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10·8 days agoSony’s white-knuckle grip on their platform is an exciting hint of things to come.
They’ve been cosplaying the PS2 era since about 2005. That’s when it became evident to everyone that games can just exist, and be for every platform, so long as the studio has a bit more money and time. Previously your game was for one gizmo, and you might hire some third party to follow up and coerce it onto another gizmo. Nowadays everything’s a computer and all computers work basically the same way. There’s details. There’s exceptions. But anything that doesn’t work the normal way becomes irrelevant.
This nonsense is the only thing Sony can do to pretend Playstation is anything more than a brand name. Microsoft has stopped pretending and it’s weirding people out. Nintendo had a unique feature for their gizmo, as they do, but now they’re competing with Valve - on hardware - and their follow-up is probably a merely numeric upgrade.
There are no platforms anymore. To consumers, there is nothing but software and obstacles.
3·9 days agoDon’t worry, he doesn’t actually give a shit about building anything.
2·9 days agoAn artist I followed fell off the internet and it made me a data hoarder.
In the AOL era.
51·13 days agoThe Nazi’s didn’t believe in killing everything and everyone, only those that opposed them
Hey maybe let’s don’t downplay how many groups got sent to death camps just for existing, yeah?
My first admin finger-wag in fifteen years on reddit was after a long conversation with some antivax loon. I understand how “Okay, enjoy your dead kids, I guess” could sound like I’m the bad guy, in a vacuum. But we don’t live in a vacuum. Any site unwilling to acknowledge that ‘hey uh your mistakes might end a human life’ can be expressed glibly is not being moderated sensibly.
I used old.reddit.com exclusively, so the app thing never affected me personally. But when the admins started extorting those devs, and lying about it… I started looking for the exits. The day I wrote it off entirely was when they casually announced they’d reject and ignore the site-wide protest of moderators who do all their work, for free.
You can’t own a community.
You can enable them… or you can abuse them. Reddit chose abuse. The enshittification had been undeniable since 2016, when fascists choked the front page, and the admin response was ‘everybody play nice.’
The company doesn’t make anything. The site is an empty box. Every worthwhile conversation on some arcane niche, every thread pruned of idiot bastards, is something users made. It’s not even like Facebook or Youtube, where a significant chunk of (eugh) “content” is profit-driven. A forum is just people talking.
Moral disgust aside, I immediately knew - the quality was fucked. Posts would keep happening. Comments would abound. But the only reason Reddit worked was that voting filters the best stuff toward the top. The same filter does not work on crap mixed with crap. That’s all there’s going to be. Bots and fascists yapping at one another in approved tones of voice. r/Funny with five hundred names.
Dumb bastards tried to sell a recipe for stone soup.
“I’ll ask Jeeves.”
“Phil Hartman guest stars in…”
“What format is that floppy?”
“I bought a Beanie Baby price book.”
Sony’s been fucked since 2005. The console war is over and nobody told them. Developers want to sell games to customers - and platforms are an obstacle.
Nintendo doesn’t care because they want “blue ocean” gimmicks with no competition. So: motion, tablet, handheld. Microsoft actively encourages the shift because they expect they’ll be The Only Platform, despite Steam selling so many Windows games that Windows is optional. Meanwhile - Sony has clung to exclusives because that’s what made the PSX and PS2 super duper successful and they do not have a Plan B.
They keep winning each generation, as if the blue AMD laptop is meaningfully different from the green one. The libraries are 90% identical. They keep having “no games” in the sense they have no games to lord over the other kids on the playground, when their core demographic is 30. This is how disruption always works: fantastic margins on dwindling control. Whatever you have is more profitable than what you don’t! Until suddenly you have nothing.
The economic case for bribing studios into a single platform is doomed. Has been ever since GTA 3. Really, ever since RenderWare made a generation of PC / PS2 / Xbox / GameCube titles look identical, until EA bought that company and destroyed them. Now every machine is powerful enough, to the point the last-gen PS4 is still relevant alongside the endgame PS5 Pro. Crossplay is the default, because fuck you, of course everyone who bought the same game can play each other. The writing is so clearly on the wall that Microsoft may not bother with another proper Xbox. Does anything think that’s because they’re losing money? Even the studios they delete are profitable. They are fucking around on a level above the 1990s cosplay that Sony desperately wants to maintain.
Things I have been permanently banned for:
- Saying dragons aren’t real
- Referencing The Bee Movie
- Pointing out Kamala Harris was not the president
- Upvoting a comment
Admins and moderators of all stripes: you should be handing out three-day bans like candy. You can give people a month-long fuck-off time-out, and in the future, they will think twice. Even if it takes a few whacks. But all a one-step permanent ban does is chase people to new accounts. That’s why outright trolls do it - it’s not hard, and you don’t seem great at catching them. The experience for people who are merely wrong has to be better than for people who are actively malicious, or you will cease to see any difference between their behavior.
This sounds like how you get cops managed higher up the hierarchy - which tends to help cops pretend they’re occupying soldiers.
the city and Sheriff’s Office have gotten into dramatic legal and political battle over the Sheriff’s Office’s refusal to enforce a camping ban.
As the kids say, rare sheriff’s office W.
“Controversial” universally seems to mean “the worst sort of bullshit imaginable, but let’s be polite for some reason.”
This is theft.
The entire concept is theft. They just take shit… and go fuck yourself. I’m aware of the excuses and they don’t matter because they are plainly just excuses. Inanimate objects can’t be plaintiffs and even if they were they’d be presumed innocent.
Even the chosen name for this bullshit is an intolerable lie.
Lemmy.ml gets a bad reputation because they treat disagreement, trolling, and bigotry as interchangeable. They never seem to mind their own users twisting any argument beyond recognition - but sighing ‘I don’t want to deal with this anymore’ is unconscionably rude and must be punished.
Ideological bias is not the same thing as hypocritical enforcement of bad rules. And ‘be nice or else’ is a fucking terrible rule, no matter how consistently it’s applied. Sometimes “fuck off” is the right answer. Sometimes people really are assholes, and deserve to hear it, and the hierarchy of a leftist space declaring themselves the only people allowed to exercise that force is deeply ironic.
2·23 days agoThe conservative halo effect says a guy’s not even allowed to be good-looking, if he’s A Bad Person. Everything about him is automatically wrong. He could have an identical twin who agrees with you, and that guy’s a looker, but other one? Yeesh.
Hey look, a business model that should be illegal.
I look forward to slapping random assholes who insist it’s somehow better than selling a product or service in exchange for money.
‘Why did you do this? Why do you keep doing this?’
“IGNORE ME!!!”
> keeps posting right-wing garbage
> keeps acting surprised people call out how it’s right-wing garbage
> insufferably smug about the total absence of self-reflection
‘Gosh, why is every comment section like this? Can’t be my fault! :D’
Why don’t you just block me since you don’t seem to like my posts?
Why don’t you listen any of the dozen times I’ve explained this?
This shite behavior goes beyond me and you.
Do you want unquestioned I-just-feel-like-it preference? Great! You do that by keeping shit on your own computer. Not by posting it where it’ll get shoved in front of other people, because of how federation works. You make this site worse, by doing this shit. You should fucking stop.
But the fuckers on the bench get yachts trips.