I leave space in my resume template, and every job I run through chatgpt for a list of skills. Add them in, spin up a cover letter same process and send.

.top is cheap right now and much easier to make into a phrase

I wanted this game so bad as a kid.

straight edge for sure. source: I’m old

yeah every engineer knows you gotta set KidHeadKnuckleballClearance waaay higher than that, it’s compsci 101

Another issue is in 2128 AD or whatever when we’ve totally forgotten Biden and Trump except in niche history lessons, and Throckmorton Cacadoodoo, the newest demagogue takes the presidency, like I know it’s “slippery slope” but man it feels like this downward incline is becoming more lubricated.

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I am commenting this from a terrible strip club with friends who dragged me here. I wish I was in your position.

I mean it’s true here.

sucks we won’t see it happen but also delightful they have a mansion they can’t use

what’s interesting to me about the term degenerate- having been called it a few times for being bi - is it either means “inhuman” or “different” depending on how you interpret it.

Which, yeah, it’s different to being het, no shit Sherlock, but how is something that humans do instinctually not a human function?

Fucking dumbasses.

in my org it’s a single process to deprovision someone of access to all tools including home devices.

could you share it to us laymen internet strangers?

I mean I’m kidding around, but really, most of the time we’re making a product to sell, and then selling the product to make more of it (or a new/better version of it) so that we can sell it more… so we can make it more… to sell more…

Its just all part of the same cycle. The OP meme could equally be:

Sales/Marketing: I made this sale

[…]

Product: I made this sale.

its bullshit all the way down.

ah yes, the famously bullshit-free career of software engineering

I mean you CAN just get an evening marketing job, 8-5 engineering, half hour break, 5.30-1:30am writing marketing copy, designing campaigns, A/B testing, budget management, demand gen, lead gen, sales enablement, CRO/CPC/CAC management, Martech tool alignment, attribution tracking, SEO research, content marketing, press releases and 3P distribution tools, all of which matched against brand voice and targeting to ABM the specific ICP within each vertical.

There’s literally nothing stopping you.

went to Benidorm on a lads holiday in my early 20s, can confirm it was just like a warm day in Swindon.

I’m curious about comparing this to say - the white phosphorus scene in Spec Ops: The Line, or the airport scene (“no Russian”) in COD, rescuing Ellie instead of giving humanity the cure in The Last of Us…

All things that are arguably a lot worse than pulling a leg off a stuffed Elephant and all require on-rails player action in a game.

To take the devils advocate position: is conflict not necessary for drama, and effective conflict is one that affects its audience?

Marketing costs money. The only free marketing tool is email and you likely don’t know enough people to email until they buy your game.

One of the biggest falsehoods about social media is that doing it counts as marketing.

Paying for ads on social is marketing. (I know you all hate ads, but we’re on topic here for marketing some software)

But social either reacts to your popularity or is built in its own self-reinforcing rules. It’s an entertainment platform that will only grow in following if you entertain in that channel. Tiktok follows don’t build Twitter follows. Tiktok content isn’t the highest performing Twitter content. Posting to either once does nothing, Posting to either regularly for years - if you post good content and are lucky - does build a following which then you can try and market to, or leverage for marketing means (e.g. funding, grants, in kind support, quid pro quo) - but you can’t just start marketing to people and expect them to like it as - as forementioned - everyone hates ads.