Skip Navigation

Scrubbles

@ scrubbles @poptalk.scrubbles.tech

Posts
36
Comments
1827
Joined
3 yr. ago

Little bit of everything!

Avid Swiftie (come join us at !taylorswift@poptalk.scrubbles.tech )

Gaming (Mass Effect, Witcher, and too much Satisfactory)

Sci-fi

I live for 90s TV sitcoms

  • Google is testing a new CAPTCHA that asks you to make hand gestures on camera

    Jump

  • YouTube TV has this questionaire that says what brands have you heard of. It offers 4 brands and none of the above. However the Nimrods made it a checkbox instead of radio button. So of course every time I gladly fill out their survey. I say I've heard of all four and also none of the above. Anything to poison the data!

  • Locked

    Where to make a /c for NSFL/WPD/LFO videos?

    Jump

  • I see where you're going, and I get it. Honestly, this question comes up a lot and would be great to have an FAQ. New accounts wondering why they can't post horrific shit. I started nicer when I explained it, but it's been so many times now, and the posters who do engage have always been insistent that they can't possibly host their own stuff, that it's the mean mods who refuse to host it for them. Its different here, when we are responsible, and I wish there was a unified way to explain that.

    I've thought about it, but first no one would find it and then also those who read it are not those who would need to see it.

  • Locked

    Where to make a /c for NSFL/WPD/LFO videos?

    Jump

  • People who want to post more than likely illegal content and let others take the heat for it, and then get mad when they impose rules so they don't go to prison. Let's be clear, you want to start a cat community go for it, love it. You want to post illegal content that can get the server owner's doors kicked down and hauled off to jail? Get outta here and host it yourself if you believe in it that much.

    Essentially, if you aren't willing to risk it yourself, don't insist others risk themselves.

  • Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress

    Jump

  • Hey sounds like there's some optimization to the government that can be done right there....

  • Fox to acquire Roku in $22 billion deal, its largest ever

    Jump

  • Very accurate, why only make boat money when we could make megataght money at the expense se of our customers and reputation?

  • Meta's Super Expensive New AI Team Is Already a Complete Catastrophe: "It's literally the gulag."

    Jump

  • Sorry I was with you, but I take issue with the work an extra hour to meet a deadline. I did that just this week even.

    We have a deadline, we had time for us allto get it done, but one member was doing things his own pace. That's okay, but he needs it done by this date. I start checking in more and more regularly, he says it's fine and he'll get it done. Well it is Friday and it's due Monday, and he says that he guessed it was harder than it was, and he didn't have crucial component done. To which I said I'm sorry to do this, but it's due Monday, let me know how I can help but sounds like you'll need to work over the weekend.

    I'm huge on work life balance, but if you're slacking at work and dragging down everyone else, damn right I'll ask you to work late. I'm not a manager so I can't do reviews, but as a lead it is my job to make sure things get done on time, and if I don't push one person, the the whole team is at risk when layoff season comes around

  • Meta's Super Expensive New AI Team Is Already a Complete Catastrophe: "It's literally the gulag."

    Jump

  • Yeah, as a developer who wants to not be homeless, I've had to take my fair share of dubious roles that I felt didn't add anything to humanity. I've been disillusioned from college where I thought my tech would help people and humanity, I know what I do.

    But, I can be proud that I turned down Meta. I was desperate for a job, and I got to the offer stage. It was a tempting offer, but luckily another job rolled in. Less money, but I knew it was a moment for me. Maybe my code has been less than moral, but at least I know I can draw a hard line there.

    Fun fact, I asked about work life balance and the recruiter happily told me "oh it's great! We have onsite laundry and sleeping pods, and the cafeteria is open all the time!" Great, hard pass. Sounds like something college senior would be excited about. Me, I want to go home to my big bed with my spouse.

  • Locked

    Where to make a /c for NSFL/WPD/LFO videos?

    Jump

  • Only correct answer. Where to host? That's the fun thing OP, YOU get to host it. Just register your name, address, phone, and credit card with a hosting provider and they'll set you right up, you can host all the gore you want.

    Unless you just expect some other person to host your content, but that wouldn't be very fair, would it?

  • After seeing the news today about EA

    Jump

  • In the description bud

  • After seeing the news today about EA

    Jump

  • And then they wonder why we don't partake in any of it

  • After seeing the news today about EA

    Jump

  • It's obvious that to them "line must go up", and that having a game be successful is not enough money anymore.

    Dragon Age 4 was the obvious item for me for EA. Here was a game that had fans frothing at the mouth. DA3 (Inquisition) was very good, and while the story wrapped up well, there was a huge cliffhanger at the end that always left us wondering. It's story was written years earlier in 2007 with DA:Origins. Now, nearly 20 years later, finally the stunning conclusion.

    Except EA decided that that wasn't enough. It had to be bigger. It had to attract not just RPG gamers, not just fans of the series, for those are small potatoes. They needed every gamer on the planet to play this game. So they changed the story to make it more "appealing" to a "broader audience", which of course means they watered it down and didn't make it too scary for any specific group. They removed all real stakes, and removed all actual connection. It was written with Marketing and HR in the room, dictating that you can't say this or that, and it ended up being the most bland and soulless game in the entire series. ( While it did resolve all the plotlines, you found yourself playing to figure out the ending, not because you were enjoying it. By making a game for everyone, they made a game for noone.

    Seriously, you could not piss off your companion. You could destroy their personal world, and they would at most sad face for the next conversation. In DA:O your company would literally walk away from you and try to take you kill you later, but in 4, just pouty face and then back to "You're the bestest boss ever!"

    So this is just so obviously corporate overreacting. "We made a game for everyone and no one bought it!". So do they go back, think about what happened? Do they realize what they did wrong and pivot so that they can come back stronger with a true heartfelt story-rich game? Of course not. It needs ads now.

    DA is just one of EA's hundreds of properties of course, but it's such a telling story for me. Inquisition literally gave me goosebumps, it made me tear up, I felt connected with the game. I rooted for the characters, I became friends with them. DA4s characters were all straight up like I was having a meeting with my HR representative.

    Rinse and repeat for Mass Effect 5 now, and their shock that Andromeda didn't do well.

  • Judge Rules Blacked.com Can Sue Meta for Scraping Its Porn

    Jump

  • Never thought we'd be rooting on Big Porn to help save integrity of the internet, but I'm all for it. They brought us HD, 4K, VR, now let's go save the rest.

  • AI is making promises your brand never made. Hotels are paying the price

    Jump

  • I feel you and that's where I worked actually for my short time there. In reality, the hotel and third party systems are both ancient. Sure they get rewritten, and things get upgraded, but it moves at a glacial pace because anytime an update happens everyone needs to sign off on it. Even the "API", last I worked there, was still SOAP if I remember correctly, and while we did our best to make sure what you were booking was correct, we were beholden to the ancient infrastructure below. So it's not malice, but it is rather hundreds of small tiny issues that propagate and bubble, each of which usually require everyone agreeing on the implementation change, and all result in the customer being pissed at the front desk.

    Long story short, when you add a middleman there's an entire layer of complexity added, and so I recommend skipping that added complexity and booking with the hotel.

  • AI is making promises your brand never made. Hotels are paying the price

    Jump

  • That would be the point of the article, yes.

  • Microsoft's new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly on Windows

    Jump

  • Microsoft doesn't know how to make software anymore. That's not an anti-AI thing, or even an anti-microsoft thing, they just truly don't know.

    It's not a tech company anymore. The people in charge aren't nerds, they aren't coders, their business people now. The org is so large and cumbersome that the left hand never knows what the right is doing. How can they possibly make software when you have to go through 42 teams for even the smallest feature request, miles of red tape, approvals, legal, everything. Small startups can build better things because they don't have all the stupid bureaucracy of big tech, and Microsoft just keeps adding more. "Maybe even more overhead will get us operational!" It's no wonder to me they're falling behind, they don't know how to make things anymore.

  • AI is making promises your brand never made. Hotels are paying the price

    Jump

  • I feel like everyone thinks those sites are really great until they get burned badly.

  • AI is making promises your brand never made. Hotels are paying the price

    Jump

  • Correct, as I said I worked there. However not going through them also closes you off to massive amounts of business. The alternative is that those rooms go empty and nobody stays there costing the hotels massive amounts of money. Some money is better than none.

  • AI is making promises your brand never made. Hotels are paying the price

    Jump

  • Think more Expedia and booking.com, sites that thr hotels have no say over.

    I worked Expedia for a while, and there is a complete disconnect between them and hotels. Hotels offer spare availability, we sell it, but customer shows up and the room is gone. Our service showed it but maybe the hotel had already sold it and we were out of date, maybe the room definition wasn't correct. So the hotel says they can't do anything, call Expedia. Expedia doesn't want to give back money so they fuck around with horrible customer service. The customer blames the hotel.

    It's why I never recommend third party booking sites anymore. Book directly with the hotel. Get the loyalty program with the hotel. Yes maybe Expedia saves you 20 bucks a night, but your experience will be guaranteed with the hotel. Expedia can't make those promises.

  • He took his wife, a Trump fan, to the president’s hotel in Doral. Instead he was detained by ICE.

    Jump

  • “I’m his fan. I believe Trump is a good president,” she said. However, Zaragosa noted this political loyalty co-exists with the disappointment she feels over the months her husband spent in detention.

    For sure, if I was detained and my spouse said this, I would be starting the divorce process. Same if I did it to them, I would expect them to divorce me. The choice between supporting a politician and supporting your spouse should be the easiest out there, and yet she failed that simple test.