Guppy, you should join a carnival, you could make good money with that mind reading ability of yours

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soulsource, I think you should re-read that comment, because stan is not saying what you think they say. They're not complaining that removing it is racist, but they're denying that they were racist to begin with. I mean, the use of "SJW" is a pretty good signal of their political views here

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Quoting: GuestWell all this SJW bullshit just did one thing: push me away from this game.

Good. Crawl back into the hole you came from.

Quoting: The_Aquabatapparently JRR Tolkien is being called racist

If Tolkien being seen as racist shocks you, then you missed the last, like, 60 years of academic discourse about the racial aspects of Tolkien's work (*). Like basically every literary work, Tolkien's is colored by the society it came from, the mind of its creator, etc. And yes, there are absolutely racist ideals that can be found there. (Gender politics too is abound in his works, of course. That topic might be more familiar to some people, when it came to the forefront of the changes the LotR movies did to Arwen.)

That doesn't mean it's forbidden to read or anything, it just means we need to be aware of it. And discussing these things works wonders there.

And yeah, sometimes, some issues can be fixed or at least patched by shuffling things around. Adaptations commonly do that.

(*) "What's next, H.P. Lovecraft being called racist?"

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Huh, okay, I admit, this is pretty great. GPL, too, nice.

Now, if any EA people are reading this and want to do the same for BioWare's Aurora engine and derivates, i.e. NWN to DA2, I'd be even more happy... :P

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hastur hastur hastur

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Quoting: KimyrielleI'd still rather work from my decently large home and not commute at all.

I guess you need all that extra space when you're not moving at all. 🐽

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Quoting: KimyrielleOur so-called modern work culture is built around people founding a family, then making dad commute two hours in one direction, mom commute two hours in the other direction

No, that's just the broken US.

My commute is 20 minutes by bicycle or public transportation. We have 2- or 3- people offices, with doors and all.
Children also don't need to be taxied to school, they walk, bike or take public transportation.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPNot everyone likes to communicate in sugarcoated words - some people prefer unfiltered directness and honesty.

Mind, there's a difference between "unfiltered directness and honesty" and speaking ignorance without thinking. A lot of people seem to confuse the latter for the former...

Quoting: TheSHEEEPNone of which is even remotely relevant in software development.
What do I care what my colleage does with their legs or what they look at?

As a software engineer I have to empathically disagree. You forget that software development is done by humans, with humans, for humans.

There's unfortunately a lot of toxic "code ninja" and "10x coder" mentality floating around, but no, programming is, like most things, a communal activity. And the less barriers there are between people working together, the easier and quicker it is.

If you're pair programming, it is pretty vital to see where people look at. If you're defining a shared interface between different groups of people, it's best to do it in person, together, in the same room around a whiteboard. If you're debugging a weirdly behaving data bus, you want a second pair of eyes on this or a second pair of hands to prod a wire for you, this is not something you can do easily over voice chat.

There's a lot of nuances that get lost the more indirect communication is. Heck, I'm as introverted as they come, I'm not the best with communication or "people-stuff", I have to constantly push myself deal with weird human behaviour, but even I see that.

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Quoting: KimyrielleThat's the first time I hear a company claiming that remote-work would somehow be less efficient than working in an office. lol!

Frankly, it's a mixed bag. (Also, Germany here as well.)

There's several things that play together here:

Children. With schools, kindergardens and kitas closed, a lot of parents now need to handle their children in addition to work.

Internet connection. Here in Germany, that's pretty bad in rural parts. And even many cities are not balanced for a significant portion of people working from home at the same time. From what I hear, the US is also quite bad there.

Everything that requires people to collaborate is slower remotely. That was also noticable when I worked together with people in another office 40km away vs. a colleague in the same room. With experience and as people get to know each other's working operandi better, this can be reduced, sure, but it's still different.

For me personally, I work in a company that has projects that produce hardware in small to mid-sized quantity for automative research. So we order parts, build them into prototypes, put a Linux onto it, write additional software for them. And then they get produced in small batches and have to be set-up or modified manually. That means there's steps were several people work together on one physical thing. Difficult to home-office.

Now, with a coworker being sick, I'm currently handling the Linux base part. And I get mostly get away with testing on a few devices I have here, and some devices for communal use accessible through the company VPN.

We also offer support to our customers, that sometimes means going there. (However, one is a certain big local car company with a relatively strong union culture, so they don't necessarily require people to just drop in willy-nilly.)

And on another personal, about half my company has people now working reduced hours, myself included (due to the federally mandated unemployment insurance, 60% of the loss in income is paid through that, so we can still pay our rent and eat, I'm fine). I find that, at the moment anyway, there's a lot of time lost in just working out if a certain task can be done now. Is it vital, can it be worked around, can it be done in the alotted reduced time a person has or do we need to ask a manager to temporarily increase these hours, etc.

Add to that the general loss of "productiveness" due to feeling insecure in this time, worrying about getting sick or loosing loved ones. I freely admit that I've always been a worrier and I've certainly taken a hit mentally.

It's just an all around weird time right now, we all need to find our feet first, and I don't think blaming delays on people being "lazy" or what-have-you is a good idea. I mean, it nearly never is, but currently even less so.

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Hmm, seeing the portal or whatever that is there, I was thinking maybe duplicating like Star Trek transporters. But that would be just a retreading of the SOMA themes

On the other hand, the other videos look more like something occult. Ghosts and beings from the realm of the dead, like.

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