It saddens me that Tango Gameworks are getting shut down by Microsoft after the banger that is Hi-Fi Rush. Especially with this lame ass email as an answer;
According to an email sent by Microsoft’s Matt Booty, shared with Eurogamer, the decision to close these studios was “grounded in prioritising high-impact titles and further investing in Bethesda’s portfolio of blockbuster games and beloved worlds”.
I am still trying to decide what I think about things like this. On one hand they aren't outright saying that the books should be banned so it's not necessarily blatant hypocrisy. On the other hand "they don't meet our qualifications as banned books" is. They are banned all over the place. Someone else decided other people can't read them.
It is not "self-evident" that any book anywhere should literally be prevented from being available. If you think that you are a book banner, so make your advocacy about something else than free inquiry and freedom because you do not believe in those things.
@sun if it's about things like mein kampf, I think people really should read it just so that they have to deal with the horror that is hitler's prose style and be inoculated that way
@sim@sun Much worse. Marx is dense but Hitler is actually insufferable as a prose writer. Literally some of the most inane and eyes-glazing-over rambling you'll ever read in your life. Actually, a lot of Nazi literature is like this, they had a serious dearth of good writers and it shows.
@icedquinn@voltrina I don't even think it's really subversion tbh, just evolution of preferences over time to be so bad that it has the appearance of it, in the case of films, it's pretty much down to the proliferation of short form content in other mediums + the massive success of the capeshit formula
@whiteline@icedquinn@voltrina this is why I cited Japan as an example to follow (that being said, I don't think that kind of zoning is the zoning being complained about here)
dude I was trying to type slow and I typed at 140wpm and towards the end i returned to what i thought was normal but slowed down typing speed and it went up to 176wpm :flube: how the FUCK
@snacks@meso alt layouts are goated but more for comfort than speed (also qwertz and azerty are both abominations compared to qwerty which is mostly fine if not great)