I saw a twenty foot long tag on a railroad wall down by the beach last year that said "WHO WILL KILL ELON MUSK?" Remembered that today for some reason.

Why does bike lane discourse make people so insane about tangentially related topics. I get that cars are, on the whole, bad. But "I drive slow in the passing lane on the freeway because I'm The Best Boy On The Road" is fucking dangerous. We gotta put Brooklyn guys in a containment thread, dude.

Holy shit, this paragraph in particular is absolute heat.

Real fuckin' tired of seeing my friends have their jobs yanked out from under them.

this is my impression of a website developer about to piss off a bunch of people. a website developer, about to piss off a bunch of people. here we go. "Exciting news! We"

Not a novel observation but it is very funny that the US elected President Deals, the guy on tv whose brand is making deals, and as a result became institutionally incapable of making deals.

Airstrikes, the famous natural phenomenon that routinely traps journalists, trapped a journalist, so random! She died as rescuers waited for permission to save her -- from who and why the permissions wasn't given and what would happen if they didn't get it is absolutely unimportant, trust us.

Staff cost and salaries due to expensive-ass tech cities are definitely ballooning game budgets but that's not the complete story. The comp package for individual execs outweigh entire departments in many cases. They are literally stealing our prod budgets.

EGGBUG IN BEASTIEBALL steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/...

i had not even considered that in game dev, the artists and coders need to spin up the planet-destroying-cocomelon-machine for their 50 year old billionare babyboss to clap his sticky hands at in order to keep their jobs. this DOES make it... sadder

If my 18 years in my current job has taught me anything its that the vast majority of management in any industry has no clue how anything actually works.

There's a level of AI usage in game development where, if you read between the lines, the developers are saying "we're only using it to placate the failson seagull so he'll get off our case and we can get back to work" but they can't say they're just jangling keys for a bloviating manager.

The irony is they are replacing all their non-union humans with agents run by a single organization that can demand changes in wages (aka token costs) overnight without bargaining.

why would i need to "group chat" on blue sky when me and the boys chill 24/7 on a bespoke emulated google wave instance that we run on a server that was allegedly liberated from j.c. penney corporate headquarters post bankruptcy along with 2200 medium fit liz claiborne pantsuits

that dumb fucking pedophile showed up to the garden just to shit his pants and curse the city for another fifty years

It's okay next week we'll reset like a sitcom and everyone will be friends again

youtube wasting countless hours of GPU compute on AI upscaling 480p videos to look like shitty smears at 1080p rather than just giving us 480p videos in a half-decent bitrate is definitely A Choice That They Made

as someone who has also been laid off by Xbox in the last couple of years, today's news is a real gut punch. when's it gonna end?

project helix more like project hell no

Every publisher out here trying as hard as they can to ensure nothing they make ships and the company folds within a decade but one or two people at the top get a bunch of free money as they laugh out the door

Idk I just think that if you're responsible for inflicting mass pain & suffering, there should be reciprocal consequences

Today’s headlines: Xbox planning to layoff thousands Tomorrow’s headlines: Asha Sharma can do a backflip and is my best friend

I don't want to act like I called it because I think everyone saw this coming a mile away. So fucking sick of sociopathic bazillionaire dipshits ruining lives en masse without a care in the world because they're too fucking stupid to do their incredibly easy jobs.

Bro that's not a real embargo, and embargos are barely real anyway. Report that shit.

One of these days the AI bubble will finally pop as it was always going to, and people will slowly realize that Ed Z*tron is not very bright

dig dug fumbled a bad bitch

Basically I'm gonna use this acct to hide out with my Actual Bsky Homies on here like we did before Nov 24 flooded the zone and i couldn't be stupid on main with my friends without strangers being weird about it anymore

Needed an alt that didn't have my Actual Name on there so that I can more safely post my stupider thoughts