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[–] 97 points 2 years ago (1 child)

idk man I say just push it to production anyway

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  • [–] 87 points 2 years ago

    just tag yourself as "early-access" and suddenly everyone will forgive your flaws.

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  • [–] 61 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Don't get yourself an alpha male, get yourself a 1.0.4-ubuntu3 male.

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  • [+] 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I just hear that they're so insecure they need to define themselves by someone else's deeply flawed version of better, instead of just being themselves and acknowledging what they like.

    It's like asking what's the best colour, and someone answers "black, because it consumes all the other colours"

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    This is how I feel every time I see an overpowered "prototype" weapon in a video game that works better than the standard version.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    This is how I feel every time I see an overpowered "prototype" weapon in a video game that works better than the standard version.

    Agreed!

    There's is a bit of clever game design in Deep Rock Galactic, which I hope catches on:

    The default load out for new players is almost unarguably the best possible load-out, for that class, in the game.

    As players progress, they can unlock more entertaining while objectively worse equipment, to amuse and challenge themselves.

    And, I mean, of course we do. It's hilarious because some truly challenging gameplay emerges.

    And when it's kicking my butt, I at least realize I chose that challenge for myself. I had the option to bring the good equipment that I started with, after all.

    And it puts new players on more even footing with veterans. I tend to make easy missions with newbie friends harder on myself by bringing truly silly equipment load outs. It usually turns out fine, and when it goes badly for me, they feel good for rescuing a veteran. Or it goes sideways and I apologize and make slightly better equip choices for the next try.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    It needs a flaw to be fun; there has to be a problem that made it unfit for production and the solution lowered the power. Too inefficient, too inaccurate, too big, too unsafe, too unreliable. Make it a fun thing the player can play around so it's a sidegrade rather than an upgrade

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Gonna wait for a stable male.

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    [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    Considering the alpha wolf myth originates from observing a stressed out wolf population in captivity, unable to live out their fulfilling wolfy lives, the emergence of purported "alpha males" is an oddly appropriate indicator of what three decades of neoliberalism has done to our wellbeing.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    TIL I'm an alpha male. ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The "alpha/beta" meme was invented by rightwing think tanks in the late 2000's/early 2010's to promote their ideology of rigid social-hierarchies where people at the top are allowed to impose and abuse people of lower social station with impunity, and to police and control the behavior of heterosexual men (it ain't just the LGBTQ's that get their gender-expression policed, ohhh no no no.)

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It's important to note that the entire idea about Alpha males is based on a long-discredited theory that was itself based on flawed observations.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    It wouldn't even matter if it was "right". The idea of looking to wolves for models of ideal human behavior is wrong for like 17 different reasons, even if it were technically true as a description of wolf behavior.

    P.S. why do AlphaBros specifically look at wolves, or lobsters, to instruct us on social hierarchy? There are so many other animals, those seem pretty random choices. And pretty far afield from humans. Wouldn't you at least want something more proximate to us humans on the evolutionary tree? Heck, why not just use humans as a reference point?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Yes, and the man who proposed the theory retracted it later, saying it would be like basing human behavioural theory on observations made in a supermax prison.

    That actually makes sense that these losers would venerate it, since the behaviours they idolise are very like what you’d see in prisons: machismo instead of real manhood, narcissism and subjugation instead of empathy, and hatred instead of compassion.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Yup. I've had more than a few people claim I had to "give up my man card" because I love musicals, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Sex in the City.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Your man card wasn’t forfeited, it’s gilded. Only real men can appreciate art.

    Have you seen Sondheim’s Into the Woods? It’s a masterpiece. It’s on Prime if you haven’t seen it. It stars Chip Zien, Bernadette Peters, Joanna Gleason, Tom Aldredge, and other big names. I’d like to see anyone say Zein, Aldredge, and Sondheim aren’t ‘real men’.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I dunno what version software is at the 'sigma' state but they're broken too.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And the original concept, as it pertains to wolves, is evidently not a thing. So if we're just saying things, the software metaphor is as good as any other.

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    [–] 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)
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    [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    Ugh, I am not looking forward to sweaty meatheads calling themselves “Golden Masters”…

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    I don't trust anyone not using semver.

    A whole train of thought happened in my head here about transitioning and semver.

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  • [+] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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    [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    What’s beta then? Be gentle on the product, working out all the kinks.

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    [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    I'm invite only. If you're very curious maybe somebody can forward you an access email.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    The only difference between alpha and release is the fixes needed to get through a sales demo.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Don't forget, you can name your release versions, even alphas. "Babydick," "Cuntosaurus" and "PhatTwat" are good options here

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    i will never hear "alpha male" the same from now on.

    but you are right!😂

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Love stable males, gotta be my favourite gender

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