I guess we just need more global pandemics. It’s a great boom to the video game industry, literally everyone was playing games when AC:NH released.

Can confirm, family and I are sick.

It’s not hitting me particularly bad, but the kids are sick too and that’s a sleepless nightmare. Though, I’m probably worse than I realize since a sense of responsibility is kinda having me power through.

Would take me a while to dig up, it was from a few years ago. If you want, try searching something like “interview and job performance” into a research search database (Google scholar is usually an easy one to use). Trying it myself, first hit is a meta analysis with a good amount of citations. (But I’m not going to read anything right now, my kids are waking up lol).

That said, it’ll favor papers with statistically significant findings, so non findings get lost to the file cabinet problem.

Edit: I lied, curiosity got the better of me so while my kids were eating breakfast I glanced at the results of the meta analysis which gives a few corrections. Tldr, impression management, physical attraction, having non verbal things interview look at, etc, are ok predictors of interview ratings but weak with job performance. Doesn’t seem concerned with actual skills, but I think that’s better covered by what they’re referencing in their literature review.

I agree. Can’t quite put my finger on it… maybe the window behind the monitor? I try not to assume simply because of the style, but the lack of author credit makes it hard to check anyway.The weird thing is it wouldn’t at all be hard to draw by hand.

Edit: I like all the different answers. It feels like a new, unfortunate version of the “find the differences” game.

I can confirm this Christmas season that extended family members do in fact click on recommendations and so on, reaffirming that awful approach.

The amount of random crap we got… sigh. The thought counts, I guess.

There’s actually research on how little correlation there is between interview performance and job performance in most cases. This includes cases with “objective” tests during the process, if I remember right.

Oh, it sounds like the dog survived too! I’m kind of surprised; usually stories like this are like “he shot the dog and kidnapped the girl” but instead they were both found.

In my case, it’s because people don’t like all my pictures of the wall behind my computer screen.

There’s isn’t anything particularly wrong about preordering something you’re most certainly going to get day-one, although those are few and far between these days. After all, even fan favorites often come with bugs and glitches day one and you can still encourage producers (and raise kpis) by wishlisting a game instead so they know demand exists. Same for downloading a pre-release demo - they track that.

Early access is usually indie with a few exceptions, so supporting them is good too except when you’re a big fan and would rather see the finished work without spoilers. None the less, support can still exist in other forms.

I personally do neither, but this is more because of financial reasons and my already stupidly huge backlog. The only game I might have preordered this year would have been Silksong and only didn’t because they didn’t permit it. I knew it wouldn’t be released with… ahem, bugs… and that I would certainly play and enjoy it.

Every other 2025 gem was a surprise after release, though.

I love the idea of someone trying this stupid question irl only to realize it wasn’t even plugged in. That’s … well fuck, that’s most IT work. The convoluted approach is definitely the wrong one. Lol

Believe it or not, it gained 10fps running on Arch… doing… whatever that thing was doing.

Breeze has a day/night cycle now too, haha. Sweet just caught my eye since it has custom icons for discord and steam that match the theme. Lol

And yeah, the experts on Lemmy can probably explain better but there’s issues with screens depending on what the distro uses to manage that stuff. I’ve had trouble before, but I had no trouble last night detecting my ultrawide, and they added HDR support since I last tinkered. I’m using CachyOS (which is arch based), so what they’re using might be different. They also seem very anti-flatpak, haha.

Oh, I just fixed my broken partition with a fresh install last night. Haven’t played with Linux in a while but I spent way too much time themeing.

If you or anyone else is in KDE Plasma, surprise your friends with something like Reactionary 98 or WhiteSur. It was enough to get someone to try Linux, lol. (I ultimately went with Sweet, though. Lol)

I actually thought about that after my comment and summoning a tank from nowhere was fun. At least for a little bit… but maybe mostly for the novelty of it all. Also I was like, 12.

Y’all laugh but there are way too many people into idle games, not to mention people who prefer watching a stream (even without commentary) over playing a game itself.

I cannot comprehend why, though, just like I can’t comprehend how cheating (particularly single player) can be fun.

Santa already extrapolates data for children without lists but with generative AI, we’re going to see new and exciting ways to disappoint children this Christmas!

It’s a lot of individual tables because Santa’s excel struggles with anything past a few hundred thousand rows. It’s not just names, but addresses, lists of desires, and so on.

There are around 2 billion children. If you wonder why he skips so many children, it’s not religion or poverty, it’s because Santa’s files got corrupted.

You could get into Dragon Quest games, if you want old school JRPGs. Complexity might be a bit lacking given the era, but doing the old NES ones without a guide is excruciatingly difficult and you can lump on RetroAchevements to add more pain. RA generally adds additional challenges to any older game so you have to play a little min maxing to accomplish them.

I mostly thought of it since RA is beta testing multi sets with DQ9 and getting every accolade might be one of the most insane things I could ever suggest.

Well, I’ll settle for basic computer literacy as I still run into college students without a working knowledge of file systems… buuuut one would argue it’s worth covering the basic building blocks of how all this works.

I’ve heard similar arguments for teaching people the fundamentals of how data works too, as we have data harvested from us at alarming rates and knowledge is power.

Y’know, I keep reading about this but what’s the point? My kids talk to their stuffies anyway, and usually about way more interesting shit than the CCP. Imagination is wild.