#capitalism breeds innovation???

[supeskenobi]

The Macbookification of Laptops and the overall Applefication of technology will never not piss me off. Remember when phones all had their own unique design quirks? Technology has become so fucking unified in its design work that it has become boring to look at. And it's not just the devices themselves. Literally all social media sites look and feel the same. There's no uniqueness anymore. Literally the only technology that still has some semblance of uniqueness in its design work, are video game consoles. The PS5 may be the size and weight of Paddington Bear, but thank merciful fuck that it looks nothing like the XBOX Series X/S or it's predecessor.

And don't get me started on SMART technology. Fuck off.

u used to be able to put a dvd in your computer. and then u could watch it

[alivehouse]

needing to pay for parking is so twisted and evil man do you want me to just be putting this fucking thing in my pocket ehat do you want me to do

[antigirlb0ss]

>be google

>searches become unusable bc there's so much SEO junk on the internet, u literally have to filter searches to pre-2023 to avoid it

>frequently the only way to get an answer to particularly niche questions is to add "reddit" to the end of a search

>oh shit we should fix this

>ai that just regurgitates the SEO nonsense AND throws in some reddit for good measure

>fixed it!

[nando161mando]

Capitalism breeds innovation...

[clouds-of-wings]

Power Metal reddit currently has a discussion about Nuclear Blast, about what has changed with them and why, and man I have learned a lot of disturbing facts about what has happened there in the past 5 years. Someone posted an in-depth investigative article about it (from November 2021), which you should read if you speak German and are interested, otherwise or if it's too long here are the main points...

If you're into Nightwish, Sabaton, Blind Guardian etc., this is relevant information.

In 2018, the French Believe Music, which is a large corporation that mainly specializes in digital distribution, became majority owner of NB

Believe is not really interested in physical media like CDs and vinyls even though the people who worked at NB told their new corporate overlords that metal fans like physical media, both because many fans of especially the oldest and most successful bands are 50+ and because it's more ingrained in the subculture. Believe doesn't care and doesn't listen. They have their experiences from pop and hip-hop, where phone-based streaming subscriptions are the norm, and that's all they want to know. They are also ignoring printed magazines and don't advertise there much anymore.

Less focus on physical media means that bands now earn less, that they rank less highly in album charts, which in turn means that they lose negotiation power when they try to plan tours and negotiate with venues etc., because they "look" less successful

Believe has been dealing with this by signing mainly bands that are easy to market digitally and ending co-operations with bands that aren't, even ones that had been with NB for decades (like Rage and Nile, who went to Napalm)

The personal cooperation between bands and NB has really suffered, everything is more profit-oriented and impersonal, a lot of budgets have been decreased and the real decisions are made by Believe in Paris, not by any specific NB team

Believe has been stock market traded since 2021. Their stock value went down at first, was at about the price it had started out at when the article was written - I looked it up and in March 23 it's down 40% from its original value. Ouch.

The original founder of NB started a new label, Atomic Fire, and took "Amorphis, Helloween, Opeth, Sonata Arctica, Meshuggah, Primal Fear, Agnostic Front, Rise Of The Northstar, Silver Lake, White Stones and Michael Schenker Group" with him, also because Believe didn't really do much to keep many of these bands

It's certainly interesting to learn about, also because I had already wondered if NB, and some of their bands, had intentionally taken a more "commercial" approach in recent years, but I didn't know about the Believe thing. I thought it maybe had something to do with losses from the pandemic or something. Turns out they have a new owner.

[glumby]

hate tiktok popularizing the idea that we should watch short videos in full on repeat instead of have a time progress bar.

I hate having to watch a whole video over and over again because I wanted to see something I didn't quite catch at the end. let me fast forward!!! let me scroll through!!! let me go back!!! let me press an actual pause button not just hold my screen !!!!!!!!!!!

[c-kiddo]

Just saying that tumblr now trains ai on ppls art if you don't opt out so be careful please. Just a heads up if you haven't seen the warning posts. Also you're one of my favorite blog people on here and I really like your art, especially your Imogen redesign it's straight up better than official art in my personal opinion. Just more interesting to look at

yea i clicked the turn-off button on my blogs i post original content. im too low spoons to do it for all of them but theyre mostly organised reblog blogs anyway. i saw people say they wont post here anymore but im too tired to figure out something else. if an AI is trained on my wonky art then i guess thats funny and im sure the AI bros will love it when their anime girls emerge with hairy legs and long noses and broken teeth . too tired to care much right now , on a personal scale. on a bigger scale i hate capitalism and its sad everything is going to shit except for some cool things like mountains and songs i like and artists that just keep going anyway . remember ai will never be able to take you over if you make physical art with your hands . thats ours forever . make a little zine

thank you also, i appreciate that <3 i forgot i did that redesign and im glad u like it , i think it turned out cool so thank u ^_^

[the-punforgiven]

The fact that my headphones have a battery life now is proof that god is dead and we have killed him

[lemonsweet]

Disney is just king of bad ideas

[toxycodone]

fuck capitalism but I won’t lie Popcorners might be the best thing invented this century. Those chips are so fucking good and for what

[vurelly]

capitalism fucking sucks i want another tattoo :/

[memekeymouse]

If Felix and Julius ever meet is gonna be like that one spiderman meme were they’re pointing at each other

There’s so many toons this could apply to unironically

Mickey and Oswald

Minnie + Fanny + Ortensia

Boris + Goofy

Mickey + Bendy

Donald + Daffy

I could go on

[littlepinksapphire]

The big reason Baldur’s Gate 3 works (aside from all the talent poured into it) is because the ceo isn’t an owner detached from the work and the workers, motivated purely by profit. Larian has been around just as long as BioWare, but they made sure to put the art before the money and not get bought out. Sure, it took them longer to earn their flowers because of this, but look how the tables have turned.

Larian continues to make consistently good games because they have the power over their art, not some higher up who only knows how to move money around. BioWare, on the the other hand, is super inconsistent. Dragon Age Dreadwolf, for example, has gone through some back and forth changes in focus over its development because some asshole with money saw a graph or something that showed single-player rpgs weren’t profitable anymore. They literally only know “number go up”, nevermind listening to what consumers want or what game devs know. It’s not about the game for them. That’s the whole crux of why capitalism doesn’t work. It’s profit irrespective of quality and worker’s lives.

From what I’ve seen, Larian treats its workers well compared to major studios. They weren’t crunching and struggling to put out a half-baked game. Other devs are terrified of BG3 setting the standard because they know the kind of impossible work their studios will put them too. For us to have more games like this in the future, the way these companies are run needs to change drastically.

[shiros-boyfriends-are-pretty]

me in 2012: "ooh i can watch a 15-30 second ad and get free gems in this game I play"

me, 2023: *clicks on ad* *30 second video* *closes video* *15 second demo* *plays too long in the demo and gets yeeted to the play store* *closes play store* *closes demo* *5 second countdown on a static advert of the SAME GAME before you can close out of that too*

WHO'S FUCKING IDEA WAS THIS

[nando161mando]

So innovative!

[unscharf-an-den-raendern]