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Warner Bros. is now erasing games as it plans to delist Adult Swim-published titles
(www.polygon.com)
this post was submitted on 08 Mar 2024
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... why? They're complete products that just sit there and make money for almost no effort
I think we're in a slow burning culture war that is trying to erase everything but one single mindset of thought.
Discovery channel felt it early, and now that same sentiment is spreading everywhere. Cut away the vibrant ecosystem for a single channel, controllable narrative.
And it's across every fuckdamn media.
You speak one of the scariest truths there is.
Sometimes I feel I'm fortunate to have ADHD. Until I think about my life not on the Web.
As an aside: I've begun to think that ADHD and some other neurodivergences are actually evolutionary responses to the exponentially increasing amount of data processing that modern humanity does on a daily basis, just not having long enough time for natural selection to smooth out the rough edges yet. Give it a few hundred thousand years or so.
Like we are those prehistoric transition mudskipper-like fish things that traded part of their swim control for the ability to absorb oxygen through their swim bladders, they couldn't swim as well as swimmy things, couldn't walk as well as walky things today, but at that moment it was the only chordate to be able to hunt the shore.
We're species transition in action maybe.
N-no, it's happening too fast to be explained by recent evolution. It's been there, just psychiatry has only recently become interested in people without hallucinations, inability to speak and murderous impulses.
I'd rather imagine that a population needs a certain proportion of explorers or people behaving more chaotically.
This is honestly the only reasonable explanation. Adult Swim was millennial counterculture, and now there is an effort to undo it and erase it from mainstream history.
That seals it, digital piracy is the freedom to shape our culture in the face of greedy corporations. A moral good.
From what we have seen from Zaslav, I wouldn't be surprised if they're going to claim another creative tax write-off for the non-depreciated value of the assets.
WarnerBrosDiscovery is in massive debt (40 billion) to AT&T, which is itself in even more debt (138 billion). They are trying to make as much money liquid as quickly as they can to pay off the debt, long term profitability be damned. I wouldn't be surprised if WBD is bought by an ever bigger player in a few years (Apple, Sony, Disney or Microsoft).
Does my nose deceive me, or am I catching a whiff of yet another monopoly?
Quintopoly right now, Quadopoly if WBD gets acquired. Probably a Triopoly or Duopoly fairly soon after that.
But we have antitrust laws and everything!
Normies at this point are trained like Pavlov's dogs to ignore the very possibility to treat these big companies as they should be treated by law.
They are irrationally afraid that Earth will split in half and become infested by goblins if there's no Apple, just separate Apple Computer, Apple Mobile, Apple Music, Apple TV, Applesoft - I want to see this - and so on, no Google, just separate Google Search, Google Mobile, Googlesoft - ok, not as funny, - etc, Microsoft is a small company and there are also Microhard and Microcloud ...
Apocalypse didn't happen when AT&T was broken up. Nokia wasn't broken up by regulators, but that didn't lead to an apocalypse too, while still was a bad thing. DEC or Sun going down didn't cause apocalypse.
Making money by destroying/burying digital media. What a backwards world we live in...
Even worse, only to appease shareholders that are only after short term gains and might even bet on the company failing.
I think they're trying to close adult swim games. If that happens, the money from sales go nowhere, so they're delisting the games too.
The whole Warner Bros thing is such garbage.
Tax fraud, baby