I’d 100% ruin a kid’s life and my own if I had to take care of one full time. They’re not for me I’ve always known that. I’m much better suited for being the cool aunt

Yo I got surgery on the 6th and it took until yesterday for my digestive tract to wake up enough to poop again

This makes sense, thank you

I’m not familiar with TF2, why would it break other game economies?

My work someone made a robust automated build script, and they left so someone else made a wrapper around it to make it easier to work with, they’re gone now and someone wrote a wrapper around that to extend functionality in a backwards compatible way, but it’s overly complicated for my minimal use cases so I wrote a batch file to call it with my default settings…

Ah taking notes from how Unity fired people. Slow and steady to ensure morale is as ruined as possible

https://youtu.be/zrFv1I5Yb7k

Like this but with the spare wheel instead of a no wheel

The tire doesn’t have to be perfect that’s why it’s a spare. I’m sure it’ll be fine

Fun fact: Lockheed uses Unity to make XR training apps and Unity used to (maybe still does I’m not sure) partner with them to help build said apps

My first game industry job I was pulling hours like that, it capped around 120hr/week for a little bit. I did that for a couple months before burning out for four years. The game never even released 🫠

The dedication to making something you want to be proud of is for real and a lot of people in the game industry are there because they’re passionate not because of the pay. It can be difficult to work past

When did you retire? Agile has been around for at least 20 years, more like 30 if you count scrum being introduced before agile was formally defined. No matter how critical I am of agile it is hardly a fad at this point

Well I work from home so I do keep my room dark, I like to have a blanket over my shoulders, it’s not uncommon for me to just be in my underwear… Honestly I’m most of the way there

Okay so the dumb part is a lot of this is me abstracting away our complex build system. I’ve basically bubble-gummed a dedicated build system in top of it for only the tasks I do. At a certain point if I start adding configurations or timing I might as well just wrap it in gradle or something. But the system that I’m calling is already their attempt at simplifying another build system that’s underneath it that was written by the old guard using arcane sorcery. The whole thing is a mess

This is part of why I still have manual kickoffs for mine. Never need to worry about work getting done while I’m away or getting done suspiciously fast. Also they should have paid you lol, the dingdongs. Would cost a lot more just in work lost having someone else spend time deciphering and fixing it. They could always get someone else up to speed with the system after it is fixed by you so there’s little or no down time

And humid, internet is saying they’re at like 50% humidity right now

Like half of my job is writing .bat files to automate stuff locally and not tell my boss that all I do anymore is double click the right things in the right order…

What does being a hobbyist taking care of an aquarium have to do with eating fish?

Axolotls are nearly if not already extinct in the wild. Hobbyists and researchers are the only thing keeping them in existence. Everyone adores seeing my axolotls and get emotionally invested in them almost immediately, which provides a very tangible in person thing for them to think about. It’s a good jumping off point for talking about what’s happening with lakes and rivers.

There are some things we shouldn’t take from the wild. Like I believe sourcing completely natural live rock is unethical as corals have it hard enough and it’s super easy to farm our own live rock. Some things it’s fine and can even help preserve them or teach people about conservation. I learned so much back when I took care of a marine tank. I have a much stronger understanding of how intricate and fragile our ecosystem can be and people should be allowed to learn and see that for themselves

Oh good, more opportunities for my anti-vax brother to put his children’s lives in danger. Just what we need

This is such a bad time for me to be trying to get back into the game industry fml