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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord)
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i wish i had anything good to say about that article on the matching decomp site shutting down, but i mostly just see it as a sign of the inevitable

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord)
@xkeeper.net

someone pointed it out before, but we couldn't even get people to put on a mask over a literal life-and-death incident in COVID. and now you can make profit, either fame or fortune, in doing slop recomps, slop development. we created a race to the bottom and said "go for it, have fun"

X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord)
@xkeeper.net

nobody could stop the cheap clones before, where someone would just rip off your design/assets and flip them for a cheap ad-loaded game on an app store. quality didn't matter as much as how fast you could get ads to eyeballs. now that philosophy is everywhere else, too. welcome to hell.

X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord)
@xkeeper.net

i think some of this is deeper society shit like "america has largely focused on ~rugged individualism~" meaning most people simply do not give a shit about the externalities of what they do, or really anyone other than themselves and their immediate goals

X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord)
@xkeeper.net

i talk about how some friction is good, how having everything be a completely smooth experience is fucking terrible for the health of anything not similarly frictionless, and what we've done at this point is create the ultimate in smooth, frictionless bullshit. and we are paying deeply for it.