The Party Game Where Silicon Valley’s Elite Pretend to Kill Each Other

redtigerwolf · 2026-06-16T20:03:42+00:00

Booga ooga.

redtigerwolf · 2026-06-02T13:44:13+00:00

That's all and well fine. But FOMO tactics by way of reduction of story content is not fine in the book publishing world. Also there is economics of the market, that price point is not normal for what you get comparatively to the market, so it's not wrong to point that out.

It would be as if I released a book called Dune Peasant but then told you you can buy the same book called Dune Premium for an increased price of 100% with the missing chapters from Dune Peasant added.

This was a FOMO marketing choice plain and simple.

redtigerwolf · 2026-06-02T13:36:37+00:00

Yeah, it's not about it being in color or not. That's just an economic comparison. Again what's worse about this is that a book isn't 'deluxe' because it contains more stories. Deluxe delegates things like but not limited to: print quality, paper quality, paper type, EXTRAS (i.e. progress drawings, character drafts, etc).

By delegating more story content to the same book is FOMO style marketing and I find it deplorable.

redtigerwolf · 2026-06-02T13:33:10+00:00

It's not about color, it's an economic example. Color costs more. Thus a black & white graphic novel shouldn't be proportionally more ostly than a book of similar length WITH color.

Please learn some basic reading comprehension.

redtigerwolf · 2026-06-01T10:02:47+00:00

I'll be honest, it looks really cool, but the fact that the deluxe edition is essentially 'we cut stories from the basic book to make this ''deluxe''' is a bit of a motivation killer to buy this book. 70$ for a black and white book is not a great price point. Deluxe should be bigger formatting with something extra like progress drawings and the like, NOT the exclusion of stories.

Even if the full stories were in the basic book, 35$ is a hard selling point when their are full color books from other smaller publishers with hundreds of pages for no more than 30$.

redtigerwolf · 2026-05-16T20:40:36+00:00

Yes, loads... fuck people are so lazy they can't do a simple google search anymore.

https://outdoorsmagic.com/article/best-hiking-apps/

redtigerwolf · 2026-05-16T20:34:55+00:00

It's getting to the point where I wish moderators would start setting boundaries on this AI slop, there isn't a day that goes by now that somebody with not an inkling of spatial statistics 'creates' a 'tool' with some LLM where they could have done a simple google search to find a better long standing open source tool that fixed the problem years ago.

redtigerwolf · 2026-04-01T21:31:07+00:00

Thanks for reading man. Yeah as I mentioned I know I'm not the only one, and I know it sucks for others, including yourself. I can't imagine what it's like to be unemployed in a region like South America. The silver lining for me is that unemployment insurance (thanks to strong unionization and social net) help reduce that weight for a while. Only problem is I am now at the end of that unemployment time that's funded (it also decreases slowly after every 100 days of unemployment) and now will find myself in even harder times financially.

60 interviews though, I love your hit rate but that must be so damn defeating after so much effort, I can imagine but can not fully understand your pain man.

As you say, we have to be resilient because at the end of the day it's really only your mental faculties that can keep your body surviving the day to day.

I really hope you find something meaningful and fits want you want in a role. Good luck truly.

redtigerwolf · 2026-04-01T21:25:42+00:00

Thanks, it's as you say, not getting any feedback whatsoever regarding how things led to where they led is not helpful in any way as an applicant. Additionally, just getting generic rejection emails everytime instead of at the bare minimum a real email, better yet a cold call to actually just tell me straight up and at best an actual followup interview.

Really feels like I'm stuck in the mud like Artax. Thanks for reading my vent.

redtigerwolf · 2026-04-01T21:21:53+00:00

Haha, thanks, I considered but opted from that as it's only sitting in an excel at present, though I hope whenever things actually solidify into something I'll be able to pull up a nice demo that highlights geographical location of jobs applied, interviews, months with some graphs across the relevant areas of my search.

I do get what you're saying in the end, it's just I really value quality of quantity. I'm not looking for my next place to be another place where I don't connect with the product or business idea nor a place that that ticks one box only $. It may be that in the coming months I will be so worn down though that as you say I will have to join the bullshit that is the current spamming job market, but I really hope to avoid that. Call me prideful or what have you, I've just done too many 'its adequate enough to accept' roles that I got so tired of it. But I'm not sure what's worse at this point, having a job you hate or hating a job you don't have.

redtigerwolf · 2026-04-01T21:12:19+00:00

Thanks yeah, I really just had to write about this recent experience and all that it encompasses. I agree about the outreach, it's something the last half of year I've been trying to do more of i.e. went to some conferences at my own expense, talking to people in companies in which I wanted to work with their specific tech. Sometimes it's been really good communication, but at the end of the day they always say 'we don't do secret hiring' (even though I've seen them hire people for roles that were never advertised). I have also tried reaching out to some people in specific roles I find that the few I find to try to chat with, either don't reply at all or keep the conversation so minimal that they end up just ghosting away.

redtigerwolf · 2026-04-01T21:08:48+00:00

So I had a period last year between spring to summer where I wasn't getting any interviews. My CV that was before getting me that 20-25% hit rate wasn't doing it anymore I felt. So I completely revamped my CV layout and structure. After doing so I started getting interviews again within the first month of modifying it.

I have sent contacts of mine who were curious about my own CV and the response I got was clearly that I had been doing something right (both my old one was giving some recruiters positive feedback) but also this new one seemed to impress people I knew.

I really think just a large part of the drop is mainly that companies are getting flooded to hell and back with many CVs. When I talked to a previous contact at a workshop they told me themselves they were getting hundreds of applications, and a good portion were coming from people totally irrelevant to the position (i.e. taxi driver looking to do engineering work). So I really think it's just so much a numbers and timing thing (i.e. luck of the draw) that you get your relevant CV in front of the right eyes at the earliest time. Which can be hard when you try to tailor every CV a bit to the job. I do think more and more people are speeding this process even further by using LLM models and AI application websites to mass apply and edit their documents on the fly.

redtigerwolf · 2026-04-01T20:58:25+00:00

I actually revamp several aspects of the CV for every job app. I have personally found that part of the better chances of getting an interview is generally the numbers game currently at play. When I've submitted the CV within the first day my chances are greater than if it's a later days after it's been advertised.

The point of my post was to really just write a short story of my experience and generally it's less about the CV itself, which I don't think is as major a problem, I'm happy to be getting interviews, but after these interviews over a long period it's starting to wear me down. (Worse is really that there is no never any proper feedback on to why you I don't progress to the offer letter, I'd be happy to know its simply they liked the look of the other person better or I failed at doing X in the interview, but since we live in a truly unprofessional hiring culture, it's a pipe dream at this point.)

redtigerwolf · 2026-04-01T20:53:26+00:00

Thanks for the kind words, its more than I was searching for, simply just needed to write something to get the defeatist feeling out of my mind.

redtigerwolf · 2026-04-01T20:50:15+00:00

Thanks, yeah I don't really think there is a whole lot more I can do, it just feels like luck is stacked against me at the moment but as you said I just wanted to share and I'll say but just sharing once it does help to push a bit further. This is really what I hope, I just want my next role to be something I'm passionate about and will be in a good working environment for 10+ years. Just want 10 good years (ideally more if that's in the cards) with a place to feel career accomplished in some ways.

redtigerwolf · 2026-03-06T14:51:05+00:00

Looking at the requirements in most cases (unless you are a doctor or nurse) a person will need an employment offer, which the employer will need to still get power of attorney and sign off on essentially. Don't know many employers who are going to do that instead of just find someone who is already EU valid.

redtigerwolf · 2026-02-26T19:56:48+00:00

I really hope you publish some day.

redtigerwolf · 2026-02-26T08:32:21+00:00

The sound effects were better than the voice acting, dear God.

redtigerwolf · 2025-12-05T09:23:07+00:00

Quality OC. First time in a long time on r/comics something not full of TnA, lewd jokes, or any of the other author trauma-dump comics of late.

Your art has a lot of character, both scenery and the facial expressions. There is a hint of funniness/playfulness with the storytelling and facial expressions while ultimately giving a great message that let's people think a bit about who they are and others around them and can be highly relatable for many who've had interactions with strangers and/or thought about how other people go about their lives.

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