I once found a commit message in our commit history that just said, “i hate git…” bcz they hadn’t changed anything, and I think it took a new line character and decided that they’d actually changed like 5 lines of code twhen they hadn’t.

It was the funniest shit, someone who was a senior lead for like 9 years that had left, and 5 years later I find that…

I feel ya my home! This comment burns me with the feels of a thousand suns. I hate that it’s related so much to this.

Focusing on the important issues…

It absolutely is. I’m not denying that.

Yes, but the game industry has faced severe layoffs the last couple years while profits soar ever higher and higher and executives get bigger boats. So it’s relevant.

I’m about to make it one more…

I’m fairly sure we already do, but they are administered state by state, and not centralized.

I hate to side with Google on this one, but this is a stupid patent. Communicating with a cell tower is a basic principle of phone design. How you can give out fundamental patents for that shit is beyond me

No, its the boomers still. They created the news networks like Fox News, turned the internet into the cess pool that it is, and drove all of the propaganda that has turned millennial and gen X people into frothing right-wing nut jobs. Maybe in ten years, we can stop saying its the boomers. But they have single handedly been responsible for all of the shit we find ourselves in, the housing bubbles, the student loan crisis, everything. I’ll stop saying its the boomers when its no longer a problem of their generations making.

No, boomers are responsible for the mess of crap we’ve found ourselves in. That’s why people blame them for it. They voted for “i got mine, and pulled the ladders up that helped them build their wealth and education”. That’s why we blame them for shit still.

We really do our best to be equal opportunity here. But none of that DEI shit.

Good for them, Asia is getting their rocket programs in order while the U.S. tries their best to destroy ours. Man i wish I could move.

Since when is Honda a rocket company? This is literally the first im hearing about this. They kept this quiet for a while, and im not sure why.

I dont even know what SDE means, and I am an engineer who works on software. Never got a CS degree, but I took one or two programming classes in college. I definitely couldn’t tell you what an IT person does. Did look into a CS masters once and decided I had no interest whatsoever in doing algorithm development research of any kind, or any research related to compilers, or any of that junk. It was too niche for me. Anyway, dunno what the point of this comment was supposed to be. I guess what im saying is, yes, I agree, the “need to go to college” thing is overrated. We need to teach kids there are a lot of paths to take, and not all of them leave you with crushing debt.

Who knew, rehabilitation works. Write that down folks, maybe we won’t forget it this time.

What? No…say it isn’t so. Fox News is a propaganda mouthpiece? I am just shocked I tell you, absolutely gobsmack shocked.

In other news…the sky is blue, for reasons that the Trump administration have deemed, illegal.

Well, turns out people need to feed their families, keep a roof over their heads, and games are hard. 300k isn’t a lot of money to actually keep the lights on at a studio. Also keep in mind, depending on the tools you use, you could end up giving a portion of your game sales to the engine dev, then on top of that you have steam who wants a 30% cut for selling your game on their store. That’s maybe 50-55% left after all that depending on other bills and sales to fund anything after profits are left over.

Fudge those darn ICE people!

There were quite a few good bands there. You might like The Maine, Mod Sun, All Time Low, Cartel, maybe Mayday Parade. Haven’t listened to them too much, but State Champs was good, surprisingly (had never heard of them). Second day is stacked with great bands as well, unfortunately we have to head home, and timing just doesn’t work well for us to see any more bands today.

Its true, I occasionally get accused of being a neoliberal, which is an insult to me. :P