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schaffertom ,

cough capita cough lism cough

schaffertom ,

How do you get college without tuition, affordable housing, or not-for-profit healthcare without taxes?

The real scam is the widespread aversion to taxation.

87% of classic video games are 'critically endangered.' As a millennial, I'm worried it means a huge chunk of my childhood will disappear. (www.businessinsider.com)

87% of classic video games are ‘critically endangered.’ As a millennial, I’m worried it means a huge chunk of my childhood will disappear.::Games don’t stay on store shelves forever and are constantly falling out of commercial distribution.

schaffertom ,

While I don’t fear for the games I either own physically or which are widely available digitally (some will be forgotten, sure. But if you love them, you can collect them). But games as a service will be and are constantly lost. Basically everything that relies on servers or is massively multiplayer is only available for a couple of years at best. And few of those even allow for fan hosted servers anymore nowaddays. And they constantly change significantly. E.g. You just can’t play the original League of Legends or PUBG anymore. Those worlds and games are immensely popular right now and at the same time already lost forever. Whenever a new patch changes something major or a map gets remade, that experience isn’t the same anymore.

So I guess: play solo games from local copies of some sort and chill to avoid the problem? ;)

Why does it feel like we're at a point where every social media + other digital media are making shitty decisions and falling apart?

I mean there's Reddit ofc, as well as Twitter in its entirety, Discord is implementing some dumb updates, there are issues with Tumblr as well as everything to do with Meta, and I'm sure there are plenty more (and I haven't even touched other digital media, for example the Sims). Why is it all happening in the span of about a...

schaffertom ,

Cory Doctorow has some very interesting blogposts on the topic. He call it enshittification. It’s more or less the business model of plattform Capitalism.

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