#senior developer

[misogynist-lesbian]

The flipside is the chance of me (senior dev) building what it is you actually want depends ENTIRELY on how clearly you explained it to me in the first place.

I mostly keep junior devs around to do the work I don't want to do.

Project managers exist solely to provide job security for senior developers. They chase so many senior devs completely out of the industry and into startups that we're always in demand!

[some-programming-pearls]

I Just Wanted to Play With Physics. 100 Million People Ended Up Playing My Game.

[aerequets]

I made a game ! (it's not mobile unfortunately, you need a computer to play)

[rainc0at]

[emptyjunior]

Something that gets me about the rat Grinders™️ is their lives are so,,. Boring!

Everytime we don't see them, they're out in the woods spam killing monsters again and again, they're sitting in silence painstakingly writing glyph after glyph to prepare for a party that they're only going to, to do work. Ruben is making music only to fill with the same repetitive key words, Kipperlilly is campaigning day and night to zero response from the student body.

Compared to the BK's there's no joy in their life! There's no real connections being formed! Two adults intervened before they ever got to figure out what 'adventure' is and now they think adventure is repetive, boring Work.

[captain-chapish]

as a fan of both a Dragon Age and Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, man I gotta say the past 5 years have been Rough in terms of news about their respective sequels

[bcbdrums]

Ron: When are you gonna like...have a character development arc? Are you gonna be shallow and self-absorbed for your entire life!? Junior: Bonnie: Camille: All Three: Yeah, it works for us. Ron: Ron: All right then, more screentime for me.

[leapdayowo]

all of my finals are done, and so a decently busy summer begins! Congrats to anyone else who made it through finals!

For anyone curious about my schools projects, check out my Ko-fi and consider leaving a tip to see behind the scenes of projects :3 I’ve been working with paper cut-out puppets, claymation, sand animation, and a combination of all in after effects among other things! I’m considering submitting some stuff to film festivals, and so I may have to hold off sharing the final products unfortunately; however, I received a grant to work on my senior thesis, Your New Home, over this summer, so expect lots of concept development pictures uploaded on my Ko-fi and be a part of my journey if you like the dynamic of eldritch-like beings trying to take care of humans without fully understanding that time loops stress them out (plus a crusty anxious dog!)

Here are some very initial concepts:

[morninkim]

Ranger Academy OC, now with suit!!

her overall theme is Knight, while her zord is a Dragon because Tommy's influence is inescapable to me (though hers is more european dragon than godzilla dragon)

[l3v5ha]

lowkey very funny how everyone else’s response to my brother’s rehab/upcoming family therapy is passive aggression or irritability or not sleeping and my nervous system is just like . yeah time to get really into another tv show

[misogynist-lesbian]

Every dev I've ever met just want to code. We want to code. Just let us code. Let us code and we'll make cool shit for you. Instead I'm spending all my time:

-in pointless company training

-in forced "learn at lunch" seminars

-in pointless meetings

-playing test engineer

-fighting to keep my environment of 6 different products working

-checking to see if the pipeline is broken

-waiting for the other team to fix the pipeline

-asking why I don't have permission to fix the pipeline

-retro

[yume-fanfare]

enstars is about many things but most importantly it is about the element epilogue where eichi wakes up from reminiscing about a day he nearly died, to find tori worrying over him. that is the core of es1

enstars theme of the younger characters helping the older ones heal i love you

[alsaurus-loves-dean]

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[wild-saber1337]

TEAM KANOHI HELP WANTED???

I found out team kanohi is hiring sadly I don't qualify for the job but maybe one of you guys would like to apply so go check them out!!!!

[fatescattered]

practicing self-care at work by telling myself 'not my circus, not my monkeys' when i see my coworkers purposely doing shit wrong bc they can't be bothered to follow procedure

[friend-dogor]

actually wait in relation to the last post about ghibli and how it is aestheticized into bland and toothless images of comfort, it's got me thinking abt Ursula K Le Guin again

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can’t lick ’em, join ’em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. We have almost lost hold; we can no longer describe a happy man, nor make any celebration of joy.

(from The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, 1973, top of pg.2)

i think that the original post is guilty of this to a degree, seeking to refute the idiocy and simplicity of focusing on the "happy" themes of ghibli movies my instead shifting attention to the horrors and pains contained within the text—those which could be seen as intellectual, needing perhaps a more sophisticated understanding of environmentalism and geopolitics.

but, furthermore, i think i'm guilty of it even in trying to defend miyazaki's often returning narrative commitment to hope and environmentalism and anti-war sentiment and kindness—after the last tag, i wanted to add something about "i know that putting kindness above pursuit of power feels like a baby theme for babies" because it Does, to me. "be kind" is, like, the first and simplest rule most of us are taught as children, be kind, don't hit your brother, be kind, share, be kind.

i don't refer to this as one of his more challenging themes, of course, because why should i? we all know to be kind. of course, i refer only to topics of war and environmentalism and grief as challenging. kindness is simple!

(nevermind that one of the biggest challenges for myself and a lot of people i know is how to stop being cruel to oneself after decades of practice and learned examples and instead to learn to be kind and forgiving with one's own mistakes and failures and perceived flaws)

and i wonder two things: 1) is it possible that the self-aestheticization of miyazaki's movies (for example, the rapturous visual attention paid to food, the attention paid to soft chairs, pillows, small and pleasantly cluttered environments, with plenty of natural light, lush plantlife and endearing creatures) contribute to miyazaki's more "challenging" messages, and if so, that there's a degree of success in people remembering the thick-cut bacon and eggs on toast from Howl's Moving Castle before they think of Sophie Hatter's town on fire because of the king's war? Has Hayao Miyazaki succeeded in making war and destruction at once horrifying and banal, but a simple good breakfast fascinating and compelling? ——not to say that people who simplify the movie to Only the aesthetics are right. they still aren't. they exist in dialogue with the destruction and it's ridiculous to sever the two. but is it possible that the majority of people thinking first of the "cozy" elements of Studio Ghibli's work is not nonintellectual and reductive, but rather contributes to a larger point of attention?

2) i ought to find other examples of media which do not treat "happy" themes or "light" themes—(i struggle even to talk about the category i mean without dismissing it entirely as Simple, or mischaracterizing it. i mean things like kindness over power and compassion over fear, things like that) which do not treat the themes as childish or nonintellectual, but also do so without fetishizing violence and suffering as Special and More Deserving of Thought than Simple and Stupid Good Feelings so that i can kind of investigate this concept a little more