I think I ended up buying HM 1, 2, and 3 individually in GOTY bundles over 3 or 4 consecutive winter steam sales. I did end up with all the missions (I think) but I'm surely missing some premium cosmetic dlc that I couldn't possibly care less about.
Admittedly, if Steam puts out a "finish your collection" bundle that costs me like $.97 to add a few cosmetics in, I'd probably buy it just to feel like I'd "finished" the collection.
Hitman is truly the worst though (also a truly emblematic case of shit publisher, hero studio). Especially when you consider all thr pre-WoA games, I'm not sure it's even possible to be sure you have all the games. Only like, Wolfenstein, has more confusing reboots.
I do All - Scaled. I'll switch to New if I feel like I'm seeing a lot of repeat content. I've had to block a few bots (the reddit reposters are particularly egregious) and communities I don't really care for.
On that--and as a highly skilled idiot myself--we fully agree!
The adage "social problems don't have purely technological solutions" is something I've known for years yet must continuously remind myself of and reintegrate it for new issues.
It's a shame the old vision of computer specialists integrated into empowered teams building bespoke solutions never really came to pass. Not enough profit in that model, when mass market slop is so lucrative.
Not that I disagree with the sentiment but in most software systems localization does not just mean translation either. Localization as a practice includes date, time, and number formats, preferred units of measure, language and dialect, and sometimes a few other things. I'm not saying localization or translation are done well, or that the Big Tech companies give any shits about it at all, but its not as though computer professionals are all entirely ignorant of these distinctions.
For me it's trying to remember what I was doing, realizing I'm right outside the door of an extremely difficult boss that I'd given up on, and now i also have no idea how to play anymore. At that point I either uninstall the game to wait longer or I flush the save and start anew.
Tomorrow when the farm boys find this
freak of nature, they will wrap his body
in newspaper and carry him to the museum.
But tonight he is alive and in the north
field with his mother. It is a perfect
summer evening: the moon rising over
the orchard, the wind in the grass.
And as he stares into the sky, there
are twice as many stars as usual.
The paradox of the n-word pass is similar to the paradox of the daoist leader; if you were of good enough character (as an outsider/Bourgeoisie) to warrant the privilege of leadership/cookout, then you'd be wise enough to never want to use them.
Imagine working in the department the company is now named after and realizing your whole product line is irrelevant and the AI-people get all the money now.
Google announced that something like 25% of their code is AI generated now, and it'd be hilarious how much these companies have enshittified themselves into a cycle of constant self-owns except that we keep suffering for it too.
Like every google app and service is bad now. Search sucks. YouTube apps are bloated, have been crashing, and the algorithm is serving up just random stuff now. G Maps won't stay open on my phone, and randomly minimizes itself. Gmail is out of space, full of newsletters, and also degrading in search.
Facebook is the same deal. I've been on it more recently because I need to track events and it's all anyone in this city uses. Searching for the name of an event, which you've stated you're going to, by it's exact name, will find nothing, or an older version of the event from 4 years ago. The feed is 90% ads and sponsored posts, mostly videos. And the videos aren't ads, they're just random tiktok-wannabes about paint mixing or machining stuff. It's utterly bizarre to be inundated with clickbait that desperately wants your attention for no reason.
I consider myself a pretty good engineer and it's amazing how little these companies can accomplish with literally tens of thousands of developers. Its another of the great paradoxes of our times: individually, software devs must be among the least productive workers of all time, and yet as a group the profession (the computer itself really) has realized such astronomical productivity gains that we're probably already past the point where anyone really needs to work full-time ever again.
I'm pretty happy to be off .world and exposed to the slightly wider 'verse. The MLs and Hexbears aren't all that bad. I've seen some absolute dogshit leftist takes from some of them, but I've seen plenty of dogshit "centrism" on .world too.
Ultimately, you just have to do some of your own blocking/moderating work, while trying to remember that only anarchists are always right and to be patient while everyone else catches up.
So then do you define a company with 400 million annually and over 2K employees as Medium Tech? Because that ain't no mom-and-pop tech shop seeking to undermine the status quo, that's got to be in the top 10 companies in that space. Obviously MS and Atlassian are bigger, but gitlab is like number 2 for git!
I think I ended up buying HM 1, 2, and 3 individually in GOTY bundles over 3 or 4 consecutive winter steam sales. I did end up with all the missions (I think) but I'm surely missing some premium cosmetic dlc that I couldn't possibly care less about.
Admittedly, if Steam puts out a "finish your collection" bundle that costs me like $.97 to add a few cosmetics in, I'd probably buy it just to feel like I'd "finished" the collection.
Hitman is truly the worst though (also a truly emblematic case of shit publisher, hero studio). Especially when you consider all thr pre-WoA games, I'm not sure it's even possible to be sure you have all the games. Only like, Wolfenstein, has more confusing reboots.