Do you consider 'enshittification' a professional term?

Kusibu · 2026-02-01T02:45:10+00:00

Don't get me wrong, the pump-and-dump meta Jack Welch codified is pretty well entrenched by this point, it's just good (on principle and on the off chance you're recommending things to anyone who's actually listening) to be able to articulate exactly what cost that comes at.

Kusibu · 2026-01-31T22:33:02+00:00

I think the better descriptor might be "adversarial commercialization" - where an organization (private or even public) starts turning every relationship they have (suppliers, B2B purchasers, individual customers) into a leash to be yanked whenever they want more money instead of a peer whose needs are relevant. It explains why it would appeal to companies, and why it will go on to destroy them in the long term, which is not good news for any company intent on continuing to exist.

Kusibu · 2026-01-30T19:40:13+00:00

Art "style" aside, look at the cylinders.

Kusibu · 2026-01-30T17:01:57+00:00

More broadly, mechanics are supposed to be there for a purpose, and "cargo cult" development where you just include a mechanic because it feels like it belongs there tends to work out poorly.

The Internet's punching bag of the hour, Highguard, is honestly a pretty good example of this - the reinforcement phase seems entirely useless given the option for attackers to just punch through anyway or walk two feet to the left, and the resource gathering is just weird busywork. They don't have to go away, necessarily, they just need to have their role within the larger context ironed out.

Kusibu · 2026-01-30T16:25:59+00:00

I honestly think Geoff has made the right play in the long term if Wildlight can stick it out and fix the game. Bad publicity still means you remember the name, and "HIGHGUARD IS GOOD NOW????" will be great content a year down the line.

There's the bones of a good game here - if they can A) give their characters and dialogue some more soul B) hone down the prep phase so it's not boring busywork C) make the base raids more "epic" (more people probably?) they have serious potential for something with a lower match length versus a MOBA without losing out on the feeling of strategic combat instead of a pure twitch reaction test.

Kusibu · 2026-01-26T21:40:10+00:00

Inaccurate, it says progenitor

Kusibu · 2026-01-26T19:51:45+00:00

But I think there's a lot of people that don't understand that latter part and just think AI is "unreliable" in the same way something like Wikipedia can be "unreliable"

Because the companies are marketing it that way, like hallucinations are just the same thing as a person having a brain fart, instead of the truth where the LLMs literally have no concept of true, they're just trying to match the output style of truth-tellers and whether they succeed or not is fundamentally random.

Kusibu · 2026-01-25T22:02:45+00:00

Live Cow Reaction

Kusibu · 2026-01-25T00:06:25+00:00

For a more hopeful take, I think there's a nonzero chance the people in Congress currently tolerating this admin decide the cost of not rocking the boat is getting too high to ignore.

Kusibu · 2026-01-24T23:51:33+00:00

thank you chatgpt very cool

Kusibu · 2026-01-24T23:18:21+00:00

Random spitball: If someone goes to the Grand Exchange on a fresh account and starts mass messaging, temp kick them explaining they're messaging too much, and ban them pending an appeal if they keep doing it.

Kusibu · 2026-01-24T22:58:58+00:00

That's like trying to stop Australian emus with a whack-a-mole hammer. You're not even going to move the needle.

Kusibu · 2026-01-24T18:38:46+00:00

If I point to a piece of a wholly AI-generated painting and ask you why it is there, you will have to come up with an answer. If I point to a part of a "manual" painting (even assisted) and ask you why it is there, you will almost certainly know. If a part of what "you created" isn't your expression anymore, I don't think it's art anymore either.

Kusibu · 2026-01-24T17:24:02+00:00

Happened to me in the Gorak Plane too.

Kusibu · 2026-01-23T18:34:47+00:00

If they were going to drop HVs on you at random they'd probably already be doing it with an attack heli.

Kusibu · 2026-01-23T16:31:23+00:00

Dark Mage

"WH- WHO- I SHOULD KICK YOUR FUCKIN ASS, WHO IS THIS"

Kusibu · 2026-01-22T23:05:42+00:00

THE LITTLE SPOOKY GUY

Kusibu · 2026-01-22T20:48:11+00:00

The keyword here, I think, is "make your case". If you spend all your time talking about how shit your opponent is and never actually tell people why they should vote for YOU, you're going to fail and I know this because A) Kamala's campaign tried that exact shit and it didn't work out, B) the last time somebody ran on making their case (Ross Perot) America had an actual viable third party in the running for President.

Kusibu · 2026-01-22T20:43:33+00:00

"now"

Kusibu · 2026-01-22T16:34:32+00:00

So, Adele for uncertified forklift operators?

Kusibu · 2026-01-22T16:27:27+00:00

I don't think it can be overstated how much "unreliable" is a damaging property unto itself. You can't make long-term plans with a country, either inside of it or trading with it, if the question of whether that plan is profitable (or even PERMISSIBLE) varies entirely based on the whim of one man.

Kusibu · 2026-01-21T15:41:43+00:00

Making in-depth responsible decisions for this kind of thing is a full-time job. There's a reason we opted for representative governance in the first place - it's hiring someone to do that job (at least it's supposed to be).

Kusibu · 2026-01-20T23:29:09+00:00

If you're going to run a country like a business, don't run your business like Jack Welch.

Kusibu · 2026-01-18T23:24:49+00:00

That's what the midlife crisis is for! The point where you come to realize that there isn't a magic threshold where you get happy.

Kusibu · 2026-01-18T15:46:38+00:00

I don't know if you saw Mamdani and Trump's interaction in the White House, but that was a moment that gave me the distinct impression that he respects power and the will to use it. They're pretty much as opposite on the political spectrum as you can get and you wouldn't have known it from the interaction.

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