Most of it is the same crisis: unregulated capitalism.
Moira_Mayhem
joined 8 months ago
Good!
When I was a kid I loved hanging out in the library, reading books and newspapers and learning so many things.
But it was always empty, and the librarians always seemed surprised to see me as a regular.
Libraries are wonderful places that don't demand you spend money to be there and everyone should get a card even if only for the extra ID.
My father is in a relationship with my deceased mother's sister.
I don't know how to feel about this.
Firstly: Ew
Secondly: He's really old and has never been able to take care of himself, so I'm glad that someone is there with him and my aunt really is a kind and sweet person who also is single and both are really too old to date, so maybe it's a good thing.
Thirdly: Ew Ewewewew EW ew
It's true, been fucked for years now.
The profit motive rots everything it touches
Tencent owns Larian
Tencent already has Larian and they did a great job with BG3 so what's your issue?
As long as they don't try to turn it into a microtransaction hell like only being able to play the classes you bought in their store, it's going to be no different except Tencent has a ton of money for funding.
There's a school of thought that youtube style content isn't good from a business perspective, that all of those downloads cost more than they can make.
Mainly it's because American bandwidth is way too expensive due to years of infrastructure and greed.
I'd love to go back to the days where you download the videos and audio you want in the background and watch it later.
It would save the platforms so much money and make competition viable.
But people are WAAAAAY too immediate gratification oriented, they want their endless stream of 30 second fluff clips in full HD.
A rare example of people profiting during the dotcom collapse, I tip my hat to you!
I think you are mistaking infiltration for 'getting spread out too far'.
Nearly all of what you describe can be most easily attributed to planted agitators.
Also on a side note:
A friend of mine's dad legit did win a million dollars in one of those popups. It was really early in the advertising days and I guess they were trying something.
Anyway he paid off all his kids' houses and bought a nice fishing truck.
I doubt it will ever happen again but I was personal witness for it happening at least once.
That said, even after watching that I have never, and will never willingly click any popup.
WoTC might not sell its DND IP but Hasbro could easily sell the entirety of WoTC to Tencent if they wanted to.