Now you’re roughly getting how I felt reading the comment from OP!

80% over 24 is pretty solidly an “old people thing.”

As an old man I demand those 20% get off my facebook and turn down that 101 gecs!

It’s not. My family is anti-trump, and mostly harmless these days.

But blaming the democrats for the people who voted republican is a stupid online trick that both sidesers like to use.

The fact is, if the democrats were “more in touch with this country” they’d all act like Trump. That’s what this country wants. That’s what this country deserves.

Or it shows that when you are truly awful, racist, homophobic, transphobic, idiots, your children move away from you to the cities where they don’t have to talk or interact with you, which concentrates the intelligent and worthwhile portion of the population into blue centers that aren’t evenly distributed across the electoral college?

My joke answer is to directly tell them that they are not allowed to come on your lawn, to not let their kids do the same, and that it’s your property, not a zoo.

This way you’ll guarantee that your house is egged often enough that some of the eggs may not break, and some subset of those could be adopted by the ducks and hatched into baby birds that the kids also won’t be able to come look at.

Those well-meaning-but-terrible-in-practice consumer protection laws are probably a good indicator of why the EU isn’t a hub of technological innovation.

They’re at least a symptom of the same underlying outlook on the industry.

Very true. Though I would click that bait so hard!

I still prefer this type of article to lots of others in the bait family. Obviously they want people sharing this article and saying “See! That thing I believe is proven!”

It’s a nicer engagement-driving piece of content.

While Helldivers 2 and Baldur’s Gate 3 might look like sudden jackpot successes

This article is funny. It’s like the feel-good inverse of a rage-bait article. It’s stating what we all want to be true and cherry-picking two games that only sort of provide evidence towards it, and only if you squint really hard.

Both games are sequels backed by huge publishers with tons of cash.

BG3 is a Dungeons and Dragons franchise title; a franchise which recently received a massively successful film, a huge boost in popularity during a pandemic, and a boost in cultural relevance in Strange Things.

Helldivers 2 fits the claim a bit better, but it is still a sequel to a well received, well selling title. The extraction shooter genre is also exceedingly popular right now, and the fact that it has Games as a Service bullshit built in says that publishers weren’t as hands-off as the article implies.

So the more realistic take-away from this is that good games with huge budgets for development AND marketing in reasonably popular genres can make a ton of money.

Which isn’t saying much. And it certainly doesn’t look like a sudden jackpot.

Omg, they were roommates with the children!

Because those other devs didn’t pay for an advert-article?

Yes and no. Yes, life is, well, life. There’s not really some magical other that will make life something different.

But no, that’s not guaranteed to be it for you, because things change all the time! There’s all sorts of experiences you haven’t yet experienced, good and bad, and tons you never will!

When I was about to turn 30 I was in a stable seeming relationship with a guy who I thought I was going to build a family with. Just before that he became a completely different person suddenly, cheated, and started dating someone else.

It devastated me, and sent me on a course in my 30s that made it my most complicated and varied decade of life. But I am now 41, the most successful I’ve ever been, in a relationship with a much lovelier man than before, and while I am experiencing some midlife crisis now, I still have options and time to pursue them.

I hope your 30s are much more calm than mine were, but either way, there’s other things you will experience as you keep on living.

Thank you for that explanation. All the other times this has come up it seemed clear cut that he didn’t do anything wrong as an actor.

I hope they just add red highlights to his hair and otherwise leave him as Keanu.

No worries! Glad to help.

Did you comment this in the wrong place?

If you search for mod, it changes to modded for all of the search types other than User. And it’s not just OP experience it, I see it as well.

That’s bizarre. I can reproduce this.

The biggest offenders for me are Harry Potter fans.

The movies are better for what they left out or changed.

They especially improved the entire franchise when they cut the “slaves love being slaves” plot.

I think nostalgia clouds people’s judgment a lot. I didn’t grow up with the books, and didn’t read them until after all the movies came out. I was fully expecting what all the fans told me would be a much more coherent, and fleshed out story.

But that’s just not there in the books.

Before this experience I was one of those “the books are always better” people, and this shocked me out of it.

I am grateful I didn’t ruin the movies by reading the books first and becoming one of those people who think that Dumbledore yelling in one scene is a fundamental abandonment of cannon worthy of ridicule.

I enjoyed the books for what they are, decent children’s books and young adult novels, which were mostly faithfully adapted into some great films.

Then ruined by the transphobic nightmare of a TERF who wrote them.

Having a support contract has nothing to do with being a customer. If the devs didn’t want customers, they shouldn’t have released their product to the public. It really just seems like they can’t handle the stress of writing code AND managing their customers’ needs.

Tough love is never the correct way to deal with people, and never the way to manage a product.

In some of the threads I’ve seen the devs have said that they could be making more money if they went to a big tech corp while also exhibiting behaviors that would NEVER fly at any of the big tech companies.

Learning projects are great! Releasing them isn’t necessarily the best way to go about things, though.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t envy the lemmy devs for the position they’ve put themselves in. It is incredibly stressful to juggle what they’re trying to juggle, and PR is not usually the strongest skill an engineer has.

I hear you on the context of choosing Rust. It’s not really that relevant to what I’m saying, but I have seen people complain about Rust as the language preventing them from contributing. Having more contributor’s wasn’t their goal, it was to build something in Rust to begin with.

My point was that Sublinks’ goal IS to invite contributors, so Java is a smart choice.

Beehaw was acting like a customer, which they kind of were and sort of weren’t at the same time. Customers act entitled, but they didn’t seem to be any worse than most. Lemmy’s devs are right in that they don’t owe them anything, really, but the way they voiced that was bad PR, IMO.

It sucks having to care about message when all you want to do is make something you like, so I get it, buy I don’t think it looked great from the outside.

I don’t think choosing Rust was inherently a bad move. I think it makes sense that if you are going to try to make a competing platform to NOT choose Rust, and instead pick something that a lot of people can contribute to.

But yeah, complaining about their initial choice doesn’t make sense, and neither does the “why don’t they just learn Rust” sentiment given the context of all this other stuff.