Something tells me they won’t be using pointlessly large bombs anytime soon.

I actually really dislike this. If characters act unjustifiably stupid, it annoys me and I leave. I prefer characters who try their best, while amplifying their flaws often requires reworking how they’re previously characterized. Even then, if a character is too flawed, I often don’t have fun watching them. They’d need to offer something else if they’re so incompetent. If they just suck, why have them?

I prefer to consolidate allies, only including ones that are indispensable.

If the holodeck character was related to you maybe.

Just say “when you’re so gay you’re straight.” Stack overflow. I’m bi, but realizing I’m trans still made all my straight crushes gay and my gay crushes straight.

The sigma move is to embrace nature’s eyeshadow 😌

This sounds like something a lazy fool would think 🤔

Are you saying the main driving force behind these unions is wokeness?

Yes. This is because “woke” is a term that originated from the African American community to describe being “awake” to the racism and unfairness in the system. It’s about not taking society at face value, understanding that words are just words and popular narratives often conceal exploitation. Unions are woke because you need to know you’re being exploited to stand up against the owners.

The reason unions make games better is that they empower workers to do better quality work. People are actually more productive when they aren’t overworked, especially for a job like game development. Crunched employees make more mistakes, think less creatively about problem solving, and take longer to do a task.

If you want to get something done more quickly, it’s better to not overwork your employees, instead hiring more if you need more work done. The business people don’t see it that way, assuming they can have their cake and eat it too. They push long hours and tight deadlines, which lowers the quality of the work while risking employee burnout.

Crunch weakens the entire product. A common truth in writing is that the first draft will suck, with most good ideas coming after you sleep on the idea, get feedback, and critique it through multiple iterations. The same is true for making things look high quality. It takes time to make a virtual world look good, so if that time isn’t given, it will suck. Time is necessary for quality. There aren’t any magical workarounds.

Additionally, when the owners have so much control over their employees, they listen more to the marketing team on what boxes to tick to make the most money. This is often why we see poorly done minority characters and plot lines. They exist to reach a demographic and weren’t given the resources needed to be good. The DEI department isn’t responsible. In fact, the DEI workers often quit because they have no influence.

Being anti-woke is choosing to be asleep to the truth. The things you’re mad about aren’t a result of us woke minorities, but the uncreative executives who only understand money. We’re textbook scapegoats, and things only get worse when people waste their energy on us.

That sounds so boring for those cops. Good.

Sometimes I wish I was more of a default.

Me…

Crushes can’t be avoided by simply knowing they’re an evolutionary trick. You don’t get to say no that easily. You need to convince that uncontrolled longing to move on and beat it with its own logic.

Why do you think The Wokes^TM don’t like hot women? Why do you think we’re all prudish? At most, we all want different types of beautiful women.

You also conflate us with corporate shittyness, even though we’re doing more to push back against it than anyone. We form unions to challenge these suits that are only good at squeezing money.

You think getting mad at woke games will challenge the forced references or overpriced celebrities? If anything, you’re only ensuring the industry gets more soulless and creatively bankrupt. Game devs become “woke” after exploitation awakens them.

Fascism is socialism for lazy fools

It depends. Natural lighting makes more sense closer to the equator, while ac costs are probably higher than farther north. Regardless of what the energy is spent on, it has a huge footprint.

Oh, I know full well that the free market did not get us here. I’m saying that the politicians will, at best, force us to use the free market to make progress. Rules for thee and whatnot. Things will probably happen more slowly than that, as auto makers will resist the market forces more than we can push in the markets’ direction.

The law actually does a better job than you’d think. While it says little about stealing work to train neural networks, it does say that the final result requires significant human input to be eligible for copyright. It’s the same precedent that prevents the copyright of a selfie taken by a monkey. Non human intelligences can’t own stuff, and AI art isn’t made by a human intelligence, so it’s all public domain right now. It cannot be stolen unless someone has put in significantly more work on top of it.

The only way this could work is communism, but I don’t think tech bros will call for that any time soon.

They must, but they aren’t. The infrastructure investments to make mass transit preferable in sprawling cities will not happen soon enough. The people in power will not compromise their worship of free markets for climate change. Over time, the market will transition that way, but not any faster under the current system.

Most of the growth in solar has been market driven. It’s why Texas has a lot of solar despite them subsidizing oil and gas. It’s free, plentiful energy that hits the ground almost every day. If you have boatloads of land that’s not ideal for farming, yet not too hot for much of the year, it makes economic sense.

Indoor farming is on the rise, as you can have the optimal climate anywhere. It’s more spatially efficient with vertical planting, but it has a far higher energy cost for air conditioning and potentially lighting. At least the farm workers are cooler too 🤷‍♀️