"Among Democrats, Black (38%) and Hispanic (39%) adults are more likely than White adults (32%) to say spending on police in their area should be increased. There is no significant difference across these racial and ethnic groups in the share of adults who say spending should be decreased" (https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/10/26/growing-s...)
Couldn't agree more. People seem to want to see this project fail for some reason. They're all going to be in for a kick to the gut when it finally releases, because CIG is one of the few game studios actually pushing the boundaries of what's possible in gaming. o7
This project dropped at the perfect time for what I'm building at work. Simplifies so much of what we were trying to home roll on our own. A side note: it's interesting that they're utilizing ChatGPT to provide a code generator. As someone who's spent years writing Ruby on Rails apps, this reminds me a lot of its scaffold generators. I wonder if this will be come the new norm with OSS projects moving forward?
Something that needs to be pointed out here is the fact that nearly all of CIG's resources are allocated to finishing their single player game, Squadron 42: Episode 1, and a veritable skeleton crew is working on the Persistent Universe (the MMO). Considering this, and the fact that most of the work done on Squadron should directly translate over to the PU, a lot of the skepticism over how fast development is going is misplaced. At least... I hope so.
What you're saying effectively boils down to "being rich is better than being poor". Risk is still risk, and it has a market value, whether or not you want to acknowledge it.
If I invest my life savings into founding a startup and it fails, I lose my life savings. The engineer I hired to help build the company loses nothing.
In the vast majority of cases, the startup will not succeed, and the investor will lose their investment, while the founder will make $100,000 less than the engineer and lose credibility as a founder in the process. The engineer loses nothing other than the potential future income they might have received if the company had succeeded, and they will likely just find another job.
People often forget to factor in the value of risk. The reason engineers who join startups rather than found them make a fraction of what the founders make is because they didn't take on the initial risk of starting the company, which they are of course free to do anytime they like by starting their own company.
There's a lot of different strategies you can employ when you hit a plateau. Try de-loading (e.g. 10% less weight) and working back up to the weight you plateaued at. Try adding drop sets after your main sets. Try implementing a periodization program. It could be related to your diet; perhaps you're not eating enough. It could be related to your sleep; perhaps you're not sleeping enough. It could be a result of supporting muscles that are lagging behind the main muscle utilized for a given lift, so do some research into supplemental exercises that could shore up those supporting muscles. Good luck!
While this is better than not working out at all, the only way you're going to get your muscles to grow is by progressively overloading consistently over time, and if you have too many sessions where you aren't pushing more weight or doing more volume than the previous session, you'll be leaving a lot of gains on the table.
I would argue the complexity is in finding the simplicity. It's very easy to get overwhelmed with all the contradictory advice and information out there and become paralyzed by the fear that you may be dumping months or even years of effort into a sub-optimal plan. You're not wrong about the answer actually being very simple, but it's important not to trivialize the difficulty in arriving at that conclusion for a lot of people (myself included).