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'Marketing's dead, and I can back this s**t up': Larian's publishing director says players 'just want to be spoken to, and they don't want to be bamboozled' (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Glorious American Capitalism. Enshittification is just a word for the financialization of everything. Finance Bros run the world, and they know you have another .0265٪ disposable income they can get to make their line go up another quarter.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

On a completely different subject which I think is related: My parents want a cabinet and hutch for their dining room. I'm designing and building it. Looking on the internet for ideas, I like how that cornice is done. Can't do those legs the way I'm going to build the side rails" type thing, I notice a trend: There is basically no documentation on the internet that anyone actually uses dining room hutches to store things they frequently use. Those that aren't just blank to market the cabinet itself are crammed with random knickknacks or worse the White Woman's Instagram tableau. A scroll sawn cursive word, some brand new ceramic containers with words printed on them in that thin tall font, especially a teapot with TEA written on it in which tea will NEVER be made, a statue of a pig, an old sifter, a fake plant...

I hate the idea of such a large, complicated and expensive piece of furniture used as a trophy case or a diorama of basic bitchery. In the words of George Carlin, "spending money you don't have on things you don't need."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

tall thin font

Fucken Rae Dunn, dog. I knew a girl who had two kids straight out of high school and blew her entire income on trendy housewares for the apartment she could barely afford. When I broke contact she was buying halloween variants of serving dishes she had already never used. Last I heard her parents have those kids now.