When turnover is high enough that most of your colleagues were hired after you, and therefore thimk of you like a fixture.

This can’t be a new thing. This was one of the conditions Nintendo announced when they dropped their stupid “register with us to be allowed to do lets plays” thing.

Oh, and it’s not just Nintendo. All of the big publishers believe they own your videos that use their games. I’ve been involved in discussions with people personally who were trying to figure out how to demand licensing fees from YouTubers.

This is goingnto get worse before it gets better. This has been a traffic jam caused by everyone waiting for somebody to go first. Nintendo is just the one who has volunteered to be the first mover.

And is just an extension to their licensing nonsense and publishing deals thst came beforex

Anyone surprised by any of this doesn’t care about Nintendo’s behaviour, just the impact the current move is having on their current fun.

A lot of games developers don’t understand trends in gaming that aren’t explicitly gamist. Even as walking sinulators and cozy games have garnered audiences that make those genres viable, many in the industry have refused to actually look at them with an eye to understand who they appeal to, why, and what about them is doing the connecting with their audiences.

I worked on a mobile PvP project that rejected purely aesthetic elements because none of the director, designer, not “monetization specialist” could understand why anyone would want them, even as Fortnite was bursting onto the scene making its money on its emotes and paper doll elements.

Art driven paper doll games were also eating our lunch in the mobile space.

There are clearly some in the industry who understand the appeal, but most of them are not decision makers in development studios. The decision makers got there by coming up in a much more focused, much less casual, much less inclusive era in gaming, and have a pretty fixed idea of what a game “is” or “is supposed to be”.

Because of this,aAs things shift towards more IP licensing deal, the results are going to be a lot of conflicts between tone and gameplay on these projects.

But they’re only getting paid for the time a primter would take to print it, because why should she pay for more for less?

Or at least a suggestion.

corporate profits decrease very slightly

This is the thing that people will reflexively point to, but this:

quality of life increases

This is the real issue. If quality of life increases, workers are less desperate, and are less willing to put up with their employers BS. Moreover, if other jobs are also paying a living wage, it’s much easier to quit.

We have seen, over and over, that businesses are willing to spend money to exert control over workers. They’ll do it even if it means a decline in profits, or even in revenue. Because at the end of the day, if you have your needs met, any money left over is just power, and power is meant to be used to control others.

Is this guy Trump’s VP pick because he’s the only person he could find that talks like Trump? The guy’s a rotting word salad machine

Nelix is not gripping the food near the point of contact with the blade. And holding the blade like that, he’s not speed chopping anything.

Claw grip’s only really important if you’re working quickly with your gripper near the cutter.

Clearly, this indicates that only the officers on board had to ensure Nelix’s cooking. He’d never be fast enough to cook for all 150ish crew members.

They try to convince us that Jeremy Renner is funny, and we fall back!

I think a significant issue here is that Reddit is not built for fostering communities, and things that mimic Reddit will not foster them, either. The whole model is built around an endless number of very large, single subject discussion spaces with functionally no globally consistent moderation or oversight.

This is a model of content categorization and filtering for individual consumption, not community building. Lemmy “communities” are just content tags, they’re not real community spaces. They’re never going to encourage the kind of tight knit spaces with idiosyncratic customs, rituals, and rules that actual vommunities have. They’re never going to let you get to know others because “off topic” discussions are meant to be had in entirely different spaces.

Reddit and reddit-like services are about content creation and delivery, noy community. Thatms baked into the form.

Oh yeah, especially the season level writing. It’s been a recurring disappointment. It’s clear that they don’t know how to structure a 10-15 episode serial drama.

The acting is fine. The issue is the genre.

Discovery is melodrama, something previous series explicitly were not.

Yeah, I got through season 3 and just let it go after that. Like the other seasons, the first half had me, but the endings killed it for me. And the endings just kept. Getting. Worse.

“I’ve told you before, Ensign, call it life support when on the bridge.”

Beakman looks like he’s been through some shit

He’s in the opening bumper of every episode of seasons 3 and 4.

Well, that’s my new favurite description of that scene.

The point of federation is to publicly share what you want to publicly share, not to have unfettered access to whatever you want to consume.

It’s an argument against seed patents and capitalism.