I see where you’re going, and I get it. Honestly, this question comes up a lot and would be great to have an FAQ. New accounts wondering why they can’t post horrific shit. I started nicer when I explained it, but it’s been so many times now, and the posters who do engage have always been insistent that they can’t possibly host their own stuff, that it’s the mean mods who refuse to host it for them. Its different here, when we are responsible, and I wish there was a unified way to explain that.

I’ve thought about it, but first no one would find it and then also those who read it are not those who would need to see it.

People who want to post more than likely illegal content and let others take the heat for it, and then get mad when they impose rules so they don’t go to prison. Let’s be clear, you want to start a cat community go for it, love it. You want to post illegal content that can get the server owner’s doors kicked down and hauled off to jail? Get outta here and host it yourself if you believe in it that much.

Essentially, if you aren’t willing to risk it yourself, don’t insist others risk themselves.

I know you’re just a random person, but the pilot was a childhood friend and I’m honestly still processing. He left behind his highschool sweetheart and two young children.

As others said it depends on many factors.

What are interest rates like? If they are low and economy is strong, then absolutely 20k and then invest in a very stable index fund or CD that pays out more as long as it’s more than the interest, that’s not really because you need the money though.

If you’re truly broke though? No loan is a good idea unless you know when you can pay it back. I’d say a credit card, but unless you know you’re going to have $100 in 2 weeks to pay it back, well, that’s how credit card debt racks up. If you can’t afford to pay it back then you can’t afford it.

Hey sounds like there’s some optimization to the government that can be done right there…

Very accurate, why only make boat money when we could make megataght money at the expense se of our customers and reputation?

Usually it’s just extra space they don’t know what else to do with

After shitting on the new God of War and bitching about Ciri not having bigger tits in Witcher 4, can you blame them? They have to move onto something

Sorry I was with you, but I take issue with the work an extra hour to meet a deadline. I did that just this week even.

We have a deadline, we had time for us allto get it done, but one member was doing things his own pace. That’s okay, but he needs it done by this date. I start checking in more and more regularly, he says it’s fine and he’ll get it done. Well it is Friday and it’s due Monday, and he says that he guessed it was harder than it was, and he didn’t have crucial component done. To which I said I’m sorry to do this, but it’s due Monday, let me know how I can help but sounds like you’ll need to work over the weekend.

I’m huge on work life balance, but if you’re slacking at work and dragging down everyone else, damn right I’ll ask you to work late. I’m not a manager so I can’t do reviews, but as a lead it is my job to make sure things get done on time, and if I don’t push one person, the the whole team is at risk when layoff season comes around

Yeah, as a developer who wants to not be homeless, I’ve had to take my fair share of dubious roles that I felt didn’t add anything to humanity. I’ve been disillusioned from college where I thought my tech would help people and humanity, I know what I do.

But, I can be proud that I turned down Meta. I was desperate for a job, and I got to the offer stage. It was a tempting offer, but luckily another job rolled in. Less money, but I knew it was a moment for me. Maybe my code has been less than moral, but at least I know I can draw a hard line there.

Fun fact, I asked about work life balance and the recruiter happily told me “oh it’s great! We have onsite laundry and sleeping pods, and the cafeteria is open all the time!” Great, hard pass. Sounds like something college senior would be excited about. Me, I want to go home to my big bed with my spouse.

Only correct answer. Where to host? That’s the fun thing OP, YOU get to host it. Just register your name, address, phone, and credit card with a hosting provider and they’ll set you right up, you can host all the gore you want.

Unless you just expect some other person to host your content, but that wouldn’t be very fair, would it?

You’re having issues with your gender identity? Well let’s see what Jesus has to day about it

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And then they wonder why we don’t partake in any of it

We don’t even know if it’s the same problem, or if it even is a problem yet

If they make any traction beyond a letter I say we should try

Literally that was my thought too, that they were all probably at a meetup and one person said “so those trains are a bit loud huh” and everyone just piled on, and some Karen decided that they need to send a letter.

Maybe I’m just a poor to them, but my home is literally in a flight path, I do hear planes roaring overhead regularly. Sometimes it gets a bit annoying, I’m not right under the runway or anything but sure I can hear it inside. I have never thought that I should go an send a letter to everyone. It’s one of those things, why does my tiny bit of land have say over the needs of millions of people? It’s just so arrogant in my eyes to assume that a bit of annoyance justifies everyone else in the region adjusting.

It’s obvious that to them “line must go up”, and that having a game be successful is not enough money anymore.

Dragon Age 4 was the obvious item for me for EA. Here was a game that had fans frothing at the mouth. DA3 (Inquisition) was very good, and while the story wrapped up well, there was a huge cliffhanger at the end that always left us wondering. It’s story was written years earlier in 2007 with DA:Origins. Now, nearly 20 years later, finally the stunning conclusion.

Except EA decided that that wasn’t enough. It had to be bigger. It had to attract not just RPG gamers, not just fans of the series, for those are small potatoes. They needed every gamer on the planet to play this game. So they changed the story to make it more “appealing” to a “broader audience”, which of course means they watered it down and didn’t make it too scary for any specific group. They removed all real stakes, and removed all actual connection. It was written with Marketing and HR in the room, dictating that you can’t say this or that, and it ended up being the most bland and soulless game in the entire series. ( While it did resolve all the plotlines, you found yourself playing to figure out the ending, not because you were enjoying it. By making a game for everyone, they made a game for noone.

Seriously, you could not piss off your companion. You could destroy their personal world, and they would at most sad face for the next conversation. In DA:O your company would literally walk away from you and try to take you kill you later, but in 4, just pouty face and then back to “You’re the bestest boss ever!”

So this is just so obviously corporate overreacting. “We made a game for everyone and no one bought it!”. So do they go back, think about what happened? Do they realize what they did wrong and pivot so that they can come back stronger with a true heartfelt story-rich game? Of course not. It needs ads now.

DA is just one of EA’s hundreds of properties of course, but it’s such a telling story for me. Inquisition literally gave me goosebumps, it made me tear up, I felt connected with the game. I rooted for the characters, I became friends with them. DA4s characters were all straight up like I was having a meeting with my HR representative.

Rinse and repeat for Mass Effect 5 now, and their shock that Andromeda didn’t do well.

To be clear this is the Bellevue side, but you’re absolutely right about everything else. They’re rich people who are bitching constantly, who bought a home next to a large freeway/cooridor, and now they’re upset because they hear trains a few db over the constant sound of the freeway.

They also want free taxpayer money to… I don’t even know what. Soundproof their mansions and boats. Let’s all be crystal clear, they see a government agency and they think they can squeeze them for easy money.

Trains have been running since January in testing and they didn’t say anything then, suddenly after 6 months they can’t sleep? I call bullshit.