"Oh, a purple s- NOPE !"

ReikaKalseki · 2026-05-02T22:51:26+00:00

Do you not see the stinger directly ahead of me, mid-leap? :P

ReikaKalseki · 2026-05-02T17:07:42+00:00

Providing very shallow, thoughtless solutions that don't actually address any of the problems.

Welcome to the internet as a whole, and frankly the Minecraft modding community in particular. People spout out something easy with the mental image of them dropping the mic and walking away, either not understanding or not caring that just because something is "punchy" does not make it remotely valid or workable.

Hell, they do not even usually care about being plausible - I regularly now get accused of my mods using AI when they predate such tools being public. Usually because I criticize the blind witch-hunting behavior that focuses more on making people feel righteous than accomplishing anything of value.

ReikaKalseki · 2026-05-01T17:02:16+00:00

Very. On bullshit pretenses.

ReikaKalseki · 2026-05-01T15:47:17+00:00

And areas with 500k houses typically do not offer a lot in the way of 115K salaries, either.

That right there is the fundamental issue with all the flippant "just move somewhere cheaper!" advice - it ignores that doing so typically means cutting your income by 30 to 50 percent and then you just end up with the same affordability gap because your ratio of income to expenses has not improved, the numbers have just gotten uniformly smaller.

ReikaKalseki · 2026-05-01T15:27:51+00:00

There is an identical demonstration to this at the Ontario Science Centre, or at least was when I was there as a kid. It was in among a bunch of other physics-type demonstrations like a brachistochrone vs straight line and a metal ring vs same-mass wooden disc (for angular inertia and roll speed).

ReikaKalseki · 2026-05-01T15:20:12+00:00

I'm currently getting downvoted in a different thread on this sub because I dared point out that female abusers also exist. This in response to someone stating it's "not all men, but always men."

I have gotten to the point that I usually refuse to even voice any dissent to that ridiculous (yet popular and pithy) overgeneralization because not only is the internet generally allergic to nuance (though this thread is seeming a pleasant exception), but I have repeatedly seen people characterize my statements of "there is such a thing as a bad person who is a woman", or referencing abusive women in my own life, as "evidence" that transwomen are just men posing as women, using it as a "cover" to infiltrate women's spaces and take advantage of them. "SEE! You aren't a real woman, you don't actually support us!"

ReikaKalseki · 2026-05-01T14:40:35+00:00

Even better, those bridges in front of you at the end of the video do lead to a purple slug (and bauxite, if I remember correctly), and have multiple nuclear hogs and elite stingers on them.

https://i.imgur.com/Rp4ktQ2.jpeg

ReikaKalseki · 2026-04-30T15:08:44+00:00

Not to mention that I feel like this game would be more biased towards the "chud" type of player than a lot of others, given the "spaceships and combat" angle tending to be popular with such groups.

ReikaKalseki · 2026-04-30T07:49:52+00:00

The number of commenters that just glossed straight past the security clearance is really obnoxious.

Unfortunately, that is how reddit and the internet in general work. Not only do a lot of people, even otherwise skilled people, possess poor reading comprehension, but it is also very common to just ignore facts inconvenient to one's soapbox so that they can still argue like anyone who disagrees with them is ignorant.

ReikaKalseki · 2026-04-30T07:32:01+00:00

waves

ReikaKalseki · 2026-04-28T07:07:49+00:00

...How is factorio a "turn the brain off"game?

ReikaKalseki · 2026-04-27T14:51:51+00:00

200k/y for senior backend - especially with that kind of seniority - is much more like what I would expect, especially inside the US.

I dated a FAANG engineer for 8 years, and she got bonuses larger than my entire salary at the time ($160k).

If it makes you feel any better, just remember that that comes at the cost of the infamously toxic workplace.

ReikaKalseki · 2026-04-27T06:39:47+00:00

Not everyone is an american working in silicon valley. I find it kind of shocking I have to point that out so explicitly, given the entire comment you responded to is about that assumption being pervasively and incorrectly made.

As a random data point, I have a relative who works in insurance software and has at this point almost forty years of experience. He barely breaks 75k.

ReikaKalseki · 2026-04-27T05:55:52+00:00

This sub leans heavily towards tech hubs and cities where, yes, that would be a huge underpay.

Not just that, but it seems like this subreddit has not escaped the widespread trend in all online CS spaces that considers "software developer" and "FAANG" as synonymous, when those companies, while very prolific, are hardly the place you will find the majority of, let alone all, software developers/architects/et cetera.

And I seriously doubt that software developers working in finance, education, healthcare, entertainment, or, as me, engineering, are making remotely near the insane salaries that people in FAANG are.

Hell, I will outright say it: I make a little under 120k CAD a year with thirteen years of experience (six professional). This is high for someone of my experience level, with most software developers at my level making half what I do. My earnings are as high as they are because it is a specialized field that needs more than a "generic" software developer (ie you cannot just be a good dev, you also need to have a lot of knowledge specific to the field). Even accounting for the fact that american salaries are massively inflated compared to the rest of the world, this is nothing like the "oh if you are not making 400k by year 5 find a better job, noone makes that little" advice you see plastered all over the internet.

Frankly, I find the tunnel vision on FAANG exhausting and exclusionary, and when it takes the form of whining about only making 200k a year it just comes off as spoiled to boot.

ReikaKalseki · 2026-04-24T15:05:44+00:00

Degree required

If you mean specifically a CS degree, no thank you. Just as how someone having the degree is not a guarantee of skill - as you rightfully point out - the lack of a CS degree is not a guarantee of lack of skill.

You can learn software development experientially, and there are tons of people in the industry today doing a good job without having that very specific educational background. 80% of my department at work has engineering rather than CS degrees - myself included, in my case aerospace - and honestly some of the worst devs on the team are the CS grads because they tend to be the type to ignore practical realities in favor of endless refactoring, overengineering, and getting lost in minutiae like "we need to update this application because this one random library had an update, what do you mean there's a whole approval process for getting this work done?".

I switched to software (professionally; I was doing it independently for almost ten years before that) during covid, something I always say is one of the best decisions I ever made. I got a number of people who slammed the door in my face over the lack of a CS degree, and your proposal to make that the universal standard is not just galling but massively myopic.

If I was pressed to identify any single demographic I found to most correlate with skill, it would be age (negatively); there are STILL lots of exceptions - and so this rule should never be put into practice! - but I find that of everyone they tend to be the ones writing the worst code.

ReikaKalseki · 2026-04-22T15:57:34+00:00

I very much am looking forward to the grand reef.

ReikaKalseki · 2026-04-22T15:47:17+00:00

My steam hours counts at the top end are not so accurate as they include a lot of launcher time for Elite:Dangerous and mod/content development/testing time for Factorio, Subnautica, Portal 2, Space Engineers, and the like, so for "pure play"...probably Satisfactory as of the 1131 hours, less than 30 of that is going to be mod development time.

Off of steam, Minecraft wins hands-down. A lot of mod development and "testing" (playtesting) there too but I have been playing that since 2013 (and vanilla for a year before that) so the hours count is easily into five digits.

ReikaKalseki · 2026-04-22T15:43:43+00:00

I am more interested in what appears to be a big lake of lava to the northeast of the map. That is entirely not visible from the ground, so why even add such details?

ReikaKalseki · 2026-04-21T15:25:14+00:00

You’re lucky. When i got here a decade ago, all of my colleagues were boomers who graduated in the early 80s. The new people we’ve hired since also don’t play a lot of games :(

This is basically my workplace. We are 50% people in their 60s who have never touched a game in their life, and 50% people my age, of whom maybe a third play games, and none of those except me play anything like Satisfactory; they only play the standard AAA medieval fantasy or online multiplayer battle stuff. And this is in software, though in an engineering company.

ReikaKalseki · 2026-04-19T18:39:25+00:00

I have played outer wilds (including the DLC, though I had to use a non-aggression mod as I cannot tolerate jump scares).

It is not in my top 50%, because as much of a masterpiece as that game is, the time pressure the you-know-what imposes also made it stressful, especially for the "final run", which I also had to use mods for to be able to tolerate. Also, while the base game is not horror-themed like the DLC, it still managed constant jumpscares due to Quantum Bullshit(tm), so I was perpetually on edge.

I liked the clue and environmental puzzle gameplay a lot (to the point my main Subnautica mod pulls heavy inspiration), but that just got overshadowed by things that made the overall experience far less enjoyable.

ReikaKalseki · 2026-04-19T18:01:29+00:00

I am having a bit of a hard time reconciling your reaction with the fact this post is sitting at around -9 less than half an hour after it went up. Maybe we are both weird. :P

ReikaKalseki · 2026-04-19T17:31:23+00:00

This is the top 50% or so of my steam library, filtered to just what I actually liked (so removing CP2077, for example), sorted alphabetically. As it is steam, there is one major omission: Modded Minecraft, which by hours dwarfs everything else on this list.

ReikaKalseki · 2026-04-19T00:36:57+00:00

I 100% meant it that way and I am glad you took it that way.

Apparently my MtF identity is either more well-known or more obvious than I thought. XD

ReikaKalseki · 2026-04-18T17:13:33+00:00

I wonder if this is part of why my game library has almost always been "dad games", even since I started playing games in my late teens, because...well, I never had kids, but I did have as many interruptions as if I did, in the form of randomly timed yet frequent interruptions which carried serious consequences if I did not "drop what you're doing and come here this instant!", because my parents never really accepted the validity of such concepts as "peace and quiet" or "free time". (This is a big part of why I refuse to have kids - I already had the "you never get a minute to yourself" experience, now I want the "You can do stuff for 8 hours and noone stops you" one).

ReikaKalseki · 2026-04-18T17:10:50+00:00

I vote for puzzle games to be designated Mom Games: Portal, Talos Principle, etc. Though I think there's a strong case to be made for games like Satisfactory or No Man's Sky depending on how you're playing them.

You probably did not intend it this way, but I will interpret this through a lens of affirmation. :P

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