What workforce?

Big studios are already ditching the idea of maintaining insitutional knowledge by doing more and more using cheaper contractors.

The downsizing is happening either way.

Sad Uuuuuu

The mic sounds fine. You can find samples online, ofc, but people have never complained that I’m unclear or quiet. It’s not as good as the wired sets, and I think that’s down to the wireless connection, but it serves the purpose of communication, and doesn’t pick up on too much background noise, either.

The charge port not being USB C is unfortunate, but my G915 keyboard is also still micro usb.

Unfortunately neither peripheral has a newer equivalent that is as good.

I am regularly the first to identify the presence and location of enemies in multiplayer games with friends, purely based on audio. Using audio to outplay opponents on my 370s has been easier and more intuitive than on anything I’ve used before.

The excuse that “gaming” headsets are “optimized” for footsteps or are improved by the “virtual surround” software they often come with, is bs.

The 370 is their best model, IMO, simply due to the bonkers battery life and sleep behavior. The other models require more frequent charging. I hope you can find a pair.

I literally haven’t used the power switch on mine, except to turn them off and on to reset the connection sometimes.

I do not turn them off, they automatically sleep when audio isn’t being played, and they will instantly wake when receiving an audio signal. Like you can’t tell they aren’t just on 24/7, I just put em on like a wired set and don’t think about it, and they will last WEEKS when used this way.

Whenever they notify me that the battery is low, which they do infrequently enough to ignore without getting annoyed for the rest of a gaming session, I plug em in when I’m done playing for the day. After which they’ll be ready for another week (or more) of use without any thought beyond what you’d give a wired set.

Not on this one. It folds up and turns off when in that position. There are other models that apparently allow complete removal.

Of course you can’t.

But picture putting your life on hold for 30 years. Would you not then feel extremely out of place with your own “peers” who didn’t do that?

Age isn’t really what defines where you’re at as a person, that’s stuff like culture, hobbies, career, education. People don’t connect over being the same age. They connect over stuff like video games, philosophy, books, nerding out about their industry, how that one class at school sucks, etc.

The age gap itself is absolutely not a problem. Is he a good person? Finding out can be more than a little tricky, and you risk coming off a bit like helicopter parents at best, and grossly overbearing at worst.

Your own son is not a child anymore. He is perfectly capable of independent thought and judgement. Is he good at it yet? Probably not, but the only way for that to change is practice.

Still, you can’t keep him on a leash anymore, so trusting him to navigate life on his own isn’t optional.

Make it clear that whatever happens your son can come to you for support. And tell him, explicitly, that you understand that ultimately, as a legal adult, your son has final say in how he lives life.

Once I was legally an adult, my parents made it very clear that my life choices were now up to me, but that they’d always show concern for me, and always help and support me, if I ask. They give unsolicited advice at times, but they do not try to make decisions for me, and I adore them for it.

There are tons of things about my life I’ve kept, and keep, from my parents, but never anything big or serious about my well-being. Their unconditional willingness to let me make my own mistakes, and be helpful rather than judgemental when I do, has ensured I will always turn to them in times of need.

Once your kid is control of their own life, that’s kind of the best you can hope for.

No.

Do not buy steelseries. Ever.

I bought one of their controllers, once. I really liked it, but it broke. When I RMAd it, they didn’t have replacements in stock. I said fine, I’ll wait.

They said no. Here’s a 60 euro certificate to buy something else you don’t want. Also it expires in 30 days, just to make sure you can’t wait for something you actually want to buy, like the controller, to be in stock.

All complaints ignored.

They effectively stole my controller with zero compensation. Their warranty policies are literally just “fuck you, eat shit”. Everything else I’ve ever used from them has only barely outlasted the warranty.

I recommend Epos headsets. My GSP 370 have now lasted four times longer than the Steelseries Arctis I had before. The battery is finally dying, but you can literally undo just 3 screws and replace it.

When new, the battery lasts 100 hours per charge, and when you finally do get the low battery warning, you don’t need the swappable battery bullshit because “low battery” still means they’ll last two more days. Which means you can just ignore the infrequent low battery sound until you’re done gaming, and then plug them in.

They function flawlessly on linux, and have excellent audio quality for both input and output. Since, you know, they’re by Sennheiser, not a “gaming” peripheral company.

Oh I’m sure there’s still some super mean spirited stuff that happens today, but it remains interpersonal and fairly private.

The old timey stuff was more like the kind where some scientist would go out of their way to straight up publicly slander people with ideas they thought were bad.

The modern equivalent would be like scientists calling each other “smooth brained” on twitter for proposing new theories that didn’t immediately make sense.

Would have been nice if they named her “type V” for vocaloid.

The letters stand for the purpose of the models, while the number is their name (B for Battle, S for Scanner, A for Attacker, E for Executioner).

So to match how it’s done in Automata, Miku would be Nr. 1 Type V. Or 1V. Using 39 also works.

Scientist trash talking used be savage af.

Nowadays though there have been enough “trashed” theories that later turned out correct, that people have learned not to discount any possibility.

TFW ur stuck and just desperately scouring every inch of the guidebook for clues.

How to finally make sure people start playing DnD, without calling it DnD.

Qualifies for !smolmoe@ani.social

Apparently you can set Phasmophobia to use “VOSK” for the speech recognition in settings, which is built-in, and does not rely on a built-in windows feature. It’s not as good, but works on linux and pre-windows-10.

When I played, you could only use windows recognition, so that’s new.

Crying Suns is really cool. Neat to see someone else who got hooked in the wild.

The bouncing around isn’t a bad thing.

In fact, if anything, I try to be sensitive to when I start to burn out on a game, and when that happens I avoid playing until the desire is really strong again.

Sometimes looking for something to play means having a LARGE number of false starts before I find the thing, but I make a note of not trying a bunch of similar games whenever something isn’t scratching the itch. I make each attempt with something very different.

And coming back to a game can take years.

That’s kind why you need a TON of games if you don’t want to take breaks from gaming entirely, because otherwise the medium just doesn’t have enough variety to keep the human brain engaged.

You should try shorter games, and completely ignore whether something is “big” enough to be worth your time. The big stuff is what’s boring you right now, so don’t waste time on trying to force the enjoyment.

Plus, if you’re restricting yourself to stuff that achieves critical acclaim, you’re limiting yourself to games everyone likes. That means you’re probably missing some stuff only you and people like you would like.

Not all good things are enjoyed by everyone universally, some things are just for a subset of people.

Sone more suggestions:

• Journey
• Donut County
• Furi
• event[0]
• Inside
• Katana ZERO

And you know, the led shouldn’t be fucking firmware controlled!

It’s a really good idea, but to work reliably, it should be HARDWIRED to light up when the cmos is receiving power.