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  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comtome_irl@lemmy.worldme_irl
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    6 days ago

    At least in Princess and the Frog (bottom right) she chose to bust her ass working multiple jobs to save up to open her own restaurant.

    Cinderella, and Tangled (posted in another comment here) are both princesses explicitly being made to work by evil women.

    Newer content like Moana and Frozen features spunky adventurous princesses. No housework.

    Snow White though? You’re telling me you have a household of seven men and between all of them they can’t spread out the work enough to properly keep a house? For shame.


  • Silverhand is explicitly a high functioning cyberpsycho in the tabletop RPG books. His “breaks” manifest as his hand talking to him. It’s one of his notable character tics. In the books it’s a big part of why he thought he could pull off the Arasaka bombing.


    More info than anyone needs:

    Mike Pondsmith, the creator of the setting, has said that cyberpsychosis shouldn’t be treated like a pure numbers game set of RPG rules. It’s intentionally modeled after real world drug addiciton. Some people will naturally have higher or lower tolerances, and having a strong support system around you like V’s usually blunts the effects. It’s countered by a stat called humanity, and Pondsmith has stated that a person’s own beliefs about how human they are can impact it.

    Cyberware was slightly rarer when Johnny was running around, he’s an AWOL soldier with untreated PTSD, and he has a pretty shit “support system” mostly due to his own actions. Given the views he already spouts about corporations, people, and the world in general it’s not hard to imagine that he’s not stable without the arm. He doesn’t have a high opinion of his own humanity. The arm then becomes a constant reminder of the humanity he’s lost/given up.

    Adam Smasher is explicitly a socio/psychopath already, before cyberware, so there’s no humanity for him to lose.

    V has Johnny in his brain to effectively act as a second “person” to help soak up the negative effects. Plus, videogame. Bend the rules to allow a better power fantasy.




  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlWhat keeps you going?
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    12 days ago

    If you take nothing else from this thread: That’s not “just autism”.

    And the goal of working with a professional wouldn’t be to “delete your autism” like holy shit lmao that is so off base I would think you were a shitposter if I hadn’t met other people like you before.


    There are dangerous thought patterns, shit that does nothing but erode your trust in the existence of an external reality. I don’t have the proper words to describe the level of danger to yourself and those around you that you can cause if you don’t believe foundational aspects of external reality.

    This is really something you need to discuss with professionals.



  • You might have better results working with a doctor and getting perscriptions for the mind altering drugs that assist you.

    Trying to trust your own brain to self assess what works and doesn’t while actively messing with its chemistry it uses to do that assessment… it can work, but it’s definitely choosing to do it on hard mode.









  • Maybe a cop would consider it jaywalking, and it’s definitely a dick move, but I wasn’t taught that there were really exceptions.

    They aren’t supposed to walk out and if they’re already in the road they’re supposed to get out asap, but that doesn’t make it ok to try and drive by like they aren’t in the road with some sort of confidence that it’s somehow their job to get out of your way.

    At the end of the day they’re a sack of cloth, skin, meat, blood, and bones. You’re sitting in a carefully engineered multi-ton slab of plastic and metal more similar to an early tank than it is to a horse and buggy, and those already could trample people to death.



  • I’m already seeing a permutation of this at my workplace with Microsoft’s low/no code automation frameworks. Power Platform I believe is the name. Also seeing it with some other proprietary automation tools.

    While I respect the motivation of these business folks to try and automate their processes, it’s distressing watching these people slap together something of equivalent quality to what I’d expect from freshman in an intro to programming course (I’ve been an assistant for some of those classes, it’s not pretty) and then try and balance all sorts of business critical stuff on top of their mess.

    What is extra frustrating is that we already have in-house software devs for this sort of stuff. They’re already understaffed, but this motivation for automation could be a perfect opportunity to right-size that team, build a proper “tech project management” group, and really start to lean hard into making the best use of all these tools. Instead, a few enterprising project managers took a single continuing education course for some proprietary automation software and somehow got the office politics clout to spin it into an entire department based around their little pet system.

    Meanwhile I’m sitting here in Systems Admin and Enterprise Architecture land watching these half assed “solutions” eating absurd amounts of resources to do shit that could be accomplished with a small DB and maybe 1k lines of code.

    No, you cannot have a VM with a fucking 1TB drive. We’ve seen the files that go into and out of your current systems and if you found some way to bloat those into anywhere close to 1TB then something is seriously wrong.

    PowerBI especially, they keep sending all their queries to the first gateway server we built instead of spreading them over the multiple ones we have. The end up maxing out the RAM and bringing the primary gateway down. Now, it should automatically offload new queries to the other gateways when one gets full, but queries are handled by batch, so if one batch is too big it can’t split that batch over multiple gateway servers. We’ve reached the point where we can’t just add more resources to the VM, they need to split shit up better.


    So I guess all this is to say that it’s already happening to a limited degree. I don’t enjoy being a gatekeeper, but so many fucking people need so much more training before they start trying to automate shit, and the ever increasing marketing of “you don’t need to have a single coherent thought in your head to become a process efficiency master” is fucking poison.

    What’s the saying? Rather have a lazy smart person than an industrious idiot?


  • So this is your project? Judging from your username here and the test messages shown in your screenshot here and on the Github. Nemesis.

    Brand new lemmy account with only this post on it.

    And the entire Github codebase is made up of a single commit of all the files 2 hours ago as of the time I’m commenting.

    As I’ve said before with similar posts from (I believe) other users/coders: just be up front about if something you’re posting was your weekend project or just something to fill out a portfolio.