@nikow I think qualifications are definitely critical for some fields (e.g. safety-related work like pilot, doctor, engineer), and near meaningless in others (anything you can learn safely at home like game dev, music, art).
I"ve hired >10 people at various times for different roles, an evaluated dozens more. I have no idea what educational institutions any of them attended.
@timsoret: Game developers, I encourage you to free yourself from the GDC hegemony, and to upload your own educational content yourself:…
Makes me glad we finally made the effort to produce unique skeleton art for every animal.
@chiefjewell secret :)
Progress renders of the Green Cave People starship from my last tweet. Amazing
@cliffski @RyanSumo You end up cross-banning people who were e.g. banned by an unprofessional dev for fair criticism of a game, or for personal reasons, or for whatever.
I could see an opt-in explicit ban mirror arrangement between specific devs. I don't trust everyone on Steam Direct though.
@cliffski Once per decade seems pretty acceptable to me. Unless there's some more details left out here...?
@stargazystudios In the future, people will pay extra to make their software dumb.
Impressive ship, impressive as hell mod.
@paulsoaresjr @sully9088 The real reason: Adding such a food source to the ice biomes would reduce the diversity in play experiences the game offers by making the biomes more alike - the opposite of what we want.
Plus issues with UI complexity on the work screen from the new work type.
@paulsoaresjr Well, the ice sheet is like a kilometer-thick sheet of ice sitting on rock. So no ice fishing there.
Sea ice, maybe, but I'm pretty sure permanent icecaps like the Arctic are too thick for ice fishing to be feasible. Like 2-3m thick.
@novailoveyou Thanks for buying it :)
@HM_Axyl *every week
:D
Game design is writing 317 design ideas and choosing the best 4.
"Veil of ignorance" is the thought experiment:
What society would you want to live in if your social position was randomized?
I suggest a similar thought experiment:
What rules+norms would you want to live under, if the identity+beliefs of the power holders was randomized?
@mode7games @adamofgreyskull @cliffski Beyond that it's hard to response since you're really vague about what you're really advocating or why.
Corporations should seek to manipulate culture to good ends, I guess? Or someone's idea of good.
Anyway I should go be productive so I'll have to leave this one, cheers.
@mode7games @adamofgreyskull @cliffski You're sarcastic, but what you're saying is true. Laws that control speech to manipulate culture are very common.
e.g. Places like China, Russia, Iran, Saudi, Cuba, NK today have very active speech control police with specific cultural goals they pursue by force.
@mode7games @adamofgreyskull @cliffski You're right that neither of those is a good solution.
Valve isn't doing either.
Valve's solution is to lean on the centuries of accumulated wisdom in the law, by basically doing an #import from the law itself.
An admirably humble approach imo
@adamofgreyskull @cliffski @mode7games Murder is often unjustified too in games (and movies, books, etc).
E.g. GTAV, top selling game of all time, basically about mass murdering people (often innocent people) to get money and power and women.
E.g. Any crime movie