HarkMahlberg

hear ye hear ye, behold the funkiest of bunches

I'm with you. I used to build maps, models, and textures for Battlefront 2 and share the files for free on Filefront. I got into programming for the joy of creating things that make people happy, or solve some little problems they have. I still make mods, the communities are out there and I'm glad I found them.

But tech evangelists and bro culture ruined the idea of programming as a career for me. The greed of late stage capitalism infected our industry the moment Facebook hit the scene, crypto accelerated it, and AI may as well be the final nail in the coffin. It's no longer a worthy or noble profession.

Yeah that about sums up how I view the rest of my life playing out.

If it helps you sleep at night...

Two weeks...

Yeah I can tell you're not commenting to convince anyone, you're just commenting to vent your frustrations. I get it, no worries. I mean the world is pretty shitty right now, and if you're thinking Canada and China and equally evil authoritarian regimes, yeah I guess all us commenters are equally not worth the effort. Have a good weekend mate, keep up the good fight against... everyone.

Despite all your raging comments in this thread, I still don't know what your stance is. The weak straw man argument isn't helping.

They say no parent should ever have to bury their child.

Not them. No, those monsters deserve it. The rest of their children too.

Small world, I'm also on the balatro/other games modding discord boat, and it is a rough ocean out here. The perennial argument is that users don't know how to use an old school forum, nobody wants to moderate it, nobody wants to pay for the infrastructure.

All those fall flat to me. Nobody even bothers to use discord's "forums" or pinned messages for their bug reports/troubleshooting, no they just post straight to general, "this doesnt work can someone help" with no details whatsoever. Not like it would be any better or worse on a forum. It's also not like BBS forums don't have moderation tools, it's not some lost art from an ancient civilization. As for paying for it... the whole discord server is propped up by nitro users. Like come on. Money can be exchanged for goods and services.

Pray tell what changed your view?

I wouldn't say a monopoly, but my counterpoint is pointing to how discord swallowed up all the BBS forums that reddit hadn't. So it's not like that's much better.

Me too friend, me too.