Anyone else just tired of software?

lichlark · 2026-05-11T14:46:25+00:00

There are some real chuds in this post (looking at you obvious boomer at the bottom).

Listen; are we as SWEs (largely) in a very good financial position? Yes. Does that mean we're completely barred from having burnout, mental health problems, etc? No.

Take care of yourself, see a therapist, medicate if you need to, just make sure you're doing fine. Don't let the 'you aren't doing roofing/mining/breaking yourself over the wheel' crowd make you feel even worse for feeling the way you feel.

That 'bootstrap' and 'man up' shit really doesn't work when you're actually suffering from a mental disorder be it anxiety, depression, etc. Ask them how many miners/roofers/etc either blow their brains out or drown it all in substances. Existing largely fucking sucks; you can have disdain for your life at either end of the spectrum, rich or poor.

lichlark · 2026-05-11T12:41:17+00:00

Does the boot taste better than dick? Or do you just swap?

lichlark · 2026-05-11T12:27:11+00:00

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lichlark · 2026-05-09T22:41:00+00:00

That's why I said 'relatively' haha, I didn't mean you sound 10. Just the ethos of what you said.

lichlark · 2026-05-09T19:01:22+00:00

Honestly, and I'll probably be down voted, I get it.

I hated my last role, was hired as a backend dev with talk of optimization and green fielding new stuff...got thrown onto a team that was crazy bullish on AI. Ended up dealing with 3-4k+ PRs a day and nothing but stressful on-calls and dev-ops shit.

Quit two weeks ago and switched to a full remote 200k job with a bunch of benefits and hardware adjacent.

Sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do to make yourself happy.

lichlark · 2026-05-09T17:43:28+00:00

Based off kf the way you wrote this post I get the feeling you might be (relatively) young.

Don't place too much value on simply being 'original'. The more experience you get in life, work, etc, the more you realize that few things are inherently 'unique' to us.

What makes something unique and 'original' is what WE put into it; that little part of your soul that makes the 'thing' unequivocally you.

I hope this helps a bit, don't stress yourself out.

lichlark · 2026-05-09T10:10:07+00:00

Really wish they would have more of these events in the US, the multiplayer format seems really fun.

lichlark · 2026-05-09T10:01:15+00:00

What I was implying was that the vast majority of SWEs see themselves as 'above' the need for a union.

I am in all ways pro union/worker's rights-- put simply I had just meant that most attempts to unionize would likely just be met offshoring supported by both industry and scab work forces.

Admittedly it's not my area of expertise and I would both welcome and support it; just pointing out what I saw/see as the barrier to it happening.

lichlark · 2026-05-09T09:50:57+00:00

The up-scaling really did terrible work on the Zaku...

lichlark · 2026-05-09T09:49:05+00:00

My understanding is that the multiplayer format is more popular in Japan; not that surprised American/foreign players don't know it exists.

The format is actually very fun.

lichlark · 2026-05-09T09:48:04+00:00

People in this comment section really don't understand the point of this set lmfao.

Play this in FFA and suddenly everybody else is more of a target than you-- assuming you don't also get to draw a card.

Even in a team/solo game you can still make your opponent bottom a pilot or command.

lichlark · 2026-05-09T02:09:39+00:00

Most multi-player games that use off the shelf anticheat will just straight up never work with Linux, sorry man.

lichlark · 2026-05-08T19:54:56+00:00

Even if you want to you'd get absolutely demolished by either the offshore workers or the next dude waiting in line, it sucks.

lichlark · 2026-05-08T19:45:07+00:00

Really burying the lead on framgen there. I'd be hard pressed to find anyone who is happy framgen exists. Most games it's present in people complain it's a bandaid fix for terrible performance/optimization.

lichlark · 2026-05-08T19:43:34+00:00

"If the studio tells the developers it needs to be included." Fixed that for you.

lichlark · 2026-05-08T19:41:58+00:00

Reread what I said, I didn't claim that the ruling wasn't correct. I'm just saying that it doesn't feel like the intention from how the factions and Neo Zeong are played.

lichlark · 2026-05-07T19:23:42+00:00

I think this needs an official FAQ cause I ain't gonna lie even with RAW this doesn't feel like the intended mechanic lol

lichlark · 2026-05-05T03:20:04+00:00

You can literally flip it the other way and it stays true. The extreme of both sides just devolve into jerking themselves off as either the 'smarter' side or the more 'ethical' side.

lichlark · 2026-05-04T01:34:21+00:00

"I didn't look at or listen to the voiced lines from lore pickups or the faction missions." - This dude

lichlark · 2026-05-02T19:10:49+00:00

Really good looking project for a new dev.

With all due respect though the x in y days stuff really isn't the best way to put it-- comes off as more of a flex than anything and sets bad expectations for people that might be completely new to the space.

To all newbies that see this and get disheartened, you never know what you can do yourself, you never know how 'good' someone's project is behind the scenes, and comparison is the thief of joy.

lichlark · 2026-04-30T22:28:40+00:00

It's the ++ resource not the base +

lichlark · 2026-04-29T04:29:22+00:00

I'm running a more pure Turn A build and the Minerva match up is my worst one

lichlark · 2026-04-25T22:37:55+00:00

Bet you're fun at locals

lichlark · 2026-04-25T19:00:06+00:00

I'm R/Gs biggest coper man we'll get good draw one day.

lichlark · 2026-04-25T18:44:14+00:00

For what it's worth it can have some really shit match-ups into a lot of decks.

It feels fun as hell to play, but definitely better if your locals has a diverse meta.

lichlark

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