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rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I was wondering if they were going to let any gay stuff on there alongside all the boobful RPG Maker games, and to their... credit? GOG does have Dramatical Murder now

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I think I've said this before but it's so weird that there are all these like, Daz 3D h-games on GOG now

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misty@digipres.club ("Misty") wrote:

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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

In the meantime, be well, gentle fedi-folk. o/

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Pardon the interruption.

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scrumble_eggs@mstdn.party ("Scrümbled Eggs :verified_red:") wrote:

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biinfc ("Ellen Bee") wrote:

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TomWellborn@universeodon.com ("Tom Hates Fascism! :verified:") wrote:

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UncleDuke1969@universeodon.com ("Uncle Duke") wrote:

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Worth your time:

https://dev.to/oxharris/rethinking-the-modern-web-5cn1

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davidho@mastodon.world ("David Ho") wrote:

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blithe ("Blithe") wrote:

I think of this scene every time a therapist asks me to fill out a form. https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/fda46eab-8c79-4d98-8ce3-919ceffe4366

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lovebyteparty@graphics.social ("Lovebyte Demoparty") wrote:

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anathema@girlcock.club wrote:

Please CW and hastag your annoying sports posts so I can filter them. I’m begging you.

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signal9@hackers.town wrote:

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“In October 1946, President Harry S. Truman ordered his attorney general to bring federal charges against Chief Shull. The trial began a month later and was presided over by Judge J. Waties Waring, whose father was a Confederate soldier. After deliberating for less than 20 minutes, the all-white jury in the trial acquitted Officer Shull.”

https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/feb/12

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

I was 15 when this came out, and newly moved (1965) to California (LA & San Diego areas). I wuz in awe, Mr Reagan wuz not (see 1967 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act ).

attitudes towards firearms control in the US have long been associated with who bears the firearms in question.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

So they're literally saying "were trying to find product/market fit because we don't know who are best users will be, and to do that effectively, we're going to reject a huge pool of potential users."

This is what passes for argumentation in SV in the year of our lord 2023.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

And nearly every startup I've talked to that swears they need slow tech because "product velocity" or "pre-P/M fit, it's ok" lack any sort of data to back up their specific choices. No market analysis. No thesis that even suggests a reason why marginalised users couldn't be their growth segment.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Most managers were, instead, promised "blazing performance" and "100 on lighthouse" (nevermind that the Todo app under test was a toy).

And this is numerate!

Why don't I encounter teams that have an explicit fiscal model for this tradeoff?

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

It's cool that we finally got to the "picking frameworks that lose users is an intentional choice" part of the discourse, but, like, has anyone told the PMs? Or the marketing team?

Because I've talked with a LOT of managers that didn't sign up to lose money when they managed out the CSS-knowers and byte misers to hire JS folks.

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

@philsherry I'm afraid you've lost me here, but I did go back and edit the toots to make sure I was consistently quoting (had assumed it was obvious from the first, but know that Mastodon threading might not make that plain).

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Nevermind the tiny problem of explaining why I spend > 50% of my time working with teams to help their products improve. Who would do that if they thought the person on the other side of the screen was "stupid"? Wouldn't that be a sort of pure horror?

Again, for the avoidance of doubt: I'm lucky and privileged to get to work with incredible teams. I'm writing these posts because I'm *apoplectic* that these *incredible* engineers that I respect deeply were sold rotten construction materials.

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_benui@mastodon.gamedev.place ("ben🌱ui") wrote:

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

So, even if you don't agree that this can happen - say, you believe developers have perfect information at every moment and are at all times dispassionately considering all possible alternatives - you must still admit that *I* don't think that, and further, that I don't ascribe malice to having less information.

So *you* might call developers dumb if you think they are making perfect choices, but at least do the intellectually honest thing and acknowledge that *I* don't call them stupid.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

This is such established econ that the co-developers of the mathy bits of the theory shared an Econ Nobel (which isn't a *real* Nobel...anyway) in 2001:

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2001/popular-information/