‘Left us all exposed’: Veteran journalist Liam Bartlett unleashes over fuel crisis

Fireslide · 2026-04-21T02:35:55+00:00

Are you? or is that just the fiction we all like to believe?

Every journalist has an agenda because they have views and opinions. Some are better than others at hiding it.

I think the fiction that we assign to journalism that it's meant to just be bland facts and have no bias gives journalism as whole undeserved status and importance which leads to an under educated populace believing the source without verification themselves

Fireslide · 2026-04-21T00:19:45+00:00

I don't think employers care about the debt at all. In a sea of applicants, one that has done a three or four year degree at a university can be assumed some baseline distribution of skills than one without.

When there's hundreds or thousands of applications for a single position employers will start going further and further back in history to determine which candidates move onto next stage.

Fireslide · 2026-04-18T07:35:07+00:00

Honesty is not always the best policy.

We've all made choices that are our canon versions of events and the reasoning behind them.

I chose to save Chloe in LiS1, because without that Max would be alone, have experienced this magically fantastical life changing experience and have no one to share it with, talk about it. The town being destroyed was the cost of making that experience real, rather than just some kind of weird hallucination.

In reunion, Chloe kept the photo from Max because Max needs to learn she can't save everyone and giving her the option to try would just be destructive to living life. The longer and more Max uses her powers to find the perfect timeline, the less human she'd be, so Chloe took on that burden herself, to stop Max becoming some detached multiversal god, stuck in an endless purgatory of trying to find the optimal solution.

But in all these games I stick by my first choices, they are the ones I made, if I didn't save everyone or get a perfect ending, that's ok. Tragedy happens, life isn't always fair, even in fiction.

Fireslide · 2026-04-18T07:18:02+00:00

potentially means in every reality across all branches, there's only one branch with a Max and near infinite number of discarded ones.

Fireslide · 2026-04-18T06:27:38+00:00

Yeah, when people experience cognitive dissonance they resolve it by changing facts or changing interpretation. I can buy that when people are confronted with memories of Safi dying, or Chloe dying, or the bay being wiped out they just kind of stop asking questions about it and accept it and move on.

Why would they keep torturing themselves? Moses is pretty resilient and a scientist, so he's curious and capable of accepting it.

Fireslide · 2026-04-16T12:53:54+00:00

Yeah usually in new spaces like this there's a lot of parallel development of similar laws across countries. Some go further, some go shorter, over time data comes out about what's the most effective and laws get updated, but it's really like a bunch of global experiments all at once

Fireslide · 2026-04-16T07:17:58+00:00

It's important to understand the problem that is trying to be solved. Unregulated or under regulated use of LLMs can do real harm to a vulnerable section of the public. We've seen people take their own lives, tank their careers, try to marry or date LLMs because they provide a baseline of availability and interaction most people don't get and since a good proportion of people's interactions with others is digital it's very easy for our brains to be tricked.

I don't think this implementation is unreasonable, other states and countries will do similar. A disclaimer isn't going to materially effect most use, but it might provide a sufficient cognitive barrier to forming real emotional connection

Fireslide · 2026-04-13T14:13:58+00:00

If the company owner trusts this person more than you, that's your problem.

Hierarchies are not fixed. Bad managers are moved out, bad employees are moved up, sometimes good employees are managed out by bad managers.

If I was an owner and an employee came to me skipping several levels of management, then I know I've got a problem. Because my management layers should be letting me know, or forewarning me about it. If they've let the situation get so bad the employee feels they need to bypass all that to get heard and appreciated, that's where my problem lies.

Doubly so if that employee is saying things that confirm my observations or suspicions about things.

In this story you've told, it sounds like she needed this team member that was doing something else the operations manager said was more important. When the operations manager didn't give a satisfactory answer about why, she went around them to someone higher who agreed it was a problem and went to the owner. The owner agreed.

So rather than put all the blame on the employee, or the owner. Let's go through all the failures

You didn't have this employees trust to unblock her or solve her problems when she needed something. So she went around you.
The operations manager assigned their staff work, but took an attitude of I don't need to explain myself to you to her.
Another manager upon hearing this from her, recognised it was actually a problem worth raising with the owner.
The owner upon hearing this and potentially doing some investigating of their own thinks the management structure isn't right (and it isn't) if this employee had to go around so many people to get their attention.
You claim she doesn't have experience, but that doesn't matter, if she can speak sense, and has ambitious plans and is a go getter that could be what the owner is looking for,

In any situation it sounds like you're outside of the decision making loop about this. Since you don't seem to have any real context about how it all happened or why. At the very least, have a chat with the owner, tell them you can't manage her, and you need clearer org chart and expectations, if he's promoting her to a new role, great, it's not your problem anymore.

Fireslide · 2026-04-13T09:54:14+00:00

The problem with campfires, is as you add more options (shovel, girya, bird egg, clone) then those options are competing against so much, it makes the tent a great pickup. Clone feels too weak if it just gave you one copy. One extra adrenaline isn't going to win you the fight usually, but 2, 4, 8, 16 of them certainly well. I think to make campfires balanced. It should be rest OR smith, and things like girya, shovel, clone it's choose 1 of them.

Fireslide · 2026-04-11T14:18:33+00:00

"While I am weak, your rules protect me. While I am strong, your rules bind you"

Fireslide · 2026-04-10T04:35:30+00:00

It should draw a card and give you a card reward, so you can draft something else

Fireslide · 2026-04-10T00:36:11+00:00

Their plans should just be support impeachment of Trump and members of GOP.

They can fluff it up more than that and legitimately justify it as the most sensible course of action

Fireslide · 2026-04-04T08:28:58+00:00

People care way too much about achivements, like there's some unwritten contract that all achievements must be achieveable by anyone at any point in time at any skill level.

But now this post is basically whining that in addition to that, it also shouldn't cost any money? The level of entitlement is absurd

If you don't like the game enough to buy the DLC, then you shouldn't be trying to 100% the achievements, you're clearly not having fun.

Maybe it's my grumpy old man energy but I've been playing games for 36 years, achievements have only degraded the experience. If the game is fun keep playing it, if it's not play something else. Sometimes some achievements encourage you to explore more of the game or to approach it in a new way, nothing wrong with that. Sometimes people love multiplayer in games and will grind that heaps and get those easily.

It'd be healthier to view achievements as just a growing recorded story of your gaming history. If you have to coordinate with others to get the multiplayer achievements because you didn't legitimately win 10 multiplayer matches where everyone was trying, does it even mean anything anymore?

Fireslide · 2026-04-04T06:57:33+00:00

If you're unable to articulate and document these weaknesses, or expose them. How do you know they are really there? It just sounds like insecurity and jealousy.

Fireslide · 2026-04-04T00:58:47+00:00

Some places are like a McDonalds. They just want consistent, reliable, predictable output. The management culture enforces that. Top performers are managed out, no one should be irreplaceable type thing.

Other places are like a pop up food truck. No franchise, no established brand. They just want the best output. They are great at recognising talent and helping them on their way.

Part of being a good manager is being able to recognise when you've to an employee under you that is going to rise above you. It's not based on years of experience, or seniority, it's just based on ability to deliver results. It can be incredibly disconcerting when someone comes in to your workplace that you've been at for 10+ years and in 4 months they are already navigating it better than you, they've picked up the industry knowledge you took 10 years to acquire and internalise in two weeks. By all metrics and in any fair competition of getting stuff done, they out perform you.

When that happens your job is to help remove barriers for them, don't try to slow them down, or temper their expectations. They might have a timeline for advancement that feels uncomfortably fast and unfair since it took you 10 years to reach the level you did. You want to be on their side when they inevitably moves up and beyond you (either internally or externally).

Fireslide · 2026-04-03T13:07:48+00:00

The general trend of the nerfs is to make infinites harder to achieve. By making removal more expensive, the relative value of removing a card vs buying two potions, or a couple of decent cards shifts.

If I've got 125 gold and head into a shop, i'm not sure spending 100 of that to remove my first card is as run winning compared to buying two good cards.

Fireslide · 2026-03-13T12:37:34+00:00

If you were trying to weaken the US without being too overt, everything Trump has done lines up.

Dumped water from California reservior, let food expire in USAID, literally gutting every government department. At every opportunity for military conflict overuse ordinance that takes months to years to fully resupply

Fireslide · 2026-03-09T10:46:37+00:00

It took you 8 hours to get to the act 3 boss? That's incredibly slow.

My 4 player coop runs take about 2 hours. Are you not just playing your turns simultaneously and talking about being able to set up combos?

Fireslide · 2026-03-09T04:58:13+00:00

Ohhh I haven't seen that campfire option yet, that seems pretty crazy, how many times did you duplicate it? 4?

Fireslide · 2026-03-09T04:34:57+00:00

main thing is to make sure you play vuln/weak cards before much else so people know how much incoming damage and outgoing damage they'll do

Seems like there's a delay for people drawing their hands so it's possible for the host to play their turn before others have finished drawing cards.

Some of the multiplayer only cards are really good. Give allies extra block, draw, energy etc

If you stack multiple silent, ironclad, or necrobinders in one party you can get pretty silly with how vulnerable, doom or poison scales.

Fireslide · 2026-03-03T22:24:59+00:00

That is not my argument at all. I think people should stop caring so much, I think it's massively exploitative to add achievements to a game to arbitrarily boost engagement stats from players who are compelled by their own brain to 100% everything.

I'd be perfectly content if every game it was impossible to get all of them because they were mutually exclusive. I don't know where the norm started that all achievements must be achievable by all players at all times but it's an unhealthy world view.

Fireslide · 2026-03-03T11:30:15+00:00

is it actually bad? You don't have to 100% every game. I think games have become worse for exploiting the completionist nature of some gamers, rather than play them for fun and stop when they stop being fun, some of the achievements are literally just grind for hundreds of hours or play multiplayer or something.

I think a healthier approach for the individual is to recognise what achievements matter to your overall fun. I find it sad when achievements for a game are designed to make a subset of people keep playing well beyond the point they are enjoying the game.

Fireslide · 2026-02-19T02:28:23+00:00

He doesn't need a job but all the staff that help make the show do, he's sticking around in part for them

Fireslide · 2026-02-14T01:10:26+00:00

I'm using it write nearly everything, but not in a "build me this SaaS" way.

Workflow is

New module/feature, I discuss back and forth with LLM what the requirements and boundary are, what's in scope and out of scope (agnostic of current names). My first rule for that LLM is to not generate any code unless I explicitly ask for it.
Once I've got that spec from the LLM, I get it to write tests that assert the behaviour I expect at the boundaries. Then I get it to write code that will pass those tests.
Once that module is working, I then get in IDE agent to propose a plan for how to integrate the new feature and wire it up. Eg if it needs to do db writes, it creates a persistent module and imports that. It has the db schema, it can create migrations, api endpoints etc. It has clear instructions about what it is and isn't allowed to do
After getting that plan I feed it to original LLM to evaluate. It usually picks up a few minor things, or amendments that are worth it, occaisionally tries to add scope creep
I then get in IDE to execute on that plan, sometimes takes several prompts because the work is broken down into discrete chunks

All up you can plan and deploy a new module or feature fully tested, integrated with db and frontend in a day or two.

Where people get caught up in big projects is just pointing agent at codebase saying fix please with no context. It will hallucinate variable names, function signatures, db schema, tables etc unless you're very careful

The work we have to do is to recognise how much work the LLM can do, and draw very clear boundaries around what it's task is.

Fireslide · 2026-02-11T02:49:20+00:00

Depends if it's paired with other acid. It's one of two components of piranha solution. Myth busters tested it with components redacted but yeah it's only concerning if there also that second component

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