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[-] Sordid@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

Truly a cutting-edge idea.

[-] Sordid@kbin.social 11 points 11 months ago

Talking is not going to get them to leave Ukraine.

[-] Sordid@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

it’s considered common knowledge that you can’t

I've never heard that before. What I have heard several times is that text is not static, so if you read something, look away, and then read it again, it'll say something different. That I can corroborate, along with the idea that this is how you realize you're in a dream and induce lucid dreaming.

[-] Sordid@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Replaying old games that I have fond memories of. We're in an incredible renaissance of classic games getting source ports or updates that bring them up to modern standards, and I'm loving it. Daggerfall, Blade of Darkness, Jagged Alliance 2, Morrowind, Jedi Knight, Caesar 3... I'm sure I'm forgetting ~~some~~ many. They let me forget the present and pretend that I'm back in simpler, happier times, at least for a little while.

[-] Sordid@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Wow, that's extremely generous! Can I have Vane, please? I love games where you play a bird.

[-] Sordid@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

That's less of a peaceful reform and more of a war crime.

[-] Sordid@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I get that, but who would want to buy a company that's never been profitable? It smacks of a scam. "Hey, bro! Buy my company! It never managed to make any money for me, but it'll be highly profitable for you!" Sounds like the company founder is looking to pull a fast one and laugh all the way to the bank while their investor is left holding the bag.

The only way I can see this working is if the idea is to build a large user base by offering a good user experience, i.e. not monetizing the platform very much, just enough so that it barely pays for its own operating costs. Then you sell that user base to someone else for the express purpose of shoving tons of ads down everyone's throat. In that case it's still a fast one, only in this scenario the users are the victims. But even then I'm skeptical. If that's the plan, why sell the company instead of enshittifying your platform yourself?

[-] Sordid@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Right? How the hell is a company that has never managed to turn a profit worth more than $0?

Sordid

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