• 7 Posts
  • 2.32K Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: July 31st, 2023

help-circle



  • no proper news outlet is reporting that.

    And they probably won’t. The best we’ll get is watered-down slop or misreporting that frames the movement as small and unimportant.

    It’s not in the interests of corporate media to accurately report on protests against the Trump administration. It might make some ad money in the short term, but it’s antithetical to the goals of both the owners and the corporations to piss off Trump:

    1. Republicans benefit the wealthy and corporations and they don’t bite the hand that feeds.
    2. The Trump administration has proven itself happy to retaliate against reporters and news agencies by banning them from press events.
    3. The billionaires who own them don’t want to anger the guy they’re buying favors from.

    Edit:

    The AP certainly didn’t choose to publish many photos that show off the actual scale of the protests: https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/no-kings-protest-trump-us-b5de52994b7c592034fb19b7d3e9d577

    This is what they should be showing: https://i.imgur.com/vR41TqH.mp4


  • pivot_root@lemmy.worldtoBluesky@lemmy.worldThis is just Year 1.
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    31
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    18 hours ago

    Let’s not forget all the Bad Things™ the Republicans have dealt with this year! They have:

    A Republican-funding billionaire throwing a tantrum at Daddy Donny.

    A Republican senator arrested for CSAM.

    Good American patriots are being targeted and singled out! Woe is them, it’s not fair! /s








  • Ok, now suppose you want to release a game for any of the modern Nintendo consoles.

    You need to get a devkit. To get it, you need Nintendo to approve your request, and you need to pay them for a license to use the devkit hardware. And, to actually use the devkit, you need a PC running Windows.

    Sure, to develop a game for PC, you need a PC. But do you know what you don’t need on top of that? A devkit and a Windows license.

    Edit: Two downvotes in two minutes? Oh my, the sockpuppets are angry today.



  • Corpos are skilled at wringing any and all interesting bits out of something and reducing it to harmless, overdone slop that still sells. They don’t take risks because that may make them $5 less. But indies do.

    I’m still amazed at how Gearbox managed to royally fuck up Risk of Rain 2. They had a great game with solid foundations handed to them, and they somehow managed to both regress the game logic into being tied to framerate and release a buggy mess of a DLC in one fell swoop.


  • pivot_root@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldTake a hint
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    edit-2
    4 days ago

    It’s not that they’re allergic to money but rather the inflated sense of self-importance and ego. To rightsholders and executives, it’s unthinkable that fans could come up with something better and profitable using the intellectual property that they earned (read: bought) fair and square. And if someone somehow did, it’s a threat to the bottom line, not something to embrace and encourage.