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Your shirts are a fairly good source of new bands for me, so the more the merrier
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They move onto strange Victorian wasting diseases by week three
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Point is: Clair Obscur, which should be celebrated as a triumphant demonstration of what a small, focused and creative team can do when not overran by management, is now being used by the managing class to justify (and even fetishise!) ever shrinking teams.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
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However, as we've seen recently, tech businesses are overrun with a leader class; people who haven't been individual contributors in years (if they ever have), and these are the people who will routinely weed out every single bit of edge, friction or novelty in the name of making sure it's a megahit
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This was a game made without a thick crust of Heads Of, VPs, and the other phrases people use to make themselves sound important.
It's a game that represents the creative output of a small-ish core team, supported by tens (hundreds?) of others in order to bring it to Xbox and PC.
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That's it innit, I'm not competing, I'm not trying to impress anyone, but I want to be able to play with my kids for as long as possible so gimme the knee wraps
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Only an AI could end that block of text with "was that okay!?!?"
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Hilariously I have found that carrying my daughter gives me a bad wrist, but a single wrapped heavy bench press session will fix it
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Whenever chatgpt generates some non-functional block of JS that I know could be written in about three lines I just hear "Horsey to Rook 8" in my head
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I, obviously, have not aged
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I actually feel the same every time I'm doing some DIY and have to do something weird to make up for the bizarre thing the previous owner did, who probably did it because...
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People always say to me "yeah but how much work is there actually to do on big enterprise sites anyway" and depending on how the week is going I either laugh and laugh or stare dejectedly at Jira
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An N-reg Peugeot 106 with seats in a material I can only describe as "Mr Motivator"
The sunroof leaked (but only on the passenger side), the clutch was an on a razor edge and I installed a music system that cost 80% of what I paid for the car.
Started every time + took me to so many festivals
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My immediate thoughts go to the poor people who find that thread afterwards, with the answer to their question deleted. Could you base64 it so it's still retrievable?
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Oh none taken, I was more agreeing with you that the fundamentals are all the same and if the future is going to be entirely curated by AI we should probably make sure the thing feeding it can feed it properly
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I've been off work for three months on parental leave so I've not thought about it all that much, but the majority of my job involves explaining to people why not loading your nav until interaction is a bad idea, so I think I'll be alright
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In Wales, the fact that they don't accept private diagnosis means a lot of people HAVE a diagnosis already, and are paying for meds (which there's seemingly loads of if you pay) while they take up room waiting to get another diagnosis of the same thing.
I just want to remember to shut the freezer
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This means that the waiting list is chock full of people who HAVE a diagnosis, waiting for another assessment to get a diagnosis they already have.
I think I'm just going to concentrate on learning how to not forget literally everything ever and just maybe not worry about giving it a name
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I'm on a year of radio silence waiting for an ADHD diagnosis, which probably a couple more to go.
Was going to go private until I found out most Welsh GPs just... Don't accept private diagnoses
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Google have swung between incompetent and evil so frequently since 2020, the less my finances are influenced by them the better. I was listening to discussions from before the launch of Stadia the other day; that was only 6yrs ago but back then the discourse was "it's Google they must have a plan!!"
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I work with a couple of clients exposed to crypto and the stock markets, which means since January we have played a lot of games of "did something happen or did Trump say something again"
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Well that's perfect timing
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I'm only partially joking about this by the way, there's a million other apps people use to find stuff that has a search feature or some kind of curated way of presenting content, and yet all we do is bonk ourselves over the head with the Google hammer every day