Posts made by Roz

I played on an X-Men movieverse game where the PCs were secret government agents all working at a front company and we'd lampshade it by having the townies occasionally comment on how attractive all the company's employees were.

all my characters are hot, idgiaf

@selira said in Final Fantasy:

i'm down with discussing other FF's too.

except that eight is trash. i will not be taking questions.

get the FUCK out of here 8 is fucking amazing

@crawfish THIS. IS. THE. BEST.

@testament said in Forum wonk:

ETA: This has sat in the back of my mind for the past month and it's eaten at me. I want to apologize for the loss of the forum causing some anxiety for others. I will take accountability on that end.

That is absolutely not something you are responsible or accountable for.

@ganymede I have more time than you and probably at least a slightly higher technical proficiency so I will absolutely at least attempt stuff before you end up having to just start totally fresh without any history. And I have people who I can probably at least convince to help offer guidance if I get stuck. If I cry at them.

@ganymede said in The Work Thread:

@roz

Some people don’t want to take vacations. Or some people like the idea of working on their own time and at their own pace while on vacation.

That's not a healthy way for people to engage with their workplace.

When I had vacation time, I felt compelled to take it.

That is a good thing.

So rezzing this thread for OBVIOUS REASONS.

I am feeling a bit anxious to put my money where my mouth is to help where I can. I am somewhat technically-inclined, but I am not a fully experienced server administrator, dev, coder, what have you. I can hesitantly and anxiously work my way through clear instructions, but I can tell you that trying to set up something like the Arxcode Evennia was a Trial for me (and then I never did quite get it working).

From going over this thread again, it sounds like the various proposed solutions (or attempted solutions) were:

1. Stay on NodeBB and migrate the database from Redis to MongoDB. This would either require someone writing a custom migration solution or paying NodeBB to do it for us. When Ark mentioned this, he dropped a dollar tag of $500. (FWIW, I am assuming that was the cost for NodeBB's team doing it, but I could be wrong there.) This MIGHT fix the memory leak issue, but we don't actually no for sure. There may be something else about our setup causing issues.
2. Stay on NodeBB but expand the RAM of our hosting plan (if that's the right term for it). This won't fix the memory issue but make it less prevalent. However, it could also reach the point where we're just in the same boat as time goes on. This also has a price tag, and I get the impression that it's not felt to be super efficient. (That is, we're making use of all the RAM, but practically none of the CPU, etc.)
3. Try to migrate to a platform like Discourse which has tools for migrating from NodeBB so as to not lose our board history.
4. Just start entirely fresh on a different platform and keep the current NodeBB setup live for a given period of time in read-only form.
5. Move the database from the current Linode VM to the local machine of a member. I assume this would be paired with keeping the current NodeBB+Redis setup.
6. There was a mention at one point wondering if moving to Digital Ocean would be of any help, I think mostly because they have a Discourse-specific droplet setup that should be pretty simple, so that is in the mix somewhere.

Please correct me if I've gotten any of those wrong.

Here are my thoughts, for what they are worth. I am not a mod here, I am just a frequent poster with very strong opinions about everything in the world.

• I think people would absolutely come to regret losing the board history. I know I would. Yes, we would of course all make do without it if it was necessary, but it seems preferable to explore other options before that.
• I am a rare person on MSB who likes NodeBB's style/design, but I would not be heartbroken if it was best for the board to move platforms.
• I absolutely think there are enough people who would pitch in funds that would pay for the migration cost of the first option.
• The idea of moving stuff to one person's local machine makes me weirdly nervous. It feels like a certain loss of control? Unless there's an issue with not having the funds to support a professional hosting solution, which I don't think there are, it seems like a step that could potentially bring its own problems that we don't have right now.

I think 1 or 3 are the most ideal solutions amid all of it. I don't know if there would be any cost savings in moving to Digital Ocean in conjunction with 3, or if it would help reduce the technical lift post-migration since it has that Discourse-specific droplet option. I imagine other folks would have more insight there. I would be absolutely willing to organize a GoFundMe for #1, and/or contribute to one someone else set up. I would also be willing to try and help with #3 with the caveats that I gave up top. I know there was at least a person or two in the thread who indicated that they have experience with database migration stuff and willingness to help.

@derp It's a nice thought, but haven't studies shown that giving people unlimited vacation actually ends up with them taking less vacation than they would otherwise?

@ganymede said in The Work Thread:

@sunny said in The Work Thread:

Rewarding people for not using sick leave encourages them to come in sick.

It does not appear that I communicated my idea, so I'll be blunt.

Awarding sick leave encourages people to come in sick.

I mean, think about it. It is a benefit you get for showing up to work. Any benefit for showing up to work incentivizes coming in to work. And while I realize that it is cruel (and arguably unconstitutional in a public setting) to make a person pick coming to work or losing an earned benefit, the entire system could be obviated by not awarding sick leave at all.

Bear with me.

It is far more equitable to make employees salaried without accrued leave. We live in at an age where going to the workplace is getting obsolete. You can use technology to simulate a workplace meeting room, for example. And production is a matter of results, rather than process, in a virtual economy.

So, get rid of sick leave and PTO for employees you want to keep. Put them on a salary and give them benchmarks for performance. Get rid of the workplace attendance and focus on the results. And for those jobs where showing up is half the battle, make up the holes with part-time independent contractors or make sure you have coverage overlap on your roster (like sports teams do).

I'm not following the logic here. I gain the benefit of my sick leave by utilizing my sick leave. Not by going to work.

@silverfox said in The Work Thread:

Yeah - I don't know what the difference between sick leave and PTO are.

These are different things?!

Depends on the employer, some split them into two different buckets, other put them all into one.

@silverfox said in The Work Thread:

I just learned there are some districts where if a teacher uses more than their allocated days they have to "pay" for their own sub. Either the full daily sub rate, or at least half of it.

@silverfox I think it's very correct to be rubbed the wrong way by policies that penalize taking PTO. It may be framed as a BONUS for NOT taking PTO, but just reverse that: it penalizes taking more PTO. This especially stands out to me that everyone is already losing a day to a communal bank of extra time, instead of the employer in the situation just being decent about extenuating life circumstances.

I'm at a company now where my boss strongly encourages to take the PTO we have available to us, stressing that it's part of our overall compensation. That's, IMO, the healthiest way it should be treated. As something you're expected to take.

tagalongs because they are the best

@too-old-for-this said in General Video Game Thread:

@testament said in General Video Game Thread:

Makes me wonder with buying Activision if Microsoft is going to run afoul of anti-trust laws because this could be considered an monopoly.

Nah, there's too many other developers still out there.

There's a lot of developers, but I imagine it's still going to come under a great deal of scrutiny (which several journalistic outlets have called out) due to the huge size of the purchase, which is generally going to indicate a large market share. Not saying that it'll cause the entire deal to fall through, but I think there's going to be a lot of talking and investigation before it's all said and done.

I'll certainly be happy if Kotick is indeed ousted, and if having new oversight forces them to do more to address the huge array of cultural issues and abuses. But, in general, I don't think consolidations of this huge size are often good for industries.

What the hell, man. Gaspard Ulliel dies in a skiing accident.

We'll see if they get through antitrust examinations.

@kestrel So just yesterday I realized that, when I was 21, I had made a character who I felt was a bit "older." He was grouchy, lived-in, etc. I couldn't remember how old he was when I first apped him, so I went to check.

He was 36.

Two years older than I am now.

I wanted to die. I have literally never felt so old.

@derp said in The Work Thread:

@roz said in The Work Thread:

A colleague on my team mentioned at our weekly team meeting yesterday that she had to go to a meeting at 8:30am

scheduled by an Account Director

to talk about the concern he had heard

that he’s calling too many meetings.

I would set that AD on fire.

Luckily neither I nor my current boss roll in until almost 10am so.

(This is an exaggeration, I am usually there by 8:30, but only because I have actual stuff to do.)

lol yeah my boss's immediate reaction was "tell me what account and what AD."

A colleague on my team mentioned at our weekly team meeting yesterday that she had to go to a meeting at 8:30am

scheduled by an Account Director

to talk about the concern he had heard

that he’s calling too many meetings.

@arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:

Spider-Man: No Way Home was excellent.

I'd put it second only to Endgame, and even that just because the latter was the cultivation of and payoff to multiple movies and character arcs.

man, endgame made me so mad, i hope it's way better than that