I feel like every retro I’ve attended has been a farce.
“What went bad? We said doing it this way would be harder and more risk prone. Management insisted we do it that way, and it took longer than and caused a site outage.”
"What should we do differently?’
“Listen to the team next time”
“That won’t happen”
Tabletop RPGs are a good and cost effective hobby. You can play DND with the free “SRD” rules posted online, but you won’t get the fancy pictures and all the extras.
There are other games like it that are even cheaper. My personal favorite is Fate. Free rules, only needs four six sided dice.
The main problem is finding a good group to play with. DND is mega popular so if you’re just looking for social, it’s a good starting point. If you’re not into fantasy, you can branch off into other games later.
In the US I think it varies a lot from town to town and teacher to teacher.
I had a history teacher in like 10th grade (age ~15). He spent the first bulk of a lesson one day telling us stuff. Everyone was wrapped up in what a good story this was about whatever. Then, in the end of the class he was like “everything I just told you is bullshit. It’s alterations, omissions, and lies to make the story sound better for the victors.”
I don’t remember what the actual subject was, but it was a good lesson in not blindly accepting what a charismatic guy in a suit tells you.
the truth is that what we did didn’t affect them as much as we expected, and most people don’t care as well :(
Most people don’t really care about anything. They won’t put up with a little inconvenience. Worse than toddlers.
One of the guys I worked with said be prefers the chatbot because stack overflow always made him feel stupid when he’d ask for help. The emotional dimension is big for some people.
They don’t think. They feel. They’re little better than toddlers. You wouldn’t ask a child how their blanket is going to protect them from ghosts.
Really want the news media to stop quoting and normalizing trump voters. They are idiots. I don’t want to hear what they have to say. Unless it’s a clear “I was wrong and will never vote conservative again”, I’d rather all the space be given to people who are more worth listening to.
No system will long survive players acting in bad faith. There’s no system you can come up with that is immune to conservatives and capitalists fucking with it. It might take them years, but they will never stop. They are the worst people on earth. If you could thanos-snap away conservatives, the world would become a better place overnight. Every problem we’re facing is either their fault, or made worse by them.
And we’re never going to get rid of conservatives. There are always going to be shitty humans who believe their in-group needs to be protected and the out-group needs to be bound. Shitty, scared, little shit bags that will blame brown people or queers or whatever, anything, so they can think down familiar paths and avoid any hard introspection.
So I don’t know. You don’t stop building a home because the elements are always trying to tear it down. But you can’t punch the wind in the fucking throat so hard they cry and vomit at the same time, so maybe it’s not quite the same as a maga hat.
Most of the code at my current job doesn’t even have the optional type annotations. You just see like def something(config). What’s config? A dict? A list? A string? Who the fuck knows.
Unfortunately most of the developers seem to have a very pre-modern take on programming and aren’t interested in changing anything.
Get a code formatter. Ruff is popular. So is black. Never think about it again.
To be clear, I didn’t insist we run women candidates anyway. That’s a tactical decision I don’t feel qualified to make from the toilet where I make Lemmy posts.
I just want us to agree that those 30% of men or whatever are trash. Because they are trash. Trash that votes, but still trash.
(And not irredeemable - many things that end up in the trash can be fixed or repurposed. People are not immutable.)
Some men will simply not vote for a woman, it’s sad, but it’s reality.
Can we all agree that those men are trash? I don’t care what else they’ve got going on, if they refuse to vote for a woman because she’s a woman, they deserve to go into the dumpster.
I’m so sick of all these sacks of shit making the world worse
Tech giants have so much power in part because most people are kind of stupid and don’t want to think too hard.
“Don’t use that platform. It’s owned by a Nazi and pushing right wing lies” -> “uhh but it has memes lol”
Much of this slots into time outside work rather than the workday itself.
I didn’t think anyone liked Vance. But I guess there are a lot of sexists and Republican cultists out there.
I’ve seen at a very large company a workflow that involved manually updating an excel workbook and (I think) saving it on confluence, so a python script could download it and parse it later. It wasn’t even doing formulas. It was just like less than a hundred lines of text in a half dozen sheets.
It’s hard to explain a real plan when most people are only semi literate, with no attention span, and no real knowledge of how government works.
What percentage of people believe the president writes laws, do you think?
A well written review will detail why they thought it was good, so the reader can think about if those reasons would make it enjoyable for them.
Unfortunately, most people are semi literate and writing at that level is a challenge
Arcanum is good shit. I played that so many times when it came out.
I think maxing out time magic and backstab might have been the wackiest. Got like 90 action points and everyone else got 4. Stab stab stab stab.
It kind of bothers me that people use “introvert” to mean like “crippling social anxiety and agoraphobia”.
Maybe it’s just online spaces accumulate more people who identify with those disorders, and “introvert” sounds nicer .