I’m realising blocking communities/magazines is as much a key to a good experience as subscribing to them, of not more.
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While I do consider it important to not isolate one's self too much, we also don't need to subject ourselves to everything, especially when it's having a noticeable negative effect.
Pretty gross how people are using this to pump up their notoriety, from Beast here to the others saying they "knew" this would happen. Even if it were true, it's not something you start bragging about. People died. Disgusting.
Excluding admins and devs from the start is just petulant and short sighted. Treating them like the enemy will only encourage them to silo off from the community.
Having Russia and its nukes controlled by a mercenary doesn't seem like much of a win, tbh. Not to say Putin's better, but I see more of a lose-lose, myself.
When those "someone"s are reasonable, sure, it won't be bad, but when they're not? Give the power of federation to a few instances, and that's not just a possibility, but an inevitability.
We already know Meta is planning to add themselves to the Fediverse. Set down this path and the someone deciding who gets access and how will end up being Zuck, or someone like him. That sound like a good future to you?
So defeating the point of Lemmy? Nah, that's a terrible "solution" that will only serve to empower big servers imposing on smaller or even personal one's.
That means it is entirely possible that you could munch on 20 to 40 of these ships in one sitting if you are not paying attention, and consume the equivalent of two to four fresh pickles.
Would you really eat that many fresh pickles in one sitting?
The jist of it would be that, while gaming exclusives have kinda just done their own thing for a while now, MS has invited the scrutiny of government agencies with such a big acquisition. That's why they are getting the brunt of criticism ATM.
It'll be interesting to see if that scrutiny spreads to the other big devs as well during all this.
I don't think that really has any bearing on the conversation of exclusives, tbh. A work being "good" or "bad" shouldn't have any influence on if we consider exclusives acceptable.
I mean, on that front, MS has been releasing pretty much every "exclusive* on PC for some time. Starfield itself is coming to PC. I think it's kinda weird that we label PCs under the "MS Console" umbrella and shame them for it, but Sony gets praised for it.
On the one hand, Sony is doing the same with plenty of their own games - Spider-man, Horizon, God of War, etc. This is standard in the industry at this point. On the other hand, Sony isn't gobbling up every studio it can get its hands on, let alone one as big as Activision Blizzard.
It's an interesting situation MS has gotten themselves in.
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While I do consider it important to not isolate one's self too much, we also don't need to subject ourselves to everything, especially when it's having a noticeable negative effect.