• TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
      16·
      9 months ago

      You must have been in charge when I was built. I’ve still got security issues, memory leaks, and there’s a major known issue where under certain conditions I continue to work but stop providing any feedback or messaging.

      If you could have your team at least address the resource management issue I’d be grateful.

      • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        It’s a common problem with underfunded development. Though the lead devs make a big difference too.

  • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
    281·
    9 months ago

    I just hear that they’re so insecure they need to define themselves by someone else’s deeply flawed version of better, instead of just being themselves and acknowledging what they like.

    It’s like asking what’s the best colour, and someone answers “black, because it consumes all the other colours”

    • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      9 months ago

      Funny enough, at least with the light spectrum, black is devoid of color and white is the combination of all colors.

  • DahGangalang@infosec.pub
    271·
    9 months ago

    This is how I feel every time I see an overpowered “prototype” weapon in a video game that works better than the standard version.

    • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
      26·
      9 months ago

      This is how I feel every time I see an overpowered “prototype” weapon in a video game that works better than the standard version.

      Agreed!

      There’s is a bit of clever game design in Deep Rock Galactic, which I hope catches on:

      The default load out for new players is almost unarguably the best possible load-out, for that class, in the game.

      As players progress, they can unlock more entertaining while objectively worse equipment, to amuse and challenge themselves.

      And, I mean, of course we do. It’s hilarious because some truly challenging gameplay emerges.

      And when it’s kicking my butt, I at least realize I chose that challenge for myself. I had the option to bring the good equipment that I started with, after all.

      And it puts new players on more even footing with veterans. I tend to make easy missions with newbie friends harder on myself by bringing truly silly equipment load outs. It usually turns out fine, and when it goes badly for me, they feel good for rescuing a veteran. Or it goes sideways and I apologize and make slightly better equip choices for the next try.

    • Dasnap@lemmy.world
      16·
      9 months ago

      I assume the excuse usually is that the prototype was unstable, so they had to ‘tone it down’. But of course, you as the awesome hero man can control it!

    • Crow@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      5·
      9 months ago

      It needs a flaw to be fun; there has to be a problem that made it unfit for production and the solution lowered the power. Too inefficient, too inaccurate, too big, too unsafe, too unreliable. Make it a fun thing the player can play around so it’s a sidegrade rather than an upgrade

  • servobobo@feddit.nl
    252·
    9 months ago

    Considering the alpha wolf myth originates from observing a stressed out wolf population in captivity, unable to live out their fulfilling wolfy lives, the emergence of purported “alpha males” is an oddly appropriate indicator of what three decades of neoliberalism has done to our wellbeing.

  • PBCrisps@lemmy.world
    224·
    9 months ago

    The “alpha/beta” meme was invented by rightwing think tanks in the late 2000’s/early 2010’s to promote their ideology of rigid social-hierarchies where people at the top are allowed to impose and abuse people of lower social station with impunity, and to police and control the behavior of heterosexual men (it ain’t just the LGBTQ’s that get their gender-expression policed, ohhh no no no.)

      • abbenm@lemmy.ml
        9·
        9 months ago

        It wouldn’t even matter if it was “right”. The idea of looking to wolves for models of ideal human behavior is wrong for like 17 different reasons, even if it were technically true as a description of wolf behavior.

        P.S. why do AlphaBros specifically look at wolves, or lobsters, to instruct us on social hierarchy? There are so many other animals, those seem pretty random choices. And pretty far afield from humans. Wouldn’t you at least want something more proximate to us humans on the evolutionary tree? Heck, why not just use humans as a reference point?

        • PBCrisps@lemmy.world
          5·
          9 months ago

          P.S. why do AlphaBros specifically look at wolves, or lobsters, to instruct us on social hierarchy? There are so many other animals, those seem pretty random choices. And pretty far afield from humans.

          Because other animal choices don’t validate the rightwing ideology that places them at the top, which is their entire goal in the first place.

          • unreasonabro@lemmy.world
            2·
            9 months ago

            also, and this is a minor and unimportant-to-the-topic point, social hierarchy studies have primarily been done on lobsters and wolves, and not a lot else, not to the same degree. But they made up their ideologically driven conclusions in the first place so they might as well have quoted an imaginary study on bunnies cuz nothing they say could ever possibly matter.

            • abbenm@lemmy.ml
              3·
              9 months ago

              social hierarchy studies have primarily been done on lobsters and wolves

              I’m skeptical. I’ll grant you wolves, but even then, wolves I feel are no more or less studied than a bunch of other species which are subject of extensive interest, especially primates, dolphins and orcas, but also lions, hyenas, meerkats, bees and ants. At least those are all studied well enough that we have plenty to pick from.

              I appreciate your point though that its ideologically driven anyway and that it’s all moot and 100% agree.

      • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
        7·
        9 months ago

        Yes, and the man who proposed the theory retracted it later, saying it would be like basing human behavioural theory on observations made in a supermax prison.

        That actually makes sense that these losers would venerate it, since the behaviours they idolise are very like what you’d see in prisons: machismo instead of real manhood, narcissism and subjugation instead of empathy, and hatred instead of compassion.

    • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      9 months ago

      Yup. I’ve had more than a few people claim I had to “give up my man card” because I love musicals, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Sex in the City.

      • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
        7·
        9 months ago

        Your man card wasn’t forfeited, it’s gilded. Only real men can appreciate art.

        Have you seen Sondheim’s Into the Woods? It’s a masterpiece. It’s on Prime if you haven’t seen it. It stars Chip Zien, Bernadette Peters, Joanna Gleason, Tom Aldredge, and other big names. I’d like to see anyone say Zein, Aldredge, and Sondheim aren’t ‘real men’.

      • Fishbone@lemmy.world
        2·
        9 months ago

        What kind of musicals do you like? I don’t generally care for musicals as much as other play formats, but I got to see some real fun ones when I was a backstage tech at a theatre.

        The Wiz is absolutely amazing though.

        • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
          4·
          9 months ago

          I’m afraid I’m not familiar enough to with the genre to speak about any particular category being good or bad, but I can give you an idea of what I like/hate.

          For theatre, I loved Wicked. I saw it three times and would do it again. Hamilton was also brilliant but Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera were really hard on my ears. I think it’s the whole “We need some dialogue here, but it’s a musical, so let’s have them sing it” that does it. If that’s your experience with musicals, believe me when I tell you, they aren’t all like that. Some are heart-shatteringly beautiful with complex harmonies and the sort of music that makes you feel like you can fly right out of that theatre. Wicked’s “Defying Gravity” still gives me chills when I think about it, and the way Hamilton is stitched together with callbacks between each song: “my shot”, “running out of time”, “wait for it”, “that would be enough”… it’s just amazing work.

          There’s also an excellent off-broadway musical called “Evil Dead: The Musical” and it’s as bad-in-a-good-way-campy as you think. There’s zombies, a splatter zone, and some seriously smart & funny songs in there, including my favourite: “What the Fuck Was That?”. I mean, it’s not good music, but it’s fun :-)

          But Cats… that was cancer for my ears. It was my first musical and nearly soured me on them entirely.

          But it’s not just theatre! I love movie musicals too! Moulin Rouge’s Ewan McGreggor is just jaw-droppingly talented. The finalé (until the curtains close anyway) is punch-the-air-feel-amazing. Another good one is The Greatest Showman: not quite as amazeballs as Moulin Rouge, but surprisingly inspiring, and the duet between Zac Effron and Zendaya definitely has that “life is beautiful” feel to it. Also, “Never Enough” is great too. I also have a deep, deep love for Pitch Perfect.

          Then there’s tv! The Buffy musical kinda started it all, and while it’s not nearly as musically complex as the aforementioned, it’s clever, funny, and 20 years later I can still hear it in my head. “I think this line’s mostly filler” was a nice touch. Since then though, there have been a number of attempts at musical episodes of favourite shows. Most recently, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds did a fantastic job with some right bangers. The reigning champion of course is Glee with some awesome stuff [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

          So yeah, it ranges. I’d recommend Wicked & Hamilton to anyone not sure if they can get into musicals, largely because they don’t do that “sing dialogue” thing that I think grates on a lot of people. After that, look for shows starring people you know to be awesome. Kristen Chenoweth for example is a guaranteed win for me. She is absolutely delightful on stage.

          • Fishbone@lemmy.world
            3·
            9 months ago

            lol I worked at a professional theatre for 5 years (and theatres in general for way longer) and you seem like you’re more well versed than I am.

            Interesting point about Les Mis and Phantom. I enjoyed Les Mis the last time I saw it, but that was ages ago, during a time that I also liked Phantom (I still like a few songs in phantom, but hoo boy there’s a lot of grossly problematic themes in it). Phantom with a high budget can be a blast to watch though, from a technical standpoint. I saw it once in Las Vegas. The chandelier was in 3 pieces hanging above the audience seating, and it slowly lit up and came together above the stage during the overture. It was fucking crazy to see. (awful audio warning: I found a terrible quality video on youtube!)

            Haven’t seen Wicked, Cats or Hamilton (or basically any broadway show. I’m a heretic, I know lol), so I can’t comment on those. I haven’t seen Evil dead: the Musical, but I’ve wanted to for ages. I’m big on Horror movies, and the Evil Dead movies are all wild.

            I’m glad you mentioned Moulin Rouge. That movie is so fucking incredible. El Tango De Roxanne has lived rent free in my head since I first saw it and I’m honestly so glad about it.

            As for recommendations to check out:

            • Sweeney Todd. The 2007 movie with Johnny Depp is great (and very bloody) but I’ve seen a few renditions of it live and it’s honestly always a great show. Checks a lot of boxes for me (good tunes, dystopian, and a surprisingly heavy story given that the theme is often horror-comedy-esqe).

            • Urinetown. Been a while since I’ve seen it, but it’s a great satirical musical (it makes jabs at a ton of stuff, but it’s mostly aimed at capitalism in general).

            • Little Shop of Horrors. This one has a special place in my heart because it’s the first musical I worked on in highschool that I actually enjoyed. Not much to say, it’s just a fun show.

    • Enkrod@feddit.de
      13·
      9 months ago

      EOL, they’re stuck, no updates, nothing fresh, their flaws are open, known and won’t be fixed and if you get them, they’re a seriously risk to your safety.

  • Hux@lemmy.ml
    11·
    9 months ago

    Ugh, I am not looking forward to sweaty meatheads calling themselves “Golden Masters”…

  • abbenm@lemmy.ml
    11·
    9 months ago

    And the original concept, as it pertains to wolves, is evidently not a thing. So if we’re just saying things, the software metaphor is as good as any other.

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
    10·
    9 months ago

    I don’t trust anyone not using semver.

    A whole train of thought happened in my head here about transitioning and semver.