speedyjx

Sound designer for games and that.

I'm here to kick ass and post cat pics, and I will never run out of cat pics.

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Sheri
@Sheri

discourse about what words are flattening for anti-capitalist discussion is dumb and i don't really wanna perpetuate it. here's what i'll say instead:

education works best when you meet people where they're at. as in, further understanding they already have of the world and correct misconception. capitalism, inherently, principally must produce suffering to benefit a few. that suffering comes in a lot of forms. when it comes to people Posting On The Internet, they've self-selected for certain types to be near-ubiquitous

app broke and bad now. why app broke and bad now?

'Capitalism Has Ruined The Internet' or 'Enshittification' may be a shallow take, but that very shallowness allows those unsure about this whole anti-cap thing to wade into discussion without drowning.

of those people who start their questioning of capitalism with 'big tech isn't as good as i thought', some will inevitably stop caring once an explanation is good enough. 'oh this was just always going to happen, whatever then.'

but some people will keep searching. some people won't be satisfied until they realize capitalism was never accounting for them in any sense but transactional. until then, those people are gonna post about how patreon doesn't work anymore because of some force they don't yet understand. and that's fine, we all start somewhere.

i posted shitty sonic 1 let's plays to youtube as a child. i learned and made better stuff eventually. as i can hope for us all.


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Yes! Meeting people where they're at, and opening the gates (vs gatekeeping) to allow for some genuine curiosity into WHY these things are degrading far below acceptable expectations (vs infodumping) is very important. Being able to fire that curiosity is important in people learning and thinking critically about it instead of shrugging it off.

I went to school for Industrial Design and saw how the sausage is made, and it's a constant struggle between designers helping improve people's lives and value engineers trying their hardest to make it break just after the warranty. It's probably even worse for ethereal products/services in the digital realm.

especially when the language used for digital products is that of physical products. "virtual real estate" "virtual currency"- it's virtually real!

there's an assumption that the physical constraints of these simulacrum are discarded without also getting rid of the tangible benefit created by that physicality!

"well, this has worked for years in realworld, so with tech it will work even faster and better without those constraints" i say as i uninstall the brakes from my new line of cars. they were just slowing down progress and i like it when the number goes up- the digital brakes know when to stop for you so long as you're connected to a cell tower.

Exactly, and it's terrifying to an extent. You consent once to an EULA in 1998 and companies like Adobe or MS go nuts fiddling with stuff after the fact, trying to sell your information and sheepishly sending you "Terms updates" not expecting you to read or stop using their products when they decide to remove the brakes in update 1.0407 and chide you for not having a law degree or a CS master's degree to understand what they did.

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