• DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
    36·
    2 months ago

    Some Chinese company decided to sponsor the local pro basketball team here and instead of thinking: ‘good for the team’, the media is al like: ‘SHOULD WE BE CAREFUL FOR CHINESE SPYING?’. Like, surely it is the utmost importance for China to be able to spy on a mediocre basketball team in a country that doesn’t like basketball.

    • rando895@lemmygrad.ml
      18·
      2 months ago

      I think it would be hilarious for Chinese companies to just start sponsoring tons of sports teams in the US, no strings attached, just money. And watch the American people implode with paranoia of their own making.

      • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.ml
        20·
        2 months ago

        Their textbooks are also full of red scare propaganda. From the moment they are born they are bombed with red scare propaganda, its fairly hard to get out of that indoctrination.

      • trashxeos@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        10·
        2 months ago

        An absolute fuck ton of it disguised as something new (by changing a couple words) from the moment you’re born until something pulls you out of the circle of influence.

    • freagle@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      Oh my gosh, how have I never put this together before???

      Red Scare + Yellow Peril = Orange Squirrel!!!

  • Lemmykoopa@lemmygrad.ml
    20·
    2 months ago

    Went down to the US for the weekend to visit gamer friends. I’m driving in a school zone and slowed down as a result, there were y’know kids everywhere crossing the street. A USian then speeds behind me, barely avoids plowing into my back, then slows down to hang out of the car, yelling about how slowing down was bad for their dog. Then at the next few lights they tried to ram and brake check us, again hanging out of their car yelling slurs and murderous threats.

    White americans are so fucking absurd, I grew up there and they will all kill if you even look at their ridiculously abused pets the wrong way. Like a friend was bit once and got pepper sprayed when she tried to stop the dog. Not saying Canadians are much better (in a lot of ways we’re worse and more mask off with our racism), but USians are a special kind of unhinged. I constantly have to remind myself that just about every single white person in Canada or the US is descended from someone that killed to live there

  • KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml
    18·
    2 months ago

    A year ago I wouldn’t have thought I would be going out regularly with new trans friends. I’m so grateful for that. Every day I relate less and less to loneliness, although when I do feel lonely now the loneliness is more extreme.

  • nephs@lemmygrad.ml
    17·
    2 months ago

    I just want to thank the comrades here for your links, your summaries, your curation, your analysis, your opinions, and your memes.

    You make the Internet a better place.

  • Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml
    13·
    2 months ago

    I just encountered a man on Twitter who has a suspiciously bloodthirsty and fast responding audience despite being a literal nobody with nothing to his name. Bots or is the right wing reactionary brainrot just that strong?

  • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
    13·
    2 months ago

    A new week.

    We are having a party event this week. Looking forward to it. It’s supposed to be better weather this week too but this is still Belgium, so I’ll believe it when I see it.

    And, most importantly, it is labour day on Wednesday.

  • Nocturne Dragonite@lemmygrad.ml
    13·
    2 months ago

    Had to delete my previous account cause it was too close to my public profile as a producer and I don’t wanna dox myself

    But that also means I probably can’t link my music here either 😭 a sacrifice I’ll just have to make cause living in the imperial core is gonna get even more dangerous in the near future

  • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
    12·
    2 months ago

    In what can only be described as a quarter life crisis I have decided to get a buzz cut and dye my hair blonde lmao

  • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.ml
    10·
    2 months ago

    The HelloChinese app is fairly good, i’ve been steadily learning characters for over a month now.

    • Ivysaur@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      It is very humbling (and equally depressing) to understand that the trailblazers and martyrs of their time have been fighting and dying for this truth for over a century and a half and things are still the way they are; and yet I find myself feeling things will come to a head this decade or the next. Imagine if it does. Happy birthday and rest in peace, Karl. The wheel of time is in motion and it will vindicate us all.

    • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.ml
      5·
      2 months ago

      Historical materialism wouldve been developed regardless but damn did he accelerate the development of this theory by decades.

  • Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    9·
    2 months ago

    There is some free software on which I occasionally provide feedback, and I decided to go to the developers’ forum and submit my feedback there. This time my feedback was about typos, which for a coder should be the easiest thing in the world to fix. (Am I wrong?) I reused somebody else’s thread on the same problem, to which the designers had happily attended earlier, until I contributed to it. This was their reply to the typos that I found:

    You can submit a pull request with corrections.

    First of all, no, I can’t, and second… can they seriously not figure out how to take notes from others? Why do I need to submit a ‘pull request’ for a typographical error? What is the g‐ddamn point in handling this issue bureaucratically? I mean, if these were professionals who worked on this for a living, then yeah, I’d expect them to act grossly incompetent. But when it’s volunteers doing it, that’s something else.

    At least they try to work on this software on a regular basis. With nearly all professional game designers, it’s pump and dump. For example, I submitted requests to Nightdive Studios and Bethesda Softworks for some very simple fixes: implementing some unused sounds, implementing some unused animations, restoring a few sounds (which I happily provided), implementing some unused text messages, and implementing an NPC sequence. None of those except for one could be described as ‘ambitious’ for a coder. Do you know how many of my requests they implemented? Zero. Zero of my requests.

    I was not the only one screwed over either. A couple of years ago I saw somebody describe a level that crashes when a player touches a certain spot, and I saw an employé explicitly acknowledge it. It’s been two years, and yep, the crash is still there; anybody can trigger it simply by moving into the spot. Judas Priest, this is the kind of shit that a modder could fix and yet somehow the professionals can’t be bothered.

    • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.ml
      6·
      2 months ago

      Must be a bureucratic mess to not even bother fixing simple stuff, or the devs are overloaded with work from other projects, or they are just lazy af.

      Especially on Bethesda, like i bought F04 last week and the game is barely playable, they even made a “next gen patch” last week but i still can’t play above 60fps because dialogue breaks.

    • Sleepless OneEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      Speaking as a FOSS maintainer, typos should be trivial to fix as long as it’s in a language the devs are fluent in. The kind of up front work you mentioned putting in to your tickets is practically the platonic ideal of a good issue.

      Speaking also as a corpo codemonkey (like the people at Bethesda), management and product consistently — through short-sighted hair-brained schemes and giving zero shits about what actually goes into making a software product — raise a shit ton of barriers to getting even simple things done. This leaves little choice but to make quick but shoddy ways of implementing features to meet the deadline, which in turn creates tech-debt which is itself a barrier.

      I could understand the “just make a pull request, bro” response if someone comes in demanding a vaguely defined feature that seemingly no one else has expressed interest in. We’ve used that answer several times for issues raised for Lemmy. In your case though, the response seems unwarranted.

    • panned_cakes [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      It would be cool if indie devs were immune to this but I’ve had early access devs argue with me about why they shouldn’t have to fix bugs which broke the main questline in their game etc. Generally am pirating that shit because fuck Eaccess

      • Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        Oh wow, that is awful. I thought that these designers were being difficult for neglecting some aesthetic issues, but refusing to address game‐breaking bugs? The only excuse that they have is that they are so tired from work or family life that they don’t feel like jacking around with their projects. In which case, it would be better to officially put them on hold rather than arguing with people. Otherwise, it’s a waste of time for everyone.