I think I’ve reached the point where no one will be able to convince me that Star Citizen is not a money laundering front.

It’s litigation around what a machine can freely use in its learning model.

No, its not that, either. It’s litigation around what resources a person can exploit to develop a product without paying for that right.

The machine is doing nothing wrong. It’s not feeding itself.

Especially when they can just type in a provocative prompt and get 500 words of generic rage bait in a second.

Not just that CRPGs can sell, but “Man, look at how much success they’re having with our CRPG franchise!”

“They should have researched that thing the company hadn’t done and given no signals that they would do.”

Dear God, do you listen to yourself talk? I hope no one else fucking has to.

But only in Japan.

And when both get too close, that’s when you release yellow

Unity: Successfully implemented a product strategy that floods the market with game developers that know how to use its product.

You, an insufferable prick: “Why would they use a product they could find ready-trained developers for when they could use a niche product no one has any skills in??!?”

Well, you see, the technical issue that’s stopping them from selling it is called “canibalization of sales”, which is technically an issue for their marketing department.

Once you have enough money to meet your needs, all money is is power.

Because they sold a whole bunch of copies.

Those are action RPGs.

Depends on how one defines “win”.

We coulda gotten more people here. Reddit’s kind of the perfect centralized service to decentralize. Major subreddits have millions of subscribers and mods with years of experience managing large communities. Many of them could have set up their own Lemmy servers and just said “we’re over here now”. You get a few large, but still not exactly mainstream r/all kind of subreddits doing that, and things could’ve been significantly different.

At the same time, there are several ordres of magnitude more people here now than there was before, and the space isn’t showing any signs of dying. That’s kind of a big L for Reddit, as they’re going to continue enshitifying themselves in the months and years ahead, and there’s a legit, if somewhat underground, alternative space for people to go when they’re finally fed up. Now with an insane amount of mobile app support, to boot.

I’ve been waiting for a flexible, two page, tabloid sized e-newspaper for, like, 20 years now.

The Switch has a screen? I’ve never really noticed mine.

Seems like a good place to remind people that the police do not prevent break-ins, robberies, or muggings. They just show up after-the-fact and do little to nothing to get people’s stuff back.

No, they’d still need IP rights for the characters/world/name. Releasing it for free doesn’t alleviate that issue in any way.

They could strip it of all of the Simpsons related stuff, but they’d also have to create new levels, since those are owned by the epriginal publisher.

Doom 3. It’s still the only game I’ve upgraded my PC explicitly for.

They lost plenty of people, at least for now.

What none of these articles seem to want to highlight is that this is completely normal retention behaviour. 50% week 1 retention isn’t excellent by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s well, well within the span of what’s normal.

And Threads is still half baked.

The last pre-order bonus I got was a pair of socks. That killed my interest in extraneous offers.

From Mastodon, you can treat Lemmy communities as if they’re users (the ActivityPub term, I believe, is “agents”). That means you can follow them, and things posted to the community will get pushed out to you just as if they’re Mastodon posts.

Yes, this.

It’ll be just like YouTube, where people are huddled on the floor praying to “the algorithm” with each bit of “content” they post, hoping to make it big as a “professional Redditor”.

I can’t wait to see the per-user algorithmic feeds. One post from r/conspiracy or r/conservative scrolls past your screen, and suddenly it’s all you see.

If you don’t care about the world, don’t follow people who do?

GameCube was the last time they tried to fight on specs, and the system struggled to sell. It’ll likely be the last time they ever fight on specs.

Capitalism: Providing infinite consumer choice, so long as your choice is to consume what everyone else is consuming.

No. We knew. We knew like 20 years ago.

I mean, when some of those sites they defederated from are going around proudly announcing they’d rather ban people asking that they defederate from the Nazi instance than the Nazi instance itself, it really drives home how much it was the right decision. We absolutely, under no circumstances, should let this space become just another Nazi bar.

If the company is already not profitable, losing some of the most active users can have a big effect. Every tick further away from profitability is huge, and a decline in content quality can absolutely produce such a downward tick.

Especially if that premium content doesn’t so much go away as move somewhere else.

Most people who have left don’t use the first party app, or don’t use the newer web UI, but some did. And more will follow as post quality suffers. And for each person tha leaves the default experiences, revenue will decline ever so slightly. In order to make up for that, the company needs to be more aggressive with its monetization, which makes the UX worse, which causes more people to leave. Then the cycle goes on.

This will be a slow process, but it’s the inevitable process of enshitification. Especially when you don’t already have a profitable business model. And Big Social is learning the hard way right now that community is profitable.