there’s a guy on 4chan who’s planning to sue Fromsoft
Lol, no. There’s a guy on 4chan who’s saying wildly outlandish shit in order to have a laugh at anyone who takes it seriously.
there’s a guy on 4chan who’s planning to sue Fromsoft
Lol, no. There’s a guy on 4chan who’s saying wildly outlandish shit in order to have a laugh at anyone who takes it seriously.
The enshittification cycle:
Phase one, attract users by providing a good service.
Phase two, once the users are locked in, squeeze them for all they’re worth by selling them to business customers (advertisers and/or data buyers).
Phase three, once the business customers are locked in, squeeze them for all they’re worth by threatening to deny them access to the users on whom they now depend.
Spez seems to think Reddit has the pull to make phase 3 happen. I rather doubt it, but we’ll see.
It does make a certain amount of sense. Big profit now means you get a chunk of cash to invest in other quick profit schemes, and your wealth just keeps snowballing. It works as long as you don’t care that you never build anything that lasts.
It’s phase three of the enshittification cycle. In phase one, you attract users by providing a good service. Once they’re locked in, you squeeze them for all they’re worth by switching focus to business customers. Once they’re locked in, you squeeze them by threatening to deny them access to the users on whom they now depend.
just someone speaking poetically about an event that nobody would ever know anything about anyways
Kinda makes me wonder whether he’d feel foolish about what he wrote if he were still alive today and had modern scientific knowledge.
Ordinary people just trying to live their lives hate this one simple trick.
If titles are anything to go by, murderizing an absolute shitzillion of people makes monarchs pretty great.
Not at all! Remember, imagination knows no bounds. You can continue making stuff up with no basis in fact pretty much forever.
Please, lecture me more about what my motivations are. Of the two of us, you’re clearly the expert on that topic. I’m dying to hear more.
That’s also something I was told in response to my skepticism during NMS’ pre-release hype phase, and it’s a complete misunderstanding of what’s going on here. I’m not trying to stop people from being happy, on the contrary, I’m trying to help them avoid disappointment by getting them to stop huffing hopium in industrial quantities. But they don’t wanna stop.
Looking forward to the silver lining of a bad event you know to be inevitable is not the same thing as actively wishing for that event to happen.
Reading comprehension, man.
It seems that you need a refresher. I suggest you rewatch those original pre-release trailers and then try playing the game to see if it looks anything like that. I did that a few months ago, and spoiler alert, it did not. Continued support is of course praiseworthy, but it wouldn’t have been necessary if Hello Games had actually kept their promises to begin with. It boggles my mind that gamers so vehemently defend a company that took a decade longer than it should have to deliver some (not all!) of what was promised and also wasted a bunch of time and resources on bloating the game with stuff that was never mentioned and that nobody asked for. Gotta be some form of sunk cost fallacy or Stockholm syndrome or something…
Needless to say, I disagree with you that there’s little reason to believe this will be the same. On the contrary, there is every reason to believe that. Due to my skepticism, I was talked down to by people excited by the trailers back then, just like I’m being talked down to by you now. Vindication felt very sweet first time around, so I’m looking forward to round two.
BWAHAHAHAHA! No. I didn’t fall for it the first time, I see no reason to fall for it now.
I don’t see why the shareholders wouldn’t want his head on a pike as well.
Because people believe stuff they want to believe regardless of evidence. The same goes for religion, politics, conspiracy theories, UFOs, homeopathy, and various other assorted nonsense.
We can’t test for the vast majority of things that we CAN conceive of. How could you disprove that ghosts don’t exist in an invisible, undetectable parallel dimension to our own?
Why would you need to? If they’re undetectable, nobody could have ever seen them. Saying that ghosts exists in an undetectable parallel dimension is effectively the same as saying that they don’t exist at all and every sighting claim is bullshit.
Am I the only one thoroughly enjoying this “find out” stage Reddit mods are going through? It’s so cute how surprised they act! I mean, regular mod power-tripping is bad enough, but actually thinking that you have a say in the policies of the faceless corporation you’re donating your labor to is an entirely different level of delusion. You’d think not being paid would give them a clue how much Reddit values them, but evidently not.
It’s okay to like them while they do good and then change your mind when they turn evil.