You know, pointing at cherry (blossom) picked statistics, doesn’t make you smart or any less racist. The irony of projecting your love of bootlicking is not lost on me

Aren’t the only people who bought this thing secret benefactors and a handful of reporters?

Yeah, unless they build it into instagram like they did with their snapchat and tiktok clones, I don’t think it stands a chance. Their twitter clone is doing pretty well though I think

Not sure if racist in general or racist towards Japan specifically 🤔

He corrected you, you would do well to learn something from it

So here’s a very simple boiled down summary of what’s been happening in the last ~15 years, and has gotten exponentially more extreme with every subsequent year:

Game doesn’t sell well = All the devs are laid off, CEO gets a new yacht.

Game sells really well = Most devs are laid off, CEO gets three yachts

There’s too many knock-on effects to list, but specifically in the videogames business: Quality of games goes down. Prices go up. Burnout in the industry goes up. Exploitation of foreign contractors goes up.

There’s a metric fuckton of environmental, economic, and societal damage being done as well but I’m not qualified enough to explain/express them. The effects of all this will be felt by out-of-the-loop-ers in the years and decades to come

Shake is also the ‘undo’ gesture across iOS

Fired? You mean given progressively larger bonuses until he’s poached by a completely different moronic public company just to repeat the same cycle until he dies happy, healthy, and wealthy beyond measure?

I’ve been trying to change my email address for about 18 months now. Email never arrives

Regrettably, I accidentally implied that the linked slop generator is a media outlet. Point still stands though.

It’s crazy but understandable that media outlets started calling Twitter “X”. It’s batshit bonkers that they’re calling fleeced users “verified”, as if the word didn’t have prior meaning and it isn’t still widely used to this day (and long into the future)