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I'm not denying that buggy games exist and that some big mistakes exist, but there's a lot more games that are bug-free enough to be playable (I don't believe any game will ever be fully bug free as they get more complex) than are unplayable. That's all. I'm not defending the ones that do get released either. Though I'll say it's the fault of executives and not the actual developers. At the same time, there are specific scenarios where I get it and would defend it, but they're rare and don't really apply to AAA games (needing to release the game to stop from going out of business, and it's only defensible if they still fix the issues after the fact. This obviously doesn't apply when the decision to not push back release is for shareholder revenue instead).

Edit: my point is Cyberpunk 2077 is not the norm.

Because most games do work at launch and the initial sales are what drives development and more games. If it fails at launch, it didn't matter how many folks buy it at $20, it's not getting a sequel.

And what do you even mean by "sustainable" in this context? Obviously it's sustainable at the other price as well, otherwise they'd stop doing it. I mean, let's be glad most developers aren't like Nintendo at least.

I mean, even if we accept that, it's far from the normal. At least in regards to Jedi, it again, made the news cycles because of how buggy it was. Think about how many games come out a year, hell even a month.

Not saying buggy games don't exist. Just that they're not the norm.

Is it the new normal though? Pretty sure this is widely known because of its issues. I don't think we've had anything reach those levels recently.

In things where I can't avoid an account, I use an email alias (personally I use Mozilla Relay, but Proton Pass offers logins as well if I recall.

Edit: for clarity, this adds at least a level of abstraction from my actual data. It's not the only thing I do, such as blackhole DNS via PiHole, VPN in other scenarios, Tor for others (for those curious, pihole and Tor don't work at the same time, and pihole and VPN generally doesn't either without extra work and it's not compatible with every VPN).

It doesn't come across insulting at all. It comes across as naive.

Like, it literally has a Wikipedia page and doesn't mention anything else.

I mean, literally isn't used to mean just figuratively. It's actually an exaggeration to mean that the concept is so strong that it literally triggered the figurative comparison for real. Context is key there. And context is important. That's the great thing about that though is you rarely need extra information to show which definition you mean. If I said it's so hot outside that I'm literally on fire, you don't need to question the meaning.

But here? Let's be honest. The word usage has exploded on Lemmy. They wanted so badly to use the term in the cool way. No one would have used the word that way before. No one uses its 'literal' definition now really. Because it's generally not how humans in society have discussions. No one describes the enshitification of something as a clinical description. If it were used as a joke? Sure. But now it's either someone so divorced from reality that they don't even know how to communicate or it's just folks who heard the word, thought it was cool, but didn't really understand it. That's all that is. I can't believe folks are trying to defend the "evolution" of language on one hand by describing a loss of accuracy and clarity in language, but then on the ither hand defending it from some weird historical perspective. It's honestly entertaining to see people come at this and argue with entirely contradictory points of view. "Words change meaning and this is it's new meaning" vs "that's been its meaning forever". Like, let's try to at least coordinate the defense of the person who wanted to sound cool. No one says "enshittified" in place of "it'll go to shit" or "get fucked". But instead you expect me to believe this is some ole-timey bastard saying, "sir, it will be enshittified." Come on buddy. It's weird you even thought all those words you spoke would sound insulting. Like you actually had a good point or something. See? That last bit there. That's what something insulting sounds like.

Your ability to determine how another is feeling via words is lacking. I'm not fuming. I'm not even that angry. I just am having a discussion and you're responding like you're not even out of high school. Its just frustrating communication.

Grow up.

I got farther than you, but felt all of those things didn't really improve or feel as fun. The weapon breaking is annoying. I feel like it's too quick.

Edit: I eventually gave up after the 'first' boss (I know you can do them any order, but water blight is generally considered the easier one to do first).

Except due to the new usage one now has to basically define it to give it the correct context. It's lost its power to be used and immediately understood. If what you say is true, it cannot be used efficiently to why it was coined.

And pretending it's not suddenly being used because of Doctorow is naive.

Except the language is weaker as we've lost the ability to transfer one idea easily because people like re-using the word because they think it makes them sound educated on the topic. It's being used because of Doctorow, not because of any other reason. So I call bullshit on it just being grammatical.

Tbf, the way Republicans use the word to mean anything, even I wouldn't be certain what the word means in that context.

So now we don't have a word anymore to describe something that we used to have a word. And we already had words to describe what the person above was.

The language has lost use.

Except it means nothing in that usage. Some people ran with it. Others decided to not be ridiculous and just apply it without rhyme or reason. Outside the Fediverse, it's nearly unknown. Inside the fediverse, when it's misused, it's usually in a very obvious and uncritical manner. It is still commonly used properly.

Don't take the power away from words just because you literally like the word itself. It's immature.

If you use it to apply to all unpopular corporate decisions, it's no longer powerful and doesn't have any meaning.

The general driving force is different though. It's a process that involves devaluing a service by basically commoditizing two forces against each other. Simply dropping value-added features to save money is just the race to the bottom.

Dropping a feature is the equivalent of charging for extra BBQ sauce packets. It's not the same driving force like Instagram where they play two forces against each other. Like the way Google has been going with shoving way too many ads in there. That is a different motivation because it's valuing one customer at the expense of another. Something like dropping free service XYZ is just cutting costs.

The word is getting overplayed and it feels like everyone has the same word-a-day calendar and are now trying to use it as much as possible.

It's more impactful and retains meaning if we keep it succinct instead of just the equivalent of "an unpopular decision that saves money to increase shareholder value". It's all about recognizing you are a product as well as a user. It's that the services don't have an incentive to serve you. Its just so much more meaningful as long as we don't remove all of that meaning to just show we don't like corporatism.

I just googled it. It seems to be the mortgage lock-in effect that's the number one driving factor for lack of homes. Mortgage rates are too high so people aren't selling. They do mention construction under-building, but it's not really the main cause. Also in 2021, California passed a law allowing single family homes to become up to 4-family dwellings... oh... this lead to a bunch of companies coming in and paying cash for homes to convert to rental units. And there's actually been a lot of push to make it easier to build more and further deregulate and that seems to be having none of your expected outcomes.... because it's not really the biggest reason. And again, it has even had some of the opposite due to zoning deregulation.

I'm trying to wrap my head around "invagination". Like I'm pretty sure I get the general gist of the meaning, but it's really making me realize I don't think I know the etymology of the root word at all...

That's the ridiculous part of this. He's literally paying to be homeless and is happy about it. Like, buy the car and sleep in it. That would literally save him more money and he still could be "free" of possessions.

Gives a whole new meaning to freedom isn't free.

Of course, we have more traditional links and images in our search results too, which we largely source from Bing.

https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/

So I wasn't totally right in that it doesn't all come from Bing, but it largely does.

They have such hard lives. They deserve a long weekend, no?

/s