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  • Washedupcynic@lemmy.catoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldBaba Yaga
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    5 days ago

    Sam is a ring bearer. He briefly took it over when he thought Frodo was dead during the whole shelob affair. Unlike just about everyone else, he’s the only character I know of that willingly gave it up. Fuck, even Gandalf didn’t want to bear the ring because he knew it would corrupt him and he’d refuse to let go of that power.



  • What’s driving this trend? The enshitification of triple AAA titles fucking slapping surcharges on EVERYTHING; day one dlc, microtransactions, always online DRM, the ability to revoke access to the shit we pay for, it’s death by 1000 cuts. EVERY anti-consumer action, every attempt to squeeze more of us while delivering the same rehashed shit over and over just drives me further into the arms of indie developers. The intent of us withholding our money and refusing to purchase your shit is to provide publishers with a sense of pride and accomplishment for retaining their customer base.








  • Dual major/minor BS - 4 years, but I did 4 extra semesters during summer/winter breaks.

    MS - 3 years

    PhD - 4 years

    If I could do it over, I would have skipped the PhD. I finished my PhD in 2008, when the economy went to shit. I was making $10 an hour 2008-2011 during my postdoctoral fellowship. After my fellowship was over, I couldn’t find an industry job, so I ended up using my publications to get into contract writing for insurance companies, and now I do all of the benefits for our states Assembly.

    The best part is having companies like Regeneron, or Fisher Scientific cold call me to offer me jobs that only need a BS, and that pay less than what I make now after having my resume for over a decade. (I make $30 an hour now, get 5 weeks of vacation a year, on top of sick time, and insurance with 0 deductible costs me less than $100 a month.) I told Curia that $50 an hour was my absolute floor, and HR person was like, “That’s a bit out of our reach.” My reply was, “That’s why you’re still hiring.”