9mo ago

Luigi Mangione fixed 25% of the UI bugs in Civ VI

https://www.newsweek.com/luigi-mangione-civ-vi-resume-1998403

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he's been working on fixing civilization all along
- oddly poetic
- He has experience in troubleshooting
  
  👏
  
  He has great discipline and self motivation, he never misses a target

So "Fix Civ Bugs" is new code for "Eat the rich" and it's not even doublespeak.
Civilization has these bugs where some people can get ultra wealthy and ruin it for everyone. As Devs, we need to fix that.
Taking bets on how long before discussing fixing Civ bugs gets you banned on r*ddit
- Trouble-shooting
  
  😂
- It's a shame those weren't caught in QA and are now in production. Hard to ship a patch for so many platforms!
  
  I promise you they probably were caught in QA. Game companies set a date and ship when that date hits, not when the bugs are all closed.

Bro was fixing civ before he decided to try to fix civ manually 😛
- Before he "allegedly" tried to fix Civ. I'm still not convinced that he isn't a convenient patsy.
  
  I honestly don’t get this point of view.
  Then we have to assume the government are happy for the real killer to go free. Then what happens when he kills another CEO and says to you got the wrong man.

Man knows how to remove a bug
- No need to remove, just appoint the intern as scrum master and have them close bugs wontfix.
  
  He meant he removed a bug when he killed that insurance guy asshole.

Saving Civilization, one bug at a time.

… I legit know folks at firaxis, I didn’t know this.
I’m gonna ask if it’s true lmaoo
- It says he worked an an intern and it was several years ago. I know the meme is fun, but I highly doubt that if he were not under arrest that he'd have been working on Civ 7 UI.
  
  But that's the problem. He fixed the bugs in VI but wasn't around for VII
- I know it's only been 20 minutes, but any answers?
  
  So far I’ve gotten a eye roll emoji in response lol
  
  I updated the comment with an answer
- I hope it is! I really hope it is.

Remember then the media was calling him a Techbro instead of a tech worker? Yeah, he was never a Techbro.
- Maybe I misunderstand the context of the term but I never viewed them as mutually exclusive. There are toxic "bro" type devs who are still actually good devs (doesn't excuse being an ass though). I never viewed it as meaning someone who doesn't code "for real" but maybe I'm misusing it.
  
  For me, "Techbro" exclusively refers to people who repackage existing ideas and sell them as an innovation to VC investors. Think of how many techbros keep reinventing trains and boats, but worse.
  
  I've always seen it as meaning the type of douche who would pitch anything to YC
  
  tech bros are people like musk, zuckerberg, a little bezos, altman,,,etc. same goes for cryptobros, people that peddle the actual crypto, but are very bad at it or they arnt even investing in it themselves. i know someone who was peddling obscure one as actual success.
  gates, and Jobs is another.

He's like a real life, "most interesting man in the world".
- He also filmed hours of professional quality porn of himself (with partners).
  
  I mean, dude clearly had a unique mind. Not necessarily smart or dumb, but something that made him tick also led him to commit (one of) the most popular acts of murder in American history.
  
  ..s...source

Elon Musk the fat roller pays people to get him high scores in games for clout.
Luigi Mangioni fixes 25% of ~~all ~~ UI bugs in Civilization 6.
The difference couldn’t be clearer.
- 25% of UI bugs

Everyday more info comes out about him the more likeable he becomes.
- He was just an ordinary dude pushed to the extreme.
  
  allegedly

Reality is just taking the piss now isn't it.

Free Luigi
- https://freeciv.org/

How does he jus keep getting better and more lovable?! He's basically Nouveaux Jesus at this point

He has that results-oriented mindset

a true patriot would organize a team to break this guy out of jail.
- The best outcome of this situation is jury nullification. If the jury nullifies, we'll have proven the law does not prosecute heroic deeds of this caliber. It would be the biggest blow to capitalism in generations.
  
  "he who saves his country has committed no crimes"
  i threw up in my mouth a bit quoting trump, but throwing their words back at them is always satisfying.
  
  i love that too, but they will be anticipating jury nullification, and they have stopped people from doing it before.
  i just don't trust anything abut the american justice system any more.
  
  I have been shouting this from the rooftops since I heard what happened. So many people think you have to punish someone if they are proven guilty... not true in the USA. The jury can decide he is not guilty for whatever reason they want. They can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that he did it and the jury can still let him go. So many people don't know this.
  Also a great way to get out of jury duty is to mention this during the selection process, they will boot you 100% of the time if you know this.
  
  He could get acquitted due to the nature of his arrest
  
  There is no such thing as jury nullification as a court decision though. Jury nullification is the Jury agreeing that they didn't see nothing. If they say he did it but they aren't convicting that may very well be grounds for a mistrial. I suspect that the prosecution will argue that it was a mistrial regardless of whether the Jury nullifies or genuinely is unconvinced beyond a reasonable doubt.

No one fixes bugs and problems like Luigi 🤭
- A troubleshooter, some would say.

Better free him so he can fix the UI in Civ7

This actually makes an incredible amount of sense. Anyone who has played any of the Civs for long enough knows that taking out the right unit at the right time can change the entire face of the map. Imagine having that kind of tactical gameplay drilled into your head every day for 8-10 hours a day as a developer.
At some point, the lines between the game, the job, and real life must have become blurred. Civ is a virtual abstraction of real life. The healthcare industry is a bureaucratic one, twisted from being a service that cares for people to one that only keeps you alive as long as you can pay.
The goal in every video game is to kill the boss. The sad fallacy of this approach to political action is that there's always another boss waiting in line to take his place, and the machinery of evil barely blinks an eye at the average murderous vigilante. If Luigi hadn't have been caught, and just disappeared into the night, we wouldn't be talking about him now - the murder would have faded from our awareness with the news cycle's constant obsession over Trump.
Instead, the police did the worst thing they could have done.
They caught him.
And this meant that the faceless masked murderer became a cute rich Italian guy who had a fire in his eyes and the name of one of the most beloved video game characters of all time. By dragging him out in chains in a performative perp-walk, the cops were demonstrating their loyalty to the oligarchy who run the country (and the Healthcare chuds are a big part of that machine), and at the same time, managed to make him into a living martyr.
Because everyone, everywhere, who has ever played a Super Mario Brothers game in their life, has been Luigi at one time or another.
Now there's no chance at even a semblance of a fair trial, and they've guaranteed that the mere mention of his name will draw eyeballs and has the potential to start a riot, or inspire more gunmen.
All because of video games....
Guess they weren't a waste of time after all, Mom....
- Cute theory but Luigi wasn't the shooter
  
  Yeah, he was having some beers with me in Baltimore when it happened!
  
  He's the nicest guy around.
- they also botched his arrest.

The man just could not stop solving problems.

From the Newsweek article:
Civilization VI, or 'Civ IV,'
Sophie! Don't you know your Roman Numerals?
- CIV IV = 104 04

Civ 7’s UI is trash in comparison
- Is it too minimalistic?
  
  It’s designed for console and touch screen players in mind first, PC second. I hate mobile style video game UI.

Well now I might actually buy 6
- its good.

This was one of my favorite fun facts about the guy, especially since I've got family in the industry. Bros relatable.

His colleagues say he was a talented coder

Truly a God among men

They need to keep gamers, women, healthcare users and people without an innate sense of justice out of that jury to secure conviction.
- they will be looking for Boomers,r etirees, rich people. more than likely they will choose pushovers more than anything.

But Civ5 already had universal healtcare.
https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Universal_Healthcare_(Civ5)

Guess he's slipping. He didn't even solve 1% of the healthcare bugs.
- If the Government had let him cook I believe he'd have gotten to 25% too

So, Firaxis offer shitty medical cover?
- He was an intern at Firaxis during college. He spent the past four years working for Truecar.
  
  Well, put their name on the map

is it actually the same guy or same name?
- Well, the post includes a link to the Newsweek article. So, it's him.
  
  thanks

Truly a savior to us all

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