It's because the decision makers are fucking stupid.
I would be happier at work if we could just solve interesting problems. Instead we have mandates from management to do nonsense, or work in nonsense ways.
The people at the top are so removed from how work gets done, and how normal people live, they're useless. Worse than useless.
It would still be anti-labor and a force multiplier for confident stupidity.
Controversial take: doom 1 is better than doom 2. Doom 2 has a bunch of awful levels.
I didn't really like doom2016 or eternal that much, either. Too much start-and-stop.
Microsoft and Bethesda are creatively incompetent. They don't really want to say anything. They just want a funny theme park full of kitschy shit so they can pander to fans.
They're fucking soulless morons.
The first fallout was interesting because it was pretty fresh. The 2nd was a bigger exploration, with some interesting questions about remnants. I don't really remember 3 but it had some weird narrative problems, I think.
New Vegas actually asked a new interesting question: who rebuilds after?
And then 4 just shits the bed because Bethesda has no soul. It's also mechanically a mess. Power armor in the intro, except it sucks? Fuck everyone who thought that was a good idea.
I'm happy not using blizzard or other Microsoft products.
I bet they'll try to buy discord soon.
I read the meaning as someone thinking it weird to text back immediately. That was the offense. As if you should play it cool and wait to respond.
I personally respond quickly if I'm holding my phone and the message comes in, usually.
Most people don't really care about abstract or long term things. You can tell them that buying the game supports bad stuff, and they could at least wait for a sale, but they're no better than a toddler.
Capitalism is pretty inherently authoritarian. The boss calls the shots.
I mostly get music from Bandcamp. They have a pretty big library, but it's mostly newer and independent bands on there. You won't find, like, the beatles or taylor swift.
Sometimes I'll buy stuff directly from bands, if it's not on bandcamp, via their store or label or whatever. I used to get CDs, too, and rip them, but I haven't done that in a while.
I will continue to not use Spotify. Buying drm free music is a long term win.
Well, if you don't ban or otherwise moderate unpleasant people, your community will rot until it's nothing but unpleasant people and those who can tolerate them. So that's not a desirable outcome.
Communities should have rules. People who repeatedly break those rules should be banned. This is true online and offline.
The more challenging question is "what are the best rules to make?"
Most places will disallow porn and gore, or require them to be appropriately labeled or quarantined. That makes sense to me.
Many places will ban anything too violent. Threats against individuals I understand. Saying you can't even imagine violence against organizations doing violence (eg: ice, the Republican party) is lending support to horrible people, so I'm not keen on that. I can see wanting to keep it from turning into revenge porn, or wanting to avoid drawing the attention of the state.
"No personal attacks on members" was a rule on a place I used to post. Was pretty nice, usually.
I honestly forgot that game even existed!