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I’ll fucking balkanize your website Aftermath!!

you can always count on aftermath to not have any solidarity with the workers in the industry they cover.

Nothing short of a capitalist straw breaking the camel's back moment like the 1980's video U.S. game market crash but on a bigger scale is going to revitalize the video gaming industry. Hopefully when it happens it ditches the capitalism rot better than the U.S. game industry did.

Who decided that "balkanize" would be the appropriate word here?

Feels like they are just trying to use shock words to go viral

The other host may have been using it wrong - it’s a fairly loaded term that arose from the dissolution of Yugoslavia and is usually used to describe a violent, sharply divided, acrimonious collapse into multiple groups that fight each other. (It is common in US English but it’s also controversial)

Yeah IIRC it's a reference to the Balkan Peninsula, which split into a bunch of small nations during the early 20th century.

For US English, yeah!

Yes. It's an early 20th century term, but what happened to Yugoslavia in the early 90s when it broke up and became 6 separate nation-states is the best example. To balkanize is to just break things up into separate/independent parts. :)

I've seen it used by other anglophones but it definitely is used most here, i cannot deny the weirdness lol

Never said it existed for centuries. Most of Yugoslavia (literally "Land of the Southern Slavs") was part of Austria-Hungary for centuries before WWI, and even back then there were deep ethnic tensions held back only by the power of the monarchs of Austria-Hungary and....