonsense.
It does feel like the average person has the self control of a toddler.
He shouldn't be allowed to keep going.
The megacorp I work for is frothing at the mouth to replace people with AI. Most of leadership doesn't know anything about programming, but still feel confident to talk about it.
Arpgs do have a big random factor, but many have some element of crafting to offset it. Sometimes as small as slotting upgrade stuff (ie: gems) into armor, sometimes more involved. I'm pretty sure path of exile 1 had some depth to it, but I never went super hard. It's one of the only free to play games that isn't abusive, so it's pretty low risk to try. I like the second game more, but it's early access and has less stuff.
Monster Hunter
Any diablo-like. Path of exile, grim dawn, last epoch, etc.
Disgaea goes a little crazy with items and modifying them.
They're all so stupid it's frustrating.
Teams is the worst. Microsoft keeps finding new lows.
Not excited for this to be used to squash union efforts (legally or not)
I decided not to get one. If I had a lot more money, maybe. I got a steam deck a couple years ago when I had a nice job, but even that I don't use all that much.
Usually if I'm not home, I don't want to be playing video games.
It's also the racism. A lot of shit heads would rather personally die than have their preferred hierarchy be upended and have black people have anything nice.
Racism is close to the root of our problems
Facts don't change people's minds. The main thing that matters is "is the source in my in-group?"
This is kind of a stupid way to live, but that's the human baseline. So that's how all the conservatives live, and why they won't come around on things like climate change. They're not listening to facts. They're listening to their in-group.