Sordid

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[–] Sordid@lemmy.world 121 points 1 month ago

The fact that the OpenBSD logo has to include its name spelled out really tells you everything you need to know, doesn't it.

[–] Sordid@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I know that, but it just looks weird. Though on second thought, maybe the issue is the connection between E and K. Star Wars has the R and S connected, but there it looks like a natural extension of the strokes made when writing the letters. Here it doesn't work nearly as well, and the second line already has two connected letters with T and R anyway. So after thinking about it a bit more, I think I'd just cut the connection between E and K. The K still looks a little odd, but it conforms to the SW logo, and at least the entire bottom right corner doesn't stick out like a sore thumb.

[–] Sordid@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Is it just me or is the K upside down? Surely this looks better?

[–] Sordid@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

tHeY cReAtE jObS!

[–] Sordid@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

It's okay to like them while they do good and then change your mind when they turn evil.

[–] Sordid@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

there's a guy on 4chan who's planning to sue Fromsoft

Lol, no. There's a guy on 4chan who's saying wildly outlandish shit in order to have a laugh at anyone who takes it seriously.

[–] Sordid@lemmy.world 66 points 3 months ago (5 children)

The enshittification cycle:

Phase one, attract users by providing a good service.
Phase two, once the users are locked in, squeeze them for all they're worth by selling them to business customers (advertisers and/or data buyers).
Phase three, once the business customers are locked in, squeeze them for all they're worth by threatening to deny them access to the users on whom they now depend.

Spez seems to think Reddit has the pull to make phase 3 happen. I rather doubt it, but we'll see.

[–] Sordid@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It does make a certain amount of sense. Big profit now means you get a chunk of cash to invest in other quick profit schemes, and your wealth just keeps snowballing. It works as long as you don't care that you never build anything that lasts.

[–] Sordid@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

It's phase three of the enshittification cycle. In phase one, you attract users by providing a good service. Once they're locked in, you squeeze them for all they're worth by switching focus to business customers. Once they're locked in, you squeeze them by threatening to deny them access to the users on whom they now depend.

[–] Sordid@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Not at all! Remember, imagination knows no bounds. You can continue making stuff up with no basis in fact pretty much forever.

[–] Sordid@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Please, lecture me more about what my motivations are. Of the two of us, you're clearly the expert on that topic. I'm dying to hear more.

[–] Sordid@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

That's also something I was told in response to my skepticism during NMS' pre-release hype phase, and it's a complete misunderstanding of what's going on here. I'm not trying to stop people from being happy, on the contrary, I'm trying to help them avoid disappointment by getting them to stop huffing hopium in industrial quantities. But they don't wanna stop.

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