For many of us, we don’t spend that much time in Horizon and our dogfooding dashboards show this pretty clearly
fuck fuck i thought i already hated “dogfood” as a euphemism for using your own product but adding “dashboards” has somehow made me hate it even more. i hate corporate culture
EDIT: more quotes:
I want to be clear on this point. We are working on a product that has not found product market fit
Would love to have enough money where I can develop a product before I think there’s a market for it because i’m confident I can spend enough money to just make the market. That’s a real path to success, right? See: Stadia
the coming 2D version of Horizon for web wouldn’t likely have a user target but instead a “high quality bar.”
making high quality shit for nobody is actually a great idea!! but that thing has to be uh, something you care about and love? i don’t think corporations can do that, only individuals and like, small teams.
I love to make music for nobody but myself but the idea of making a ““product”” for nobody is incredible to me. Absolute clown shoes bullshit
it’s also just funny because VR was already like this for its first 3-4 years when they actually managed to produce a lot of more interesting technical products that didn’t quite have a viable market, but we’ve like, memory holed that first round of subsidies as everyone now tries to do the same thing but worse
honestly I don’t blame any person working in VR that isn’t using the thing they’re working on because it is absolutely the worst fucking workflow you could ever have working on a computer
like, imagine that in order to verify the smallest change to anything in the game you have to literally stop using your mouse and keyboard, put on a headset, blinding you to the dev environment, pick up two controllers that you now can’t see because you have a headset on, and play through the build using the debug tools with your controllers, which isn’t ideal, or with a mouse and keyboard, which you can’t see. and all of this is to verify that like, some text has changed somewhere, and by the time you’ve verified it someone has told you oh well it shouldn’t say that we made a mistake
and none of this is even speaking to the fact that you might just straight up get motion sickness while doing this verification, and in fact you’re probably MORE likely to get motion sick because none of the safeguards around becoming motion sick exist yet. I know that every time it happened to me I just straight up couldn’t go back into the headset for at least an hour without risking me just having to go home
it’s just really evident that no one who wants this to become a reality has ever come anywhere remotely close to the actual experience of working with VR headsets and if confronted with this they’d just handwave this away somehow
like no joke one of the biggest perks of changing jobs to another company was not having to work in a headset anymore which, fuck
something I try to avoid at all costs on twitter is people who have recently gone from non-tenured academic jobs in which they were grossly underpaid for most of a decade, to some weird new loss leading research center at Facebook or wherever else because these people still look like extremely cheap labor to tech companies whether or not they realize it, and they then go to on to boast about how great it is to leave academia and how everyone should punch up their resume and hope to follow them, like they’re now career coaches on top of everything else, and half the time I see these people pop up lately they’re working for the fucking Metaverse project, and it’s like… I’m sorry, what in the world were you doing at a university that this looks like a no-questions-asked trade up for you to the point where you now want to advocate it to everyone? like, your work is now just as dead-end, except it’s being funded by a moderately worse actor, you’re making 2.5x your old salary, and you have some VP giving you motivational speeches to keep at it???
like it’s one thing to go from a university to industry but I was never underpaid like that for that long and once you are it seems impossible to keep your priorities straight and stop fucking projecting
speaking of which I am currently getting my wife a job where I work and while doing that I saw that we were in the middle of shifting the canada salary scales over to track with europe rather than with the US and much to everyone’s chagrin I had to be like “nice try folks, not doing that shit” in the middle of that referred search. I am singlehandedly grandfathering in the idea of a fucking standard of living in this backwater.
in conclusion there’s always cheap labor out there somewhere
I’m currently writing an april fool’s piece in which don quixote attempts to create a docker container but accidentally sees porno and hits his head on the computer so idk about that, this is absolutely what I would be doing anyway
I’m afraid I made sancho panza too explicitly gay but I’m glad I found a role for rocinante
idea is, how do we become the best damn pet food manufacturer in the market? and somehow humans will know what dogs like in food. “it’s there”. what dog is setting the grocery budget? is this how true devoted doggie mommies/daddies look out for their BC (beloved canine).
the other interpretation is that the company pays so badly that the employees are no better than animals
anyway my work is medium-sized and targets small businesses so we can’t dog food the main product but for the dinky dev-facing stuff I work on I will suggest we improve it by “huffing our own armpit”
If for some reason you get an ending where you choose not to pair up with any of the potential romantic interests, would that make the game the world’s first Volcelvania?
