gk99

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[–] gk99@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't wanna be mean to the guy who effectively just lost his job but like, come on bro. Reddit wasn't exactly hiding their negative intentions, outright lies, and lack of respect.

[–] gk99@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

blur

I miss power-up racers that weren't just Mariokart clones, like NASCAR Rumble and that.

[–] gk99@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Except they have outright removed a bunch. All but two of the r/TIHI mods were purged, as an example.

[–] gk99@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Literally why

They already have Truth Social and Twitter.

[–] gk99@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It wasn't broken as hell after like two weeks of development when the critical glitches like save corruption were getting fixed. As someone who didn't overhype the game for a decade and only bought it because I knew everyone else was going to, I had a great time. It was just cool to hate the game up until the anime dropped and everyone suddenly forgot they hated it.

[–] gk99@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's not gonna extinguish the fediverse in the same way nobody leaving reddit joined Mastodon as a replacement. They're technically compatible, but these are entirely different styles of sites we're talking about. Lemmy and Kbin are gonna keep on trucking regardless of what happens to the Twitter-likes.

But they're definitely going to try and kill Mastodon/similar through social engineering. Everybody's favorite content creators, organizations, and brands will be on Threads, not Mastodon, and when they lock it down we'll lose access to them and end up needing a Threads account. I don't understand why anyone trusts this company won't try to secure market dominance and then monopolize it. The guy says "we'll just be right back where we are now," but this could easily decrease the Mastodon population by pulling away anyone who doesn't care about federation or open source and just wanted a decent Twitter alternative.

[–] gk99@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Boost is still up at the moment but Boost for Lemmy is already up for pre-registration, so I don't think it's a hard cutoff or anything.

[–] gk99@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

You don't have to make excuses for an independent company that willingly took on a project and was in no way coerced into it.

[–] gk99@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, the answer kinda just has to be something like Call of Duty to make sense. Think about how much evolution that series has gone through over the years, and how many components there are between campaign, multiplayer, Zombies, spec ops, battle royale, and most recently DMZ. It's probably the most variety you'd get from just one franchise.

[–] gk99@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Votes are public here, as are moderator actions, so we can actually see everything going on, including empty accounts only used to bot upvote stuff. In addition, not every platform works the same way. Some have upvotes and downvotes, some only have upvotes, some are wonky like kbin where upvotes don't count toward reputation but boosts do, etc. An upvote isn't just an upvote like it is on reddit. They also can't "enshittify" something that users can self-host their own instances of to interact.

Edit: Also, we're in the early stages right now, reddit has a decade lead.

[–] gk99@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The only things Annapurna has made up until now have been exclusivity deals. This is their first game that's actually theirs.

[–] gk99@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

What's the other kind like? Just more toned-down?

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