Saarth

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I would assume Bosch knows how blatant paywalling features looks and will backfire just like it did for BMW.

I am guessing Bosch wants to create a Bosch ecosystem where you can control all your home appliances with a single app. This is what PC OEMs did with RGB software. It's not really for surveillance although they do use it to push ads/premium features. The main intent is to lock you into their ecosystem and then you only buy products from them. Samsung & Apple do this are well known for this, and that's what they're emulating.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

Probably makes sense yeah.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes but even in most video games, when you respawn you don't have to start from the beginning each time. You start from where you die or a save point.

I guess what I am noticing in these shows is that you die or go out and then come back again and do the same things again. And it loops ad finitum.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah i was wondering if these shows are channeling some kind of anxieties around futility/hopelessness of the system.

Also Mickey 17 is by Bong Joon Ho, so the class system analogy makes sense too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

Not really death but going in and out of Lumen kind of resets things and they have to figure their way out. It seems similar.

 

I am watching Severance and playing Hades 2 lately, and I noticed that 'respawn' as a plot device has really increased in last few years.

It's not just respawn, but it's the mechanism where each spawn helps push the narrative further.

The Good Place was similar. Mickey 17 seems to be doing the same thing from what I can tell in the trailer.

Am I just cherry picking or is this a real trend? And does this reflect some other underlying phenomenon?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I was hoping we are about to enter Chinese imperialism once Trump runs the western hegemony to the ground.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

The unravelling of US imperialism is an amazing outcome of the Trump presidency.