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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Overwatch co-creator Jeff Kaplan on his exit from Activision Blizzard: 'It was the biggest f**k you moment I've had in my career'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This really seems to be the direction that any successful venture eventually turns into: a vehicle for rich investors to insert their control and their ideas for the sake of turning out more profit for themselves. It’s never about making a better product or making it more affordable or accessible–it’s never about improving anything if it doesn’t satisfy the demands of someone with money that came along and bought enough stock in the company to take charge of it.

  I have wondered about that in the past, how a small company goes public and picks up funding from a billionaire. Now he sits in his little office running his little company with 2 guys in black suits and sunglasses watching their every move. I just don’t get the warm and fuzzies when i think of capitalism anymore. To succeed puts you in league with some unbelievably ruthless and selfish people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaked Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Test Presentation Impreses After Cancellation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In other words, they’re digging deep in the nostalgia bin to avoid having to create something new

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New tech pulls lithium from dead batteries cheaper than you can buy it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the advantage of sourcing it locally, of course. I have a feeling these guys have gamified lithium collection through an app like uber or grubhub or airbnb, ultimately taking all the advantage we once had for simply being local…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Introduces 'ChatGPT for Teachers' to Further Destroy the Minds of Our Youth⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A solution in search of a problem

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google deletes net-zero pledge from sustainability website⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pledges are a way of taking credit in the present for doing/not doing something in the future. It never surprises me to see them renege on a pledge. They have no accountability outside a bit of momentary flack that will be swiftly swept under the rug (or dealt with by a reputation management firm) before business will resume uninterrupted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM because its holiday list wasn’t ‘sustainable’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, i usually just shut my computer down between xmas and new years–the calendar just can’t take it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech giant Meta will pay Australians $50 million for enabling the Cambridge Analytica scandal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Simply the cost of doing business ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tinder Warns of Declining Revenue While It Rethinks Core App⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Better pull my stocks out of tinder. Think I’ll try moving my investments to okcupid 😘

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam drops Windows 7 and 8 support with the latest client — users told to ‘update to a more recent version of Windows’ to continue gaming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What makes you think they’d possibly do that?

  /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the problem – they aren’t a huge construction corp! It sounds like they wanted to pull an Elon and take the wheel despite having no idea what they’re actually doing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They forgot the LGBTQ...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for taking the time to break that down for me. I will just go ahead and attack my own reading comprehension–i never would have deduced that from their comment, no way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They forgot the LGBTQ...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  What does your comment mean though? Feel free to attack my reading comprehension but i don’t actually think your comment is making a statement. Distill it so my slow ass understands and maybe (and that’s a big maybe) we can try to have some sort of conversation. Judging by the downvotes i presume your opinion is unpopular–i just don’t understand it well enough to see why.