That Guy Roppo

- Software Developer
-Avid gamer
-Fantasy Football Geek
-F1 Fan

[江川あきら▽AKIRA EGAWA @rev_akira]

“I want my art to bring happiness to people.”
That’s one of the reasons I draw.
I’m so glad I put that wish into this piece.

[Andy Holloway @AndyHolloway]

Why my son hasn’t been able to buy a pack of cards in years.

[Seattle Seahawks @Seahawks]

🚨 BLUE FRIDAY JERSEY GIVEAWAY 🚨

Like & repost to win two throwback 12s jerseys.

Full rules: https://t.co/Gkq29LoXIf | #sweepstakes

[goes @goescore]

eu me recusando a dormir porque não tive tempo suficiente para mim depois do trabalho

[Tolkien Universe @Tolkienuniverse]

I watched all three The Lord of the Rings films in theaters, but I was especially blown away by this scene in The Fellowship of the Ring, when the Fellowship passes the Argonath.

I was honestly mesmerized watching it for the first time, and that was the moment I knew for sure that The Lord of the Rings was going to be the greatest film of all time.

[Matthew Betz @TheFantasyPT]

When the “It’s football time!” from @FFHitman hits tomorrow 🔥

[Selene Mariposa @Selene_Mariposa]

Before the Swifties descend on me, and honestly, are there Swifties on X, or did they all migrate to Instagram and Bluesky, let me say this clearly.

This is not a shot at Taylor.

The woman is a billionaire. She spent an estimated $20 million on a wedding at Madison Square Garden, which sounds insane until you realize it is about 1% of her net worth. That is the equivalent of you or me spending a few hundred bucks on a nice dinner. And then she quietly handed $26 million to food banks on her way out the door. Whatever you think of her music, that is a woman who can afford the party and paid it forward. Good for her. No notes.

My problem is not the billionaire. My problem is the rest of us.

Because somewhere along the way, normal weddings got completely unhinged. The average American wedding now runs around $36,000. Thirty six thousand dollars. For one day. For a lot of couples that is the single biggest check they will ever write before a mortgage, and they write it before they own a single thing.

And I want to gently grab those young couples by the shoulders.

You are not Taylor Swift. That is not an insult. It is a gift.

That same $36,000 is a real down payment on a real house. It is a fully funded emergency account. It is the seed of a college fund for a kid you have not had yet. It is a foundation instead of a photo album.

You can get married at the courthouse and mean every word. You can do a backyard with string lights and your aunt’s potato salad and cry just as hard. You can run to Vegas and laugh about it for fifty years. The marriage is the point. The wedding is just the invoice.

Nobody at your fifteenth anniversary remembers the chair covers. They remember that you built a life.

Spend like the billionaire only if you are the billionaire. The rest of us should throw a beautiful, joyful, sensible party, and put the house money on the house.

That is not being cheap. That is being in love with your future instead of your Instagram.

🦋

[Lau ³³ ✨ @sztappen]

Esse vídeo deveria ter restrição de idade por ser a mais pura pornografia erótica https://t.co/yKzHBILNtj

[That Guy Roppo @RobertRoppo]

@elonmusk Stefanik is a little rat lol

[The Random Recruiter @randomrecruiter]

We're in the weirdest job market of all time.

From 2020 to mid 2022, companies were hiring at a pace that made no sense.

Some teams grew 50%, some doubled. Everyone was afraid of missing out on talent, so they just kept adding headcount. If you could spell the word "javascript" you could land a remote role and a 25% raise.

Then the second half of 2022 hit and the hangover started. Layoff after layoff. Each wave was supposed to be "the last one."

Now in 2026 there are already over 130,000 tech layoffs and we still have another 6 months to go in the year.

The twist this time is AI.

Companies aren't just saying they overhired anymore.

They're saying AI is making them leaner. That they can do more with fewer people. It's become the convenient new reason that sounds strategic while making their stock pop.

But here's where it gets absurd.

More and more companies are admitting the AI math isn't working out. They can't find the ROI they promised their boards. The computing costs are massive. It's more expensive than they thought, not less.

So let me get this straight.

We're in a job market where companies fired their workforce to buy something they now say is too expensive and doesn't work as advertised.

And the executives responsible for those decisions? They're still collecting their bonuses.

Weirdest job market of all time.

[Abhishek Singh @0xlelouch_]

2024 - software engineers are dead.

2025 - AI will replace all coders in 6 months.

2026 - just 6 more months bro, agents are almost there.

2027 - why is production down every Friday because some AI generated retry logic created infinite retries and killed the database?

2028 - hire back the same software engineers for 3x salary to understand the codebase, fix the architecture and remove 40 microservices that nobody asked for.

2029 - “AI is amazing, but we need engineers who understand systems.”

So you see, coding was never the full job.

The real job as a software dev is understanding messy business requirements, making tradeoffs, debugging weird production issues, saying no to bad ideas, designing systems that do not collapse under scale, and taking ownership when things break.

AI will remove a lot of boring coding.

But it will also increase the demand for engineers who can think clearly.

[KackisHD @RickKackis]

I'm sorry,
but if the reaction to Destiny 2 ending,
is that hundreds of thousands of people are devastated,
everyone is sharing their favorite moments,
and saying how much Destiny has impacted their lives,

How the fuck does Sony see that and not make Destiny 3!?

[raspy & depressed @killahBEENbee]

No federally mandated paid parental leave, daycare $2k/month for a newborn, can of milk $60, groceries up 20%, can’t afford a home (space) , and can’t go to college. oh and can’t go to the doctor if unemployed. and you fake ass confused.

[Pedro L. Gonzalez @emeriticus]

Around the 30 second mark Ashley shows a group chat that consists of White House officials and influencers who work together to send out talking points on here, and it includes people like Jack Posobiec. There has never been a faker movement than the new right, just top to bottom artificial and paid for

[Matt Royer @royermattw]

Ashley St. Clair confirmed the WH runs group chats telling these accounts what to post. Within minutes of shots fired tonight, before there was any news of casualties and before the President said this exact talking point, this was the chat in real time.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Stop. Staging. Fake. Assassination. Attempts.

[That Guy Roppo @RobertRoppo]

@tech_girl Except for Netflix uses a ton of Java

[Jake Parker @JakeParkerLIVE]

Hi @asha_shar, love the approach to Game Pass Ultimate and value revisioning. This is a fantastic step forward. Would love to pick your brain real quick.

The Essentials plan is $9.99.
The Premium plan is $14.99.
The Ultimate plan is $22.99.

How can we explore a cost-value analysis to bringing the ultimate plan to $19.99? From a psycho-social approach, consumers steer more heavily towards lower-leading numbers (think $19.99 vs $20.99 where the 2 offputs consumer confidence, even at a $1 difference).

At $19.99, the $3 savings or $36/yr can be reinvested into empowering consumer decision-making on in-game purchases, full game purchases, add-ons, etc. benefiting the Xbox library.

Can the $3 monthly difference still lead to similar or exact rev-gen opportunities? Would love to explore this.

[Heroutz @oheroutz]

Você tem 35 anos e joga esse jogo desde os 23 anos, ou seja, quase 35% da sua vida foi com esse game como principal.

Você gastou dinheiro para apoiar, colocou seu filho, seus irmãos, seus amigos e até seu pai para jogar, presenteou cópias do game para amigos e, ano após ano, pagou por conteúdos cada vez mais desmembrados, o que antes era vendido junto agora é separado.

Viu as melhores skins irem para a loja por preços absurdos, enquanto as atividades mais difíceis te davam as mais feias possíveis. Viu também conteúdo que você pagou sendo retirado, com promessa de retorno que nunca se concretiza e, aos poucos, uma agenda ideológica sendo enfiada goela abaixo, ao ponto de transformarem dois grandes amigos, dois dos personagens mais lendários da lore, em um casal gay meloso e mal escrito.

Mas você se manteve lá, firme e forte, esperando dias melhores que nunca chegaram.

Até que a desenvolvedora anuncia outro jogo e, aos poucos, vai drenando dinheiro do seu game favorito para esse novo game.

O novo jogo não é um sucesso, então você continua esperando a volta do investimento no seu jogo favorito, mas isso não acontece, e você vê o novo game recebendo tudo, enquanto o seu não recebe nada.

Na boa, quem ainda investe dinheiro na Bungie é maluco.

Já quem defende… prefiro não comentar.

“We need to build momentum”
“We're listening”
“we're doing”

(Isso é um resumo de como me sinto)

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

Only one chance in this lifetime…

Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.

I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.