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And yet it still has a bunch of ads for PC+ littered throughout it. Despite being grandfathered in, I abandoned it earlier this year for Podcast Republic, which hasn’t spammed me or locked me out of any features I’ve tried to play with despite not having paid them anything.

People spending more time with fewer games is not a reason, in publishers’ minds, to reverse course. It’s the intended outcome.

Having the same number of people (or near the same number) playing fewer games, and filling those games with monetization features is cheaper and easier to maintain than having a broad and growing library of titles.

Remember, the ideal for publishers is to have one game that everyone plays that has no content outside of a “spend money” button that players hit over and over again. That’s the cheapest product they can put out, and it gives them all the money. They’re all seeking everything-for-nothing relationships with customers.

Here’s a google prompt for you: “raspberry pi police”

Now do 1985.

Never mind, I’ll do it myself: NES games were $50, which today is about $185.

Are they still playing apologetics for the cops? Because if so, no thanks.

This is Elon Musk erasure.

Yup.

The flip side of this, is, of course, that voting with your wallet means that people with bigger wallets get more votes, and that results in the rich always getting their way.

Meanwhile, capitalism not only reliably devolves into dictatorships of the wealthy, but also dictatorships of whichever caste or ethnic group manages to rise to political dominance.

Or do you think the consistent and aggressive disenfranchisement of people of colour is just democracy in action or something?

I don’t think anyone is advocating for literal communism.

So, you think the rest of us are as stupid as Fox and your Republicans, then?

There’s nothing wrong with graphs whose y axies don’t start at zero. They can be used to misdirect people, but if you’re capable of actually seeing the numbers in the axes and doing a little bit of thought, they tell you exactly what one that starts at zero does.

Plus, the opaque spike is shown on the secondary y axis, which does start at 0. It’s the translucent layer that’s mapped to the primary axis.

I don’t want to. I just want to have them in my home feed.

Fair enough. I’m glad there’s something out there that meets your need, then.

I like the “antennas” feature a lot

For the uninitiated, Firefish’s antennae are saved searches, where you can specify lists of keywords and users and come back to them over and over again. It’s similar to Mastodon’s hashtag follow feature, only more flexible. Though, IIRC, it doesn’t add the search results to your home feed; it keeps them separate, and undiluted.

From an administrator’s point of view, Firefish’s Recommended timeline is super cool, and is similar to Akkoma’s ‘bubble’ feature. It lets you specify a list of other federated servers to display posts from, creating a kind of “super-local” timeline. It’s the kind of thing I’d love to see in Lemmy and kbin.

Firefish is definitely a bit of an unfortunate rebranding. Though ‘Calckey’ wasn’t exactly setting the world on fire, as a name, either. But at the end of the day, we really need to learn to recontextualize fediverse plataforms as software that runs a service, not the service itself. They’re website engines that power social websites, not a social brand in and of themselves, kind of like how WordPress is a quasi-static website suite that is used for a huge number of blogs and quais-static websites.

No one shares something from, say, the TechCrunch website, or Time website, and goes “Hey, Iook what I found on WordPress!”

Can confirm. I find Firefish (formerly Calckey) a much nicer, much more refined, and much more expressive piece of kit.

I’ve liked Akkoma, too. And there’s something really comforting about Friendica, with its “Facebook as it should have been” interface.

mostly just a history of bad choices

What a weird way to spell “chronically overstressed”.

No. No, no, no, no, no.
No no no no no no no no
Noooooooooooooooo no no

… … … …

Yes.

Ooo, I haven’t had Velveeta in like 20 years. Now I’m going to go and eat a whole block of it, and I refuse to shoulder any of the blame or responsibility for that!

Not explicitly, maybe, but implicitly, absolutely, and in multiple ways:

• Supporting the system that creates one over the other
• Having ‘bootstrap’ attitudes about the poor
• Worrying about property value over utilization
• Complaining about the homeless rather than the lack of action on housing
• Voting against people who run on public housing

In so, so many ways, people say they prefer the latter over the former. Usually just with the caveat that the homeless people also be invisible.

*croaks* Bud…

And that turned out for the best, too.

I started playing Pathfinder.