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[โ€“] [email protected] -3 points 4 days ago (21 children)

I feel like a huge portion of corporate America has adopted the following strategy:

  • Half ass a product despite a comically large budget, resulting in a product that ranges in quality from mediocre to downright terrible
  • Stick some culture war shit somewhere in the product
  • Expect reviewers to give you overwhelmingly positive reviews based off political virtue signaling
  • Put a magnifying glass on the vocal minority of genuinely toxic fans, so that you can claim everyone who doesn't like the mediocre product is toxic
  • bullshit about sales numbers
  • Obfuscate individual success/failures on earnings reports, and blame overall underperformance on "macroeconomic conditions"

Like at this point it's on me for engaging with these posts I guess.

[โ€“] ace_of_based 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Bad take. You started from the assumption that normal people care about this shit. They categorically do not.

Watch cowboys video that /u/[email protected] posted in this thread. He explains far better than i can that if there's a grift, it's from the people who make money manufacturing outrage.

PS i never knew cowboy was fucking jacked holy shit lol

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