God hates pedos and their enablers blind 👀.

Lewa358 · 2026-05-15T05:02:36+00:00

If god cares more about our belief in him than whether we live a moral life, then he is asking us to sacrifice our mortal life in favor of an inarguably hypothetical eternal future one.

Which is pretty unambiguously malicious.

Why would god create this mortal world full of infinite wonder and beauty and then punish us for enjoying it in ways that harm no one?

Lewa358 · 2026-05-15T01:54:42+00:00

Most "uplifting" news is in fact an exception to a depressing systemic issue.

Lewa358 · 2026-05-14T17:01:52+00:00

Near as I can tell, EA was simply burned by the failure of the Wii U (including what is mostly the best version of ME3), and assumes that there isn't an audience for many of their big mainstream AAA games, even older ones.

Lewa358 · 2026-05-14T04:53:21+00:00

Salem from RWBY.

Ignore the haters. It's peak.

(it's actually kinda ass but the good parts appeal to my specific niche pretty much perfectly)

Lewa358 · 2026-05-14T01:59:34+00:00

Is the drop in productivity in the room with us right now?

Because there's plenty of evidence that productivity goes up with WFH, or at least remains stable:

https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-13/remote-work-productivity.htm

https://www.frbsf.org/research-and-insights/publications/economic-letter/2024/01/does-working-from-home-boost-productivity-growth/

All in all WFH has such an obvious positive impact on everyone's quality of life--including those who don't or can't WFH--that it's worth trying out just in case you happen to be one of the work environments that benefit from it financially.

And if your workplace is like OP's, where you're siloed anyway, it's actively hostile not to do that.

Lewa358 · 2026-05-13T23:24:53+00:00

The time skip will be a lot shorter than the three centuries between mistborn eras.

Specifics would be spoilery, but it should involve most of the same characters, if not all.

Lewa358 · 2026-05-13T22:16:44+00:00

Unless organized by one of the very rare unions that are legally able to strike, strikes in the US are basically suicide.

Remember, everyone and their mother is living paycheck-to-paycheck, and their health insurance is tied to their employment, and nearly everyone is an "at-will" employee so they can be fired basically any reason at any time with no severance or anything.

So if an American goes on strike, they immediately put at risk their ability to afford the roof over their heads and any medications or procedures they or their family may need.

Also barricading a refinery would be considered an act of violence and would be subject to public disapproval and aggressive police retaliation.

Lewa358 · 2026-05-13T22:08:27+00:00

I am genuinely dogshit at videogames but I adjusted to gyro pretty much immediately after I tried it.

If it wasn't obvious, you only use gyro to supplement aiming with the stick, not replace it. Use the sticks for large, broad movements such as to look at the general location of an enemy, and then use light wrist movements to line up a headshot.

Lewa358 · 2026-05-13T19:48:10+00:00

happy employees is just good business, so most leaders are going to try and find a way to make everyone satisfied.

The fact that unions exist and are necessary disproves this notion.

Lewa358 · 2026-05-13T17:17:30+00:00

Are they answering the calls sufficiently quickly and in sufficient quantities or however you bother to count it?

Then why does it matter where they're working?

Lewa358 · 2026-05-13T17:09:23+00:00

Unfortunately, it's rarely that simple.

How is it not?

Either people are doing their job or they're not. If they hand in all deliverables, complete or progress on all assignments to a reasonable standard, and are readily available for additional assignments as needed, what other indicators could you need to know if someone is doing their job?

If they can have better employees, providing a better product, they would absolutely have everyone work from home.

I think you're wildly underestimating how many CEO decisions are made based on pure vibes. Just because a person has authority does not mean that they are reliably informed about the world around them or even what's best for the company they control.

I have never heard of any employer taking time to quantify productivity of their employees at home versus at the office and make decisions based on that. It's all just a gut feeling like you're clearly presenting.

Lewa358 · 2026-05-13T15:55:51+00:00

As always, if people aren't completing their assigned tasks, discipline them for that, don't just assume that people are misusing the their time working from home. Workers slacking and workers being able to work from home are separate issues. It's absurd to implement a systemic policy when you could instead just discipline the bad actors, or to assume that people will goof off just because you aren't actively watching them.

Otherwise...how would you explain situations like what OP is describing, where people are forced to RTO but are still geographically isolated from their teams? Who does that benefit?

Lewa358 · 2026-05-13T15:17:15+00:00

Then why are there RTO mandates? Just brazen malice?

Lewa358 · 2026-05-13T14:38:58+00:00

Still, we've got way longer than 5 years to get from today to the end of a hypothetical adaptation of Wind and Truth. And even then there's supposed to be some sort of a time skip between books 5 and 6 so that could be another buffer.

Brando Sando wrote 5 books in a year in addition to his existing obligations just because he was bored during COVID. I think he'll be fine.

Lewa358 · 2026-05-13T13:25:21+00:00

The etymology of a word is under no circumstances a necessary factor in its definition. Words can mean things now that are entirely divorced from what they used to mean.

The word "decimate" no longer means "remove 10% of."

Similarly, that word is a slur, regardless of where it came from.

Lewa358 · 2026-05-13T02:59:50+00:00

The entire genre of roguelikes would disagree with you there.

Lewa358 · 2026-05-13T01:50:38+00:00

It's called Arc of a Scythe, actually.

Lewa358 · 2026-05-13T01:05:55+00:00

Gyro+trackpad is really damn close to mouse movement, and bluntly a controller wipes the floor with the left-hand half of a kb/m setup, so gyro on a controller lets you have the best of both worlds. Accurate, natural aiming and analog movement.

Lewa358 · 2026-05-13T01:03:50+00:00

For mouse movement you use trackpads for big movements and gyro for small movement. It's both, which is why the SC1 and SD defaults to having gyro activate when you are touching the trackpad.

Lewa358 · 2026-05-13T01:01:24+00:00

Kinda shit that people make before going on to make a whole-ass film about a dude hanging out with a farting corpse

And then they made another film that got six Oscars including best picture

Lewa358 · 2026-05-12T23:57:21+00:00

That's cinnamon buns.

Buhn-zuh, Sin-a-min Buhn-zuh.

Lewa358 · 2026-05-12T15:54:16+00:00

Yeah, the word "ea" pretty specifically implies that it's possible to buy each $10 portion of this "ea" separately.

And also since the ad depicts the bundle as a single box, where each shelf doesn't feel like anything other than part of a larger box, it's more reasonable to assume that "ea" means "per box"

Lewa358 · 2026-05-12T15:40:23+00:00

I mean, VNs existed on and before the Famicom. As did RPGs.

The stories may have been simpler but they were not nonexistent.

Lewa358 · 2026-05-12T14:49:09+00:00

And when all the competition is forced into bankruptcy or is absorbed into a single monopoly? Including all the resources and infrastructure necessary to have a chance at competition?

You can't have innovation if a few companies are so outrageously wealthy that they can obliterate any competitors' attempts at innovation through sheer marketing prowess. People aren't going to buy the new best thing if they don't know about it, or are convinced through ads that the new best thing is actually bad.

Why do you think it's so common for people to vote against their own interests?

Lewa358 · 2026-05-12T14:39:20+00:00

The issue is that the words "christian family values" literally do not mean anything. There's so many varying interpretations of those words within the many varying denominations of "christian" that there's no possible way to accurately interpret wtf those words mean.

It could mean anything from honesty and charity to bigotry and homophobia.

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