• @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      899 days ago

      On Reddit, your account would be banned for contributing to an anti-social atmosphere after two dozen corporate accounts red-flagged this image and reported it to the PR staffer currently operating as the subs moderator.

      Industry insiders will pay tens of millions of dollars a year to fight off the bad press of their shitty decisions, while doggedly insisting the market cannot support the salaries of a few middle income developers living in some of the most expensive residential markets in the country.

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        109 days ago

        What are you even on about? The guillotine joke is probably one of the most common reaction posts to any corporate news on Reddit. On any major sub it would get thousands of upvotes and there would be dozens of comment replies with the same overused jokes people post every single time like “Ah, back to the classics”, “Time to dust off the old guillotine”, “Eat the rich 🍽️”, “When’s the revolution starting? I’ll bring snacks.”. Pretending anyone at Reddit HQ cares about this kind of thing is peak Redditor behaviour.

        • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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          299 days ago

          The guillotine joke is probably one of the most common reaction posts to any corporate news on Reddit.

          Who subs have gotten shut down because Reddit administrators accused the local mods of failing to curtail it.

          Pretending anyone at Reddit HQ cares about this kind of thing is peak Redditor behaviour.

          The application of the ban rules tend to be arbitrary and highly political. But guillotine jokes absolutely get accounts banned. And moderators who fail to consistently ban certain accounts were targeted for removal very aggressively over the last four years.

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            59 days ago

            I use Reddit. This joke is still insanely popular even on the generic default subs. No one cares enough about this to shut down /r/gaming or /r/funny. Reddit is already pretty bad in reality, there’s no need to fantasize about it being even worse.

            This has the same vibe as the hundreds of posts that appear on there every single year around the Tiananmen Square massacre anniversary saying stuff like “Reddit is owned by Tencent!!!1! and they’re banning everyone who mentions Tiananmen Square!!!11!!!” despite there being literal thousands of posts about the massacre on the platform.

            • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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              49 days ago

              This has the same vibe as the hundreds of posts that appear on there every single year around the Tiananmen Square massacre anniversary saying stuff like “Reddit is owned by Tencent!!!1! and they’re banning everyone who mentions Tiananmen Square!!!11!!!”

              Yes, the anti-China trolls love to insist they’re speaking truth to power rather than just echoing a bit of recycled propaganda from the 1990s.

              No, that doesn’t change the fact that Rule #1 gets invoked on guillotine posts regularly.

              • @rustyfish@lemmy.world
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                99 days ago

                echoing a bit of recycled propaganda from the 1990s.

                Excuse me, I can’t follow. What do you mean by propaganda?

                • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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                  39 days ago

                  “Nobody in China is allowed to know what happened in Tienanmen Square. You’re not allowed to talk about it. Everything is censored. Nobody in China knows what happened.”

                  Pure propaganda. This shit is in Chinese elementary school textbooks. Its about as poorly disseminated and heavily censored as the Kent State Massacre or the Waco Siege or the OWS protests in the United States.

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                29 days ago

                There’s really no point in continuing this, but again, I use Reddit. I see these posts all the time. I’m not saying no one ever gets their posts removed or banned from communities or whatever, but they’re insanely popular to the point someone like me who uses the platforms every few days sees it all the time.

                • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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                  49 days ago

                  I’m not saying no one ever gets their posts removed or banned from communities or whatever

                  That crazy, because that’s exactly what I’m saying. And yet we’re stuck here with you calling me a liar.

            • @reksas@sopuli.xyz
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              19 days ago

              Its all about controlling the masses. If everyone is saying something its better to just let it blow over than ban everyone and cause commotion.

    • @thefartographer@lemm.ee
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      109 days ago

      I really don’t care what starts the revolution, but I’d be pleased as punch if history books of the future had to note that gamers ate the first CEO after he shit on their favorite devs

  • peto (he/him)
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    1409 days ago

    “Greed is not the issue here” - actual dragon sitting on literal pile of gold.

  • @nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksOPM
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    289 days ago

    Christ what a soulless anti human, and these people infest and run AAA companies. Would explain the rot behind those companies for the last 2 decades.

  • @ASDraptor@lemmy.autism.place
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    289 days ago

    It’s people like this asshat the reason why I rarely play an AAA game anymore and the few I play are always the pirated version.

  • @Gork@lemm.ee
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    259 days ago

    drive an Uber or whatever, go off to find a cheap place to live and go to the beach for a year.

    Shockingly tone-deaf.

    When I was laid off, my savings were running very low after about 3 months until I was able to get another job.

    Absolutely no way I would be able to take a year off to go to the beach. It’s like he doesn’t realize we all aren’t CEOs.

    • @Asafum@feddit.nl
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      59 days ago

      cheap place to live and go to the beach for a year.

      Cheap place… Lol

      Close to the beach!? LMFAO

      This ghoul isn’t even from our reality and they’re trying to tell us to chill out. Stick to your own dimension where housing is affordable, especially with any proximity to a beach…

  • Hal-5700X
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    108 days ago

    Corporate greed is a reason. But it’s not the only one. The other reason is they’re not making games people want to play. Look at Dustborn and Concord.

  • @tacosanonymous@lemm.ee
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    39 days ago

    When was the last time he was even in charge of anything? Who cares what his opinion is? He should fuck all the way off.

  • Bob Robertson IX
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    29 days ago

    This is the opening to John Scalzi’s Starter Villain. Great book for anyone interested in a humorous look at late stage capitalist supervillains.