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[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 points 9 minutes ago* (last edited 8 minutes ago)

As the western AAA gaming industry dies, I shall be playing Komm süßer Tod in its funeral. Which one depends on who's the next kicking the bucket: this one if it's the pop music industry, and this one if it's Hollywood.

…now excuse me, I gotta finish Donkey Kong Country 2 again.

[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 36 points 2 hours ago

This is /v/, which means this post is behind over 9000 layers of sarcasm.

[-] polotype@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 minutes ago

I took it as satire too, but what tells it's /v/ ?

[-] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 hour ago

All of which this platform will be oblivious to, because Lemmy just doesn't do satire.

[-] FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 minutes ago

Lemmy is still a relatively young community. I bet it gets better with time. I like to think that I already noticed small (and healthy) community growths.

And I do not have a metric nor an example. This is super vague, I know.

[-] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 9 points 1 hour ago

Lemmy hates the shit out of satire lol

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 hour ago

And 4 years on, I still can’t figure out whether it’s because of neurospiciness or divergent interests. Linux? 471 communities. Writing? 2 and the mods of the second one abandoned their accounts years ago

[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Maybe it's because even within the fediverse, there are too many people who agree to satirized positions unironically. i.e. Lemmy is just a little too diverse for most satire.

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 1 points 16 minutes ago* (last edited 11 minutes ago)

In certain ways, maybe. I can’t see eye to eye with some people on what constitutes a genocide, for instance. But there comes a point where it’s apparently either satire or a an objectively crazy user. It’s equally apparent who this split Is apparent to, on this open source communist Linux forum.

It’s my personal belief that lemmy at large is simply too experientially limited to recognize online satire outside of incredibly specific examples. Mostly meme templates. And there’s nothing wrong with that, but it is a little frustrating for me, personally.

[-] _g_be@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

Damn autists, taking everything literally

[-] mutilated_sphincter@lemmy.world 4 points 38 minutes ago

No, you must be thinking of kleptomaniacs

[-] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 23 minutes ago

No, no, that's "literally taking everything," but now we're getting into the realm of dyslexics

[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 20 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

collapse of the entire western AAA gaming industry

Don't threaten me with a good time. Seriously, that might be exactly what the industry needs.

[-] bearboiblake@pawb.social 12 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

AAA profits are higher than ever. Layoffs are tremendously inefficient. They do nothing to reduce costs long term, and can actually lead to increased costs. There is a good amount of economic research which demonstrates that.

Layoffs are corporatist virtue signalling.

[-] rafoix@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 hour ago

Shareholders only want short term gains so they could sell their shares and win big.

Long term goals are for the suckers that bought the artificially inflated stocks.

[-] bearboiblake@pawb.social 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Layoffs actually tend to artificially deflate stock prices as it's seen as a signal of a company in financial distress - this is actually one of the reasons why industries tend to do layoffs simultaneously across multiple corporations. Of course this can be used to turn a profit through short selling but you'd need to have some sort of prior knowledge to set up the short positions prior to the layoffs being announced.

[-] Davel23@fedia.io 6 points 1 hour ago

Just FYI, "dearth" means a scarcity or very little of something.

[-] bearboiblake@pawb.social 7 points 1 hour ago

Oh wow, you're right, why the heck did I think it was the opposite? I've been misusing that word for years. Thanks for letting me know!

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

2024 survey from Consumer Reports here. Representative sample of 2022 people.

"Still playing gaming systems released before 2000" in this case means "has used at least one gaming system released before 2000 at least once in the past year."

What you probably imagined is probably very different from what the survey actually reported.

[-] Denjin@feddit.uk 1 points 2 minutes ago

If I play Streets of Rage 2 (1992) but on an emulator running on my Steam Deck (2022), does that count?

[-] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 8 points 1 hour ago
[-] jqubed@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago
[-] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

All shall turn to ashes

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