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That out of the way, holy shit! It's kind of neat that part of Analog Nowhere made its way out into the content regurgitators of the open internet to make it back to Lemmy through a different instance in a terribly cropped and compressed form.

Lol, been there. But my former CTO had one that I think takes the cake:

My (now former) CTO showed up to a C-suite/executive meeting shortly after he joined the company and they asked him to sort out the fucking A/V setup (read: projector, computer to put the slideshow on, clicker to advance the slides, hooking it all up, etc). In a hotel conference room that was "bring your own hardware". With no warning.

And these chucklefucks expect perfection. We must have burned over a million on the executive conference room at our HQ. "The camera that automatically zooms into who is speaking isn't fast enough at changing targets" type shit.

We're a company of over 4000 employees. Every single C-suite/executive meeting before then they would book one of the senior members of our in-person internal tech support team for support for that shit, so they should have known better.

It wasn't some joking hazing thing either. They legitimately just hadn't fucking planned for how they were going to present their slideshow at this off site location and expected the CTO to just magic it together. Why they needed to do it offsite when they had a fancy ass overly expensive room built for conferences at the HQ? No fucking clue.

The things that come out at tech division happy hours are wild once the higher ups get a few drinks in them.

I've had to be very direct with my family that I don't fix computers (anymore, I used to do remote and hands on helldesk), I fix the deeper kind of stuff that keeps email working for an entire company, or makes sure new hires can log in to work stuff.

Remember to save

But it isn't a PC with Xbox compat.

It's just a portable PC with Windows Gamepass and some stuff toggled to make it easier to navigate using a controller.

So it's been about two and a half years since I've played (before my daughter was born), so take this with a grain of salt. I think last big update I experienced was the addition of the Reapers's equivalent of the Athena's Fortune faction.

Unless they've changed how captained ships work, every time you log in your ship only has a basic set of resources (like 30 wood, 30 canonballs, 15 bananas, something like that). Stocking up from the outpost barrels was an every session start thing. The whole captained ship thing was originally just a way to save your ship cosmetics and adding a bunch of ship specific achievements. Also gave access to a convenient one stop sell location and some "captain" exclusive quests.

Regarding PVP, natural "emergent" PVP has really dried up since they added in the hourglass (dedicated PVP match queuing) and the ability to server hop (lose all your sellable loot and active quest progress, keep the barrelled resources on your ship). So people up for scrapping usually hop servers until they find a popular and lucrative server event happening where there are likely to be other players. There already was the Reaper's flag and emmisary to imdicate you were up for/looking for PVP too (both make you visible on the map to the whole server). So a lot of players left running around aren't as bloodthirsty.

Also, unless they changed server limits again, each server has an absolute max of six ships. It's a big sea for so few ships. Especially when we stayed around The Roar (volcanoey area at the east side of the map) we could go entire sessions without running into other players.

Man, I really hope it's still around when I have the time to come back to it. Awesome game.

The sheer balls to try and fucking mansplain to a first responder. Holy shit.

If things keep going the way they seem to be, we're going to end up back with the same thing as old cable channel packages and ads on all streaming services.

Hell, forget doing anything with the office. I don't want to go back unless you have an on site private spa, massuese, catered food, and laundry service. Make it legitimately better than being at home and I'll consider it.

Instead, the blue shirted girlfriend should be: "A valuable intangible workplace benefit that you can continue offering for free after you were forced to invest in it due to the pandemic"

People applying for my position will make job acceptance or denial choices off of whether or not they get to work from home. We're already split across three "back office" physical locations when we are in the office and we're more than capable of having a conference call going in the background throughout the day for chitchat and bouncing ideas around verbally if we really need to. We didn't just survive during total work from home, we thrived. And we already have all the technical infrastructure, policies, and procedures in place to offer full work from home.

It's like if they could offer health insurance to employees for free, but decided not to because upper management can't figure out how to do their jobs when people have it.

Fuck this boils my piss.

"You get what you voted for" is still a horrendously fucking ghoulish thing to say in the aftermath of a natural disaster. Even with all your piss poor excuses. Be better.

I'm not from that area. I'm not a Republican. I'm a grown ass adult and parent voting Democrat, living in a blue state. My frustration with this shit ass take has nothing to do with "misunderstanding the target". You, and others saying this shit right now, are being shit human beings.

Are we going to argue that Obama drone striking civilians in the Middle East, or the absurd expansion of the surveillance state under his watch also falls under "get what you voted for"? What about Trump's "drain the swamp" that clearly didn't happen? The point being that politicians lie, gerrymander, and do all sorts of other bullshit that makes things more complicated than "vote for right person, experience no hardships or problems ever".

Are we going to pretend that Republicans winning in that area somehow means that every single adult living there voted Republican?

Go get your scope zeroed in properly. Go after the politicians directly responsible for this mess, not the poor fucks dealing with the aftermath and dead children.

Because what a lot of people read when you say "You get what you voted for" is "dead children are a cause for gloating when it happens in a Republican controlled area". It's explicitly what you folks are doing, so stop pretending you mean anything fucking respectable.

This wasn't a common talking point/repeated phrase (sentiment showed up from time to time, but this specific phrase? No) in these conversations until these kids died. So this "we're not gloating about dead kids" shit doesn't ring true to a lot of people.

Don't bother with your mental gymnastics to try and excuse your shit on my account. I've heard it all already and it doesn't make what you all are doing ok.

Mmmmm, that's some damn good bait.