Mostly kind chonky weirdo. Gentle nerd freak of the pacific north west. All nation states are vermin.
I read an article years ago, maybe like a decade ago, of some game industry person saying it was a cycle:
Incredible new graphics come out and people will buy the shiny regardless of anything else, then slowly they have to start making actually good games with those graphics to sell, then incredible new graphics come out and you don’t need to bother with story for a while.
the operation is highly organised, technically savvy
Of course an operation this sophisticated targets people looking to buying luxury brands for cheap, that sounds like an ideal mark.
I personally believe that preserving a false and misleading picture of reality designed to trumpet a deranged cult that is working to make the world objectively worse for everyone including themselves is not acceptable.
I would say, “Look mum I love you more than anything in the world but preserving some of these movies crosses an ethical line for me.”
Of course I grew up in a house of atheist jewish academics, so making and justifying personal ethical stances that contravene wider group stances is expected behavior in my family. And we take document preservation fairly seriously.
“Because” often doesn’t make sense in the real world where anything that happens is the sum total of multiple factors. Especially a trend as broad as enshitification.
Being publicly traded seems like a contributing factor, but a sole owner can still enshitify through greed or incompetence.
I would guess that market consolidation and low competition are more of a factor.
This article:
won’t sacrifice lore
Also this article:
“Throwing the Dune encyclopedia out – with the blessing from the Herbert estate – appears to have been a necessity, rather than something ego-driven.”
What?
one of the better monetization schemes out there.
Let’s not let minor arguments about which is the lesser evil disguise the fact that they are all still evil.
I’m sure he did make games worse, but he also covered up for rapists and threatened to kill employees which seems maybe more headline worthy to me.
except the mouse has effectively infinite lives.
Thats basically how rodent ecology works, already, isn’t it? Being an r strategy reproducer is pretty much just speccing into unlimited respawns.
A rich right wing lunatic (but I repeat myself) in Australia had a 45m ad for his vanity political campaign. A friend of mine sent a screenshot.
It’s obviously insider trader but laws are for the poors.
you can skip the “we exist” and “look here to find us” parts of the pitch and spend time and effort on the community itself instead.
Thank you for stating that so clearly!
Plus there are plenty of subs that strongly benefit from the population size or promence of reddit - very niche interests, smaller city or town subs, etc.
And there are some subs where the archive of past material is a huge drawcard - for example AskHistorians which is almost certainly the best single reason for reddit existing and the best modded sub I know of.
I was just having a discussion with my family about recent union wins in the US, and when something good is a sign of how bad things must be. I suggested that there must be a german word for it, and my sister suggested maybe a chinese saying.
If you like the category of ‘things that sound like german has a word for it’, look into the 4-character chinese sayings called chengyu. One of my favourites is ‘Melon Patch, Under Plum’, meaning something that is completely innocent but should be avoided because it looks really sketchy. Don’t tie your shoes in a melon patch or fix your hat under a plum tree.