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- Nutter3
Video Games...
Finally got around to playing Dispatch, and highly recommend it. Its similar to the old Telltale games, so it presents a story and you make choices along the way.
Its got amazing production, great characters and story and really good voice recordings.
- Gardener5
Space is the place
How great would it be if the folk greeting the crew of the spaceship when it lands were all dressed as apes to freak out the astronauts.
- ideaist-1
- Thoughts?!ideaist
- kinda don't care when he started selling nazi swastica. why give him attention?pango
- Can't adults (us) decipher between an artist, their music, their politics, etc.?ideaist
- I never took his politics seriously. As vile as they were/are?. The man is seriously ill as I see it. And honestly I never liked his music.renderedred
- we live in an age a artist or performer's career depends on how trendy they are. and no way their art and politics will be separated.pango
- i prefer not to contribute.pango
- beyond boringneverscared
- I enjoyed his music and creativity. But his life actions really do taint it.monospaced
- Fair on all points AND agree!
In a family with bipolar and manic history, I feel for the guy, BUT man he seems to ALWAYS make the wrong decision(s)!ideaist - Not a fan of Kanye or his music but I liked this video.microkorg
- perhaps we'll judge his art objectively after he's dead. Like many *famous artists before him. but I just don't feel like it when he's a life.pango
- I like that he sampled James Brown's Interview, love that shit.robthelad
- renderedred0
The World is Fucked
It's a bit more of the Internet being fucked but the world too. Things like this exist:
- Gross.ideaist
- Agreed.renderedred
- via: https://www.joanwest…renderedred
- What the actual fuck are we doing as a society and a planet_niko
- https://www.youtube.…renderedred
- This and the split screen video game shorts that are attention deficit generators.garbage
- ay reason they are all female?canoe
- monospaced9
blog
I’m being actively recruited for a job, but there’s a catch, and it’s got me in a bit of a pickle.
I currently work in a (long term) contract position where I am the senior creative lead of a small but growing team, and it’s totally remote. Good culture, great flexibility, but lower pay and no benefits. Not sustainable forever.
This new job is offering a salary waaaay higher than the highest I’ve ever had, the kind of money that might allow my wife to stop working for awhile. Plus benefits. Game changing. It’s for a top global hedge fund, and the catch is they expect all employees to be IN office 5 days a week, NO exceptions.
While I desperately want that salary and stability, I can’t imagine the sacrifices I would make to my family, and the the immense pressure it would add to my significant other, who also has to go to work hybrid.
I’m taking the interviews, but I don’t think I can take an offer. Hoping this can give me leverage to turn my current contract into full time. Or at least a good raise. It’s been exactly one year since I took this job, after being laid off.
Ok. Recruiter is calling me in 5 min. I have an interview with the ECD on Monday.
- For me it would be a hard pass, family first and life is too short.utopian
- Yeah. Kids are 4 and 8 and I can’t imagine how things would work with me gone that much. I would have to hire help at that point.monospaced
- the freedom of remote for me is something that money would have a hard time competing with. I don't have kids, but quality time with my wife beats any salary.capn_ron
- I feel you! It's such a hard balance. My wife and I built careers around prioritizing our family first. I frequently bum myself out thinking about the money...nocomply
- In slightly similar place. Contract role ending in May, found an ideal role, it's hybrid in office T, W, Th, with at least an hour car commute each way.mg33
- My current 3x a week commute is by train, less than an hour each way. In fact, going home I'm out of the office at 4:46pm, and home by 5:30.mg33
- ...on the other side, but our family is tight and it feels good to not be a slave to the man!nocomply
- I live about 20 miles north of Chicago. Commuting is a breeze: I'm 2 minutes from my town's station by car, and a 4 min walk from the downtown station.mg33
- Hey Ron! You still in SD?nocomply
- fuck that._niko
- Thanks all. Good to hear I'm not thinking about this wrong.monospaced
- FWIW my wife took a full-time on-site job last year. We needed the money. Good pay, but 1-hr+ commute each way. She was out of the house 10-11 hours each day.nocomply
- But we couldn't make it work. She turned in her notice, but they needed her and revised her role to part-time remote.nocomply
- Pay is significantly less, but our balance and family dynamic is way better.nocomply
- We'll revisit when our boys are a little older. (Currently 8 and 11.) We'll never get his time back.nocomply
- @nocomply - I'm not in SD anymore. Moved out to Coachella Valley near Palm Springs. How are you doing?capn_ron
- imagine all the kool trump merch u you could buy for the family with the xtra cash though.neverscared
- It's 2026; keep the gig you have and enjoy your life. My wife is the primary bread winner AND we're balanced.
Godspeed @mono!!!ideaist - Hard to put a price on being there for my kids and family during these years. Hang in there everyone, the right thing will eventually come along.monospaced
- Be careful with the leverage play, they may can you. Thinking you’re unhappy or not a long term fit. Regarding the job, the little i know about you...canoe
- ...i think you’ll get more out of being present for your kids rather than having a boat? :)canoe
- Good points.monospaced
- You're not thinking about it wrong, but is it the sort of prospect you could do for a couple of years and then cash out and go back to family life?Nairn
- But no. We had some friends here last week and the father admitted he was sad that he as missing out on so much of his daughter's upbringing by working so muchNairn
- ..and I was quite weirded out by his seemingly not wanting to change that fact. It reminded me ma bit of me own upbringing...Nairn
- ..my father and I are very close, but if I think back to my youth, my.memories of him are mostly about him working too much. Sadness and arguments.Nairn
- My dad growing up worked too much, our relationship is kinda lacking, and maybe that’s why I cherish this time so much.monospaced
- So you know the answer :)Nairn
- Yes. It’s refreshing to hear all of this feedback too.monospaced
- You knew it. Family first. Money can't buy back the time you'll lose without them. Good luck!OBBTKN
- I recently had to choose between a job with better life balance and one in tech that offered my salary again in stock. I passed on the tech job and couldnt ...robotinc
- ... be happier. Cash is nice, but not if it throws the rest of your life into chaos. My perspective anyhowrobotinc
- Good man.monospaced
- Whats the title of the position?Raybandana
- Design Director, not that it matters.monospaced
- you are doing the right thing, man. all the best!renderedred
- mono I just went through this considering an offer at JPMC, I passed.whatthefunk
- Fascinating!monospaced
- I applied there I think.monospaced
- mg333
AI Slop Challenge #1
March contest over. Going by upvotes, it's a tie between Continuity and PonyBoy.
Drop your vote in a comment by 04/03. Winner chooses next set of words for April.
Continuity:
PonyBoy:
- +1 for ContAkagiyama
- +1 for ContPonyBoy
- +1 for PonyContinuity
- stewart32
Show some recent work
I created the book design and illustrations for the first Dutch translation of The Maracot Deep by Arthur Conan Doyle (best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes).
It is a science fiction novel, written in 1927, in which the main character observes mysterious creatures during an unplanned descent to the bottom of the ocean.
- Lovely!PonyBoy
- Great project. As always, so clean. Great lines and palette.garbage
- <3mort_
- Beautiful intricacy, the colours are spectacular._me_
- Beautiful Illustrations, all by hand?NBQ00
- Cool to see after coming home from scuba diving yesterdaycanoe
- Nice Stewart...utopian
- COOL!bezoar
- very nice!Fax_Benson
- Crazy good.CyBrainX
- slappy9
Australia!!! things – and like yeah!
I have a baby huntsman in my lounge, we named him Terry, as people who are scared of spiders get Terry-fied. Hes chill I'll try get a better photo when he wakes up.
- Baby? o.OOBBTKN
- its 12:15am - hes awake now...
and probably in your bedroom._me_ - lol, they are terrifying when on the move. My parents occasionally find one at their place, and its house-burning contemplation time.garbage
- I would remove Terry and let the fucker hunt outside somewhere else...utopian
- Love this giant guys. Few in Florida.hydro74
- mort_9
Pic of the Day
‘Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York,’ 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams.
- Don’t think I’ve ever seen a non-landscape photograph of hisGnash
- me neither but even here you can see his love of burning and dodging :)_niko
- Ansel is a curveball heregarbage
- I’m more interested in the technology and the work it took to produce this memory in 1956 than the photographer tbh.mort_
- Same Mort. Like, try and make anything with your hands today. An iPhone, for example, is just impossibleIanbolton
- Such primitive tech 60 years ago. Such a loser species!Ianbolton
- mort_6
- another +1 for Simon Bar Sinister.CyBrainX
- I want that board!hydro74
- you and me both..autoflavour
- prophetone4
- 944!prophetone
- WHERE THE FUN IS!AQUTE
- I had an '85 1/2
fucking loved it! had a bunch of Sachs stuff on itYakuZoku - Bring back Group B.garbage
- I want this car so bad, just to gun neighbourhood, drift-park in front of Starbuck's to scare the soccer moms?prophetone
- +1 garbageMrT
- mort_7
- watched a few days ago. excellent.renderedred
- brian cox was the keyboardist in d:ream. d:ream had a hit with 'things can only get better in 1994' this global smash defined 1994 as the 'bottom' for humanity.kingsteven
- Tony Blair then used it as his 1997 election anthem, which made it a government-backed promise - the only legally binding banger in history.kingsteven
- In the 2010s everything got worse, and as 90s nostalgia grew. Brian Cox scrambles, spends the next 30 years promoting the Fermi paradox to cover his trackskingsteven
- literally, knowing he has started the ticking time bomb, the end of civilisation. The big banger.kingsteven
- oh! didn't know that. thanks.renderedred
- lol brilliantmort_
- Sidenote.. before D:ream he was also in moderately successful rock band called Dare..dee-dubs
- +1 kingsteven, very good.Nairn
- load of toshrobthelad
- https://youtu.be/v3n…Morning_star
- I'm all down for talks about the Fermi Paradox, but I will never be able to forget the time a friend first showed me Brian Cox ages ago..garbage
- ..because he said "I know this guy looks like a happy greying lesbian with rosy Santa Claus cheeks, but.."garbage
- Also his best work is with Philomena Cunk.garbage
- He really transformed himself for Successionmort_
- Flol garbageNairn
- I got ticked off for describing a jean shirt I have (I know) as a 'lesbian shirt' only to literally two days later seeing a lesbian friend in a jean shirt.Nairn
- Had to relay that to my partner for vindication...Nairn
- lol, you're not in the wronggarbage
- Lol at commentsFax_Benson
- PonyBoy4
Space is the place
To the moon!
Artemis II launches as early as this afternoon (6:24pm EST)... sending 3 'mericans and one canuck 10 days in space around the moon and back (further out in space than any humans have ever been).
We occasionally can see launches all the way up the east coast but this one looks to be out of view pretty quick...
- feels like this is pretty useless and needlessly dangerous. They can do this with an unmanned ship. do it 10 times until they perfect it and then send humans_niko
- I get it that it'll pave the way for sending humans to mars but don't think it's necessary at this point. risks far outweigh any benefits._niko
- Artemis I already covered / proved the basics... but a few more rounds w/bots etc to work out the kinks isn't a bad ideaPonyBoy
- I was going to watch it live, but the broadcast is at midnight, and since I have a few days off, well, I think I'll probably be asleep... good luckOBBTKN
- Ah I see pony, yeah forgot about Artemis I but still, modern astronauts are like modern djs. https://i.makeagif.c…_niko
- ...but strapped to a million gallons of explosive fuel._niko
- argh, I don't know, I just have so much anxiety about the whole thing. godspeed to the crew_niko
- saw the launch from the oceancanoe
- Can't afford my groceries
Their bombing iran
... And whiteys on the moonwoowahesque - lol woo_niko
- Victor does look pissed at times... https://www.nasa.gov…PonyBoy
- ApeRobot6
- mate... that ass is abysmalrobthelad
- Kim Kardstonianutopian
- pretty cool even if accurateYakuZoku
- Is that Kristi Noem's husband?Akagiyama
- Thats good stuff. Rob still learning.brothernoah
- ^ flol no, nips aren't cross-eyedgarbage
- Damn.ideaist
- Porn producer making 3D printed sculptures to stir up some attention for himself - it passing it off as profoundtoemaas
- Or maybe, like most other art world swamps, he’s trying to launder a large sum of money via the art worldtoemaas
- renderedred6
- Nicemort_
- https://www.spothero…
^ Guy who made the site.ideaist
