8k is effectively dead

Because it’s the emotional inner world that defines how people behave, not education or knowledge or wisdom.

I spent almost two decades as a game developer and many of those years were spent developing professional lottery products.

I argued with a buddy for over 5 years about the gamblers fallacy and various other aspects to do with probabilities.

See, in his mind, he could somehow claim to understand the underlying statement that past events are not a predictor of future events… but he’s still insisted that if he monitored the “patterns” in the random, he could somehow break through this truth.

I could never get through to him that there was no “system”… You can bet in the most mathematically advantageous way but you’ll never “beat the odds”. You’re just fucking gambling dude.

Zero progress… and I refused after a while to discuss anything to do with probabilities.

E: I’m sorry for the scrambled up writing, I’m having a rough day, hope you get what I mean

Weed can completely and irreversibly damage a developing brain. Wait until you’re at least 26 before you fuck with THC.

“care deeply about Windows”

Fuck face… Not one person cares deeply about Windows… We just want this giant shit heap of bloated code to respect BASIC user needs.

That puts over 60% of the American population on the bus.

Chuck Norris is an asshole

https://youtu.be/1pnFg0Sp2Xw

No. Just ludicrously rich as her father started a nation-wide retail giant. She’s never worked a day in her life, upwards of $60M in personal assets. Utterly delusional as it relates to how the world works and how others live. Buying an entire X, having one bite and throwing the rest out is her default.

She buys a full $32 cut fruit platter, eats one chunk of pineapple, puts platter in fridge until it rots into slime and then has her maid discard it. She’ll buy a 12 pack of bagels, eat a quarter of ONE bagel and throw the other 11 straight into the trash.

Really.

You can slurp them all you want! Just don’t cook them. Take em raw.

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Thrifting as well in the last year. I used to be able to walk into a thrift, drop $60, and with a little bit of work and repair and cleaning I could turn that into $300 resale

I haven’t had a profitable find at a thrift store in 6 months. I haven’t found anything at thrift that’s even worth looking at.

Last year when I was hitting the food bank so I could survive, an obscenely rich friend sent me a text message “I’m heading for a 2 week cruise this Christmas, where are you going?”

So like, the war is on drugs, or the drugs are on drugs? Halp

Dude’s not going to be burning anything out, his furnace fan motor can’t even adequately ventilate his house as it is right

Circa 1997 I was making some innovative new games, employed by a dude who’d put millions of his own money into the company. He was completely nonplussed when I brought him 20 CDs in a sealed box to remove from the building and store off site. He thought I’d lost my damned mind and blew it off as ravings of a stressed dev. I pointed out real threats to our IP including the hardware failures and even so far as the building burning down. 2 years of custom art and code gone. “Unlikely. Relax.”

After I moved on… an ex co-worker who’s still a longtime friend, tells me a different division lost a huge amount of FMV over some whoops-I-destroyed-the-wrong-drive blunder. 20 days to render on an 8 or 10 machine farm. Poof - No backups. In 1997 even with top-of-the-line gear it took an insane investment to render quality 3D.

The friggin’ carelessness irks the shit out of me as I type ahah

Get Styrofoam blocks and plug vents seasonally. In summer plug the downstairs ones so AC feeds upstairs and drifts down, opposite in winter to make air heat the lower levels and slowly rise.

Yeah it’s a 45-minute unbreakable opening tutorial sequence that is totally unskippable and totally unnecessary.

Oh Lord I hated everything about that game, but I don’t want to go off LOL

It’s just an incredibly soulless game, towns are filled with cardboard cutout npcs, there’s generic guard, wandering peasant, blah blah blah

Fighting, even on Blood level, is trivial

“Searching” around with witcher senses is an absolutely pathetic mechanic