Maybe as an adaptation of the comic book character, but he still nailed the role that the movie called for.

You being very generous by calling the characters interesting. The character line-up was the most generic, by-the-numbers GotG ripoff I've ever seen.

Do you know how to break the cycle? Use open-source software. Use standard protocols that aren't locked behind some greedy corporation.

Why not take the features from Discord/Slack and integrate it into a new IRC or Jabber protocol?

It's like that Woodstock concert in the 2000s. You can't just recapture magic like that by repetition.

Spontaneity is spontaneous.

Oh, you mean something like GPL, which has been responsible for more technological freedom than any other concept in the past 30 years, except maybe the internet? Even the Internet was built on open standards and public RFCs, with billions and billions of Internet-bound Linux devices.

Let's not treat this like it's some new problem. The solution is right there. Just pick it up and use it, and thank your local OSS developer for actually maintaining the other software you use.

At what point do we declare that it already fell off the tightrope?

Seriously. I want to play Alan Wake 2, but not if it's on Epic's store.

I have the data just from car usage alone. It is braindead easy to produce a detailed ROI document proving how much money both the employer and employees are saving from remote work. It's a lot from both sides, and that's not including all of the less tangible benefits, like morale, team building, more focused work with less distractions, etc.

No SQL, block chain, crypto, metaverse, just to name a few recent examples.

AI is overhyped, but it is, so far, more useful than any of those other examples, though.

Brain drain.

People tend to forgot the millions of years of horribly inefficient evolution it took to develop the human brain.

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