Now it'd be nice to see them innovate their way out of selling customer data as standard, even when the customer paid over 2K for their device.

Greed. No reason other than greed.

Exactly what I was thinking. A pirate in the west doesn't stay a pirate for long without one.

At least it's not Kotaku but all this consolidation is far from good news. Heaven forbid reporters should get to stay independent, let alone being puppeted by a company that's little more than a meme.

A common tactic is to pay your victims back to build trust and later ask for larger sums because "well they paid me back last time"

Sadly short-sighted "money now" comes first

Fuck Nintendo. Bunch of money hungry cunts. I hope their sales plummet. Emulation isn't illegal but here fucking are being forced to buy their horrendously shitty console to play a game. Glad I bought mine secondhand and already sold it. You once had honour. Now you can commit seppuku

Because I was generally enjoying Reddit before being forced out by the API crap. I'm a creature of habit so tend to dislike change and as much as I'm generally liking Lemmy, I'm having to force myself to not check the app every time I get bored because I'll just see the same posts 20 times in a day thanks to the relatively low level of interaction on the platform currently. Whenever I go looking for tech support online, it's nearly always a reddit post from 2-8 years ago that has the answer but I don't want to spend any amount of time on the site, particularly if I'm on my phone at the time since it means doing that annoying step of having to manually change "www" to "old" to make the site functional and readable. I guess I'm just feeling vengeful at yet another good (or some approximation of) thing ruined by yet another money-grubbing, power-hungry, self-important tosser.

Though I see what you're saying... ish. I think at this point, we aren't going to see a massive influx of users without the death of competing platforms like Reddit since there are enough people either happy to keep taking the punches or think sunshine shines out of Spez's asshole. Frankly, we can do without the second kind of person but the first won't do anything without a certain amount of persuasion and I reckon the sinking of the ol' Reddit ship would be just enough of a toe-capped-boot up the nether regions to persuade.

Edit: grammar whoopsies

Oh good. Yet another thing that's going to cost more

I'd figured it was that disconnected dev who threw a hissy fit on the general public... or Todd

Oh no, he will be sorely missed. Just don't forget the bleach once you've shoved his toxic ass down the drain.

Narcissism is generally seen as a negative trait so there already isn't a non-derogatory way of calling someone a narcissist. Also, there is an acknowledged difference between being a narcissist and having NPD so as much as many here would probably say Empress has some kind of disorder, I bet very few have the credentials to diagnose which means it's the former, and if we're being completely honest, it's a very practical word to describe a person's behaviour. So I guess it has to be a "chill out, snowflake" moment for you.