Astronomer & video game data scientist with repressed anger

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  • I’m not sure why you’re pulling drinking straws and shopping bags into this. The move away from plastic straws and bags has nothing to do with arguments around carbon. That’s all about sea life, microplastics, and single use plastics.

    You’re just injecting “Fuck the turtles in particular” into this for seemingly no reason at all.





  • People spending more time with fewer games is not a reason, in publishers’ minds, to reverse course. It’s the intended outcome.

    Having the same number of people (or near the same number) playing fewer games, and filling those games with monetization features is cheaper and easier to maintain than having a broad and growing library of titles.

    Remember, the ideal for publishers is to have one game that everyone plays that has no content outside of a “spend money” button that players hit over and over again. That’s the cheapest product they can put out, and it gives them all the money. They’re all seeking everything-for-nothing relationships with customers.


  • He was “forced” to buy because he, uh, signed a contract saying he would. I’m sorry, but “voluntarily signed a purchase agreement” is only “forcing” if you believe people above a certain wealth level can do whatever the fuck they want with impunity.

    He could have backed out and paid the fine he agreed to pay in the case he backed out, but he didn’t want to do that, either.

    He’s not being investigated by someone else.

    He can’t win because he’s a fucking idiot.






  • No. Especially if you have work experience, doing a MA or an MSc will be taken for the career pivoting skills development you sell it as.

    Don’t do a PhD, though, unless you’re specifically trying to get into a job that looks for them. That is, unless you specifically want to do the PhD for the sake of doing it. A lot of employers see it the same way a retail employer sees a BSc - a sign that you’re a flight risk.