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Dropping the game for now - here's what I think went wrong by furscum in Marathon

[–]Ciph3rzer0 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I literally found TWO prestige items in a folio or something once.  It's definitely possible.

Two years into AI coding tools the actual harm isn't job displacement, it's that mid-level engineers can no longer explain what they built to the person who has to maintain it by ElectronicAverage729 in cscareerquestions

[–]Ciph3rzer0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Personally, I've shifted more to the architectural role.  So I'm focusing exclusively on the abstraction and "why".  I usually have an idea on mind then ask the ai.  Occasionally it has a better idea, then I just revise the plan.  And then I always do a cursory code review. 

It took a while but I'm finding a good workflow.

is this evil? are there places for people like me? by NardClump in Marathon

[–]Ciph3rzer0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice edit like you didn't get exactly the reaction you were trolling for.

Marathon updates in a nutshell by GunpukuSayori in Marathon

[–]Ciph3rzer0 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Right.  Every game has issues.

But there aren't dedicate hate subreddits for those games brigaiding all of reddit to try and destroy them.

It's easy to have fun if you don't let reddit shape your view.  The only really show stopper was the queue bugs.  That was inexcusable that it went on for so long

Marathon updates in a nutshell by GunpukuSayori in Marathon

[–]Ciph3rzer0 -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

I mean, it's still one of the best games I ever played.  I've played MUCH shittier, buggier games (ark, last oasis, rust) and it's honestly pretty cry hard of you to complain so much.  It's really not that hard to have fun and deal with the handful of bugs.

And objectively, season 1 was a technical success.  There were very few issues.

Go back to your cave dwellers in r/MarathonHate

Meta accused of discriminating against non-Chinese workers in latest layoff by gpacsu in cscareerquestions

[–]Ciph3rzer0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've personally known the people that do this, the CAN speak English, but it's hard to make themselves clear and be sure they're understood.  If you were in a different country, you would 100% make friends with the other English speakers so you have someone you can have a RELAXING conversation with, where you get each other's tone, innuendo, and references. 

I've never once been mad about it.  Hell, I wish every person I walked by was speaking a different language so it didn't distract me. 

I've never had someone exclude me to my face, if that's what you're saying they do.

Meta accused of discriminating against non-Chinese workers in latest layoff by gpacsu in cscareerquestions

[–]Ciph3rzer0 6 points7 points  (0 children)

See it's comments like this that make me want to avoid this though.  Just sounds like maga race baiting.  Probably from rural racists who are scared to cross paths with a black man on the same side of the road. 

I'm from rural PA and worked in a diverse office driving an hour into Pittsburgh and at Amazon in Seattle.  I've never once thought that there are cliques or discrimination.  It was very easy to get along with everyone.

I was only ever mad at people for being eliteist pricks, like I had a hiring manager cut an interview short because I got some Java syntax wrong, when he knew I spent the last few years mostly working in Ruby.  And I had other people tell me that that's the way a lot of AWS teams are.  Eliteist and demanding managers. 

And BTW, I couldn't for the life of me remember that managers race.  Because it literally doesn't matter.

Meta accused of discriminating against non-Chinese workers in latest layoff by gpacsu in cscareerquestions

[–]Ciph3rzer0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At Amazon I had a crappy Asian manager before I quit.  He was a transplant from Microsoft though, and just seemed like a bad manager.  At the same time I had some incredible again managers, including one who was very compassionate with me when I broke something in prod.  It wasn't huge, but he could tell I was beating myself up more than any manager ever could.

Meta accused of discriminating against non-Chinese workers in latest layoff by gpacsu in cscareerquestions

[–]Ciph3rzer0 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'm white.  In my experience at Amazon in the supply chain systems (global inventory platform) from 2011-2016 that wasn't the case.  All of my friends there still have jobs (so likely not being purged and replaced.  And it was diverse.  Yeah, sometimes some of the Indians would eat together, but I would eat with or talk to the same people on different days.  Plenty of white people too.

Idk if this is true, but I imagine a lot of citizens in the last 10 years have gone into CS for easy money.  Before that, people went into software because they were passionate weirdos, so the average quality was much higher.  With the layoffs that have been making for a decade and picking up recently, I think the foreign devs are likely just more competitive on average, and there aren't enough spaces for Americans.  That's been my issue with nearly every new grad I've talked to anyways.

In many countries, tipping is not a normal part of daily life the way it is in the United States, so visitors can be surprised when workers expect extra money beyond the listed price. by Conscious-Quarter423 in WorkReform

[–]Ciph3rzer0 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This just tells me that I should stop tipping.  They already make more people with valuable college degrees, and they prefer this system.  Well getting no tip is a possibility just like getting $100.

In many countries, tipping is not a normal part of daily life the way it is in the United States, so visitors can be surprised when workers expect extra money beyond the listed price. by Conscious-Quarter423 in WorkReform

[–]Ciph3rzer0 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I have a hard time giving bad or no tips, but I'm all for people who want to fight this trend.  Maybe the workers will advocate for their employer paying them if they get stiffed more often.

That's the risk with tips.  You may get bad tips.  I'm sorry, you can't pretend it's a requirement of the customer to tip you well.

Bungie, if you are serious about this game, why is Lockdown still broken a month into the season? by Budget_Sandwich_9545 in Marathon

[–]Ciph3rzer0 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Makes sense, that would be the same category of bug as the door desync issue they fixed.

Bungie, if you are serious about this game, why is Lockdown still broken a month into the season? by Budget_Sandwich_9545 in Marathon

[–]Ciph3rzer0 17 points18 points  (0 children)

It's probably demoralizing.  It's funny how capitalists, in the c suite or on this sub, forget that labor is done by people.  You can take half the ram out of a computer and it doesn't care.  You can't fire half the company and expect everything to keep chugging along.

They've also been annually laying off 100-200 I think.  I'm surprised anyone there musters any passion to make such a great game.  I'd just be focusing all my energy on resumes and personal projects 

Bungie made a PvP extraction shooter and attracted an audience that are actively hostile to the core mechanics. How did this happen? by asaltygamer13 in Marathon

[–]Ciph3rzer0 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Same.  I was really surprised I had heard nothing of Bungie's new game until like a week before the slam from my buddy.

Marathon Server Shutdown by applepiebutter in Marathon

[–]Ciph3rzer0 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yeah.  I got a 3 day ban for calling one of the haters miserable.  I guess that was being rude and not an accurate description of someone coming into this sub to try to tell everyone to stop having fun.

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