A friend was just telling me about these Tiktok dance cults where they house young people and pay them to do dance videos all day. They’re young, get to do what they want, live in a big house, and get paid well… today. You know, ask young gymnists and other sports figures how the retirement plan for young physcal performers is after your handlers have sucked every bit of money out of you there is.

But how could you tell these kids otherwise? It’s not like sex workers (or any workers really) have infinite choices. You take what pay you can get sometimes to do what work there is. And when that work is hyper-exploitative but still better than any other offer around, what are you supposed to do? It’s be exploited and have your personality stolen to sell to other sex-starved, alienated proletarians; or starve. What a choice.

Alright fellow queers, so what are celebrating next month? My top vote is Gluttony, as always, but I do also vibe with Sloth Month? Who couldn’t use a little r&r after all that pride?

This is the actual problem. Boomer voters (who are pathologically trapped in adolescence; look at how they projected views of eternal childhood onto Millennials) would only feel safe with the last of the ancient preceeding generation. “Save us elder daddies, we have no minds to think but can’t trust the ‘children’ younger than us to know anything!”

Oh yeah, my b, thanks for the correction

Hey if it’s good enough for From software…

Oh for the names?

Ogre Tactics is the first one, a series of earlier tactical games (started on the snes maybe?)

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is the other. It’s actually more like the Commandos games, a kind of overhead team stealth sim.

And I was just joking but if you’re on a tictac roll please, by all means, help yourself!

Lol, I love this gimmick! Next up, enormous Ogre Tictacs? Perhaps Shadow Tictacs: Mints of the Shogun?

It was full of fresh ideas when it first came out, like a minty cool breeze

Definitely germanic. Google translate roughly figures it as “farmer wall sadness” which, I recognized sadness but not sure how the rest of that fits in. Something like a sadness that causes you to grow walls I guess.

Anyway, I’ve heard of a couple of these, and I know that all words are made up, but these sound especially invented.

Someone shared this on Mastodon so I’ll just repost my thoughts from there. (Bonus for Lemmy, I was forced to squeeze all my thoughts into 500 characters, so this is the most succinct I’ve been on this site!)

Pretty incredible how little people seem to understand these. For one thing, every method other than waterfall is a subtype of agile methodology. The major distinction is that waterfall has a series of phases from design through building, testing, and delivery that attempts to plan the whole project up front. Agile methods focus on smaller iteration cycles with frequent, partial deliverables.

Something like kanban is designed for continuous delivery: we want to go to mars weekly.

LEAN development is a scam though, that one is accurate.

Even the hyperreal numbers *R, which include infinitesimals, define 1 == .999…

I dunno, maybe trying to revive your multi-player shooter franchise into one of the most monopolized, overexposed genres in gaming history is kind of a high-risk move with little potential for returns. Kind of like trying to make a WoW clone while WoW was at its peak, which dozens of companies did and then all went out of business.

Damn, it’s almost like making a game that requires a million active players at all times, when you have no name presence or existing player base to draw upon, is kind of a stupid terrible business decision.

I’m no business or gaming genius, but I feel like I would have done something a little safer and more sustainable. Maybe use your Starseige IP to make a single-player focused mecha game? Haven’t had one of those in a while. The last one was… Armored Core 6? One of the best selling and most critically well received games of last year. Yeah, who’d want to tap into that market with a brand new mecha game to ride on the still hungering appetites of AC6 players?

No no, Better stick to making another fortnight clone, that certainly hasn’t burned anyone (including themselves!!!) before.

You shouldn’t eat precious minerals little loot bug!

Animals in captivity pace their living areas, an expression of anxiety.

But also an ADHD thing, I do this all day while thinking or on the phone. I have to turn off my camera for meetings because I tend to wander in and out of frame while I listen and ponder.

Shrödinger’s Roll

Look, this isn’t a diceocracy, its a dicetatorship. If they can’t roll right, perhaps they have no place in our society.

People in this thread apparently aren’t paranoid enough or have some ridiculously optimistic beliefs about the US and surveillance policing.

Here’s an article about how the police in my city (New Orleans) worked a secret deal with spy company Palantir to consolidate data from numerous sources to create a crime-prediction system that we’ve been the unwitting beta testers of. https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/27/17054740/palantir-predictive-policing-tool-new-orleans-nopd

And here’s a page from my own city government bragging about the same: https://nola.gov/next/homeland-security/topics/real-time-crime-center-en/

I can’t find the story now, but at one time (less than 10 years ago), Palantir and NOPD were working a deal that would require the CCTV feeds from every bar and restaurant in the city to be fed into the “crime control center” which would have instantly made NOLA the most surveilled city on earth. The citizens voted down the bill that would have made it happen, but there was no technical limitation. I’m not convinced they don’t have secret access to them anyway.

Police can also subpoena camera operators for footage. This happens with Ring doorbells, Amazon is only too happy to hand over footage from the camera on your front door to the police.

If you are buying cameras for yourself, any video that goes “to the cloud” is now government property. Very few companies have the desire or power to deny their host government’s or their police’s access to the video. If the cloud is in the USA then our spys already have it. Keep your video local or sync it through your own networks.

If the camera is attached to a business though, you should just assume that government can look through it.

They say there are no asexuals in fox holes

I see blue armor, scout just needs to grapple out! Now when you’re a gunner and out of lines, ah, that’s true cruelty!

Absolutely. Pandemic “inflation” threw all kinds of prices too high and nothing is coming back down because most industries are so small that they’re all essentially oligarchies now.

I am dead certain that the pandemic has actually put the US into a hard recession which the Fed has been covering up with various tricks. I’m pretty sure that after the presidential election, whichever way it goes, the economy is going to tank.