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    1 year 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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      You must have been in charge when I was built. I’ve still got security issues, memory leaks, and there’s a major known issue where under certain conditions I continue to work but stop providing any feedback or messaging.

      If you could have your team at least address the resource management issue I’d be grateful.

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    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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      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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      I assume the excuse usually is that the prototype was unstable, so they had to ‘tone it down’. But of course, you as the awesome hero man can control it!

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      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 tend tealize 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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    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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    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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    Too bad the term “Alpha” males has gotten such a bad rap from cretins like Andrew Tate.

    The term “Alpha male” refers to men with a mix of being tall, very good looks, charisma, authority, and social popularity. I think we can all agree that men with a high level of those traits are very popular with heterosexual, or have we fallen so far that most people don’t see that?

    To put it more simply, all the men on Lemmy combined will not have as many women lusting for them as Jason Momoa or one of those Kpop dudes. Don’t call it Alpha Male if you want, because the term has been tarnished by hucketers. But we all know the type of man that has zero trouble attracting women.

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      Why do you contextualize men with those traits as “alpha” though? Can’t they just be guys with those traits?

      What is the social utility of dividing men up like that? Is it like an omegaverse thing for guys or what?

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        We need to use another word besides Alpha. The division that the word “alpha” is associated with is the division between men who are desired by women and men who are not. If you’re using the controversial word “alpha” that is what you are talking about. It’s like classifying the rich vs the poor. Lemmy users don’t want to accept this but most heterosexual men want to be the former in either case, no one wants to be the latter.

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