gift_of_gab

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[–] gift_of_gab@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago

If you shout "I have inside me blood of Kings!" is a store worker required to shout "Yeah!" back?

[–] gift_of_gab@lemmy.world 11 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

... Heeeeeeeeeere we are!

[–] gift_of_gab@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just look at religion for answers to that puzzle. The entire schtick is a manual for giving yourself and your friends easy outs from your constant and consistent bad behaviour

I guess that could be why; up here in Canada it's political suicide to be openly religious (though I think the Cons will change their tune on that next election.)

[–] gift_of_gab@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

As a non-American (Canadian), it's baffling to me. Our Conservatives have been quite horrific in many decisions (like refusing to admit climate change exists, for example), but I do actually think they would turn on one of their own who was a pedophile. Maybe not in a year or so, but for now, I do believe they would. To see people celebrate these monstrous things in their leaders is terrifying.

[–] gift_of_gab@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I wish you the best, I'm looking outside software in general. I used to offer to help people find employment in games but now I just can't. I've seen too many people broken by it.

I do hope you find something, anything, so you can continue to survive.

[–] gift_of_gab@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I’d argue that the skills required to work in the videogame industry are easily repurposed for other IT or creative jobs.

I know dozens of people who've been looking for over a year, for anything in the software field. The issue is companies would rather hire a kid straight out of school than pay for someone with experience. I'm in a discord channel of people (from the last place I worked at that has now gone bankrupt) and the vast majority are still without a job. Most are going outside the industry into the standbys (food service, warehouse, etc). My linkedin was so depressing, post after post about people who used to be engineers I worked with now getting hurt working in Amazon Fulfillmment centres, I just stopped going there and use discord/indeed for job searching. I'm really close with the QA team from my last job, and all but one of them have moved back in with their parents.

It is fucking bleak in software right now.

The tech layoff wave is still going strong in 2024. Following significant workforce reductions in 2022 and 2023, this year has more than 130,000 job cuts across 457 companies, according to independent layoffs tracker Layoffs.fyi. Companies like Tesla, Amazon, Google, TikTok, Snap and Microsoft have conducted sizable layoffs in the first months of 2024. Smaller-sized startups have also seen a fair amount of cuts, and in some cases, have shut down operations altogether.

Not sure where people think everyone is going to go; there are more closures than job openings.

[–] gift_of_gab@lemmy.world 34 points 3 days ago (7 children)

America's willingness to elect pedophiles/rapists to the highest positions in their country is... baffling. To then have their news not even use those words just makes me worry so much for women in the US. Like seriously, 'sex with underage girl,' we have specific words for that. Embarrassing.

[–] gift_of_gab@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (8 children)

True. If you get yourself an interesting skill set, either your employer will pay accordingly or you won’t have difficulty finding one that does.

The entire video game industry would love a word.

[–] gift_of_gab@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

most ghetto people in the US live like kings compared to most of the planet.

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[–] gift_of_gab@lemmy.world 138 points 3 days ago (13 children)

... had sex with an underage girl...

So, rape? Underage people can't consent, it's rape. He's a pedophile.

[–] gift_of_gab@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

franchise /frăn′chīz″/ noun, plural franchises

(removed other meanings)

  • a series of related works (such as novels or films) each of which includes the same characters or different characters that are understood to exist and interact in the same fictional universe with characters from the other works

I'm not seeing how 'a franchise ending' is oxymoronic.

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