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phonyphanty

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  • The Tech Industry Doesn’t Understand Consent - Dhole Moments

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  • Nowhere in the article does the author pin blame on individual employees. "Tech industry" obviously refers to corporations, not individual contributors. The title isn't clickbait.

  • Disco Elysium standalone expansion reportedly cancelled and quarter of staff facing redundancy at ZA/UM

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  • I feel like we're maybe getting confused about terminology here? "Redundancy" is a specific term for a specific form of dismissal. It's not a euphemism for "firing" because firing someone is a different kind of dismissal. Terms like rightsizing, reset, re-allocating resources, trimming the fat -- these are certainly euphemisms for redundancy that should be called out.

  • Disco Elysium standalone expansion reportedly cancelled and quarter of staff facing redundancy at ZA/UM

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  • I get the sentiment. But to me personally, "redundancy" is pretty clear and doesn't mask the pain that comes with being let go. There's also generally a difference between being "fired" and being "made redundant". Redundancy suggests that their job doesn't need to be done anymore b/c of a restructure, bankruptcy, merger, and the company needs to meet certain obligations for that redundancy not to be considered an "unfair dismissal".

  • Silent Hill 2 Remake - Gameplay Reveal Trailer

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  • Sure is a videogame

  • How to keep a man

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  • This how You keep a spirit of the Black Lodge ...

  • Art by Nellorain - fox with sparklers

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  • Cuuute. Love the colours

  • Art by Cryptten - a festive wolf

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  • Aww it's adorable. I want a guardian angel like this.

  • aroace_irl

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  • You made me realise how similar the demi and ace flags are... I guess it makes sense since demisexuality is a type of asexuality.

  • Werewolf identity crisis

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  • Checks out

  • Another Code: Recollection – Overview Trailer – Nintendo Switch

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  • To clarify, it was released in Europe as well :)

  • Starfield design director calls out unfair game criticism: 'Don't fool yourself into thinking you know why it is the way it is'

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  • That's fair, I 100% agree. No matter the reason for a game's poor quality, you shouldn't let it off the hook. Especially if it's a commercial product.

    Personally though, I don't think he's pretending not to have heard that point. He clarifies multiple times in the thread that he's fine with people criticising his work. Instead, he's speaking to a kind of criticism that claims -- incorrectly -- to know things about the game's development, and that offers naive solutions to complex problems. In my opinion, that kind of criticism is pretty worthless, and takes up air that could otherwise be spent discussing the game's real, concrete problems.

    But I get the frustration. Bethesda's response to criticism of Starfield has been dismissive on the whole, so the director of the game coming out against some criticism is tone-deaf from a PR perspective.

    Also, it seems like no-one who complains about discourse online takes the time to provide examples of what they're complaining about... So it's hard to know what exactly Emil is talking about here.

  • Starfield design director calls out unfair game criticism: 'Don't fool yourself into thinking you know why it is the way it is'

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  • I think it's a fair point. They're not arguing against all criticism, just the kind that comes from a place of ignorance for how games are made. There are certainly a lot of people who say things like, "why didn't the developers just do X Y Z", with no empathy for or understanding of how games get made. It's possible to criticise things without spreading ignorance.

  • Undertale and Deltarune @lemmy.world
    phonyphanty @pawb.social

    DELTARUNE / Dess is Ness (and some other people)

  • The climate change we caused is here for at least 50,000 years – and probably far longer

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  • Ah, gotcha. I do understand the anxiety about that though, it's hard to care when climate change feels so permanent and inevitable.

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    There’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually works

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  • Sorry, but that's a pretty arrogant thing to say

  • The climate change we caused is here for at least 50,000 years – and probably far longer

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  • Even if they won't care, it's normal to want a better future for the people who come after you.

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    There’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually works

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  • I'd love to, but none of my friends use it unfortunately

  • We always imagine that if humans had tails they'd be furry tails but they'd actually probably be hairless like our bodies

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  • Don't tell the furries

  • Little Nightmares III – The Necropolis: 2-Player Co-op Gameplay Walkthrough

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  • I was really worried about this game from the trailer but this is actually looking sick as hell... I like that they're playing with different kinds of monsters and environments. And co-op sounds like a lot of tense shouty fun.

  • Well, Cities: Skylines 2 is here, and it's another broken game release.

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  • I dunno -- I'm sympathetic to the DLC argument, but bad performance isn't something I can forgive on launch day. I'm sure they'll patch it in time, but if I buy a full-priced game, I expect it to run decently well. Anything less makes for a poor user experience. If a publisher truly cares about user experience then they won't release a game in that state, or if they do, they'll make it 100% clear on the storefront that the game has performance issues.

  • Firefox @lemmy.ml
    phonyphanty @pawb.social

    Ask Microsoft if They Plan to Use Our Personal Data to Train AI

    foundation.mozilla.org /en/campaigns/microsoft-ai