LoamImprovement 1w ago • 100%
If I didn't need to have a profile there for work I wouldn't. I had two jobs that were kind enough to tell me when I asked that they immediately passed on me because my resume had no LinkedIn or Facebook, and I deleted my Facebook a year ago.
LoamImprovement 1w ago • 100%
The only thing I use AI for is generating character art for tabletop portraits and when the well is sufficiently poisoned I will probably go back to Pinterest.
LoamImprovement 3w ago • 100%
SAY IT!
LoamImprovement 3w ago • 100%
Nintendo's infamously protective of its IP, even to its obvious detriment. I know a lot of people who jumped on the nomoretendo bandwagon after AM2R got DMCA'd, because the smart and morally correct thing to do would have been to hire that person and pull his incredible talent into the next Metroid game, because they clearly had a lot of love and respect for the subject matter and the technical expertise to put it into action. It's hard to overstate just how fucking good and polished that project was, virtually identical to the Fusion/Zero Mission engine, except in the ways it was more improved. It was certainly better than anything Nintendo had done with Metroid in quite a while.
LoamImprovement 3w ago • 100%
It's funny, I own a switch and I would have bought the game (and I probably will still if the technical and QoL issues get resolved) but I'm emulating it better than the hardware can run it right now.
LoamImprovement 3w ago • 100%
He's been casually racist around most of the people in the office so I'm sure he'll fit right in.
LoamImprovement 3w ago • 100%
I like it more, but I'm a fan of the more classic Zeldas. It's good, but it's marred by the same technical issues that plagued the LA remake, and the lack of some basic QoL features like a Quick Select or Favorites wheel is bringing it from 'great' to 'good.'
LoamImprovement 4w ago • 66%
My next board and all for the foreseeable future will be AMD. I'm only rocking a 13600K right now and I haven't had any issues, but the last bios update I did specifically to get the first microcode update wiped my GPU drivers, and the gigabyte update platform installed Norton and some other network monitoring software without my consent.
LoamImprovement 4w ago • 100%
My dickhead boss quit to go be a cop. I hope I can get back on salary after he's gone.
LoamImprovement 2mo ago • 100%
God I would love for Total Distortion to show up on GOG or Steam one day.
LoamImprovement 2mo ago • 100%
God, please let Amazon crumble under the weight of its hubris in my lifetime.
LoamImprovement 2mo ago • 100%
Switched to Firefox in 2023 and it's wild how much shit just works now.
LoamImprovement 2mo ago • 100%
I got it for travel and it really is a top notch portable gaming hub. Doubly so because emulation is really easy to set up and run through the frontend. I love being able to play Elden Ring on the go.
LoamImprovement 2mo ago • 100%
It makes a lot more sense if you reframe it as freedom for rich white landowners in the 1800s to not have to pay taxes to King George, not so much for the peons, paupers and slaves.
LoamImprovement 2mo ago • 100%
There's a sandwich shop around Vancouver that's only open like 10-2 on weekdays so I hardly ever get to go, but they get their bread from a local bakery every morning and it makes all the difference. It's a simple turkey and cheddar sandwich, lettuce, tomato, pickle, a hint of mayo and Dijon mustard, but the ingredients are all quality and, again, the bread is fresh and super soft.
LoamImprovement 3mo ago • 100%
Wow, it's almost like trying to measure and codify man- and womanhood is inherently dangerous and phobic, even to cisgendered people who don't meet the nebulous standards set by bigots who are obsessed with other people's genitals, and we should maybe just stop doing that and let people identify themselves however they want?
Just a thought.
LoamImprovement 3mo ago • 100%
My job absolutely fucking sucks but the money's good and I need insurance so I can't leave without having anything lined up, and the market for IT jobs is absolutely dogshit right now so I've had zero hits on the apps I've put out.
I hate capitalism.
LoamImprovement 3mo ago • 100%
I can picture it, but I cannot imagine the pig happy.
I was talking with a friend today about Hallmark movies because we all seem to have at least one grandma who loves them around this time of year, and we're hashing out the tropes they all share because they're so formulaic that you could probably boil it down to a mad libs prompt, and something dawned on me because of one particular similarity, not in every film, but a lot of them - the Heroine quitting her high-stress executive job to move to a quaint little town and settle down with Mr. Right. It struck me as deeply misogynistic that the movies imply she can't have both and that her career goals aren't worth it compared to getting some dick. The other side of that coin is, in almost every single one of these movies, the guy is a Prince who needs to marry, or secretly loaded, or otherwise financially stable unless the plot revolves around his family whatever on the brink of closure that the Heroine steps in to help save the day, *and* he's shown to be a good-if-distant dad to his kids, if he has any, but needs help raising them because work keeps him busy, or his nanny's retiring. It's never implied that he should be the one giving up his lifestyle to be a better partner for her; The only thing Mr. Right is *ever* doing wrong in these movies, if anything, is just not already being with her, and I get that these films are basically wish fulfillment fics, but she is *always* the one who has to make a change for him, to basically be a stay at home mom, or step closer to it than she was at the beginning of the film. Does anybody else see that? Am I wrong in thinking that's absolutely fucking *greasy?*