Your point is actually what makes remote work so much more effective. When you work in an office, you get used to things working by chance - people seeing what others are doing, talking about it on coffee breaks and so on. When everybody is working remotely, you quickly realize that those things that happened by chance were actually a lot more important than it might seem at first - and then you can do the dumb thing and go back to having it happen by chance, or you can change your processes to ensure that everyone who may have anything to say about what you’re doing, know that you’re doing it.
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Phen@lemmy.eco.brto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What largest explorable towns/cities from videogames do you remember?
9·5 months agoThe one that really impressed me was the capital on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. At one point I was walking on top of the walls surrounding it and looking around for a nice screenshot and I was just in awe of how great that city was.
Even beyond just emotions, in Portuguese the “be” verb can be translated into two different verbs: “ser” and “estar”. They are two complete separate things - so separate that English classes kinda turned the “to be” verb into a meme due to how long it takes to teach Portuguese speakers to use it and understand what it means in each sentence.
“Ser”: to be someone who is something. Usually more permanent, but not necessarily.
“Estar”: to be in the state of something. Usually more temporary, but also applies to permanent states.
Some examples showing how the meaning of some expressions change depending on which verb you use:
You are sick “Ser”: you are a sick (twisted/evil) person. “Estar”: you have caught some sickness.
You are sad “Ser”: life has made you sad in general. “Estar”: you’re feeling sad right now.
You are beautiful: “Ser”: you are a beautiful person. “Estar”: you are looking great today.
You’re good at this: “Ser”: literal, you’re good at this. “Estar”: implies being good is not the default but you have reached the point of being good at this.
**you’re funny drunk": “Ser”: when you’re drunk you are funny. “Estar”: you are drunk now and this time you turned out to be funny while drunk. Or, in this point of your life you’re funny when you’re drunk.
it’s cold there: “Ser”: that is a cold place. “Estar”: that place is cold right now.
it’s cold there now “Ser”: it’s like saying that winters in that place used to be mild but nowadays winter there can get pretty cold “Estar”: that place is cold right now.
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Games@sh.itjust.works•Seven Months After Civ VII’s Launch, Firaxis Workers Are Being Laid OffEnglish
5·5 months agoI skipped it for the same reason at launch. Eventually I dropped windows completely and that was no longer an issue, but I had already moved on.
Recently I had an opportunity to play it for a while and I was quite surprised that despite having many flaws, the game also has a ton of good things. Mostly quality of life changes but they improved so many things in relation to civ 6 that it’s an absolute shame they butchered the game itself with its main “selling point”. If they made a game with all of those changes but without the Eras system it would probably be criticised for not innovating much, but people would be playing it.
Personally I’m not necessarily against the Eras system, but the way they implemented it is just the worst. I’m fine with the idea of changing civs every era, but the eras themselves now feel like different matches of a game. Once an era ends, you have to drop anything you didn’t finish and start new goals, but everything you did finish will give you powerful buffs in the next era - so you basically need to work into achieving everything every time. There’s no room for playing the long game, or doing your own thing. If you set up the game to be so long that each era lasts for 400 turns, then you can achieve every goal and kinda get back that freedom to do whatever you want (to some extent) - but then by the time you reach the modern era you’ll have so many buffs that you win the game before you do anything modern.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•If conditions on earth are perfect for life to form shouldn't have happened more than once?
21·6 months agoIt’s like when playing the lottery, if you say you’re picking all your numbers in a sequence, like 1,2,3,4,5 and 6. People will tell you’re crazy because sequences like that “never” happen. But the same is true for every other combination of numbers too. The sequence just makes it clearer how unlikely you are to ever pick the winning numbers.
Oh Honey, do you really think it matters if he “has the power” to do it or not?
Just some chocolate candy. It’s the base for a common dessert here in Brazil known as “Brigadeiro”.
Mix it with 5 spoons of chocolate powder and one spoon of butter (or margarine); stir it together, then put it on the microwave for 4 minutes on max temperature. take it out, stir it all again to let the hot air out and put it back on the microwave for another 2 or 3 minutes.
The numbers may need to be tweaked for specific brands of ingredients but that’s the general baseline and even if you get it all wrong it’ll still be generally good.
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401·6 months agoNot really “paid his dues”, but got out because it was proven the judge in his case was colluding with the prosecution and he never had a fair trial.
Well there’s two different things that people who relate to this picture may want: either the nature or the solitude (sometimes both); for the second, part of the fantasy is that they would never have to deal with anyone.
In reality what people want may be completely different, but the picture passes the message better.
Greentext knows its green stuff.
In the early century I’ve seen companies bundle an entire pc (with case and all) inside their own products just to avoid dealing with windows CE.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What will be the top news headline on the day that you die?
4·7 months agoTop headline will be about some new word the young generation is using. The smaller pieces will say stuff like “are you morally opposed to murder? That may cost you your job! 12 out the 14 companies in America say they wouldn’t hire someone with antique puritane views”
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•If you were in a room with your own pet and 99 identical pets, how would you pick out your pet (aside from calling their name)?
4·7 months agoIf I say “it’s here” she’ll run towards any window to bark.
It became mandatory for all new products in 2011, so a few years after that most people were used to it, though there’s many people still using adapters to this day.
Oh I didn’t know that! Gonna have to take a trip through some old photos one of these days.
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PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Why did thousands of adult titles just disappear from the biggest PC gaming marketplaces?English
11·7 months agoWould be fun if steam hid those from anyone who used those specific payment processors while still showing them to people who used alternative options - and then people started to disable those processors due to it.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•NO! I don't want to download your app and set up an account. Leave me alone
3·7 months agoYou know what? I just realized I haven’t actually tried to open a webp file in years. I’m just so used to cancelling the save dialog and taking a screenshot instead when I see a webp extension, I didn’t even consider it might actually be supported now.





Whatever that weapon is called, it’s responsible for the only defeat on Musashi’s record. So this guy with just a wooden sword is definitely unsafe.