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Michael Eisner once called himself "the last of the creative types in Hollywood" after he left Disney, and I can't help but see what he meant when he said that when I look at the current American film and TV landscape. It's like today's Hollywood bigwigs don't even understand why people watch TV and movies.

I kinda think this happened to Western video games too (yeah Sony is a Japanese company...but PlayStation has shown a pretty square focus on the Western market in the past 10 years.) From a consumer perspective I don't think a new CEO is the answer. It wasn't for Disney's fans with Bob Chapek.

I think Activision-Blizzard passed EA in badness years ago. Maybe Square Enix did too.

Like, when's the last time there was an EA controversy beyond "game's bad?" And even then I've only really heard sports games and Battlefield are bad.

Not that (I think most Lemmy users probably do have YouTube and I KNOW a lot have Tumblr,) I just don't think TikTok's content appeals to the average Lemmy user.

Smart glasses outside of specific applications were a fad when Google did them and will continue to be, at best, a fad.

I really don't think the average Lemmy user has TikTok.

I know there's no laws that allow the people of the USA to prosecute companies for business models that destroy the fabric of society, and I even fear that kind of law could be abused to prosecute abortion clinics and LGBT rights orgs...but dating apps make me wish there was.

Andrew Tate...PUAs...Red Pillers...it all only makes sense in a world where dating apps are the primary way we meet people.

Why do I remember this exact thing existing in like 2016?

I really think they should bring back Starlight, possibly outside the Coke brand. To me, it tasted like graham cracker.

I don't think the majority of the populace...anywhere makes app decisions based on morality. WhatsApp is basically nonexistent in USA and Canada (and while Facebook and Instagram are present they are far from omnipresent) but I don't think it has anything to do with people making informed decisions about the moral issues with tech companies.

To be clear, "part of me" is really doing a lot of work here.

Haiku feels more "rigid." GNU/Linux is ultimately, a pile of parts instead of a cohesive whole, and it shows in the user experience even in distros made with user friendliness in mind. GNU/Linux's modularity is a good thing for many uses, but it also makes GNU/Linux feel incoherent to use at times and just means the Linux ecosystem will always be fragmented. FreeBSD has the rigidity, but isn't developed with average end users in mind and is particularly unusable as a gaming OS. Currently Haiku isn't really usable for much of anything, but Haiku's vision of a cohesive open source OS that is designed with a laser focus on personal computing users makes sense and I could see being recommended over Linux if it were achieved (though, I don't believe Haiku in the real world where we can't just fast forward development ten years can achieve this.)

(I explain and link to the ones that I don't think everyone here would know about)

• Lemmy
• ActivityPub
• Firefox (Chromium should go the way of IE)
• Godot
• WINE
• Cinnamon (the desktop environment developed for Linux Mint, so we can get Wayland support)
• Box86/Box64
• Darling (macOS compatibility layer for Linux, plans to support running iOS apps when running on on ARM machines in the future, I want this primarily for iOS preservation purposes)
• Xemu (Original Xbox emulator, OG Xboxes are some of the most failure prone consoles and a game I want to play still has serious issues)
• Haiku (mostly for really nerdy shits and giggles honestly, but there's a part of me that thinks it could be a better consumer grade FOSS OS than GNU/Linux if it were more developed and had any actual software support. As it stands, like it's proprietary predecessor BeOS, it's just a toy. It's no less stupid than investing your theoretical time in Hurd IMO)

Not at all. I think about the British Empire and Ottoman Empire more, but still not much.

The auto strike has a 75% approval rating. That's way bigger than most things in US politics. Not supporting the auto strike is a losing issue.

I cannot be friends with DeSantis supporters. Even moreso since I live in a major city in a US state where, despite being a swing state, DeSantis' ideas have proven a losing position (Doug Mastriano pledged to make PA "the Florida of the North." That's how the Democratic nominee won that year.)

No, GameMaker Studio. That engine had it's own controversy over moving to a subscription model, but nothing as egregious as Unity.

I'd hate to suggest that, but it'd set an example.

I still think the N64's overall technical superiority over the PS1 is very visible. Notice how much more closed in most PS1 games' environments are. Spyro is the main exception, but that needed a lot of special tricks where N64 just does that. I say this as someone who doesn't really like the N64 library.

1. Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
2. Jethro Tull - A Passion Play
3. Pink Floyd - Animals
4. Paramore - Brand New Eyes
5. Stone Temple Pilots - Shangri-LA DEE DA
6. Yes - Drama
7. Yellowcard - Yellowcard
8. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
9. Mariya Takeuchi - Love Songs (I've never actually listened to this in full but I love "September" off this album)
10. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP (Same as above, I love "Stan" but have never actually listened to this in full, I picked the last two because I wanted some non-rock picks but I'm not much of an album guy in genres that aren't rock.)

If Paint fills your needs, GIMP will be fine.

Disagree. Paint's function is to be the Notepad of images, something not very powerful but quick and dead simple.

GIMP is needlessly hard to use.

For how relatively well known it is (it's probably like the next most well known piece of FOSS after Linux and Blender) I can't believe how bad a piece of software GIMP is.