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[–] masterspace@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Signing an NDA to talk about an unreleased product is not predatory, it's standard practice for virtually any business (especially the kind inviting random people off the internet to see them). Many jobs require you to sign NDAs just to go through the interview process.

There is nothing gained by not going to the meeting with Meta, if they want to launch their Twitter clone they are more than capable of doing that regardless of whether or not this guy takes a meeting to hear them out. All he's done is learned less about what they plan on doing leaving him less capable of taking the best course of action, and if you trust him to make the right decision then that's objectively a bad thing.

[–] masterspace@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Such bravery coming from someone who sounds oh so employed.

[–] masterspace@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

That's standard practice if you're going to be talking about an unreleased product.

[–] masterspace@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Play Prey, and then if you like it and are itching for more, play the Prey DLC which was their first take on the time-loop-ish concept, but it's smaller and more stealth focused than Deathloop. Then if you like that and want something bigger with more style and less stealth, play Deathloop.

[–] masterspace@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

This is not a proper talk by meta that you could just "hear them out". They explicitly said off the record and confidential, there's no reason for that if it's something innocuous.

They plan on showing demos of their product to them or talking about potential features it might have. Boom, they require an NDA.

I don't think you understand how the professional world works or how common NDAs are. I've signed NDAs while going through interview processes at FAANG and other large companies just so that we can talk freely about projects I might work on. Especially for a company like Facebook where everything they do will get about a dozen news articles written, they're going to make you sign an NDA for any conversation about an unreleased product.

[–] masterspace@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Imho, Arkane Studios games rank:

  • Prey
  • Dishonoured 1
  • Dishonoured 2
  • Deathlooop

and all were a fantastic time.

Though I haven't played Redfall yet due to the poor reception, I figure I'll wait til I'm bored in a year or so after they've had time to iron out some of the rougher edges.

[–] masterspace@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Having a larger market = having a larger network = greater network effects for content

Having Meta join with Mastodon might actually sway people off twitter and into the fediverse where it will be easier to migrate over to a different instance.

It's foolish not to hear them out, you accomplish nothing. This isn't some silicon valley episode where he has some arkane secrets that meta engineers couldn't figure out that he might leak. Meeting with them is zero risk and he would gain more information on what they're planning.

[–] masterspace@kbin.social 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In this case the American and Canadian coast guard spent resources trying to save people after they got into danger, and it sounds like the Greek coast guard might have spent resources keeping desperate people in danger until hundreds drowned.

The tragedy in Greece is an endictment of the Greek coast guard and western countries attitudes towards the developing world and refugees in general, but just because more people's houses are on fire elsewhere doesn't mean you shouldn't put out your own.

[–] masterspace@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (5 children)

These days the first Dishonoured gets FPS Boost and HDR Boost on Series X and it looks and plays better than 2, though both are amazing!

If you liked these you should check out Prey when you're done. Different setting (sci-fi / space) but a similarish game from the same studio that I loved.

[–] masterspace@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

ex: fediverse@lemmy.world vs fediverse@lemmy.ml

Isn't the point of federation that those communities would federate and then have merged comments sections? Or am I misunderstanding how it works?

[–] masterspace@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm guessing kbin doesn't have the same level of mod tools as reddit yet

[–] masterspace@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

The simplest standard fix is to just immediately start a loading spinner that disables the button until the first request comes back or times out, then at least the user knows that something is happening. Some sites use optimistic updating though where they just assume the request will be successful, benefit being that the change happens as soon as the user clicks the button but the downside is that it may change later if the request happens to error out for some reason.

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