I dunno, there some necessary context here. I think Requiem for a Dream is a better movie then Iron Man, but I sure as hell wouldn’t pick it as the only movie I’m ever going to watch again.

Has Penny Arcade always been this hideous?

Oh wow. A truely stunning achievement for this small indie studio.

Bethesda can’t even get ladders working in their engine, and y’all were expecting seamless atmospheric re-entry?

Is this an out of season April fools joke?

Alts aren’t throwaway accounts though

Can’t tell if this is damning with faint praise, or just an incredible self own

Some things should only be connected to the intranet

Thank dog. I love that both platforms get reports, but it sure was hard to find the right ones

I definitely agree that they do stupid things because of short term gains and narcissism. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if they’re just grumpy bosses mad that it’s harder to boss people around.

I also worry though about portraying executives as buffoons. Most of their short term decisions that look stupid make a lot of sense when you look at it through the lense of them just not caring that it makes life worse for other people. It’s honestly probably a combination of a bunch of dumb and greedy things.

Sure, but if everyone who can goes remote, all that rent money dries up. Most also don’t directly own buildings to rent, but rather have investments in companies that do. If those other companies go under then they lose money on investments. I don’t have any inside knowledge though, this is just the conclusion I’ve been able to come to. Other than just being control freaks.

I don’t think there’s some shadowy Illuminati organisation behind it. They are pretty blatent when they manipulate things.

That said, I do think there are a lot of investors and analysts that have come to the same conclusion and are talking to each other and passing info to their clients.

A lot of large companies and executives have investments in real estate. If everyone stopped using offices all of a sudden, they would lost a bunch of money because the space wouldn’t be in demand anymore.

They’re going to have to buy me a car and pay for gas and parking before I’ll take a job where I’m full time in the office

There has been a “new breakthrough in battery technology that will change everything!” every 3 months for every one of the 30+ years of my life

Doesn’t sound like a senior dev to me. Sounds like someone who thinks they are.

I haven’t looked into kbin much because it was described to me as “you can look at Reddit style posts and twitter style microblogs on one place.”

I fucking hate microblogs.

And?

I told my mother she was a terrible person because she said she was going to eat at a restaurant because I told her the owners were transphobes.

She got angry, we haven’t really talked since. I’m not sorry.

I mean, he doesn’t follow the trappings of a comic book super hero (don’t @ me about Star Wars comics). He has all the powers and motivations of a super hero though. At the end of the day, Iron Man is just a rich guy, what makes him a super hero is the framing of his media.