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The free internet as we’ve known it for the last 20 years is collapsing as the ad market evaporates and corporate media ownership becomes increasingly unhinged in response. As belts tighten and profits dwindle across all media–not just video games–that rising tide could begin claiming more and more sites that even ten years ago would have seemed immortal.
Why is this happening? The post alludes to Google and Meta hogging all the ads somehow, but why would advertising on things resembling traditional media now be worthless? Everyone started using adblockers or is there something else too?
They were just going to destroy it so might as well
Fair, maybe there are legitimate reasons to do this
So I guess even if you want to pay your taxes, it's kind of dangerous now because you have to share all this personal information that will potentially get used against you
I've started saying "death" as a curse word
This is why you try to filter out signifiers of credibility that are just word choices. What's the actual idea being expressed, and what's backing it up, that is what to pay attention to.
I'm not saying they're equivalent, but I am saying that intentionally antagonizing any other driver in order to retaliate for something is in fact wrong.
"A lot of us worked tirelessly to make even a fraction of a living doing something we genuinely love, and we're afraid of that being taken away from us, so it's looking like we have no other choice but to look for mundane work and give up our passion".
Sounds like the shitty bargain of game dev is getting worse. It's sad to think about all the great things people would make and accomplish if they weren't trapped in wage slavery.
imo you can't really compartmentalize blame that way, OP couple still did something wrong by prioritizing a personal grievance over the potential safety of everyone else on the road, even if it's through indirect influence on the mental state of someone who is more at fault. Driving is too dangerous to be acting like that.
Well, this is what the relevant part of the video says:
USAGM disbursed $7.5M to these entities, in "what seemed to be an effort to delay the hearing or woo the judge". Regardless, the latter has sided against USAGM, and just a few days ago, the agency has decided to back off and release the funds for the 2025 fiscal year.
These explanations make sense to me, but they seem to conflict a little with what's being said in the post, where it's implied that game journalism sites get a decent amount of traffic but it isn't worth as much because media business models as a whole are collapsing somehow: