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  • As a project manager (well sort of, but did IT projects for a while, have multiple friends in the gaming manager): Yes and no.

    From my point of view: The problem isn’t the fact that games are art. While games have their creative side they also require good “brick and mortar work” in the back - as many games as went horribly wrong due to a lack of space for creativity went wrong due to a lack of “less than glamorous” brick and mortar work and overcreativity. (Most drastic example would be the reddit dragon MMO story)

    This is actually a reason why people who are very invested in the subject matter of the project they manage often are horrible project managers - and vice versa people who have no clue can’t be good PMs either.

    Project management has one core component: Knowing when to ask whom. A good PM knows that the dev(or dev team lead) will always know better how long “feature X” will take. Of course I can try to learn how to do things… but that wouldn’t help much as the exact dev or team will still have their individual speeds. But a good PM also will know when to ask someone else who is nore knowledgeable for advice or to confirm things. (I literally had an Dev trying to tell me a small feature would take two weeks. Fair enough. But interestingly enough two other Devs were fairly sure it takes 30min including documentation. Which sounded way more reasonable. Turned out said Dev always tried to pull these stunts with new PMs and his lead being on vacation)

    A good PM will also know when to give people space for creativity - and defend this room towards the budget.

    Sadly - and this is a problem existing on all sides around PM- in the end it all boils down to a simple thing: Everyone thinks they know better. The PM thinks they know the job of being a Dev(or engineer,etc. etc.) better than the actual people doing the job. And vice versa the Devs think they could do without PMs (they can’t for larger projects it’s impossible, for mid size projects often really inefficient) or know their job better.

    Such is life.




  • Kleiner Tipp: Ganz viel kann man mittlerweile mit geeigneten technischen Filamenten selber 3D Drucken. Ist Aufwand und natürlich auch nicht kostenlos (obwohl mittlerweile dafür geeignete 3D Drucker ohne viel Eigenleistung bei 350€ anfangen statt wie bis vor einem Jahr bei 1000€) - aber viele Makerspaces unr Reparaturcafes sind mittlerweile echt krass ausgestattet und notfalls gibt es auch div. Druckdienstleister. Mit etwas mehr Aufwand sind auch Metallstücke (entweder als Formguss oder Grünguss - schickt man jeweils ein) Mittlerweile gibt es aber zu manchen “häufigen” Geräten und defekten oft auch 3D Modelle online zu finden die man ggf. direkt beim Dienstleister bestellen kann.

    Ich drucke und konstruiere selber&hab z.B. so Ersatzteile für eine Kreissäge aus den 70ern, Dichtungsringe für einen Oldtimer und einen Griff für ein Haushaltsgerät herstellen können. Alle halten bis heute - der Oldtimer ist wohl gerade irgendwo in der portugiesischen Atlantikküste unterwegs. (Zugegebenermaßen hat der besagte Kumpel gleich einen ganzen Satz an Ersatzdichtungen mit bekommen)

    Reißt natürlich alles nix, wenn die Dinger so gefertigt sind,dass man nix tauschen kann(Stichwort “alles verklebt”) aber zu mindestens ist “man kriegt keine Teile” weniger ein Problem als viele Menschen denken.


  • Da muss ich tatsächlich mal meine Props an Bosch-Siemens aussprechen: Meine eine Waschmaschine ist Asbach uralt(15 Jahre) und wurde in Australien gekauft - das Modell gibt es auch nur auf dem Ozeanien/Südostasienmarkt. (Fragt nicht,im Seecontainer war halt noch Platz beim Umzug)

    Mittlerweile ist zwei Mal eine Kleinigkeit kaputt gegangen. Einmal leider tatsächlich so,dass das Mainboard kaputt war am Ende, einmal ein Plastikteil. Beide Male war der Werkskundendienst mit den (nicht mit den europäischen Modellen kompatibelen,ich hab nachgeschaut) Teilen ausgestattet als er hier aufschlug. Fand ich schon krass.

    ABER: Bei den ganz normalen deutschen Geräten (Trockner und WaMa) trotz deutlich geringerer Laufzeit(5J.) div. Kleindefekte gehabt. Argh.




  • Just saying: Her car wrack story has been proven as bogus/phony. But it sounded like a cry for help/attention.

    That doesn’t rule out,that someone wanted her death - but neither does it rule out suicide.

    And sadly victims of the unspeakable abuses she endured often suffer for the rest of their lives with mental health issues. Very bad mental health issues. And as someone who has suffered from them right where she lives I can testify that mental health care in WA sucks ass. Even if you are in a much more privileged position than she was - as a healthcare professional I had much better options than most.

    Either way it’s a fucking sad story. No matter how you turn it she might have never had a chance. Either to the outside forces or to her inner daemons.


  • In the end it’s an education problem:

    The easier solution is training your own doctors - there are numerous studies that it is possible to increase student numbers in medschools if far more government support would be provided. Make medschool cheaper and easier to join, set up corresponding specialist training based on the need of the population and offer huge incentives (up to “free medschool rides”) for the ones that sign a contract to work in a bulk billing capacity for X years in a needy region after they finish training. Maybe even attach visa offers to this.

    That takes time,but it is far more helpful and sustainable in the long term.