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[-] stembolts@programming.dev 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Nope, just relatively. Though how do you want to define consciousness could change my nope to a yes. It's all about the definition.

All I can see when I read this comment is a plaque to blind confidence. Don't take it the wrong way, I don't mean it as a wholly a bad thing.. maybe 90% bad, 10% admiration. Confidence is powerful, but it works best when paired with other traits.

..but back to the thread, unless you're involved in this topic at an academic level, can you explain the reasoning behind the confidence you appear to have in your perspective?

[-] stembolts@programming.dev 82 points 3 weeks ago

Another one bites the dust.

I admit it, I once assumed Elon was a genius.
(events happen)
Okay, not a genius, but a good businessman.
(events happen)
Okay, a bad businessman, a good PR person.
(events happen)
Okay, a bad PR person, but not a Nazi.
(events happen)
Well fuck, he's a Nazi supporting conspiracy theorist.

God damn, if I was that wrong about one person. I'm just gonna stop having opinions about famous people. It's all smoke and mirrors.

[-] stembolts@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
[-] stembolts@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

For similar series, I recommend Burnout and Flatout. See my comment in this thread for elaboration.

Career wise I think Burnout : Paradise City is the most fun of the games I mentioned because you have to go around the city finding hidden jumps, hunting cars roaming the city (when you catch them (by crashing them, of course) you get to drive them), and beating time trials that create unique opportunities to fly through the air and blast through traffic, ideally crashing your opponents into them.. anyway, I love the genre, hope you find your game!

[-] stembolts@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I adore the Wreckfest game. I played it, beat it, lost my save and was happy because I got to play it again. I think I've done that three times.

If you are like me and would like another game in this genre, try "Flatout Ultimate Carnage Collectors Edition", personally I find the crashing (as well as the racing) in FUCCE to be more satisfying than Wreckfest but both games are a must have for fans of the genre.

The only thing that Wreckfest probably does better is that it feels good on a racing wheel, I've never played Flatout on a wheek so I can't comment on that. Both are fine with a Steam, Xbox controller, or third party controller.

For the record many of the Flatout games are great, I just happen to think that FUCCE is the pinnacle. I would love to be wrong and find a better game so please feel free to share suggestions.

And for a more open world style game with collecting cars, crashing them, and causing carnage as the core theme (you still can't get out of your car) try Burnout : Paradise City, amazing soundtrack too.


Some of these games have quite unique game modes, the "High Jump" and "Long Jump" in FUCCE is a dumb as hell game and great for having friends compete on the couch.

Burnout has a mode where you have to incrementally take out X opponents before time runs out, X increasing as difficulty rises. And every time you take someone out you get boost so on a perfect run you're just exploding everyone at light speed lol. Then BAM WALL FUCK. Lol. That's the game.

And for a final unique game mode, the old Burnout games (not BPD unfortunately) had a mode where you intentionally caused maximum damage per time limit. It was hilarious throwing the car into traffic then dancing it around the city causing hundreds of thousands of damage in a scene so stupid it would have been cut from Final Destination. I think Burnout 1, 2, and 3 had it..

[-] stembolts@programming.dev 12 points 1 month ago

Good idea, thank you for the tips on how to disable it. Nothing more annoying than someone offhandedly mentioning something I should do and providing no details or elaboration.

Okay, maybe that was harsh, but really, not even an app name or.. literally anything?

[-] stembolts@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago

As long as the jackass doesn't sell, they're solid.

I had a roommate who invested, when his stuff went down more than 5% he'd sell it, "Don't wanna be too risky," he'd say, unaware that he was breaking the cardinal rule of investing..

Then, "Omg it's up again, I better buy high before it goes higher!" then repeat pattern A again.

Moral of the story, if you actually believe in a stock, unrealized losses are not something to react to. Or do, and become a warning tale told to others, ha. Them -5% hits add up QUICK.

[-] stembolts@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago

However if you put it on the outside of the bucket nothing changes at all and this comment is a pointless thief of your time and attention. Sorry.

[-] stembolts@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

We've all done it, I'm sorry if my joke wasn't apparent as well. Text is dumb.

[-] stembolts@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And no sense of humor over what was clearly a joke comment. Icing on the cake.

Now I believe you now, you do use Nano.

[-] stembolts@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago

Prefers Nano over Vim? Why'd you have to go and commit a felony. Now I can't take anything you say seriously. Damnit.

[-] stembolts@programming.dev 9 points 2 months ago

It's interesting that a "level-headed" comment is one in which bringing up the murder of a US president's rival is not an unexpected topic.

If that is the new threshold for level-headed then this world has gone insane.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by stembolts@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

Edit : I appreciate all the PoVs and I will reply to everyone. This is important to me. Just going to go rest a bit and I'll be back.

Edit : Leaving the self-insulting language in, but yeah.. Point taken, I should stop being so mean to myself. And to add another FYI, I've been on this codebase for about 3 months, which I probably should have mentioned.

I have no idea what is wrong with me. I get tasks, I work on them, they NEVER seem to close. Meanwhile everyone around me is left and right solving their issues. I reach out for a second opinion because I must just be stupid, and every time I reach out the person is never able to assist in any meaningful way.

It's like my tasks always have blockers that everyone around me seems perplexed by, I get a lot of, "Wow, that's crazy," or, "Yeah your job does seem to have a lot of unusual blockers."

I'm at the point where I'm in a daily meeting where I explain what I'm working on to a senior dev because obviously they noticed I'm a person on the team with sometimes zero points in a whole month. It's so discouraging to have to go to a daily meeting because apparently I'm stupid? The thing is, when I explain what I'm blocked by, every person has said, "Oh weird, this seems like a really confusing task." Or, "Damn I've never seen anything like that."

So obviously I look at other peoples' tasks.. what are they working on? And their tasks are SO simple and straightforward, yet I've NEVER had a task like that, all my tasks were opened years ago, remained open for months or years, then were assigned to me. And they're all fucky. Wth.

Tbh I'm running out of things to write because I don't want to justify it, because I feel like I should be doing better. What the hell is wrong with me?

I have wanted to change jobs for close to two years now.. but you've all interacted with recruiters.. they never help, and job search is impossible as a person with anxiety and possibly autism?

I love coding, I hate my coding environment.. Anyone else ever have this type of issue in programming?

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