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I like traveling, food, chubby animals, and video games. Currently playing Dragon Age: Veilguard For web developer stuff follow: @dianale.bsky.app
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Made small talk with a stranger about how the job market is meaningless AI blah, and he raved about Grok and said it knew all the stuff he asked because he asked his engineer friend. I said, "But you need someone who knows the subject, yes?" And he paused and said, "...That's true." I do what I can

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"OpenAI suggested... that the US should end these court fights by shifting its copyright strategy to promote the AI industry's 'freedom to learn.'" AKA: "Let us steal these copyrighted materials and then charge users money for our services without compensating the creators because FREEDOM." 🙄

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Meta is trying VERY hard not to get people to read "Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, & Lost Idealism", a tell-all memoir by former Facebook/Meta employee Sarah Wynn-Williams. You can buy from independent bookstores such as Powell's: www.powells.com/book/careles...

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Working in UX, I've always liked the emotional dialogue options in #DragonAge where icons give you context on your response. The ❤️ for romance in #Veilguard feels misplaced at first. It's more empathetic so I feel like 🫶 or 🤲 would work better to hint you're not inappropriately trying to seduce them

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I'm baffled at some people driving significantly over the speed limit while in a national park. You're making the road more dangerous for yourself and others, and also risk running over wildlife, just so you can get to your hike faster and presumably enjoy nature? Try enjoying the scenery maybe?

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Many ♥️ thanks to the federal employees of the National Park Service as I visited Big Bend in Texas for the first time & loved it. And I had this delightful exchange at the entrance: NPS: Enjoy your time at the park. Me: I almost just said, "You too." NPS: I do! Every day! That's why I work here!

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I can't stop laughing at this man I'm sorry. This is the kind of shit the biggest loser in the world would say to their girlfriend about buying her flowers on Valentine's Day once, and he's doing so in an argument that started because he called her a bitch

submitted 14 days ago • 920 comments

Sad in context since most of the game's writers have been unceremoniously laid off now, but I actually do stop and read all the little scattered notes and Codex entries you find everywhere in #Veilguard. This one actually made me laugh out loud #DragonAge 🐢🎒

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Josh Johnson is fantastic at long-form comedy that ties in current events to pop culture, history, religion, politics in a profoundly funny manner. "Art can absolutely save your life but entertainment will never be your salvation. No one has ever escaped their chains by forgetting they were there."

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I love the silly humor of #Veilguard. For this one scene someone would have had to say, "Hey we have big statue hands, let's make some corny puns." Then this required recording all 4 Rook voice actors, along with all the companions for the dialogue. All this effort for a tiny bit of humor #DragonAge

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Crawfish season is back for 2025 after a terrible drought last year 🦐. Made a po'boy(ish) sandwich by breading and air frying the leftover tails from the crawfish boil, and then mixing up the rest into a sauce

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Release a good single-player video game with poor marketing that sells below your expectations => layoffs Release a massively successful and profitable multiplayer video game => layoffs www.resetera.com/threads/marv...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Yesterday many thousands of federal employees were terminated. This is a Reddit thread for federal employees that got laid off.

submitted 28 days ago • 84 comments

Find someone who looks at you the way Rook looks at Varric at the beginning of the game #DragonAge #Veilguard

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Sure let's give someone who can't even build a proper, secure website total access to all federal agencies www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Relieving stress via baking with my first attempt at beer bread using Trader Joe's box mix. I think I overmixed but it still turned out pretty decent. Unfortunately as someone who doesn't drink it still tasted a little too beer-y, BUT fortunately queso came to the rescue 🧀🍺🍞

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

#Veilguard is super accessible: changing gameplay difficulty, if you want icons, how far away markers are, shiny loot indicators, named saves. ALL great things. And then BAM a major story decision with no warning & no way to save beforehand. I stared at the screen for a good minute #DragonAge

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

#Veilguard definitely is pretty but I felt some dissonance because you can't reach a lot of the detailed backgrounds, but they appear so close that they look reachable. Maybe the environment is too detailed for the closed world? Weird complaint but I do stop and appreciate the views #DragonAge

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Sad time to be starting #Veilguard when this might be the last #DragonAge, but I gotta rave about the HAIR PHYSICS - a glorious sight in motion. The character creator was expectedly overwhelming. I spent an hour trying to make her look more like me and wound up with Summer Glau? Not complaining 😅

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Current mood: downloading social security statements and bank accounts before money starts disappearing because I guess this is America now

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Loving the special Lunar New Year red bean mille crêpes cake! #ladym #millecrepes

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments