That would involve a level of risk that a corporation that bought out a corporation that bought out Blizzard is not allowed to take. But, of course, they will gladly take billions of dollars and light it on fire for shitty decisions like the Metaverse or laying off tens of thousands of their own staff.

It’s not even fair to call them Blizzard any more. They are Microsoft. Any time somebody boots up WoW, it’s Microsoft World of Warcraft. Just like it’s Microsoft Minecraft, Microsoft Call of Duty, Microsoft Fallout, and Microsoft DOOM.

Stop calling them by ancient names like they haven’t been fully absorbed into the mega-corporation. Blizzard is gone, and has been for at least a decade.

I just want to be able to add PeerTube channels on my Lemmy feed. Unified ActivityPub protocol, my ass.

The joke that starts a new chapter…

No, I said “don’t die!”

Featuring the single best joke ever told in a video game.

Who we killing in the name of again? Come on, Zack de la Rocha, help me out here…

I don’t need to install DeArrow. I just don’t subscribe to YouTubers that rely on clickbaity thumbnails and titles.

If that’s the conclusion you’re walking away with, then clearly you’re arguing in bad faith.

Having a face on them is one thing. Sometimes the person is the subject of the video, and it’s worth highlighting that in the video.

Having the person making the video staring at the camera, in a pose that says “look at how attractive I am” is another.

Also, this is not as hard and fast as you make it out. Here, I’ll post some random examples in my feed:

• No face
• Indirect faces for a video game
• No face
• Face looking away, subject of video
• Not really faces
• Faces from video game subject
• Staring directly at the camera to make it look like some serious meta video, when it’s really an April Fool’s joke (this is the exception that proves how ridiculous it is)
• No face
• Faces, but the main focus of the video

In fact, I had to dig to find videos that would really qualify:

• Two faces staring into the camera, but they are properly framed and surrounded by the subject of the video
• Reaction shot face, but at least it’s not taking up the entire frame
• Mutahar’s mug behind his junky desk, but that’s all of his videos and I wished he put more effort into his thumbnails and presentation

Even (most) of the female YouTubers on my feed aren’t falling for it:

• Earlybird
• Maangchi
• Pushing Up Roses, besides the occasion “reaction face”
• CrystAAHHL, just to show that I’m not cherry-picking, yes, she does the reaction face way too much

Meanwhile, LaurieWired’s entire catalogue is “look how attractive my face is!” This one doesn’t even have the subject in the thumbnail! It’s just her walking in a park. Also, what’s up with her videos from two years ago? Did she completely change her makeup style just to look more attractive in thumbnails?

All of her thumbnails are literally:

The fascists’ weakness is their extreme overconfidence in everything they do.

That’s the thing. It’s easy to make something that obviously looks like AI. Slop is slop because it’s lazy and takes five minutes to make. Corpos love slop because they always want to take the minimum time possible to make anything.

However, with a bit more effort, you can make something that doesn’t look like AI at all, and still took less time to make than doing it manually.

With all of this boundary setting, people are just going to hide it better. More hostility just means less transparency. It’s already happening.

I can’t help but think of the Borderlands corpos, now.

Microsoft won’t, but Oracle… I’m having trouble figuring out what Oracle sells nowadays that is worth paying money for. Are there really that many companies still hooked on Oracle’s DB?

I prefer radiation therapy.

Slavjank!

Calling something “eurojank” is implying it was made in France, Belgium, Spain, Denmark, Italy, Greece, or any number of Western European countries.

That is $375M to a single person.

Wrong, this was state-initiated consumer protection enforcement action by the state of New Mexico. How those funds get distributed is up to the state government.

ordered to pay $375m by a New Mexico court.

Meta total assets: US$366 billion (2025)… with a fucking B

I’m sorry, which big tech company is brought to who’s heel?

Nobody calls it “eurojank”. They call it “slavjank”. Slavic counties. Like for example, Ukraine, which, hey, is exactly where Stalker developer Volodymyr Yezhov comes from.

The game is literally about the Chernobyl exclusion zone in Ukraine. Don’t bitch about “geofencing” a genre of games when Stalker geofences its own fictional universe.

It’s like an anime creator bitching about people associating it with Japan when the stories are all strangely focused on Japan for some reason.

Many “centers” in the US are religious organizations pretending to not pump their own religion: Alcoholics Anonymous, Boy Scouts of America, Salvation Army, Scientology has a bunch of these, too. And Mormons.