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

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

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.

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.

It’s almost as if the Souls series was a deliberate throwback inspired by classic games and used mechanics copied from them.

It seems to me that the most distinctive feature is the save mechanic that essentially splits the game into levels where you can only save your progress when you reach a campfire.

By this definition, Demon’s Souls is not a soulslike.

Ordinary people just trying to live their lives hate this one simple trick.

If titles are anything to go by, murderizing an absolute shitzillion of people makes monarchs pretty great.

I don’t see why the shareholders wouldn’t want his head on a pike as well.