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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

No, I think that's fair. I miss being excited about new games, but the disappointment usually hits quick and hard if I ever allow myself to. Between rampant AAA shittification that's accelerated recently, and the fact that a lot of AAA wasn't all that good in the first place, it's hard to really build up any enthusiasm.

Looking at Rockstar/Take-Two's behavior in specific, since GTAV at the very latest, it's even harder to be optimistic. I bet they'll even find a way to cram shart cards into single-player, the fuckers.

At least it's rumored they got the FiveM guys to do the multiplayer, so maybe it'll be less abjectly, pathetically, monstrously shitty than GTAO. I assume they'll still find some way to ruin it, though.

Now, if it turns out it's great, I'd be ecstatic. I'm not buying this one anywhere near release but if it seems like a drastically better deal than I'm expecting, I'll be very, very surprised - and I'd like a game to surprise me pleasantly for once.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It absolutely is, although I'm not even talking about communism specifically. I'm basically a socdem and a leftist (as far as actual, normal society goes - less so for Lemmy, obviously), though that's completely irrelevant. It's all about... just shitty behavior, false flagging, wannabe-authoritarian, bad-faith, trolling, dishonest bullshit. Question communities like this and asklemmy are chock-full of thinly veiled soapboxing and questions loaded more heavily than a thousand cargo ships. Even if you agree with the basic points, it's fucking obnoxious. Not only that, it's bloody stupid and a prime example of shooting oneself in the foot, at least if the idea was ever that more than about forty people would use this thing.

Reddit was full of subs where the (often right-wing or particularly right-wing tolerant but not exclusively) twats-in-charge banned you from subs or the site at the drop of a hat. This was a major selling point for the fediverse - why if that happens on the fediverse, it's Decentralized so you'd just blahdiblahdiblah. In reality, though, several communities - the only active ones in many cases - are apparently sticking around on instances where the only difference from r/conservative or whatever is the paintjob on aforementioned twat-in-charge and their views. If they're not condoning "power" abuse, trolling and spam from even more blatantly bad-faith instances, they certainly aren't doing anything to mitigate it. That doesn't really look dramatically better as far as fairness and tolerance go.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

At first I thought you were talking about something like whatever-iazid, the first "antidepressant" that was actually an antibiotic and the antidepressive effect was completely accidental. But yeah, I suppose that makes sense, too.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Niche communities either need to cohere on their own, or live on a site that's large enough to sustain them. Spreading activity over too many communities/mags/subs/channels/whatever will make things seem even less active, and will make participation less appealing. People will always drop out, and if people don't "drop in" through search or discovery, activity obviously can only go down.

Meanwhile the fediverse has other issues - it is inherently "techy" and most major selling points are things "casuals" just don't give a shit about. Also, some of them just aren't true - it really sucks if you traipse up here with the expectation of less "site politics" and admin fuckery, and then run into you-know-which instances, instances being run maliciously, weird federation/defederation antics etc.

The fediverse as a concept and the lemmy.world-aligned part of it both have serious issues that could make activity hard to increase by putting off both existing and prospective users.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

19/24, one of the accents threw me off. Also some of these are just wrong - sildenafil (Viagra), amantadine and at least one more are not antidepressants at all, and a few of the remaining ones are truly super obscure. "Introduced in Russia in the late 60s", "Indian antidepressant from 1982", "Formerly marketed in Spain and Marocco" etc

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Whatever inclusiveness they have over there - I'm sure it's terrific, just seems like a piss poor reason to accept all the bad faith participation.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Youtube started recommending me "Cold Take", which is actually not bad. Vastly different vibe, though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Sounds like folk etymology. Like how "fuck" is supposedly an abbreviation for whatever-the-hell but it's just... not.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

What was the point of spending years as a productive administrator, making tens of thousands of edits and logging thousands of actions, to implode the whole thing over a pointless argument on an RfA talk page?

People do weird things. Mood disorders, (develop-/)mental disorders, personality disorders, extreme cases of having a shitty day, or just being a twat.

What is really fucked up isn't just the meltdown, but the insinuation they did this to fuck with someone else, this Beeblebrox guy. That's not very hoopy.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I hate it when I have to commit murder for my tuna.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago

No, not really. The trope is called "medieval stasis" (in TVT terms anyway) and is fairly common in high fantasy, though. The setting is supposed to be swords and horses, with notes of "technology bad" - which makes sense because what passes for tech in Middle Earth is mostly Saruman fucking around with orcs and that sort of thing.

As for weakening, a lot of that had to do with other things than just technological stagnation.

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