"It felt conceptual to me to surprise my electro-hipster audience with a record that the ear could enjoy equally as ‘background’ and ‘foreground’ music." https://thequietus.com/opinion-and-essays/black-sky-thinking/gonzales-solo-piano-neoclassical-regret/

Provided as feedback: celebrity drama is not games, plz piss off with this kind of content.

I agree. We are in the honeymoon phase about to face varying degrees of eternal september and besides someone still pays for bandwidth and domains and who says it won't be enshittified once it gains traction. This is clearly not a new paradigm.

Love them and IMO the latest is their peak so far, they're still ascending.

Good, we need a forward escape from the accursed social media into a new paradigm. Anything eroding that tower of shit is welcome.

That's a proper way to solve it, I agree.

Mind you, lemmy is small enough that when you send your link to three communities gamers will get it three times. I am marginally miffed.

if you don't know where to start, "Dollar Bill" is an approachable banger.

This is a PSA. It would be acceptable marketing had you been a part of /c/books for at least a few unrelated posts, but if your account's only posts on lemmy are marketing, you are getting blocked.

buy this mysterious thing I have wrapped in some comic book pages

wtf it's shit, refund me

take for free this mysterious thing I have wrapped in some comic book pages. No one knows what it could be, but you can pay to make it stink less

Found on metafilter, along with this excellent comment:

Learning will be increasingly self-­directed, says Liz Gerber, co-director of the Center for Human-Computer Interaction and Design at Northwestern University. The future classroom is “going to be hyper-­personalized.” AI tutors could help with one-on-one instruction or repetitive sports drills.

No it won't. Learning has been going to be "increasingly self-directed" since before I was born, but it turns out, in fact, that you need to have a certain amount of maturity and focus before "self-directed" means anything more than "goofing off as much as possible" or possibly, just possibly, "intense focus only on those things that interest me intensely". What will happen is that the children of the poor and the less-involved middle class will have shitty digital "tutors" in chaotic classrooms or goof off in isolation while the children of the rich are taught the old-fashioned way, by talented individual humans with only such technology as supports focused, human-centered learning. "Learning will be increasingly self-directed" will be used as a justification for treating everyone but the rich badly.

Furthermore, if people do have digital spy tutors looking over their shoulders, they will either be janky and kids will devote a lot of time to fooling them or they'll be creepy surveillance that will fuck the kids up, or probably both. At best, these will be simulations of people and kids will learn to have "relationships" with fake people that don't exist, don't think or judge and do not love them, and IT optimists will somehow spin this as great and helpful. (I suppose there is some possibility that we will create and enslave actual conscious AI, which will be a nightmare in its own way).

share vision of a metaverse spanning "Roblox, Minecraft, and Fortnite"

They'll erode the popularity of all three with this shit. You have a hen that lays golden eggs? We have one too! Let's smash them at the speed of sound and hope it results in a megachicken that lays eggs double in size.

Randy bought it, it's his property now. I understand hopoo needed money, but they should have made some provisions for extreme idiots attempting enshittification or inept fixes. Their legacy is getting bumfucked a bit, RoR2 is a travesty now.

it does not fulfill the demands of the product safety law

penis in toaster moment

You should mix it up, if your posting history is all ubislop marketing, people finna block your ass.

Are you for real? There's more games than ever and more of them coming out all the time. It's just big budget slop that's enshittified. That is, if you don't care about game being about a thing you've heard before, i.e. some franchise.

We are all in the same boat Ubi, please please please stop publishing live service feces.

I am really enjoying this downfall of Bethesda, Blizzard, Ubisoft and EA, more than I enjoyed anything they published in half a decade. I wish death also to Gearbox. It's coming and after Randy bought and promptly ruined RoR2, my schadenfreude is tingling.

I agree with you on everything, other than

I legitimately want to scream sometimes as I feel the continual death of local computing and actual software

...it seems to me that it's never been better, there's free software for everything, osm data for mapping, it's just that our expectations have shifted.

Fuck you, Mozilla. I'll turn off any option you expose and run away to Librewolf or Fennec as soon as you cross the line. And the line is ublock origin, make no mistake about that. Here's a tip: Raymond Hill is the most valuable asset Mozilla has and, here's the kicker -- YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE HIM.