Shocking. When your entire customer base asks “why?” When you announce a product that’s usually a good indicator. Also wasn’t it like 800 dollars?

Welcome! Looks very nice!

That’s a huge problem I have with the franchise though! It’s been their cash cow so every game has some sort of riff on the whole future story bit, but they can’t commit to any of it and there’s no end in sight. So I refuse to get attached to their overarching story because I have no confidence that it will every complete!

The two scenarios that will play out are (and I’m not saying which one is likely, just these are the only two):

• Assassins’ Creed continues to be huge -> They will never end the overarching story and it will keep trickling in
• Assassin’s Creed dies out -> They won’t know it until their last one bombs so bad that the suits never make another, leaving it open

So why be invested in the story at all?

Get up, make some coffee, lay around, I love rainy days

Did they really? Oh my god please tell me your joking, that a company as modern as docker got a freaking oracle CEO. They pulled a Jack Barker. Did he bring his conjoined triangles of success?

Almost all of them. Forgejo handles containers already for example

And the permission of the peertube admins. A single channel on YouTube can easily be over a TB. Just casually dumping a TB or two of storage onto their wallets is going to cause them to notice.

Not crypto, blockchain. When done correctly and you don’t have every user trying to calculate the next hash for some pennies it works pretty well. Computing the hash when an action happens like a purchase is fairly trivial compared to mining.

Crypto started the concept of the blockchain, at the end though it’s just a distributed immutable audit log. The hash is required, but if done correctly, it’s trivial.

This is surprisingly one of the few actual useful uses of blockchain. Business tried to shove it in everywhere and it didn’t make sense because blockchain is a way to audit federated separate instances - which businesses are not. They’re a single monolithic structure, and they don’t need the trust - they already have it. They’re themselves, they just have to trust their own internal teams.

We, on the otherhand, are the perfect use for it. A way to say X person paid Y person for this product on this day at this time, X person now has the authority to rate Y person for how they did. Immutable, impossible to fake.

Woof, SALT

Well, yeah.

Oh yeah the parks are usually fine (albeit, some can be quite bland) - it’s the people who don’t appreciate them. Why go to the park when they could go to the mall? Because by the time they’re in their car, why drive to a park?

I’ve lived in small rural towns, where parks are a waste of taxpayer dollars according to many people

No, reread what they said. Laws against employers requiring an address. Don’t be so quick to assume.

City parks are wasteful and useless - says people who have never lived within walking distance of a good park and drive everywhere

Can confirm, I host a very small instance with a few niche communities. Many subscribers, I don’t know of any defeds against me though. Plus it’s how I expect the fediverse to really grow naturally. Join a general one but then smaller instances of more niche topics. Kudos OP!

I have friends who were offered retention in the same boat. They are taking it as they are being paid to job search, it’s a pre layoff. The second they don’t have anything holding them down they’re all out. Take the money and run, the company already showed their true colors

I applied, interviewed, and got to the offer stage. They’ll offer you a butt load of money, and I’d do it if I was desperate, but friend, I talked to some of my friends there, and they flat out told me to not to. They work nights, weekends, it’s mandatory 5 days in office - and they time you to the minute that you’re there for 8 hours minimum each day.

The stock seems nice but you learn that you don’t get any for 2 years, because they know the vast majority of people burn out before 2 years.

They have a company wide mandate that you get 2 weeks PTO your first year. Then 3. You don’t get bumped up to 5 until 6 years in.

Moral reasons of how evil they are aside, it’ll crush your soul.

@[email protected] I feel you, I have a few other comments here because I feel you so hard. I’ve been there also twice in the last 3 years.

I wanted to give you advice if you decide to stay in White collar (and trust me, I understand the feeling, I was a hair close to buying a bar. Slinging drinks seems a lot less stressful than dealing with corpo).

My advice though. Take a few days to process, play some video games, veg out. Then, on top of job searching and all, decide on something new to learn. If you’re IT/development, this is crucial now, and my advice will follow for those roles. The days of “I’m just a react dev” are ending, or at least the market has been flooded, and AI is making it easy for junior devs to pretend that they’re more than what they are. It’s another evolution of our job, get out in front of it. If you’re a programmer for example, learn how models work, how to run them, how to call them, how to train them. Learn kubernetes. Learn infrastructure. Learn skills that you never would have before that set you apart. That’s what we’re going to have to do if we want to remain employable.

One silver lining is that you have time right now, time to set aside and learn something really useful. I set up a k8s cluster at home and forced myself to learn it during my unemployment, and now it’s my job

My first layoff was this, and the CTO was genuinely distraught. I hold no ill feelings towards him. The company was not doing well, and we saw the writing on the wall for a while. That was a brave man, he got up there and took it himself.

Later I was laid off again by cowards. The CEO and CTO were offline when most of the people got the gauntlet, a 5 minute meeting with HR only. No feedback, no questions. HR woman we all knew, and she was crying, obviously crushed and was pushed to do all of this herself while they hid with their tail behind their legs. Heard the next day that the CEO bravely told the reset of the org that they had some “adjustments” that had to be made and no shit - direct quote “We’re feeling a little heartburn today”. Coward.