pinball_wizard

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[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 hours ago

Likely!

Of course, the written driving test can be very picture centric. Good road signs are designed to work for folks who cannot read, since some folks cannot read.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 hours ago

Sadly, the Simone Veil (the comic author) kind of handled her so-successful-it-failed Kick-starter this way. Pictures for Sad Children

It's a somber lesson that mental health is no laughing matter, but also that anyone who needs a laugh about it could do much worse than enjoying Pictures for Sad Children.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

"Wuthering Heights" which was far easier to read.

Oh my!

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 hours ago

AI is hogging all the million dollar ideas.

At least my million dollar ideas friends wasting AI's time with the useless crap, instead of ruining a perfectly nice meal conversation with me.

Of course, I know it is only buying me a few months. The "quick fix to my AI app" requests are gathering on the horizon.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

But these aren't just any apps, these are shitty half-assed apsps generated from a slurry of unrelated mediocre code scraped from the corners of the web.

I am not looking forward to next year when every new aspect of any service I use online will have an 80% chance to be a half-assed shit slurry.

Today's 65% chance was already time consuming and exhausting.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 2 points 20 hours ago

It turns out that an orphan can inherit a critical trait from their parents: "habit of standing in the way of an important player character's ongoing battle."

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 11 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Yes. It's bare minimum to name our specialization and what we still need with each request.

Let's see if I still have my keyboard macro:

"I'm a shitty under-geared DPS and I am LFG with tank, healer, and decent DPS"

Yep. My keyboard macro still works.

Edit: Self own aside, this approach did get me invited to the right groups.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 day ago

For a few brief beautiful moments, I assumed you were talking about the firmware running on the Fisher Price toy.

As your answer included more details, my understanding became a delightful confusion and then realization.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 56 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Also, all three pictured devices are probably running Linux... Or at least could.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If I recal, there are federal laws in the US that require breaks, just not specifically for lunch?

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's interesting to me that LinkedIn is willing to pay $100,000.00 to advertise on DropOut right around when they made the news with a shitty anti-trans policy change.

With TV filming timing - it raises the question if LinkedIn knew the change would generate bad press, and actually cared?

Or more likely they just recognize that early adopters and influencers are tired of the big streaming services?

Or $100.000.00 is so little money - to LinkedIn - that LinkedIn doesn't care how they spend it...

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

I noticed that too. I suspect that Jacob has a specific plan to launch something that will involve the others - and this ends up being a way that DropOut can partner without DropOut outright owning the result.

I recall a brief moment where Jacob accidentally mentions working together on something with some of the others present, and then realizes that it's probably too early to mention whatever it is "on air".

That said, I wish DropOut would borrow more from how Maximum Fun is structured, leaving ownership among the creatives.

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