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This is a strange post to me. You can immediately see that you value soulslike as a superior genre, yet to me I see those games are just as grindy. Die to a boss a million times to learn the timings -> finally you beat it. Not that much different than ARPGs where you kill lots of stuff and die infrequently. It's just two sides of the same coin.

Really these posts that call one kind of game time wasting or drug-like but not another just miss the brutal irony.

It’s amusing you picked this as an example because the EFT subreddit is notoriously moderated. This one works because it has overwhelming evidence. The author of this post only has a few screenshots and assurances. I imagine these players would have the same experience as the author otherwise.

>I don’t think they’re aware of the disservice they’re doing to their community by actively suppressing these reports (or conspiratorially, they’re influenced by Activision itself).

I think you underestimate the deluge of posts that are made by cheaters pleading their case in a public forum. It's so common that it's basically a meme. I don't blame the moderation policies that prohibit these posts. These posts are typically provocative and often try to riles users up against the developer. Nobody wants to read these posts, you can never be sure they're real and there's nothing a regular user can do except upvote it and subsequently ignore it. There's no good conversation or comments to be found, it's all bad stuff.

This is not to say the issue at hand isn't a very real problem. Anecdotally it feels like these kinds of situations are increasing with frequency as developers tire of the inevitable losing fight against cheating and are desperate to show their customers they're taking the problem seriously.

Unless you work in finance.

The use of the term was supposed to be illustrative and mostly facetious, hence the quotes.

I’m really grateful we don’t work together.

There are plenty of comments that do a much better job explaining why a context switch isn’t just 30 seconds in this example.

Besides if all I’m doing is taking 30 second to copy and paste something what value is that really adding? If nobody says anything the docs stay incorrect. But when I want to fix an error I need to context switch and open a ticket and copy and paste what I already wrote once? I’d rather just do nothing.

Really though, I’d rather just have up to date docs, so let me update them instead of insisting people do things your way. Fix the problem with people not being able to see the PR, don’t make me do the same thing twice.

And the PR doesn’t do that?

At this point you’re just strawmaning.

> and the autonomy of "rockstars" is of dubious value.

I agree, but with your example, I wouldn’t call somebody committing massive amounts of tech debt a “rock star”. I used the term fairly facetiously anyway, because I think we all know the 10x engineer is a myth.

Can you explain why it’s necessary I need to write a ticket to update documentation?

You really want to add friction to completing those tasks? How long does it really take to complete any one of those things, and how is a ticket going to change the fact it probably needs to get done anyway? Why am I going to write a ticket for docs I can write in an hour and be done with? Why would you want the docs to stay out of date until a ticket is created, rather than just fixing them?

Frankly I think you missed the point of the article. If you don’t trust your engineers to prioritize their own time when it comes to writing documents, you don’t trust them to do anything. You’re exactly a part of the problem that Will is talking about.

I think you made that leap, but I was responding to the specific example. I don’t think anybody is contesting the use of tickets in engineering, but I’ll certainly oppose the idea that Jira is important.

For updating internal documentation? I think we should be careful to ensure we’re actually adding value when we add friction, and not just hoping.

We’re still talking about updating documentation right?

Is creating the ticket really adding value to the engineering process? In your example you already have the engineer making a PR (presumably peer reviewed) and a commit, what’s the ticket really needed for?

Great insight, my key takeaway is this:

> The fewer people you need to make decisions, the faster you can make them.

This is the only way I’ve seen a “rockstar” or “10x” get stuff done as fast as they do. They only have to talk to a couple of people at most to start making big changes. The more large and stable a company gets, the more they seem to want to spread decision making power around the org. This appears to be very counterproductive, and it’s nice to see the simple truth called out.

That’s just a mortgage with extra steps…

I also often think of this movie. It was really quite excellent at being through provoking in interesting ways like this.

I worked at Uber and was around/in SRE for around the same time as rrix. It was truly a wild experience, good and bad, but I’m still burned out too, and it’s been almost 3 years since I quit.

Did you reply to the wrong comment by chance?

I don't even know how to respond to you. Saying "Little defensive there, huh" constitutes "mak[ing] fun of"? I'm not sure who's actually the sensitive one here.

Besides, pointing out ableism isn't an accusation. In fact, I don't accuse you of anything personally, I bemoan the joke. In the face of this, you retreat to a scenario where you are besieged every day by recreational Ritalin users in order defend your ego from maybe admitting your joke wasn't actually funny (or accurate).

Little defensive there, huh.

> I blame Ritalin for this type of video, either someone took too much or needs to up their dosage.

Maybe I’m overly sensitive, but I’m really tired of ADHD ableist jokes like this one. With the controversy and struggles of medication for ADHD, implying that the only functional ADHD brain is a medicated one just frankly sucks.

We're also the only creatures that have plumbing, water treatment, and access to water without competition or scarcity (with obvious exception). Not really sure what the point is here.

This is fascinating. A nuanced picture is painted in only a few sentences:

> The Apartment in the Mall was never intended to be specifically an ‘art’ piece, it was a home, an escape and an oasis away from a significant task that was consuming my life at the time.

>The 500 portraits, and their corresponding web pages took over five years to finish. It involved over 30,000 hours of computer time making the website and was completely unfunded.

I can’t imagine going through all that and doing all that work for an unfunded project. Combined with the story of the mall apartment, it makes me think this person is unwell, but who am I to judge? I am truly fascinated.

There’s something to be said for the fact that harvesting wood is much more environmentally friendly than petroleum. At the very least a “wood spill” doesn’t exist as far as I know.

So polite but still ready to insinuate other people are incapable of making a correct assertion because they are non-technical.

To me it’s just painfully obvious you think very highly of yourself.

I can’t reply with emojis, so imagine this comment is just the eye roll emoji.

> There are two parties and you have to pick one.

Well that’s certainly a dishonest premise.