Yeah current salary is bullshit but I think it's good to get salary demands on the table early in the process. either they can meet ur demands if they want you or they can't - and you both want to know before you spend hours on interviews.

Boy this whole boom just shows how grim the vibes have been out of China for the last couple years.

I'm pretty certain that Microsoft Does Not Care About Xbox so whatever, but if you look at what Sony and Nintendo are doing, and have been, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that Xbox has massively fumbled the bag on gamedev. They can comfort themselves with a pile of Activision-King money, I guess.

Playing the Last of Us Part I, and it's pretty easy to see why they did a PS5 remaster, especially in light of the PS5 Pro. This game is a gorgeous demonstration of Naughty Dog at their best - incredible environment design, will look so good rendered in 4k60. Game as console showpiece, perfected.

Aside from everything else it feels like a mistake to assign too much intention to basically anything that comes out of his mouth, in late 2024. It's all Id these days.

Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003) - Haven't watched this in a long time but it really holds up. Some art-house moments, but on the whole a visually beautiful film with a wonderfully understated execution. Might be my favorite of Tsai Ming-Liang's work, along with the underrated "The Hole".

32. Ordinary people have no idea how much progress we’ve made. Tell people at parties that UK carbon emissions in 2023 were at their lowest level since 1879, for example. Most developed economies are now reducing carbon emissions without lowering quality of life.

Oh I get the anxiety and where it comes from, even maybe share it. But I also think that we need to build a pluralistic antifascism, which means finding ways to include and even support religious expression of all kinds, rather than ceding it to the worst elements of our society.

Eh, I used to know a lot of pagans who used "blessed" in this way. And there are still plenty of vocal non-Nationalist Christians. I think this is just a bit of anxious over reading on the OPs part