It feels like somewhere in the Glasshouse Mountains, looking towards the Sunshine Coast, but I can't pin down where.

Whipper Snipper here in Aus

What I mean is that they are trending towards being a smaller part of the overall market year over year.

I mean, it's already happening. AAA games are less common, and aren't doing as well as they used to, and the AAA studios are drying up. In its place, we're getting more indie games, more games from small development companies, and they all come at cheaper prices.

Consoles aren't immune to that, they're just delayed in their reaction, because the barrier for entry is higher for indie developers. But the prices that people are willing to pay on PC games isn't going up, because there are plenty of non AAA options available for less, and as that becomes normalised, expensive consoles will falter. Their flagship games will command a premium, but they won't be able to build up the game library they need to stay competitive with the PC market.

And don't forget, Steamdeck and the like are out there now, which directly challenge the niche that the Switch sits in.

I don't think we'll get a "moment", but I think the trend will end in a similar way

The difference is that voting is not publicly available, so people can't be judged for their voting behaviours, however, down voting bots etc can still be identified and banned by their home instance admin.

That being said, I don't like the feature, and would disable it if I could

I'll eat pineapple on pizza, but not on a burger.

I'll eat beetroot on a burger, but not on pizza.

Pineapple is the reason I don't order burgers with the lot.

Chaos. I grab eggs at random, without consideration for symmetry!

Why does the general attitude on Lemmy seem to lean toward more censorship and silencing of speech

Because "censorship" in this context is a weasel word. What people complaining about censorship really want, is the ability to be more openly racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic etc. What people pushing back against that want is less bigotry.

But because the bigots can't own their bigotry, they hide behind "censorship" and not having enough "free speech".

This is literally youtube saying "The president says that hating on folks is ok, and we will make more money by aligning with that". It's not them taking a stance on free speech, because they still block stuff that costs them money. They still demonetise or block things that are supportive of LGBT folk for the flimsiest of reasons, none of which they would do if censorship or free speech were their reasoning.

This has nothing to do with "censorship" and everything to do with a deliberate attempt not to increase free speech, but to shift "allowed" speech to the right

Laziness isn't a thing. It centralises productivity as a measure of worth, and then shames people for hitting a threshold that means they can't meet the productivity expectations of others.

I wear clipons, because I need prescription glasses, and having to swap from prescription glasses to prescription sunglasses back and forth multiple times a day is an ADHD recipe for losing an expensive pair of glasses.

I take my clipons off indoors though, but that's mostly because it's really hard to see indoors with them on :P

I'm one episode in and I was already wondering whether I'd bother to watch any more. Guess I won't be

Give us a crash course in the history of your world

me, trying to make a world history up on the fly, whilst not contradicting stuff I made up on the fly 6 sessions ago