alyaza

alyaza Mod , 2 months ago

I don’t follow the development super closely so I don’t know if those issues were resolved or not. I just remember a lot of discussion on it when I was first on Lemmy on a different instance.

not that i'm aware of, and fixing a database schema once it's already in place tends to be a clusterfuck so i'm very skeptical it will get better any time soon

alyaza OP Mod , 2 months ago

With approximately 600 members, Activision Quality Assurance United-CWA is the largest group of union-represented workers at any U.S. game studio. Workers in the new unit are located in California, Texas, and Minnesota. Over 1,000 video game workers at Microsoft now have union representation with CWA.

this is very cool, and hopefully more workers leverage the Microsoft neutrality agreement.

alyaza OP Mod , 2 months ago

The right choices are generally more expensive (in terms of up-front costs, even if they’re less expensive in the long run) and/or require more time investment, both of which are lacking for the poor.

or just the non-technologically savvy. a lot of the issue here is a technological hurdle, fundamentally—it takes a certain level of technological knowledge for someone to, say, pirate ebooks versus just buying them legitimately and that's a big point of friction for people in making the "right choice". we have to keep in mind that for a lot of internet-using people nowadays, knowing the ins-and-outs of Facebook or how to download a browser add-on is probably a legitimate technical skill and on the upper bounds of what they'd know navigating spaces like this. and we don't make it easy necessarily for people to acquire and advance the technological knowledge we're talking about here either.

alyaza Mod , 2 months ago

if the social prescription to harassment of moderators is "quit because you're a baby" then you're going to have many fewer pleasant spaces on the Fediverse in which to exist—because yeah, a lot of people will just quit. i am agnostic on the public modlog overall, but this is an obvious concern with it that i'm not convinced can just be dismissed idly. i obviously have better things to do than a thankless, payless job in which harassment would be dismissed like that.

alyaza Mod , 2 months ago

chill out

alyaza OP Mod , 2 months ago

technofetishism--if there's anything local politicians love it's sounding hip and getting Cool Headlines over boring but practical technology that actually works

alyaza OP Mod , 2 months ago

according to Jason Schreier:

PlayStation plans to close its London studio, which was responsible for several recent VR games.

Among other divisions, the layoffs will hit Insomniac (Spider-Man), Naughty Dog (The Last of Us), and Guerrilla (Horizon), three of PlayStation's most successful subsidiaries

alyaza OP Mod , 2 months ago

today is apparently just a bloodbath day in gaming generally. Deck Nine is also laying 20% of its staff off, and esports company ESL Faceit Group is laying off 15%

alyaza OP Mod , 3 months ago

i think it's been gliding on the entropy of its original value for a long time at this point (it was founded in 2009)—certainly i can't remember a time where it was useful, but then i only first encountered it in like 2016.

alyaza OP Mod , 3 months ago

It’s been a shitfest for a while - it seems tailor-made for blowhards to speak authoritatively without having any real authority on an issue.

i'm sure plenty of people have made this joke before, but AI answers should have no problem fitting in with a culture of this sort!

alyaza Mod , 3 months ago

removing this because it's indistinguishable from spam; we're not opposed to self-promotion here but it's simply not a good first impression to post what is essentially an advertisement

alyaza Mod , 3 months ago

Google "Search Liaison" Danny Sullivan confirmed the feature removal in an X post, saying the feature "was meant for helping people access pages when way back, you often couldn't depend on a page loading. These days, things have greatly improved. So, it was decided to retire it."

okay but... has it? this seems like an unfounded premise, intuitively speaking

alyaza OP Mod , 3 months ago

would you believe me if i told you this is Bloober's first attempt at combat

alyaza Mod , 3 months ago

the discourse between you two in this thread is not productive; please chill out a bit and stop antagonizing each other.

alyaza Mod , 3 months ago

i've already rendered my verdict here—which was i banned the other person for a bit and not you (even though you both said things which run afoul of our rules) because you're a member of our instance and we can afford to be more patient and understanding with you accordingly. but to be clear: if you respond in this manner even to very light moderator feedback then for moderation purposes you'll be held to outsider standards going forward. which is to say, you're not going to get anywhere near the benefit of the doubt or the lenience when you break rules.

alyaza Mod , 3 months ago (edited 1 month ago)

One thing though: Criticism of admins should never be considered a rule breaking event provided it is not derogative or endangering, and if my reply to you is considered a reason for admin action then I need to reconsider my participation in beehaw as well.

just to be clear the issue here is/was not you critiquing me--i don't care about that particularly, comes with the job--it's the tone which seemed like it implied being held to any moderation standard was problematic. because they tend to cause a scene about how they're being censored we're not super interested in having people in that category on here, and so whenever someone responds in that way it's a red flag

alyaza OP Mod , 3 months ago

i think it's very clear now that the lack of unionization in the gaming industry will need to change, or every year or two or whatever arbitrary interval we'll see an astronomical number of people losing their jobs all at once in this way.