Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
1hr ago
120k/yr which is a decent entry-level or mid-level white-collar salary, depending on the specific field.
Don't forget overhead... although perhaps with corporate tax breaks it evens out back near 120k.
AI is not just doubling or tripling performance but for some workers makes them an order of magnitude more powerful than they were before
The hope I'm sure is that it's the senior folks, who are themselves worth far more than that $120k/year.
Mantergeistmann
5hr ago
I'm approaching this as someone who is trying to build a mental model of a phenomenon that is deeply foreign to me. I am fantastically in love with life and fantastically afraid of losing it
That's fascinating to me. Perhaps I need to get checked for depression, but aside from dangerous situations where instinct takes over (say, car swerved a bit in bad weather), I have no interest in life outside of what it means I can provide for my wife and family (both materially and emotionally), and can't actually remember the last time that was different.
Mantergeistmann
7hr ago
Similarily, I learned at a young age that "I forgot" received much less pushback from parents & teachers than "I though this assignment was stupid and boring and so I didn't bother to do it."
Mantergeistmann
14hr ago
I don't think BG3 crapped on earlier games.
I think that's mostly people mad about Sarevok, Viconia, a few books of in-universe smut, and the fact that somehow Palpatine Bhaal returned. Although a few chunks of that aren't Larian's fault so much as what WotC had already written.
Mantergeistmann
18hr ago
especially because the meme seems to have a rightist valence to the extent that it has any political valence at all
Very vocally disliking Harry Potter is a pasttime on the Left, so presumably any HP-related memes are therefore automatically and visibly disliked.
Mantergeistmann
23hr ago
So Rowling is hated by the Left, but herself hates Trump & the Right. I will laugh if she declares that she's not approving of "Trans Malfoy" and then everyone burns themselves down trying to figure out which side they need to be on.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
I have employer's insurance, and it's the best deal available for me, it'd be stupid not to use it. But if I couldn't use it I would have quite shitty options indeed before me.
It's one of the big reasons why I'm not seriously looking into consulting, even if I reach a point where I'd be mostly able to retire early.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
Reading that original quote, I'm in agreement with you on both your thoughts, and think that it reinforces my own. If she had instead said "I wish there was some sort of developer mode or cheat code accessible to the public, like (insert well-loved code here like killsw01 in BG or 'power overwhelming' in sc or even just the Konami code)", it'd have gone over better. And also focused on just being bad/not having time, rather than admitting she just wants to write non-games. Is there any other genre/media where that would happen? "The hardest part of being a Disney writer is that I'm not a fan of writing for kids, and wish musical numbers could be skipped." It's just asking for skepticism and blame for anything people don't like going forward.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
I think a lot of talking heads just don’t want to open the Pandora’s Box of acknowledging that sometimes elections do get stolen. They’re scared of what that could imply.
I have a hunch that if Bolsonaro had won, they'd have no issues calling it stolen.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
I'd agree with it being a communication issue, and I think part of it boils down to people who see gameplay skill as.... well, a skill, and an important part of a game. Having a "just as valid no combat" mode takes away from that in a way that a cheat code doesn't.
Let's look at ME3 itself for a moment. To get the best(?) ending, you need to have a high enough War Readiness score. You need to work for that, by making the right decisions (even with guides existing, that could still be considered "putting in effort"). And mods or cheat codes to increase War Readiness to max would, I feel, be accepted by the fans in a way that having Hackett say right before the final quest, "Shepard, your War Readiness is a bit low, but we have reserves that can bring them to max and give your story the conclusion it deserves".
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
Can you think of a male Cinderella story where the male protagonist kind of just has awesomeness and acclaim dropped into his lap?
Barsoom? John Carter just goes to Mars and is instantly crazy strong? Starts off awesome, and mostly just has to learn the new culture (and, I guess, be taught a gearing trick on the fliers)? Although he had the backstory to back it up as a soldier...
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
If he is, I'd ask a followup: What's the first major myth/story where the male lead isn't a Gary Stu?
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
The thought is that the ego of these people cannot accept that other people who win elections have the right to implement their agenda. They can’t accept Cthulhu swimming straight instead of hard left. And seeing that they aren’t getting their way causes distress, especially for those who have made politics their religion.
I've said before that I think the internet and culture are dealing with a lot of people who really only became aware of politics near the end of GWB (who they thought was clearly evil) followed by 8 glorious years of Obama and Hope and Change, and thought that would be the future forever (but that next election it would instead be a woman's turn, but still on the Left).
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
But what about the Irish and people from the mountains of Vermont?
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
"Move the slider until you can barely see the icon" haha yeah no, I'm moving it until I can comfortably see the icon.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
a better solution that’s not active management for people here is to just do the spy, vti, and Tlt game at lower fees and customize your own ratios.
That's what I've wound up doing, even though I've been fortunate enough at my past two companies that the ERs for the TDFs were pretty dang low. Not quite as good where I am now, but at my previous company I think the TDF ERs were 0.035% (but at that company the S&P 500 index was 0.006% and their bond index was 0.01%, so... although at that level it's pretty close to just splitting hairs)
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
Cheers, mate! Sometimes those hunches pay off!
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
I think the problem is that writing that letter is basically guaranteed to backfire -- if competent, the GOP could probably force a Dem opponent to denounce it (and the Iranian regime's human rights record), weakening their anti-war stance/creds. I'd imagine, at least.
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
I don't know how often women actually note "perky tits" on themselves or other women, but the meme on the Internet is "breasting boobily," which is basically about male authors who spend too much time emphasizing a woman's appearance (and especially her breasts) in every scene, having her examine herself in a mirror (so the author can describe her perky tits), etc. This sometimes happens, and sometimes you do get the impression the author is infatuated with his own character, but now it's like a lot of writing memes, where it's a pattern you sometimes see but the mere existence of it in a scene is not, contrary to lots of bad writing advice, "bad writing."
(I mean, if you start the book with your character waking up from a dream, or the first thing the female character does is check herself out in the mirror, I probably am going to roll my eyes hard.)
The reasonable commentary I've seen is that the point of a mirror scene is so the POV character can describe to the audience what they look like (although, as I've read, a real person looking at themselves in the mirror usually notices what's changed, what they don't like, that their hair's a mess at the moment...). Presumably many authors think that when describing a female main character, cup size is a mandatory inclusion.
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
"Even if it isn't true, it started a conversation" is... well, I'm not a fan, but I have a hunch that others out there have torn it apart far better than I could.
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
The only quality thing was the writing in the loyalty missions.
That's part of the tragedy: the loyalty and recruitment missions outnumber the main plot missions, and are far superior... but unlike the loyalty missions, you can never choose to skip the main plot on a playthrough.
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
ME2's characters and sidequests were outstanding. The main storyline and Cerberus and the Illusive Man? Not so much.
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
when they already had done multiplayer pretty well in ME3 (even if the integration with the single player was controversial)
Looking back, that multiplayer was a lot more fun than it had any right to be.
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
when I first played ME2 so long ago I was actively disappointed that I couldn't romance the only party members you can't, in fact, romance?
I mean, who among us can claim they didn't want Mordin carnally?
Or, as German general Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord put it,
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