EnsignWashout

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[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Knowing it (well, appearing to, by regurgitating the average) better than many developers, pretty soon. A huge number of us know disturbingly little about how computers actually work. (Edit: Sorry, I'm being needlessly unkind to a bunch of us, since as Snoogums said, the current stuff doesn't actually know anything at all, yet.)

Knowing it better than top developers is a science fiction fantasy singularity daydream.

And even Heinlein's and Asimov's post singularity fiction novels acknowledged that there would likely be roles for expert humans.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 8 points 4 days ago (5 children)

But for how much longer?

How much longer will we need people who understand how things work?

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I imagine that Brennan Lee Mulligan walks a fine line as a public figure.

He still plays D&D often enough to (seemingly) not alienate people at Wizards whose work helped launch his career.

But he also plays significant amounts of other games, including some that I think are Indie developers, like Kids on Bikes.

I'm sure he's aware of the issues and concerns in the community around D&D under Wizards - and probably shares many of those same concerns, as a fellow player and DM.

But, yes, the idea that Brennan secretly hates anything sounds pretty silly. Brennan has been pretty direct with his epic rants about things he really hates.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I can't wait for the press to join in the confusion:

"What was it like to play Nintendo's famous elf swordsman, Zelda?"

"I played Link."

"What's a link?"

kindness seems pretty exclusive to white people.

I suppose big portions of history would nod quietly at this, if they could.

With maybe a clarifying note that the real goal was classism, and racism was just a convenient way to achieve more classism.

If they came with wall mounts, you might think like I did "I'm not sure I want to wall mount these."

But now I can say - it's great. It feels good to have them wall mounted in a prominent visible place.

Exactly. My phone is for texting and calling out. Receiving calls is an unfortunate bug.

Perfect score. Social obligations fulfilled: 100%. Words spoken: 0. Emotional energy cost: 40%.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This does look very 90s. I hope it 90s so hard.

Certainly after they put him back in, he will be.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To me it sounds deeply stupid to bet on the future of the overhyped pleasant answer machines.

But uh... I would still take their money, of course.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For anyone else deciding how to feel about this:

"John MacArthur Scandal" on DuckDuckGo

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