#software engineering team

[mvfm-25]

" Pipe dreams : VALVe turns vaporware tangible and student project into showstealer! "

Computer Gaming World n267 - October, 2006.

[sirfowlman]

Issue 7 of the TF2 comic has been released!!!

MEET THE FINALE

It only took.... 7 YEARS!?

[friendlyneighborhoodforestwitch]

40K narrative app?

Thought: an application to which one could publish narrative campaigns, into which the participants of the campaign would upload their factions, character names, alliances, etc., and in which they would store the results of their games (vacillating here on the degree of granularity: W/L; points scored; which objectives were completed in what order – just not sure where to call it). After each round it would print narrative based on the outcomes of all the matchups. (Procedural generation seems obvious, but pre-written – I draw the line at “AI”-generated content and refuse to use it.) Obvs, coming from 40K, that’s what I’ve got in mind, but I see no reason to not make it flexible enough to accommodate any system.

Not a complicated app, to be sure, but I don’t recall having encountered one like this so why not make one? Does this idea have legs?

[fractallogic]

Deeply depressed. Frustrated with people and dealing with their feelings and having to deal with my feelings. We are holding on by a thread and currently trying not to catastrophize and say that being laid off has ruined my entire life, even though it feels like it has by denying me an income, rescinding health insurance, and triggering my ex-partner to spiral and burn down his life and the life we had together. Literally during my call with a recruiter today he said hmm it’s a hard sell with only eight months of industry experience; to fucking get anywhere anymore you need at least a year if you’re not currently enrolled in an undergrad program getting an internship.

I was able to convince him that it actually is worth his while to put me up for an interview (and he did, on Monday, thank god), but imagine how much easier it would be if I had a year, year and a half, two years of experience. Imagine how different it would be if they had let me stay another year to take on more of the workload, I had my annual review and asked for a promotion, and they’d given it to me instead of having to lay me off, give me severance and COBRA, and spend a bunch of time hiring and training someone else. Imagine if we had actually received the additional training they had promised us for further upward mobility.

I’m working so hard not to catastrophize and to keep my feelings to myself and safe people, and I’m just like. All of this is their fault. This all stemmed from my layoff. So much of my life would be different if I still had a job.

And I am just so FRUSTRATED and also need to figure out a way to tell someone politely to fuck off and stay in their own lane, because he’s fucking up and knows it because he’s keeping it a secret!!

I just. need. a job.

[spectrology]

just got epic praise at work

[kaurwreck]

uh, oh! did we get so hyperfixated on dostoevsky and then teaching ourselves emerging and novel areas of international and us federal regulations that we forgot to eat or sleep for two whole days again? silly girl!

[renposter]

excerpts from the TF2 wiki

[devileaterjaek]

[benetnvsch]

I saw smosh games and jojosolos on the same poster and nearly blacked out holy shit

[lightnersdream-archive]

i miss impressive title servers so baaaaad

[syncrovoid-presents]

I will continue being gone for a few days, sadly my original al plan of releasing the newest chapter of The Consequence Of Imagination's Fear has also been delayed. My apologies

Can't go into detail because its hush hush not-legally-mentionable stuff but today is my fifth 12 hour no-break work day. I'm also packing to move too in a fortnight (which is a Big Yahoo!! Yippee!! I'll finally have access to a kitchen!! And no more mold others keep growing!!! So exciting!!!)

[pocket-size-cthulhu]

The way they're sneaking and forcing this should be illegal.

It should be illegal.

It should be completely illegal.

If I don't know it's happening or can't opt out, it's violating. If I can't get it to stop prompting me to use it, it's intrusive. It's stealing from me and spying on me, and I can know about it but not do anything about it. It's in my face all the time. AI content is cluttering up all the places I go for news, info and entertainment. I'm sick and tired of it. The fact that you can't opt out is a violation of the free market also - I'd like to withdraw my business AT LEAST until they get the environmental and legal concerns ironed out, but alas! I can't!

I hate it I hate it I hate it

[upgradenterprise]

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[versatile145]

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[davidelalocomotive]

Scrum, Actually: Fixing the Daily Catch-Up

We called it a “daily catch-up.”It felt more like a group panic disguised as a status update.Nobody knew why we were doing it—just that we had to. Then I read the Scrum Guide.Turns out, we were doing it wrong. Here’s how we fixed it. The first time I experienced a Daily Scrum, I thought it was a job interview. Every day. For the same job. That I already had. At 9:30 AM, we’d gather like…

[lostconsultants]

Wasting Time on Docs? How Conversations Drive True Alignment

Conversations Drive True Alignment—not documents, not slides, not endless wiki pages. If you’ve ever been part of an Agile transformation, worked in product development, or simply tried to get engineers and business stakeholders on the same page, you’ve likely experienced this firsthand. I’ve seen teams meticulously document every detail—requirements, roadmaps, even meeting notes—only to realize…