Ashtear

It’s digital snake oil.

Products or services that act as fig leaves for C-suites are a growth industry.

Deck Nine is also on this, and I thought their Life is Strange games were pretty good (Before the Storm, True Colors).

A long music video is pretty much how I sell it, lol. Also a good movie to watch while in an altered state (it’s my go-to movie when I get really sick/feverish).

I tend to like sci-fi in this category such as Stargate, Dune (1984), and the Riddick films.

TRON Legacy is my favorite of the bunch, however. Incredible soundtrack, gorgeous costume design, and plenty of character.

Ultimately, this is one of those things that needs subjective judgment and community ambassadors to be handled effectively. That requires human labor with high turnover.

I’m sure at some point one of the big players in the especially bad spaces (like MOBAs) will figure out how to do it on the cheap and create a market efficiency. But until then, all the profit chasers are allergic to creating actual jobs to solve the problem.

I do the tourist thing now with WoW but I’m still talking with players, especially since my duo partner never stops playing.

Less so now, though, since /r/wow was where I participated the most.

Zero chance this would pay better than even something like Mturk.

And yet, content quality on Reddit will tank even further because people will shitpost for pennies.

I was selling countless pre-orders at retail going back to 2001. I don’t know when this mythical time would have been either.

Ultimately, the vast majority of people making pre-orders aren’t here, on reddit, or any gaming community. And frankly, with the rate at which physical print runs are shrinking, people are going to find they will need to pre-order if they want a physical copy of anything not AAA.

Xenogears is my favorite romance story in gaming. Amazing depth to it.

I also liked the Bastila romance plot in Knights of the Old Republic. Some neat Force shenanigans going on there. Tali is my favorite self-insert Bioware romance, though.

My dude with the Xenogears shout-out.

Why I left mine intact. The Reddit “library,” as it were, remains one of the largest and most significant public goods online. I think that’s more important than burning my contributions in the hopes that Reddit management will do a 180. I also pinned a post advertising kbin/lemmy and Squabbles on my profile.

I’m certainly no longer participating, however, and I don’t think Reddit’s built to survive only on visitors from Google.

More than half of my personal follows on Twitter are enthusiastically jumping over. I don’t spend a lot of time on Twitter these days, so maybe I hadn’t realized it was bad enough to send people running happily into the arms of Meta.

It still makes sense if Reddit’s negotiation with the subscription-based third-party apps was never in good faith and this was always about killing them.