Yeah I think that being such a high number too got some looks.

The same thing happened with small time YouTubers, Pinterest, etc. As soon as there is a ‘potential’ to make millions, people started shifting gears and progressing towards what appeared to be a money making formula, which fundamentally changed the vibe and attitude of the community.

This is a weird one, but there’s been a definite shift in indie game development.

Before Steam Greenlight/Direct and Xbox Live Arcade/Marketplace and whatever, there wasn’t a huge emphasis on trying to get money out of a game project. I’d speculate most indie (and modders) dev’s goals at the time were to make stuff and hope it was cool enough to show to a studio as a portfolio piece and get hired, as self-publishing was rather difficult at the time.

A lot of conversation and discussion about game dev at the time was just trying out new things or learning how stuff worked and so it was a generally chill environment.

But after the success of things like Braid on the Xbox or Minecraft (when it first released) on the PC, there was a huge direction change into avoiding working for a big studio altogether and getting into self-publishing to make the big bucks. Now its generally considered strange to make something just to make something and not have a community or dev logs or self-promotion.

Its somewhat made me avoid some development communities and I find that kind of frustrating.

I was specifically thinking of books with sexual violence, suicide, or promoting toxic behavior, and even then it does go down to the book’s context.

It sounds kind of ridiculous but this is actually pretty smart. I’d prefer to know what my kids are diving into and maybe set up guardrails or at least warnings if something they were interested in was funky.

My phone.

I broke the screen and had to deal without it for a week. I didn’t realize how often I’d flip it out and start scrolling every moment of downtime I had until I couldn’t do that anymore.

After a few days of that I started to wonder what was so important to catch up on every 15 minutes.

Alright so at an old job it was pretty windy and I was pulling into the parking lot when a tree branch snapped off and hit a power line, leaving the line on the ground right in the middle of the lot.

I sort of angled my car (a decent ways away from the downed line) to block anyone from driving into/over it and asked to see if the building maintenance guy could put out some cones or barriers or something until the electric company could look at it.

The maintenance guy walks out, sees the downed line, and picks it up. Then proudly proclaims it must not be connected to the grid, otherwise he’d be dead.

Yeah probably. You may be able to get two crew on oxygen and two on the pilot seat for repairs (and then have someone hop over to doors as soon as they can), then jump out of there first chance you get and hope you’re in range of a shop to buy some repairs since you got 150 scrap.

You’re just going to have to cross your fingers that the shield hold long enough and that no missiles hit the engine.

Sometimes. There’s a lot less office BS at home, but it gets very quiet and isolated, even if you intentionally make a trip out during lunch or whatever.

The commute sucks though. Always.

I’m going to assume this was posted from Mastodon as you can’t follow people here on Lemmy. At least not that I am aware of.

So you know in the Monster Hunter games where you eat a big ol’ feast before a hunt?

I don’t know which monster they cook up, but whichever it is, is probably incredibly delicious.

I believe one of the lines from the song is ‘stuffed with fluff’ so I don’t know, could be a little fuzzy.

I usually put it in ice water for a few minutes, then crack it slightly and then start peeling the shell off.

Where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain!

I suspect if you were the equivalent of crumbs in the bed, you would not stop and consider if you were the crumbs in the bed.

I’m fairly certain HR don’t like people either.

Kind of funky?

I run into a lot of weirdo problems that have been difficult to figure out, some of which I haven’t solved and just decided to live with for now.

I do a lot of game dev stuff and that’s been a funky space to operate in because a lot of software I use is either not available on Linux or its there but has big quirks that you don’t get warnings about. I’ve generally found alternatives but there are a few spaces where a single app or two absolutely dominate the space and they tend to be extremely proprietary and Windows/Mac only, especially as you start treading into the higher end fidelity stuff.

The other big hiccup I’ve ran into is collaborative stuff. A lot of other people are locked into certain formats or services which either don’t support Linux at all or its such a barebones support that it makes it frustrating to use. The people you collab with often don’t even know of these hiccups so they’re usually baffled on why you’d recommend switching to anything else and tend to blame the issues on Linux rather than the software.

Now I’m not particularly Linux savvy so this could be just normal stumbling blocks on the way to figuring it out, and I am slowly figuring things out, but it has been a funky journey.

In some slight fairness, the license key problem was ‘supposed’ to be documented, so my co-worker would have been correct if he had remembered to write it down.

That job had a thing for putting people through trials of fire and demanding they figure out how to adapt or get burned. I’m somewhat convinced that was a policy baked in somewhere.

At an old job, there was a client who was needing help fixing some fancy software/hardware that my company supported. It was apparently a somewhat dire situation so they needed someone to fly out urgently to fix it, or something like that, I wasn’t a part of the initial nothing-put-into-writing call. (Miscommunication 1)

My co-worker at a different office bailed at the very last minute and said someone else would need to do it. I drew the short straw so I was basically flying out in an hour or so to see this client that I’ve never met and had no experience with.

I asked said co-worker for details on the client, to which I got a somewhat snobby reply of ‘well this is what the [CRM] is for, dummy’. (This was miscommunication 2)

So alright cool grab the client name, hand it over to the secretary who sets up flights and other arrangements, and I’m off in a rush. (Miscommunication 3)

Secretary got [Client], LLC and not [Client], INC. Neither of us realized there were two of the same names in the system.

I arrive at the client’s site, walk in, and they are completely baffled on why I am there and what I am trying to do. After a ridiculously embarrassing call with my boss I ended up driving to the correct location, several hours away, and showing up early in the morning.

…Only to find out that the client was ultimately missing a license key. One that they didn’t have nor did we have, but a separate third party who originally set it up. We didn’t know that was the case because my co-worker was the only one who had experience with this client and didn’t mention this. (Miscommunication 4)

It was a miserable time.

There’s a handful of posters here that I definitely recognize. I don’t know if I’d call any of them big accounts, though that may not be a bad thing.

Excitement