jordan801

Here's the problem with this game:

- Blizzards slew of beloved franchises makes it easy to entrap nostalgia addicted masses to a number of pay to win clones. Or slowly implement these types of features into existing games.

- Half of the assets are from a 10 year old prequel. This game was cheap to make and will have an insanely high profit margin. Leading to perpetuation of this model.

- Scummy mobile pay to win is already accepted as the standard for mobile. With a desktop port, Blizzard can expand that complacency to further markets.

- Pay to Win models incentivize paid content over legitimate, engaging content. I.e. story, character models and gameplay will deteriorate overtime in favor of producing content that turns profit.

This is inevitable though.

Pretty common scenario in tech engineering.

I think inevitably, the labs will make something, "close enough to meat". Then corporations will strip that down to the most cost effective model of that "meat". This will be sold to consumers as "green meat" or something that gives them the impression they're saving the world. The body will struggle with the amalgamation. Probably worse than a McNugget. Because even though a McNugget is filled with junk, there's still some meat (probably?).

Some disease will arrise in society that is obviously caused by consuming X "meat". And lobbyist will make sure that the public never knows.

Then we will have a massive diseased population. That a "health" industry will thrive on "marginally" treating the diseased.

Wait a second. This sounds like what we already have. Carry on.

Every time I see a job listing with Unlimited PTO, theres always some accompanying verbiage that makes it sound a lot like that unlimited PTO will be unavailable.

Perhaps because there is a metric ton and a US ton.

I am unfamiliar with Robin Hobb, but I thoroughly enjoyed this short read. Now I see that she has books and she may have inspired me to get back into reading books.

I usually check the rating. If its 4-5 stars, then I will proceed to reading a few 5 stars, and a few 1 stars. You can usually tell if the reviews are real and this also helps you decide if the negatives matter to you.

I bought a vaccuum recently and did this process. One of the 1 star reviews was something to the effect of, "this vacuum sucks too hard. Its a workout to use". I have 2 huskies and a sea of fur to contend with, so this 1 star was a 5 star to me.

Sure can! I contributed on this project a few months ago. Hoping to use it soon on a project.

I implemented a portion of crud with a vuejs app. It's a pretty neat setup. Just authorize with OAuth2 and then if you have permissions youre good to go!

Yeah! Front end apps can skip the server and get data from the db directly. There's OAuth2 setup and you can authorize users to have crud access to tables, or even a granular as rows.

Are startups any better? From what I have seen it's, "work for low wages in a high stress environment, and pray we go public in 5 years".

I enjoy the nihilistic morbid humor here. I too question the futility of my work as I waste away in this cold expanse.

I put 2k in at one point and was up to 40k in a month trading alt coins. Then btc started to tumble. I realized it caused a massive amount of subconcious anxiety. I ended up walking away with a very generous ROI. My buddy told me to get in again at 10k. Id could have paid off my house last week if I did.

But thats how investing goes. If you could nail every investment you'd quickly become the wealthiest individual in the world.

Sort of seems like everyone is going off. When this article doesnt really give any examples. It just says there are lots of examples.

I have around 8 gmails. Theyre all connected to various things via OAuth2 and I have never once had any of them locked.

Maybe im ignorant to some detail here, but, this sounds like a spammer retaliating because they got caught.