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I’ve definitely seen this exact tweet long before 2023.

It’s bots all the way down.

Bots upvoting bots replying to bots commenting on bot reposts.

Reddit 2023.

I understand that the game had a troubled launch, and that’s a super-relevant criticism of the game as it was when it came out. But the sky-high expectations fans put on CDPR are largely self-inflicted. It’s not like this is the first game with questionable marketing decisions or pre-rendered trailers selling a fantasy the game never comes close to fulfilling.

If you just go “Hey, a CDPR game set in a cyberpunk future, let’s check it out,” it’s by and large a fantastic game.

I’m disappointed this video is doing so well in the Fediverse. It’s largely unsourced and highly speculative like most of the videos on TikTok.

Everybody in the thread so far has a pretty bitter take, and I agree that golden parachutes are a joke. But I want to offer a more neutral explanation:

Basically, for an executive at a near-CEO level, taking on a position at a new company involves a lot of risk. Companies want to hire a top executive who’s willing to take a career risk without having to consider their own bottom line. A golden parachute removes personal risk.

Now, it might seem like this runs contrary to the company’s own interests, but they exist to attract CEOs and other top executives. They’re meant to make an offer more attractive, and any offer that doesn’t include it will be less competitive.

As a PC gamer I have exactly zero incentive to buy an Xbox. I hope they never renege on releasing every Xbox exclusive simultaneously on PC.

Basically this, but replace “Ukrainians” with “Africans”.

Thank you.

I’d take this argument more seriously if the shipwreck wasn’t ALWAYS mentioned in relation to the Oceangate story. I haven’t seen a major news outlet discuss it on its own, nor do they report on other migrant tragedies ever.

Mentioning this tragedy only to make a point about media coverage is pretty shitty IMO.

Radial symmetry. Four different positions you can put the screwdriver and it works. More than that and the material might be less sturdy, plus this is easy to manufacture.

Honestly, the concept of a screw you can screw in using a cross-shaped tool sounds pretty universal. Not surprised it would be infected elsewhere in the universe.

Yeah, that’s my setup as well. Tech-savvy people tend to have an all-or-nothing attitude to security, but at the end of the day, as soon as you take some extra precautions like using a keygen or activating 2FA, you’re already taking yourself out of the massive pool of targets of opportunity that hackers go for.

I’d say we’re not at a Digg point just yet. The ingredients are there, but I feel the next big crisis, whatever it might be, might be the push over the cliff that does it. Hopefully kbin and the Fediverse get to a good point of maturity by then and can welcome the more casual redditors without a hitch.

Thing is, though, Reddit was offering Digg users something new in terms of user experience. I’m not sure federated content is that “it” factor for many.

How can they not get user data on TPAs? It’s their user and their data which they are serving to TPAs.