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  • I think it's just a human problem. You or I may like to read long form journalism, but we're in the extreme minority. It's not dying because it was so hugely profitable.

    Logistically too, if you're trying to parse through the top 100 tweets in a day, and each one takes multiple paragraphs to get to the point, the amount of various viewpoints the average person is able to interact with shrinks dramatically.

    Granted, it seems like everyone is taking the forced brevity as an excuse to just write +1 to pile onto their side, since that's easier.

  • Yeah, this kinda shit is fucking hilarious but people don't realize it. There's this corporate training BS called Kaizen where they take a lot of normal Japanese words like 無理 (muri) and associate weird Eastern mystic significance to them.

    Literally just means "impossible" and is frequently used in slang to be like "no no no I couldn't possibly [talk to that hot guy]". Having it put up on a slide and presented by some white dudes in suits who were nodding solely and talking about the secret Japanese knowledge was just too much to bear.

  • I was once subscribed to four! I am now subscribed to one as the others kept fucking with me with these price raises and password sharing crackdowns.

    I think more people just need to draw a line in the sand. These companies' strategies are akin to slowly inching up the temperature of the water until you're sitting in boiling water without realizing it.

    It's unfortunate that the average consumer seems to be about as aware as the lobster.

  • Meritocracy is a myth though, perpetuated by those lucky enough to benefit from existing systems.

    It's completely circular. I'm on top and the people who are on top are the best so because I'm on top I'm the best.

    It never accounts for all the myriad non-merit related ways folks get on top in the first place.

  • It's funny that you say that. Although it's not I guess replacing Reddit in terms of scale, the browsing experience on Lemmy and that community feeling is actually an improvement for me.

    So, I guess for me Lemmy is a more than adequate replacement. I don't want all of Reddit here though, I think that would cause a whole lot more problems than it would solve.

  • Strongly agreed! That's been my sentiment exactly. That's why I'm not at all bothered when people compare the numbers and show how many orders of magnitude more people are on Reddit. That's just fine with me.

    Lemmy scratches the same itch, it isn't the same 5 posts circulating for three days anymore, and we seem to have reached a critical mass where it feels just like it should, but without the shitty bits.

  • If you like roleplaying games, absolutely yes. It's way move involved than their previous games (which were also great). Divinity always felt AA at best, but the polish on BG3 is impeccable.

    For me what really does it is the professional voice work and motion capture on seemingly every single sentiet humanoid character in the game. Even random folks who have a single line of dialogue have a unique voice and an interesting character design. They don't all blend together, even when they are objectively filler characters.

  • There's a concept in linguistics known as descriptivism vs proscriptivism. We either accept that things change meanings and pronunciations regionally and over time, or we try to absolutely state that there's one correct way, and every other way is wrong.

    A major issue with the "I'm right you're wrong" approach is the in-group decides who is right and wrong. Regional slang is just wrong, not an equally valid way to speak. Those with formal educations are inherently more correct, and thus their grasp of their native language is more correct. This doesn't really make sense when you think about it, other than to put down groups perceived as lesser.

    Additionally, academics can convince themselves of one thing, and totally fail to be relevant to the real world. This leads your average person to become disenfranchised with academia and talk about how academics in their ivory towers have no understanding of how the real world works.

    Anyway, that's why I pronounce it joeff.