Could make that argument for every genre though. Racing games will always fundamentally be about making a vehicle get to a finish line before the other ones, etc. Applies outside of games, too. Music, books, film, if you set the bar for innovation that high then we just all stop doing art.
I’m surprised by how quickly it’s become active. Most discussions are still about Reddit or Lemmy, but even that feels like it’s changing.
Oh that’s what’s been happening.
What do you propose a first person shooter features, if not guns? Non-violent FPS games exist like Splatoon, but those are still guns. Bows are an option, but that’s still projectile-based violence.
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Fortunately something like RES doesn’t need Reddit’s blessing to exist. A browser extension that rearranges information the browser has already downloaded (to massively oversimplify what RES is doing) doesn’t need API access.
They could shut down old reddit but the only reason RES doesn’t support new reddit is that it would require rewriting the whole thing. If that was the only option, someone would eventually do it.
In general it’s actually less burdensome.
I probably hate it less than most people but it doesn’t excuse bad design. Warframe, for instance, requires you to always be online - but if your instance is set to Solo, you can pause the game.
Preordering is dumb, preordering in 2023 when it’s 50/50 whether any given PC port is going to be a total mess is dumb
I’m still really struggling to get posts to actually submit.
I know I’ve instinctively opened Sync a couple times already. I assume a lot of people who use reddit are lurkers as well, who don’t really pay any attention to the quality of the homepage and will just browse like nothing changed.
Clearly the data is wrong. Switches Jane, who owns three hundred million switches, is an outlier and should not have been counted.
Jailbait
I don’t have any faith they’ll even push it back. That “ama” was such a disaster, spez is a complete narcissist.
Given how long ago this experiment was, it really recontextualizes their current stance. They are moving to eliminate all access to their site that isn’t the official app.
Definitely a shame to see this. But with all new communities it’s important to be vigilant for that kind of toxicity, and I’m definitely gone the moment I get a sniff of it seeping in over here. Not like reddit was any better, you could barely go a week without a random subreddit being taken over by awful people.
I agree this seems kneejerk. If Meta refuses to abide by the standards of interoperability and openness then lock them out, but by doing so ahead of time the fediverse is committing the crime it’s pre-punishing Meta for.