I’m really not sure why they don’t just hire the contractors full time, since they’re keeping them for years anyway. The staffing company is taking a cut, and that can’t be that much cheaper than just giving regular benefits.

It probably works out via cruel economics to do it this way, somehow.

There was a meme like 15 years ago that was like “I don’t know how to explain to you that you should care about other people”

Some people just … don’t. If I had a magic wand I’d just send them off to their own private pocket planes, but alas.

The place I work (a multinational company but not one you’ve probably heard of) has been hiring almost exclusively “contractors” for a while.

They hire someone to be a software developer or qualify assurance engineer or whatever, but via a third party staffing company. Then that person acts exactly like a full time employee - goes to meetings, does work, reports to a boss - except they don’t get the same benefits as full timers.

This seems like it shouldn’t be legal, but most people are too worried about losing their job to push much about it.

Most companies hiring process seems to be a mix of incompetent and malicious.

Many posts are for jobs that don’t exist or they have no intention of filling. That should be illegal.

I had a posting the other day that said python, Django, react. I actually heard back from the recruiter, but he said the job was actually for Java. He didn’t seem concerned that that’s a whole other language.

Unfortunately, they don’t really have an incentive to be better. They get so many applications that they can be inefficient and still get candidates.

Finally got around to playing Bloodborne. It’s good, but after playing Elden Ring it seems easier than expected.

From what I’ve been reading, they’re so delusional they’d rather die than have their out-group have anything nice. They will never learn and they will never change. Not in bulk.

Individuals can be changed through exhausting and thankless work of their peers. In-group pressure is all that works.

They’re doing this instead of just making regular search decent.

I just want to see jobs that use python. Stop showing me C#.

Microsoft should be split up

You didn’t feel drained by “oh I have to go get the bell bearing. And I should go get the stats talisman”? Different strokes, I guess!

Out of pure interest, have you played Lies of P? If so, what are your thoughts on it? (I enjoyed your rapid-fire list of opinions above.)

I did play Lies of P! It was pretty okay, but not quite as good as its inspirations. The parry system is not nearly as good as sekiro. The weapon modification system is interesting, but I found the slow weapons are too slow to be fun. There’s no poise, and they don’t do mega damage, so you whiff or get interrupted a lot. There’s also next to no exploration, aside from the occasional short cut opening.

I’d recommend it to fans of the genre that have already played the main line games.

“best” is hard to define and measure.

Sekiro is like dance. Once it clicks it’s deeply satisfying. Sometimes I just open it up and download the boss fights for fun (via the re-fight bosses option). There’s really no filler or farting around. Amazing sword combat game.

Elden Ring is magnificent, but sort of counter intuitively I find replaying it less appealing. It’s very big and once you know where some of the key things are, new games feel like that have chores to get startrd. “Ok, I gotta get the +5 stats thing from up there, then get the upgrade material thing from there…”. The first time you play it blind, every nook and cave is mysterious. It’s also harder at its baseline than the others. Using all the tools provided brings it to a more comparable level.

Dark souls 1 is a classic. Unparalleled atmosphere.

Dark Souls 2 is janky in parts but a good effort.

Dark Souls 3 is good, but at times feels old hat. Maybe if you’ve never played the others it would avoid that.

Bloodborne I only recently finished. When I tried it like 10 years ago it seemed super hard. After playing elden ring, it felt easy. Good atmosphere and gameplay, though.

One thing they all have in common is they don’t really hold your hand. They don’t assume you’ll win. That throws people off. Like if you play fallout 4, it just assumes you’re going to win every fight. It’s not really challenging you.

“steal higher” took me a couple reads. Steal doesn’t sound like “still” in whatever accent I speak.

I want to say that everyone hates that kind of purple job prose, but I suspect there’s some small minority of people who actually think and talk like that.

I kind of want to build a LinkedIn but you’re only allowed to talk like a real person. If you post slop or whatever that kind of shit is, you’re banned and we all pledge not to work with you.

Some distributions run fine with less than 1gb. I think xubuntu will happily play with 1.

I do a lot of rice and (canned) beans, which is pretty cheap and satisfying.

I don’t have any experience with lentils. My parents never had them because , the story goes, the last time they did my father farted himself out of the bed.

It’s kind of funny that because most of us are nice, no one just beat the shit out of trump or worse. Assholes are kind of like parasites taking advantage of kindness.

I don’t have an emotional attachment to meat. I’d like non-meat stuff to be cheaper, and the real costs of meat to be accounted for.

The parents sued, calling it a “secret gender transition plan” and arguing the school violated their constitutional rights by withholding information about their child’s gender identity.

These parents are bad. If they were reasonable people their child would feel comfortable talking to them.

I’ve seen a lot of Nirvana tshirts lately. Did they do a sale at … Wherever teenagers get clothing now?

A. Fuck this guy. He shouldn’t have a license, not be entrusted with policing

B. That car is too big for NYC.

I don’t find “lol 5% of the time something WACKY happens!” very fun very long, no. That is too high a frequency for freak events. Actually, it’s 10% because people do wackiness on natural 1s and natural 20s. That’s too much! That’s so much it’s distracting.

I outlined the dice system I liked from nWoD in another comment. You can get some wild outcomes there, but it’s not the absurd flat “10% of every roll is insanely good or bad”. You get the occasional “I can’t believe I rolled three tens convinced the vampire I was a wizard!”, still.

Not a fan of the “lol natural 20 zaniness happens” trope. That’s 5% of the time.

Also Shadowrun doesn’t even use d20s