StarryPhoenix97

@StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It was my understanding that it was a misconception that companies are legally bound to have an ROI or whatever. Not an economist so IDK. I just remember hearing that from several places. Regardless, the buyer-seller relationship is “I give you money, and you give me a product or service”. The investor-seller relationship is “We give you money, and you give us more money, and we don’t care how you do it.”

  Only very technically. Dodge v. Ford Motor Co. still made the shareholder a priority over the product or the customer. It’s a misconception that actual profit is the legal requirement. I suppose I’m guilty of furthering it, but it’s easier to keep the oversimplification than to explain the nuances when the outcome is the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s this.

  and it’s always worth distinguishing between executives and investors.

  Executives are going to push the problem, but the core issue with most things related to bad products is often due to shareholders. In the US, where most of these companies are based, a publicly traded company is expected to make money for its shareholders. Shareholders have subplanted customers in the companies ethical obligagions. The law has been used to make this national policy. Controlling shareholders can (and do) vote to remove company leadership that won’t act how they want. It is not just that they have to generate revenue, they have to generate as much revenue as possible as determined by shareholders.

  If a company goes public, It’s only a matter of time until it’s product goes to shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  tell me about it.

  I’ve written three different papers on social media’s effects on the brain and I still can’t pull away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm thinking of gifting this to my dad⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Simply put, it’s a hygiene joke. The shirt is saying, “Don’t talk shit about me when you need a bath,” more or less.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Systems theory⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guess who will be classified as an extremist by Palantir in 2030 for expressing criticism of pedophilia⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m hoping to be out of the country or dead by then

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon owns nothing and is unhappy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In my mind, the current timeline always starts with 2013 and the death of Aaron Swartz. You could argue it was his prosecution that started it, but his death was the moment it began to become clear. Maybe he saw where we were heading. He was being over-prosecuted. Almost everyone who wasn’t part of the establishment came to that conclusion.

  He represented everything that the new digital age could be: self-educated, a lover of learning, a humanist, an activist. A common man fighting for the common people. Everything he did was to spread information and protect our ability to learn, grow, and fight against injustice.

  Maybe he had a Howard Beale moment with someone when his plea deal was rejected. Maybe he saw where we were heading and knew that he would never be able to fight it again. They had done everything to make an example of him…to make it impossible for him to enact change. All he really did was find ways to use the system to share information and help people.

  I know, this was about PC gaming, but everything in this current dystopia ties back to this loss for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek has more to offer or it has to end and stop producing more content?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I really wish we got a Captain Seven show or mini series. I had been saying “Captain Annika Hansen” to my friends since Picard commissioned her. Then it happened! One of the best moments in Star Trek. Seven of Nine becoming Captain of the Enterprise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek has more to offer or it has to end and stop producing more content?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For Wheel of Time I can think of only two narrative choices that pissed me off as a book fan. In general I just accepted that it was a new turning of the wheel. Things would play out a little differently. No big deal.

  I put it aside for a bit and then it was canceled. That hurt more. Star Trek at least had told it’s stories. It can end gracefully. It deserves that much.

  People don’t like endings. I’m one of them.

  But, if you force something to continue past it’s time then you start making the property as a whole…less than the some of it’s party.

  • The last two seasons of supernatural were rough for that.

  • Much of the Hulu Futurama is cringe-y

  • Stargate (while admittedly problematic in premise) got bad with the Ori.

  Each of those shows had multiple ending seasons that were almost perfect, if they had been allowed to end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek has more to offer or it has to end and stop producing more content?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Star Trek is great. It’s always been great. The problems with it are, in part, manufactured for engagement.

  It has bad episodes, and some series are worse than others, but it’s something we need.

  It dreams of a better future and each series touches on the problems of our modern age in a way that is inclusive.

  As some people age, they out pace the societal equalitoes that star trek advocates for and they get angry at it. We haven’t solved the problems of TOS or TNG, but we’ve muted them somewhat.

  If I have one legitimate complaint for Star Trek it isn’t that it’s ‘woke.’

  My complaint is that it is more often starting to suffocate under the weight of its own history and lore. Most new content will somehow reference the old content at least once.

  Discovery did great stuff with the Trill and non-binary stuff that just…made sense. In general Discovery was really good in it’s last few seasons. I like Starfleet Academy too. I think it exists in the franchise and in the present world well. It’s a meta narrative about figuring out what Starfleet will be going forward. I haven’t watched a Star Trek show that i didn’t find something of value in.

  Searching on YouTube you would think it’s the worst show ever. (It’s not, but I don’t think it will get the standard three seasons to figure out it’s formula)

  All of this is just context for my answer to the question.

  As a Star Trek fan and an Ally I do think it’s time to let it rest. Maybe not forever but for now.

  We need it’s hope but we also need something that isn’t clinging to the past (again why I really like Starfleet Academy because in some episodes it discusses this in meta narrative)

  When you constantly have writers catering to the shows history, producers sabatoging production, and agitators stirring the pot for any number of reasons then it’s time to let it rest.

  I want a future star trek that isn’t called star trek. I want a show that is loud in it’s statements of social justice but chooses it’s moments to scream them so it can actually touch the hearts and minds of the people watching it. Star Trek is for everyone. That can’t change.

  We do still get that, but with it is always the weight of the franchise’s history.

  I hate The Burn(more accurately i hate the cause of the burn), just like in doctor who I hate The Timeless Child.

  I also understand that these writing decisions are often made as a way to try to keep the franchise fresh. A new series wouldn’t have the baggage of having to navigate history and could tell the same kinds of stories.

  We have to accept that Star Trek is almost like scifi’s version of the Simpsons. It’s done everything. If it continues then it may continue like The Simspons. That is to say stale. Relevant only by way of the fact that it is making references to current cultural issues and it’s own history.

  I don’t want that for Star Trek.

  P.s. Burnham was a good captain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo can disable your Switch 2 for piracy in the U.S., but not in Europe, as confirmed by its EULA⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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