On average kind people are just being kind.
And that is great, it is good to be optimistic. My point is being kind has nothing to do with trustworthiness. Hell, someone that is kind can also just be plain wrong. They might think they know something when they do not. The kindness just does not factor in to knowledge. Plenty of experts are not what people would describe as kind, and plenty of misinformation peddlers are kind. It just has nothing to do with expertise
Right? What a strange and dangerous metric
Ah yes, getting angry over someone appealing to fascists is just tribalism. My bad
You mean in 2017 like the article pointed out. And maybe there should have been backlash for it. It was a shitty thing to do then, and an even worse thing to do now
Shit take. There is a difference between seeing something out on the street and choosing not to support a developer because of their shitty behavior
The political implications were the point though. Or do you think he had no idea what he was doing? The "We didn't know it would be taken as a political statement" BS is just damage control
Because the inverse of that is how people get conned. Someone blowing absolute smoke with a confident tone and a sweet word. Tone is about the worst indicator of trustworthiness
Why do you conflate politeness and trustworthiness? Seems like a weird connection to make.
lol, fair, but I thought it was a smaller part of your post and figured that if it was coming from someone who did not have a dog in the fight it might hammer it home
Pretty much everyone here knows Reddit and Conde Nast are bad for a multitude of reasons, but that does not mean the journalists at Ars are bad at their jobs. They also have nothing to do with any alleged anti-not Conde Nast bias of Reddit mods (I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but the evidence you posted here is a lot of nothing). People can do good work at shitty companies, and a lot of shitty companies don't have a hand in day to day operations in companies. Hell, in the US, that is becoming the rule and not the exception. Again, I am not saying Conde Nast doesn't necessarily have a thumb on the scales at Ars, but you have provided no evidence of that.
And once again, even if we take everything you say as true, the fact remains that the journalists at Ars have absolutely nothing to do with Reddit. The heads of Conde Nast might, and for sure read articles from their outlets with a critical eye, but those are two different things.
Finally, bringing your problems with Reddit to a completely different platform is just silly, especially on Lemmy, and especially especially to Beehaw. If you want to have a removedfest, that is fine. This just isn't the place to do it.
It is super tough to get more than a ballpark for sure. The 1.4 million players from average daily players over the past year. 30 million is the all time peak, I believe.
As far as how much Epic/Disney is willing to spend, that is another grey area. Do they consider this marketing? Do they consider this a test bed for AI generated actors for shows and movies? The motivation and how much they are willing to spend is even more opaque than the energy use numbers
This isn't dirty laundry, this is current events. This event happened last week.
If you are referring to the game, the article calls out the US and UK, but the game description itself just says western, which probably means several locations. But even if it is just the US and UK, who cares? The US and UK have a fuckton of dirty laundry that is still being aired out, and this South African dev has the right to address concerns with those two countries that have had direct harm to their culture