super_mario_420 [he/him, comrade/them]

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Cake day: November 21st, 2024

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  • Our house is rather old. We’ve been kind of into old houses and period-appropriate interior decoration lately, and would like our own house to feel more “authentic”, but unfortunately the previous owner was a divorced middle-aged white lady, so everything is mid grey and all the walls are covered in plain white drywall. So we’ve been peeking under the laminate floors and trying to find out what’s behind the drywall and such. Well guess fucking what, the original wood floor planks are still preserved under the laminate in the kitchen. What the FUCK dude!!! Why would you cover that in the most aesthetically unoffensive mid-ass plain laminate bullshit in the universe??? I can’t wait to rip that shit out.

    Anyway, relating to that: I’ve been wanting to get a more appropriate dinner table for our kitchen, since our current one is kind of too big, too modern, and doesn’t really fit into the general vibe of the place. My aunt had an old ass table that’s been in the family for as long as anyone can remember that she wanted to get rid of, so I took it. It was really kind of fucked up from the elements, but still salvageable, so my woodworker friend and I have been trying to restore it and it’s turning out so FUCKING good. We’re using more-or-less traditional methods and period-appropriate oils and paints and everything. There was even a rumour that the table was made by my great-great-grandfather in the late 1800’s, but we didn’t really have any solid proof, and I didn’t really believe it myself, figured it was just marketing talk by my aunt to get me to take that ugly busted POS off her hands. Until we found my great-great-grandpa’s real actual got damn signature etched into the wood under like six layers of paint!!! That’s so fucking insane. I should quit my job and just start restoring old furniture instead. This shit is so cash money dude. I can’t believe it.












  • Sure, I’m having a good time with it. It’s still on sale for 20-something € on steam (or you can just pirate it and it’s on sale for 0€, wow!!)

    I’ve only been playing in the free-build sandbox edit mode (Sandbox mode on the main menu and then Edit property instead of Play when you load a save, you have infinite everything and can noclip). I bought the game just for the free-build mode in the first place. I don’t think they even had that in the first game. I haven’t actually played the “real” game/campaign yet, where I guess you kind of earn cash money by cleaning and fixing up existing houses? idk, that just sounds like work.

    Some observations I’ve had so far:

    • Performance seems good. It’s not very demanding on low settings, but can get pretty heavy if you turn on global illumination and stuff.
    • The controls for moving stuff around can be a bit cumbersome. No keybind for swapping back and forth between move and rotate and toggling snap to grid so you have to click the buttons every god damn time.
    • The selection of furniture isn’t exactly enormous. Still good enough to get the general vibe right most of the time, but sometimes you have to stack two identical closets on top of each other and clip them together a bit to get the right height and stuff like that. There’s an object called “Cube” that you can scale and rotate and paint however you want to kind of manually make stuff, I’ve used it a lot to make e.g. legs for a floor cabinet to give it some height and to make handrails for my staircases because there weren’t any suitable ones in the game.
    • It doesn’t support any custom content like furniture and wallpaper yet, only custom pictures. Weird, since the first game had it. Apparently this is on the developers’ roadmap for 2 as well.



  • Finland news: Business lobby proposes cutting public holidays to fund defence spending

    The bougies want to make the public holidays of Ephiphany day and Ascension day always be on a weekend, in order to leech more capital from the working class under the convenient guise of paying for NATO’s defence demands. EK, the main finance ghoul lobby in finland, has also been pushing for fewer public holidays for ages, but literally no one has supported it. Now they finally have a crisis to exploit. Personally I think this is likely to go through with little resistance, because, you know, the russians. The unions and the left party might release a strongly worded letter or two, but likely do nothing about it, since they broadly support NATO’s extortion.

    For context, Epiphany and Ascension can fall on a weekday (which is obviously based), for example this year epiphany fell on a monday (3 day weekend lfg) and ascension on a thursday (take friday off = 4 day weekend lfg). Idk and idgaf what the original meaning of the holiday is, a free day is a free day.

    How do you say finland in maoist standard english btw? I can’t figure it out.





  • My partner has been pouring their heart and soul into their company and work for the past 5 years, and it’s been going well enough for them to live comfortably off until now. It’s come to the point where AI has completely fucked the entire industry for the forseeable future. Their main client, which I assume is a pretty large company, recently announced that they will go full AI for this particular kind of work, and their subcontractors (i.e. my partner) will from now on work mainly as glorified post-editors for their AI’s excrement, of course for a fraction of their previous pay. I’m assuming they’re trying to smoke out all the humans from their workforce to pump up the next quarter’s results, and I’m fairly confident that it will bite them in the ass within a few years tops. But a few years is still a long ass time to work for peanuts with dubious job security…

    Economically it’s not even that big of a problem for us, we can manage fine on my salary alone, but the worst part is that my partner is super depressed and exhausted over all of this shit. It’s gotta be pretty god damn rough to have to walk away from something you’ve been working hard at for so long because it’s turned into a complete dead end by corporate bullshit. But the fact of the matter is that the pay is just too fucking ass. Yeah yeah follow your passion and all that, but this shit is simply unsustainable. They’re working longer hours than I do for like a third of my monthly salary at this point. “Just getting another job” isn’t exactly a realistic option either given the current job market. I guess the best idea is to wait out the AI bubble and get back into it once the piggies realise that humans are kinda alright for this kind of creative work after all. What a bullshit situation, fuck AI and every dumbass idiot C-whatever-O that buys into the hype.