(In a Morgan Freeman narrator voice) Oh how wrong they were. Some might say that they shit the bed with such thinking and actions. Others… Might believe that they didn’t know better. The fuck they didn’t! The ‘all mighty dollar’ was their carrot on a stick that was placed in front of them by nearly soul dead board members and deep pocketed ‘investors.’ A fixation on the “all mighty dollar” in this extreme capitalistic parent company EA, has shown us endless times, they don’t give a fuck about you or your hobby. Just as long as you continue to throw your money at them like a good little dipshit who can’t seem to realize that you’re being played.

How old were you when you watched it?

Cheesus Ricest dude! I watched it as a 30 something year old and I felt disturbed with scenes in the third act.

Now you have to fill us in. Did you have nightmares and for how long?

I’d like to give a shoutout to all of the Wikipedia editors who created, edited, and updated obscure Wikipedia pages. The sure number of interesting things I wouldn’t have learned about if it wasn’t for you would be quite limited.

(FYI: There is a community on here for Wikipedia pages worth sharing.)

Lemmy Gold you say?

I highly recommend going to see Not.GreenDay if they have a show near you. I saw them this year and they definitely sound like the OG GreenDay. They also did a good job of getting the crowd involved and in high spirits.

Was the effect that he eventually popped?

Wait a minute. Is the lead vocals of Free The Jester the same Lead Singer of Not Green Day?

I’m all for it!

Give us a taste of what would be on your list.

In 100 years from now generative AI might exist…

I believe you mean Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) We currently use generative AI.

…keeps these positive developments progressing slowly so that future generations of humanity will not know our suffering.

Hear hear!

I live in the US, so I don’t know much of what the Swiss have been up to.

Can you fill me in as to what bothers you the most that the Swiss are doing?

Oh bitch of old. Tell me the ways that it must be told. Instill in me the ways of no fucks to give, as you see, we walk like aimlessly ducks with a dull shiv. Ducks without a pond, oh please of please, don’t let me live like a ‘dumb blonde’ without any wings. Teach me the ways to turn my sass to 11, and guide me now towards Sassy Sass Heaven.

I can kinda relate. But I’d rather call them ‘exhausting times.’

This old meme resonated with me back then… and it still does.

You weren’t the only one, ha.

!polls@lemmy.world

HEADON! APPLY DIRECTLY TO YOUR FORHEAD!

Man, those obnoxious TV advertisements can all fuck right on. It was even worse that it was a homeopathic (aka placebo effect) topical product.

Wait that’s a thing? In TV broadcasting?

I’ve heard of how Comcast Did New York state dirty many years ago. IIRC, they walked away with nearly half a billion dollars, which I believe was about 2/3 of all the money the state had given them to connect small towns and clusters of rural communities to DSL internet.>

I have a major curiosity about how this actually happened. I’ve watched a video or two about it but it still baffles me to this day that SOOOOO many people bought it as a x-mas present for their kid(s).

I’ve wanted to learn a couple of things about this.

A. What did the parents think of their kids asking for such a stupid present?

B. What did the parents who refused to purchase a Pet Rock, have to deal with at home, when their kid(s) were informed that they were not getting one ever?

C. (On the flip side of B.) What did the parents of those who did purchase them notice or deal with at home?

D. What psychological reasoning would anyone have to desire to purchase a Pet Rock, instead of making their own?

E. What psychological marketing/influencing was involved in this scheme?

I get not having profit. I get not having income, if it’s in some prototype phase. But having no plan or idea whatsoever for how to monetize and still getting VC? Wild.

It’s called “growth-first” or “growth-at-all-costs” strategy. I don’t recall what video I was watching when I learned it, but it’s a dying strategy for business now (IIRC). It had its rise in popularity in the late 2000s to about 2018. Think Netflix, WeWork, Uber, etc. These are huge businesses to prop up, so they (literally) bank on the idea that with a huge user base, they can sooner or later, make a profit to make it worth all of the risk.

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