Atlassian is one of those companies that I equally laugh at, love, and hate.

They’re in so many markets in software and project management, and have so many large clients that pay for Confluence, Jira, BitBucket, etc. Despite this, people almost universally despise their products, with bugs being left open for years, features blissfully ignored, etc.

I often imagine what it would be like to work for Atlassian, and what “that” code based must look like. Working there must be fun as hell given the impact and breadth of opportunities, equally frustrating if you dogfood your own products, and infuriating given just how much stuff must be utter shit under the hood.

I remember my university orientation so vividly, because I was sat next to several people that were taking the “Game Development” degree. They spent the entire orientation talking about what consoles they brought with them.

Two weeks later, they were all gone. The course was arguably harder than my CS course, based on some of the required classes they had to take. I think the dropout rate over the full degree was ~90%. CS was high, sure, but barely anyone actually graduated with the Game Development degree.

Game dev is hard, and I’m yet to meet a game dev that didn’t bemoan how utterly ruthless it was.

Because Reddit gets an insane amount of use, whereas Lemmy doesn’t?

I like it here, but let’s not pretend that people aren’t still using Reddit. Most people don’t care about regressive policies, they just want to look at stupid memes and chat shit online.

I remember when Biden was picked as Obama’s VP, and everyone laughed because he’s known to make gaffes like this.

Obviously, there’s a lot of scrutiny on him, but let’s not pretend it’s all because he’s too old. It’s just Biden being Biden, and while he’s probably too old for the job, that’s what happens when you don’t impose upper age limits…

While great and all, I think that this generation has been heavily impacted by COVID and chip shortages, so I think it’s only fair for all manufacturers to basically add two years onto the lifespan of their consoles.

I’ve often been a critic of Nintendo, but the Switch is a fantastic device with a solid library of games behind it. Not only that, but for indie titles it’s great. It probably gets more use than my PS4 and PS5 combined. For little kids, being able to take the console anywhere is a huge plus.

A few years ago, when the UK was proposing a trade deal with the US, one of the biggest concerns being passed was around the shockingly low standards for US meat, particularly chlorinated chicken.

Some of what we were told was absolutely shocking, and it amazes me that the US are happy with these standards in their food. Any notion of lowering these standards is absolutely insane to me.

If they add dating elements to it, and a custom character like Forces, it’ll send the Sonic fandom into a meltdown and make Sega $1T.

In all seriousness, I’ve been writing off Sonic Team for years because they’ve been unable to put out a good game with a winning franchise like Sonic. The best game in decades is still Sonic Mania. Then, they released Sonic Frontiers, which while all over the place in terms of theme, storytelling, and mechanics, actually had solid gameplay in the open world segments! They ditched many of the on-rails aspects and removed such a heavy reliance on homing attacks to make for poor physics. They then absolutely fucked it with the mini stages that reverted to form.

I don’t wish retirement on anyone, but something really needs to happen at Sonic Team to bring the franchise back into winning ways. At this point it’s close to being like Pokémon in terms of mediocrity, gaslighting, and general toxicity. There IS the ability to make a good Sonic game, and the ability to return the series to its roots without gimmicks or throwing whatever they can at the wall to see what will stick. I’m all for a Sonic RPG, but at this point I wonder if it’s for the good of the series or because Sonic Team just wants to slap Sonic’s face on something else…

Lol have you ever tried to report abuse on Facebook or Instagram?

They won’t do shit about obvious racist abuse or hate speech. Let them define what they want, they will do what they always do - nothing.

In the UK I’ve found the extremes to be on both sides, although this largely aligns with the punk movement here from decades ago.

Some metal fans are the nicest people you could hope to meet. One guy I met in a bar a month or so ago got talking to me because I noticed his Hatebreed shirt, and we got to talking about music, our kids, and life in general. I remember talking about tummy time with him, and before I left he had called his wife to ask what his daughter really liked, and rushed to give me the link so that I could buy it.

Some are also utter bells. One guy I met years ago gave me shit for liking The Used’s set at Taste Of Chaos years ago, despite it basically being an emo festival that he also attended. He apparently only went for Killswitch Engage…so spent a fuck-ton to see one band while he seethed about the rest. I met another guy in a bar a year or so ago that was a huge dick to some women because one of them wore a Sleep Token shirt. He kept asking them to say what their favourite songs were, gave them shit because they were the newer songs, and then went on a rant about how they’re not even a metal band because they “basically do pop now”.

Contractors make a lot of money, but that would be separate to standard engineering salaries

I’ve known a few people that graduated about a decade ago and decided to work in really niche tech like COBOL, Salesforce/SOQL/SOSL, VB6, Sitecore, etc. Hell, one guy I met was a professional “ActionScript” programmer! Many in-store and company kiosks used Flash to program their interfaces, so he’d do basic maintenance, add features, and collect six figures for half a year of work and all the travel around Europe/Asia he wants.

That’s a continental breakfast, and they’re popular in the US too, both east and west coast.

Europe is a pretty big continent…the breakfast you get in the Netherlands is going to be different to the one you get in France or the UK.

No idea why this is downvoted, America does love a condiment. Thankfully, sausage rolls are extremely dippable, and some people do decide to dunk them in all sorts. It’s not something I’d do, but I’d tolerate it.

But the American monstrosity is a rip-off of sausage rolls, which originated centuries ago. They gave a name to something that they should have known to already exist. Frankly, I’m all for revoking America’s independence and returning them to secondary colony status over this…

100% agreed. Weirdly, Starmer was very left-leaning during his time as a prosecutor, and a lot of people assumed that he’d be a rising force of the left when he moved into politics. Sadly, he seems closer to the right than even Blair did…

Yes.

The tag is Not Safe For Work. I’d say that if you were to look at this in most work places you’d probably be speaking to HR within the hour…

The states are wrong. That’s a sausage roll, and it’s been a sausage roll for decades. The whole “pig in a blanket” thing is a new thing from people that basically reinvented the sausage roll and didn’t have the sense to check if it already existed.

I’m not exaggerating when I say that wars were started over less, and Australia and the UK would probably happily have their finger on the nuclear button if America doesn’t come to its senses and just embrace the correct food names…

Anger aside, I’m absolutely shocked that Greggs hasn’t tried to make its way stateside. Extremely cheap, fast food that’s greasy as fuck, has barely any nutritional value, and so convenient that you can just eat it out of the bag - sounds like an American dream.

If you want to know what a Reform voter looks like, here’s a good example

https://x.com/SalfordMe2023/status/1803714304476074137

Isn’t that the Megabus man without his hat?

It’s weird, because Pokémon didn’t invent turn-based RPG’s, nor did they even invent the pocket monster genre because Dragon Warrior Monster arguably had a better game than Pokémon out around the same time - with more monsters, breeding, and a better storyline.

But Red/Blue and Gold/Silver were great games of their time. Very basic, but great, mostly because of the world built around them. If you didn’t appreciate Pokémon, it’s probably easy to see why you’d find it dull.