Brewchin

Who’d have imagined that “jumping the enshittification” would be a thing.

DeBeers, diamonds and FOMO marketing… not a new strategy.

But also not necessarily artificial scarcity in this case. Hard to tell.

It’s telling of this era that it’s impossible to initially know if this is corporate greed or vibe goonery.

So… intentional or unintentional enshittification, I guess. 😬

From OP’s linked article:

[The same people use] a second AI persona, a young purple-haired woman called Amelia, who appears in various Danny Bones videos and standalone clips. The character was originally created by the political and media literacy organisation Shout Out UK for a Home Office-funded video game designed to steer teenagers away from extremism – but was then co-opted by the online far right and became a viral sensation.

So yes, I guess “she” is. (Assuming Amelia and Emilia are the same persona; I didn’t check).

This reminds me of workers being paid in vodka during the USSR era. 😬

I wonder if it’s a coincidence.

It probably does, and I doubt the difference is anything to do with you. (Beyond not sticking your head above the KPI parapet, etc).

The last place I was laid off from was notorious for a LIFO/stack policy whenever heads needed to roll. The one before that looked purely at the highest earners. And the one before that did whatever the nice vulture capitalists told them to do… or else.

None of them looked at how much you made (or retained) for the company, customer and colleague satisfaction, impact on teams or projects. Just “thought leaders” looking at spreadsheets while telling everyone that they know what they’re doing. And for the IC it’s indistinguishable from Russian roulette.

You make good points about them being contractors and the CV aspects. I’d not thought of that.

But it’s not just in gaming. It’s all of the tech space, or at least those run by American companies, and applies to full time staff. The last decade or so of my tech career is a mirror image of it.

Though it’s hard to tell if it’s layoff FOMO, AI changes, or AI being used as an excuse. Something’s changed in recent years.

Classic modern tech company formula. If any records or targets are broken, mass layoffs must happen.

I think MBA schools have forgotten the golden rule of economics: you get what you incentivise for. Guaranteed unemployment isn’t it.

This was a great read. Thanks for sharing. I bought my N64 specifically for this game at the time, and it didn’t disappoint. 😊

Sadly, not having touched Nintendo products since their ClockWatch LCD handhelds years earlier, I struggled to find any other games I really liked on the N64. 🤷‍♂️ There were a couple, but it was all just filler to me.

The pinned post explaining it can be found at !fedinsfw@fedinsfw.app on most instances (eg. lemmy.world has it). It has “VPS” in the title.

Either way, as an earlier commenter said: the post says it should be resolved next week.

Edit: Corrected community.

Sure it does. It lets them smile and say, “We did tell you. But you chose to do nothing.” Probably even while you’re grieving at the recent loss of your child or loved one.

As always, when it comes to the intersection of techbros, threats of legislation and society, this is about making their problems and decisions your responsibility. Politicians fall for it every time, because they love “personal responsibility” rhetoric, and Number Must Go Up continues as before.

Yeesh. I miss Joshua from War Games and Asimov’s three laws of robotics. What utopian fiction…

So what you’re saying is that you’ve engaged with football content a billion times.

Did Facebook’s shift to emojis teach us nothing? Engagement > Preference. You’re the product.

If they’d decided to use truth.gov as the domain, that would have been the cherry on top. 😄

A ludicrous “plan”.

…by monetising the installed (user) base…

I assume PlayStation users have higher prices for games and subscription services to look forward to. Probably even “ad-supported” tiers, if they don’t already have them.

Yup. That’s the main thing stopping me from yeeting Google from my phone (also Samsung): the tickbox sanctity of a non-rooted phone that financial (and some other) apps require. Very frustrating.

Don’t forget the phone. Almost everyone with a smartphone is either an Apple or Google user via it, and everyone seems to forget that.

I mean, this is exactly why example.com exists. But I bet ICANN didn’t expect this level of meta abstraction to the absurdity. 😅

Improvement? Unsure. Likely? Yes.

What does Zionism have to do with this topic?