huh, interesting! It’s The Mythical Man-Month! That book was published back in 1975. They definitely know better, but must be in quite a pickle.

I think manufacturing the complex evidence needed here wouldn’t be possible.

I had a similar thought. Why didn’t they just release democrat names? And I think it’s because while they know they can claim nothing exists (What they are doing now, after having access), if they try to cherry-pick info and claim that’s all that exists, someone with knowledge in the matter will be able to leak/prove they are cherry picking.

It’s also very tempting to buy into the idea that if the list is as long and vast as some suggest, it will undermine trust in a very real way that goes beyond MAGA/Qanon fringe conspiracy circles. I could see the Trump admin, as stupid and bumbling as they are, recognizing the fire they are playing with.

I hate how kooky that all sounds. What a fucked up situation.

Where’s that federation?

And how would this fit in? Are they just going to build a bunch of excuses into the platform, and then claim it’s now impossible?

Yeah, cover your shame.

Logged out YouTube was covered up a few years ago.

Are we aware of any big name titles that are not complete because they didn’t have actors?

Is there any chance this contributed to latest GTA6 delay?

Or did all of the major studios just switch to actors that are not part of a guild/union?

Makes me think of Dell.

Domestic US cars can’t compete with foreign cars. We’ve known that forever. Or at least since the 90s.

Growing up in the 90s in Wisconsin, all the conservatives around me always talked shit about foreign cars.

I can’t comprehend how they justified it. But I also knew nothing about cars.

It was only back in ~2016 that I realized how much building a car is similar to building a computer. Supply chains, common parts, designs made to fit common “cases”. Etc etc.

It’s exceptionally difficult to build a browser from the ground up.

But if anyone could do it, it would be a company with the money and (supposed) intelligence they have in their ranks.

There’s a group making a new browser engine though, I think it’s called ladybird?

“What?! We help people budget!”

“What?! We help people when times are tough!”

“What?! 73% of our customers pay us zero interest!”

Reddit could have done this too, but never did. At least to my knowledge.

There must be a reason.

Service contracts are where the money is at!

You could use the full words instead.

Sure, then the post just doesn’t need any upvotes, imo.

I find mass down votes on such things to be toxic behavior. Tech savvy or not. I mean, it’s basically toxic nerd behavior.

And that was just an example on hand. I’ve seen it in other communities too, again, when the news was positive or neutral and fit the community even better than talking about a single web browser in a general tech community.

I should add that this phenomenon overlaps with another, where a post will get a bunch of downvotes initially, and then “recover” or get back past zero. Many of these seem to be related to brigading or malicious bot activity. So, many of the examples I’ve run across end up being something else.

Just for context, I usually browse Lemmy All and my Home feed with the Active/hot in the last 6 hours view. So I see lots of young posts, relatively speaking.

It’s often a place for Linus to rant about how he understands business better than his audience.

What? Random positive or neutral news gets vote bombed on Apple communities too.

Lemmy is weird. It’s not uncommon to see relevant posts downvoted in a variety of communities.

Here’s one about Edge getting faster from today. It feels like at the worst, it should sit at zero upvotes.

Y’all got any of that federation?

I wonder if a segregated TikTok will be more or less of a hellscape.

I think it mostly revolves around how you get 100 players together for a good game. The match making part. I’m skeptical of the quality of match making, but that’s not a showstopper for people committed to playing. But if we set aside the need for someone to maintain hosting, then it becomes peer to peer or a lan party, or a combination of the two.

I remember what it was like rounding up and wrangling 80 people to raid in WoW back in the day.

And none of this is a showstopper I don’t see why we can’t talk about that. It’s not like discussing the difficult edge cases or the feasibility of the details could harm things.

My initial question in this thread framed changing the game design, not networking stack. So it was about making it all local/same screen only. An absurd example on purpose.

Sounds like that’s the answer to my reply then. Not all this other noise people have posted. 😏

Man. Y’all really think I’m talking about networking design?

I thought we were talking about gameplay design. That’s why I picked 100 player battle royal.

“Change the game design” implies that, to me. I didn’t pick a single player experience with always online requirements. Or a 4 player game with online matchmaking and no direct connect options.

There’s such a strong, and obsessive need among a bunch of people on this topic to explain and explain, and not parse the precise thing being asked.

There’s also a lot of people who conflate having the opinion that the effort will fail due to its approach and the person/people behind it with not wanting it to succeed.

What I’m doing is poking at how people are behaving and how they talk about this initiative. And how the messaging is confusing and all over the place. It takes 5 people racing to explain it to me when I understand perfectly, and lay out a specific case. Yet no one replies to explain how my example would work.

I’m not the only one who sees this initiative as misguided, and mis framed.

Sorry for coming off like a troll, usually my outlier questions get responses instead of people acting like they are here.

I’ve really dug a bit too deep on this one, and I’ll try to stop replying now.