Gotcha. Yeah low level Unix has some weird stuff going on sometimes.

Oh thank goodness, that was one of my main complaints with the system. Did they ever get around to requiring sudo like Macports (and any other reasonable system level packages manager on BSD/Linux)?

After Crowdstrike are we sure it’s not all blue screens in the windows column?

If it’s anything like when I used a Mac regularly 7y ago, Homebrew doesn’t install to /bin, it installs to /usr/local/bin, which only works for scripts that use env in their shell “marker” (if you don’t call it directly with the shell). You’re just putting a higher bash in the path, not truly updating the one that comes with the system.

Oh for sure

I saw a meme somewhere along the line that Excel is the third best tool for every job.

I’ve been that guy at a computer store. Had already found what I needed on my own since I was quite familiar with the store and was browsing a different isle to look at the shinies. Overheard a customer ask a salesperson what the difference between product x and y was, which were marked very similarly on the box but one was something like 30-50% more.

I noticed the salesperson become quite unsure of what this specific technical difference was, so I added the quick TLDR paragraph of what the generalized difference was and what words the manufacturers use to differentiate them (since there were several product pairs that matched both classes elsewhere on the isle).

Customer says “oh ok that makes sense”. I forget which one he decided on (I think it might have been the more expensive one kek), but the salesperson put his commission tracking sticker on the selected box and the customer wandered away, hopefully happy. Salesperson turns to me sheepishly “Um… I guess you probably don’t need help?” I responded “No, I’m just browsing, but do you want to put your sticker on this gizmo I found in the bargain bin over there?” He seemed happy with this arrangement, adds the commission sticker, and we part ways.

…did I inadvertently make a pact with a different type of fae?

Okay I just figured out what happened here. Sorry for my misunderstanding in the other comment thread, I fell into the same trap initially.

@Lemmy users - OP is a Mastodon user, so when OP responded to the comment with an @ and attached image, Lemmy federation didn’t pick up the attachment. I know we have images in attachments natively, so I don’t know if this is an upstream bug in Lemmy / Mastodon or some interaction between lemmy.world and Mastodon.scot.

@twoowls73@mastodon.scot - you may not have realized that your Mastodon post generated a Lemmy thread. Welcome to another corner of the Fediverse if you’re new to Lemmy. Some of the animosity in the comments here probably came from the fact that we can’t see the image you attached to from our interface. Right now the comment is sitting at 36 net down votes, probably because our corner of the Fediverse didn’t have the full context

I’m also fediverse lol?

I edited the comment because I accidentally wrote the community as c/communityname which doesn’t auto-generate a link you can click on

If you’re aware you didn’t answer the question… Why?

Pretty much everything else posted to !nathanwpyle@lemmy.world are original comics not edits

Self edit: fixed the community link, my Reddit brain used the wrong syntax

I’m not gonna lie this looks like a phishing email. I almost didn’t read it but curiosity got the better of me.

Running a contest on its own is fine IMHO (given appropriate mod approval when needed, and I am not a mod here), but what makes this feel weird is the conflicts of interest (regardless of your intent).

Even if you don’t plan to use the other works that didn’t win, you stand to financially gain by retaining the unused works. At minimum you’d remember the other works, potentially weaving into your own inspiration (assuming you are in fact not a robot that can forget on command).

You also stand to financially gain by not selecting a winner and instead generating a random username and saying they won while showing off something you already wrote. Heck, you could have an alt account that just posts stuff to look real until they suddenly win this contest.

Let’s also assume that any content, music, and art provided as part of your final submission package is all original or appropriately licensed content - be it OGL, CC, actual paid licence, whatever. Because once you are making money off something, royalties are probably going to kick in. Especially if you’re using commercially available music. I’m not a lawyer, but even if you aren’t including audio files and pictures and just link to/list them in your final “package”, you’re probably going to need an intellectual property lawyer to make sure your verbiage is rock solid. If I were an artist, even if I wasn’t working with an organization who could enforce on my behalf, I’d still want proper usage agreements anywhere my content was used, especially if the other party stands to financially gain from the art. Depending on the artist preference, it may be as simple as a written “hey it’s ok to use my work for this”.

Is there a differential between an employee/contractor who can create the story notes/art/music themselves and someone who is hunting down art and music off the internet and reaching out to the artists for their permission? The outputs of each will produce very different works. Do the contestants perhaps care that those two pools are merged? Might be worth asking them. Maybe it’s a non issue.

From a job perspective, you’ve mentioned what work is required for the final product, but a very critical detail is missing - how much work is required? One a week? One a month? One a year? Different people may not have time for all workloads. How would you handle a negative client interaction between your new employee and your customer? You mention high quality on your contest is contingent on the job offer - which does give you a nice way out to just say you don’t want any contestant’s work. I’m not saying that all entries would be good enough for a job, all I’m saying is that’s an opportunity for a landmine in your face if not handled gracefully.

ill give you the benefit of the doubt that you are well known somewhere even if I myself do not recognize you. But right out of the gate this ad is my first exposure to your work, so I (as a random person on the internet) have no yet established basis of trust of you (another random person on the internet). Similarly, do you trust a random person on the internet to complete all of the above, with (un-forged) usage agreements where applicable?

Now I’m not an artist, I’m just a programmer/IT. I fix computers when I get a ticket that something’s broken. I may be off my rocker with some of this. But if I were evaluating your company as a vendor, you would have failed several tests.

That lil minion is adorable

The best part is that they also have K/M support on PlayStation if Sony’s your game but you still like good old clicky keys

ARR - the base game up to the level 50 “finale” quest plus the level 50 “patch” content before level 51 - took me 125h and 261h respectively on a new character, with a note that I spent quite a good bit of time in a recent seasonal farming event so the patch content might be closer to 150-160h. I will caveat this that that ~390h total was done as a player that knew the game (I’m at around probably 7000h total across all characters). The most important thing in the game is to take the quests at your speed. You won’t be punished for taking your time*, so sit back and enjoy the scenery. Do side quests. Learn crafting. Learn raiding. Have fun!

(* There are active time events in some trials and solo bosses. Please press the button :P)

It’s DEFINITELY gotten much less sloggy compared to when I cleared ARR on my first character several years ago. They’ve been taking steps ~2y ago to reduce the “chore” quests and improve or replace dungeons and trials that had aged very poorly. I don’t expect them to do that much if at all to the expansions: ARR and it’s subsequent patches had a lot of issues since they were learning how to make a game.

It’s a compliment to your DPS :3

Accepted. That’s fair

I think that’s still cheaper than ordering something of GrubHub(?) during that incredibly short promo window

That got a lot darker than I expected

Depends on the campaign. One of my favorite characters to play is a INT/DEX artificer who got roped into somehow being in charge of saving the world.

And now you can listen to some cool smooth jazz and bloopers while reading the closed caption easter egg instead of watching the credits