Strayce @ Strayce @lemmy.sdf.org

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This reeks of astroturfing. I guarantee you the people behind it do not give a fuck about whales or marine life in general. They're the same ones spilling crude oil on the great barrier reef.

You're right, and everybody who hates it is right.

It's cheap, hokey, sentimental, and goddamnit it fucking works on me.

Obviously we need to up our game then

Okay, but how many job ads lie? I figure we're probably about even.

This guy is speedrunning enshittification.

Not familiar with Swedish Fish specifically, but generally candy is mostly sugar, which is a preservative in itself so it doesn't really go off. Also not familiar with the regulations in your area, but in my country foods are generally good for at least three months outside of a "best before" date if kept in their original packaging or at least airtight. Flavour and texture might decline a bit, but they won't make you sick. It's the "use by" dates you want to be observant of.

No, I said I haven't enjoyed one since 3. I tried NV because I really wanted more FO3, and I've seen enough videos to get why people like it, but I just didn't. The crafting system and changes to combat mechanics felt too complicated at the time. Like, I had to go gather three different materials to build the ammo just to break one guy's tank. I didn't have any issue with the plot or writing, it just felt like busywork. Likewise with FO4, it's a mile wide but an inch deep. There's a ton of stuff to do, but very little reason to care about it. Like, yeah, some asshole stole my kid but I'm just gonna go spend however many hours building out this gas station. FO3 just felt like the perfect balance between grindy RPG mechanics and plot driven missions.

I have the same issue with a lot of modern RPGs. Like in Cyberpunk 2077 there's all this narrative pressure because you're dying and it seems like that should be an urgent problem to solve, but the only way to get the "best" ending is to spend as much time as possible doing unrelated sidequests and levelling up. FO3 just felt like there was always a reason you were doing what you were doing.

Because all the other shit is those two people's fault somehow, obvs.

Yeah, I think you got it. The humour in Fallout is subtle, it's satire. OW borders on farce.

I really wanted to like this one. On paper it sounds like exactly my jam, but it just didn't grab me. The whole game felt tedious. Mediocre combat, very little weapon variety (just different tiers of the same kind of gun). Finicky and overcomplicated skill system that still somehow didn't feel like it made any impact on core gameplay, and I found the humour kind of simultaneously weak and overdone. The satire is heavy-handed, and the wackiness falls flat. I haven't enjoyed a fallout game since 3 either though, so maybe my taste has changed without me realising.

This is scarily believable.

Yes. And? You think they care? Premium isn't there to benefit you, it's there to benefit Google. As soon as the money stops coming in, they'll look for other ways to squeeze it. We're already seeing it with streaming providers shoehorning ads into their paid services. It's not that much of a stretch.

I give it a year, tops, before they start serving ads in premium too.

Yes.

Which stage of enshittification is this?

I mean I'm just basing that off stereotypes. I've met some absolutely lovely north Queensland people, dated a Tasmanian for a while despite not being related, and I'm not completely convinced the NT even actually exists.

Tasmania for incest, north Queensland for rednecks, NT for weird fucked up "Florida Man" antics.

Alternatively, we could eat the CxOs of colesworths.

It's been done

I have heard this before, mostly from people with English as a second language. It sounds a little odd to my ear and probably isn't technically correct, but like most things in English, if it makes sense in context you can let it slide.