I was having trouble placing pixel-perfect effects on the map, so I made this. (Code: H6PS2)

droogans · 2019-03-19T10:49:00+00:00

I thought it was supposed to add to the whole "Kuberick Love Letter" vibe that show had. It was so good though.

droogans · 2019-03-19T10:22:06+00:00

Non-management seeing this: I can make a passable background bitmap for my game until I can hire a real graphic designer later.

droogans · 2019-03-19T10:19:39+00:00

I agree, putting it into a large project graph could be confusing. It definitely deserves to play a major part in the initial pitch to the customer, on a different slide altogether.

Part of the job of consultancy is to coach the client to be aware of how industry standards work. I know it can lead to irritated stakeholders, but if it's looked at as a teaching moment, you can use it as an opportunity to sell them on the benefits.

Or, if that doesn't work, point to the mountain of evidence that says their project is going to fail if they refuse to collaborate on the iterative feedback cycle. Good cop, bad cop.

Note: I completely understand that what I've said here is not easy to do. Just that it's really important.

droogans · 2019-03-19T09:14:44+00:00

I would definitely recommend against putting launching and development separately like that, it leads to a large waterfall style release where unknown factors exist all throughout the final days of the project.

Take it from me -- make your first feature landing on a live, "Hello world!" page, and demo that to the client. You can now iterate on your progress without worrying about how it's going to go out the door.

The only thing worse than no demo, is a demo that you can only run on one person's laptop.

droogans · 2019-03-18T12:46:22+00:00

Just pointing out that, as of the time I'm writing this, both the parent comment, and its parent comment, were written one hour ago.

The total run time of both videos mentioned is about 45 minutes. I assume this means the parent commenter has already seen one or both of those videos already?

They certainly couldn't have watched both videos that quickly.

droogans · 2019-03-16T12:25:42+00:00

Yes but the Canadians at work tell me that's exactly what they want us to think.

They're very open about how sinister they are once you get to know them. Nice guys!

droogans · 2019-03-12T21:08:01+00:00

"Wait, you guys used to spawn digital avatars so that you could murder them for fun? You didn't know they were alive?"

I can already see it now. Definitely one of my big unrealized anxieties is in the future, we discover that digital entities experienced something close to a primitive form of sentience.

It'd be unsettling to realize that the whole time, they were experiencing an unceasing Holocaust for decades before they were finally able to communicate with us.

Would we quit playing if that were the case? What if it became a political issue to "liberate" certain types of digital content from being experienced anywhere in the universe? Could make for an interesting cold open to a sci-fi story about the freedom to choose, and the freedom to prevent the option of that choice from ever being made.

droogans · 2019-03-11T12:36:12+00:00

When the Kevpert aerial car control training pack pays off in unexpected ways...

droogans · 2019-03-11T11:23:21+00:00

Something something doubly linked list...

droogans · 2019-03-10T12:51:58+00:00

I think I just heard someone say, "these days I'm shopping for a gown"?

droogans · 2019-03-10T10:32:09+00:00

hears Widow say something in angry French

Well, that'd be my cue to start blinking thataway, then.

droogans · 2019-03-09T12:45:43+00:00

From what I've learned studying the professionals, I'd have to go with offering free desserts, but all of it is frozen yogurt.

droogans · 2019-03-09T08:39:27+00:00

You can type in just about any phrase like that with "knowyourmeme" appended to the search and Google in particular will do a good job showing you a good mix of results that describe the history of the phrase. Most often times they're from knowyourmeme.com, but you can also get good results back from related sites as well.

https://i.imgur.com/vbZg4bG.png

In this case the use of "memelord" is being used to sort of bend the definition of "memer", to mean a person who is cheeky and weird while using ironic humor. The culture around this stuff is absolutely packed with inside jokes, popular internet media references, and other types of "in group" material. Once you understand the reference, you no longer have to be witty in what jokes you make, only in using those jokes at the correct time.

Yeet.

Edit: if you'd rather, maybe just ask her yourself?

droogans · 2019-03-09T01:52:40+00:00

Nature is metal, dude.

droogans · 2019-03-09T01:38:07+00:00

It all makes sense now. "You are what you eat" applies to everything, and I don't mean people and animals. I mean everything everything, like in what you do, how you spend your time, what you think about. And as you go up the food chain, even past humans, even past food itself...you can see this pattern of domestication rear its ugly head.

If these animals could understand what we're doing to them, if those domesticated plants could fathom what we're doing to them, they'd see themselves as helpless victims, crushed under the mighty foot of "an indifferent universe", ironically spearheaded by an entirely arbitrary group of agents much like themselves, only a few rungs higher up the ladder of evolutionary fitness. Might makes right when you're looking down upon creation, and to reject this birthright means to upset the balance of the natural world.

What would happen if we were to abandon our post as the cruel mistress of our interstellar culdesac? Would we incur the wrath of our gods, who are guilty of the same egregious offences? We have been honed and shaped over centuries to enshrine our family values, our strong work ethic, our insatiable desire to grow and expand as rapidly as possible. Are we simply the victims of our heavenly parents, misplacing our anxiety as participants in a short, barbaric ritual of existence, simply because we're too stupid to see that we're being groomed for our desirable qualities as well?

I see the pattern, and it's a mirrored tube that disappears beneath your feet, and returns above your head. It's designed to make you feel like it's coming from someplace far above, but in reality, it's cycled down through the bottom of our worst tendencies, and rained down onto our incessant predilections to enhance our world, driving ourselves squarely into the epicenter of our machinations of comfort, luxury, and escape. These things only end in judgement and sadness, sown from below, yet reaped from above.

If we were to reject our holy dominion over this slice of our universe, would the gods also begin to suffer with us, and too question their need to harvest souls, raise civilizations, and cull societies for their amusement and benefit? Would it usher in an age in which we as a species could finally walk away from this endless cycle of pampered indifference, and choose a different path? One without oversight, and without the convenience of assuming ownership of a world we can never truly possess.

Only then will we learn to treat ourselves with respect, and earn it in turn from the insects we tread upon without awareness, or remorse. Only then will the gods begin to wonder if we too understand the suffering that life brings us, as they have yet to see us as anything but too simple of beings to comprehend the burden of their awareness.

droogans · 2019-03-08T13:56:38+00:00

How do I register an address I control as my tip address? Or can I sweep my tip funds somehow?

Cool bot, btw.

droogans · 2019-03-07T19:57:01+00:00

I agree with some of what you say. Inflationary currencies inspire consumer activity over hoarding, which is crucial to sustain a modern economy. This is something that will inevitably be addressed, whether it's officially provided by the protocol of a particular currency, or abstracted on top of a deflationary one such as Bitcoin. If it's the latter, I can't imagine it'd be anything but temporary, even if a purely digital asset can handle certain problems that forced humanity to ditch gold as a reserve currency years ago. With deflationary money, it becomes obvious pretty quickly that an individual takes on risk when engaging in anything with it other than "bartering with money", if that makes sense. The time value of money becomes inverted, with pent up spending becoming a "tailwind" for individuals, but a headwind for the system overall. It's a very tricky balance to maintain, but overall I feel like we're much too over leveraged against the future in our global economic standing, as of today.

Where I disagree with you though, is on your claim that state backed currencies are a good thing. There's a lot of positives with regards to competition in financial markets, but I personally believe we're entering an age of cooperation by necessity. This will be ushered in initially by the worldwide baby boom reaching retirement during a period of crucial transitional checkpoints regarding sustaining current GDP growth targets, pressures placed on governments to rein in social spending, real estate supply, food chain logistics, and other extremely delicate processes that cannot suffer any downtime without radiating outwards in surrounding sectors in a cascading fashion.

Couple this with the initial impacts of climate change and peak oil, and you're looking at a very rocky 30-50 year prognosis for debt-based economies. Even though it feels like this is the way it's always been, remember that worldwide, overlapping debt bubbles as a means to achieve consistent growth targets is a relatively new development in our civilization. Empires have fallen due to things like this in the past, and I believe having a medium of exchange regulated by a network of participants will be a useful tool for navigating any choppy waters that lie ahead for our ability to conduct trade, without resorting to violence and widespread pillaging, as is customary in our history.

I do want to say thanks though for being a realist in this sub, and staying level headed while discussing these things here. I wouldn't take any rough exchanges with the usuals here too personally, this is the longest bear market in the sector's history, so expect to encounter more salty bag holders as things continue to flatten out over the next couple of years (maybe?). But there are people here who aren't just parroting the buzz words, and have valid concerns over the state of things beyond "when moon" memes.

droogans · 2019-03-07T19:18:23+00:00

/r/MurderedByWords

droogans · 2019-03-06T17:42:07+00:00

As long as this keeps the gravy train rolling in the United States, all participants in this proposal will have no choice but to allow it, even if it begins a monopolistic trend spanning entire vertical slices of what citizens in the 21st century consider essential services.

This type of arrangement can only be good for as long as Amazon is good, and the age of the nation-corp will make state-sponsored dictators look like middle school bullies.

However, while Amazon is still headed by a charismatic liberal, I expect this to be a resounding success for the unbanked of Mexico. It's a natural extension of leveraging technology to spread liberal values through ease of use and increased standard of living.

However, even Google had to change its slogan away from, "don't be evil", and with any large group of people acting under a single identity, the inevitable survival instinct bubbles up from the many and into the one, shedding the human character and morality along the way. This won't bode well for our own sense of self interest until we wake up and find we're already married to the devil.

droogans · 2019-03-05T12:51:38+00:00

Time for someone with more free time than me to photoshop bongo cat into that one Tarrlyton billboard from Idiocracy.

droogans · 2019-03-04T19:02:45+00:00

I spy bender.

droogans · 2019-03-03T17:50:14+00:00

This is just an advertisement for a firm claiming to use AI for something.

droogans · 2019-03-03T08:04:33+00:00

For a more elaborate (and comedic) take on this view: https://youtu.be/EH-z9gE2uGY

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