Or if you're building something important, like a spaceship.

Can managers access it without managerial approval?

Even if they could, the purpose of safeguards are still to ask at least for a business reason and be logged, no matter your rank or approval

Make the sprites as good as you can within a reasonable amount of time. Don't stress too much about it. You can always do a second pass later on. And even if you decide to pay a professional artist, your sprites would still be useful as a vehicle for communicating your vision.

Yes! There are many issues hiding in any sprite art that will only become evident when you see it all together. Don't draw a dozen dudes wearing browm boots only to find they clash with the colors you used on a dozen terrain tiles.

Cause there's money to be made.

> The bulk of the comments in here are focused on comparing Larry Ellison to a lawn mower

That's just mean. People need to show some respect to lawn mowers.

Beast of a machine.

Or Brave. Or AdGuard.

Well, he's right in the context of HN audience. But normies are people too, and so are children, and so are 90-year-old grandmas who want to stay in touch with younger family members. If we don't push back against the brainrot, it may very well run our society into the ground.

"Okay grandma, let's get you to bed" moment.

> specieism

Wait, do we not agree that people are inherently more valuable than pigs?

Should we?

Leaving aside pigs being intelligent creatures almost akin to humans for medical purposes, pigs fetch a lot more per kilo than humans do.

I'm not sure there's even much of an open market for human meat.

Unless you mean some nebulous human centic notion of "valuable" that takes no account of the pigs PoV.

A high-quality diamond is worth more than its weight in gold. That does not make the gold worthless.

If so, by how much? 1.5 billion pigs are slaughtered each year, is that too few to matter?

It's so normalized to think of animals as worthless that I don't blame anyone for not having thought about it, but the moral calculus is really easy. Most people wouldn't be comfortable with killing a dog, and yet, every three days, we have two more Holocaust-worths of a smarter animal (namely, pigs).