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Ookami38
joined 2 years ago
I never got plastering logos for whatever brands you love to consume on everything you own. Like buying decals and stickers and shit to put all over your car, laptop, whatever else. Since when do we pay to advertise for brands..?
I want to find the person who decided that was the way. Hold actions are great, if there's ALREADY a press action and you're out of buttons. If there's no press action and I have to hold your button just because, you're bad designers. If you're THAT worried about someone doing something on accident, give me the option to disable it. You don't get to advertise 80 hours of gameplay when 20 of that is holding a button for the UI to work.
Okay that sounds a lot less insane than the mental picture I had. I was like, "mines? Some weird construction..? Snow piercer?" But it sounds like just regular level younger people doing obsessive things to the point of resembling self-harm.
That's your only contribution? Cool. Objections duly noted.
I promise you there's a line you hold to, but nudge across from time to time when it's clearly the best choice for you. We do, quite literally, all do it.
Make the effort to recognize it, do it consciously, and look for alternatives when you can. Extend the empathy and humility to those also trying their best. The world we've crafted has a way of forcing you to bend your principles and ideals.
I don't think anyone misses that. That's all pretty obvious stuff. The issues are one step further. Why should this Spotify CEO be making that much off of the backs of the actual content creators? That's the rub. Why is that money going there, to someone who is completely invisible to the people paying the money, rather than to the people making the content they create? Or the people making the platform they use (Spotify devs)? This is ALWAYS the problem when people say X CEO made so much compared to Y service worker.
All this broadening what you have to do to attract a fan base is diluting the point of the art. I listen to music because I like the music. The artists should get compensated for their music. Encouraging them to do other things to make their money dilutes their time and effort. That is to say, if someone's talent is making music, let's give them money for that, not for striking a contract with some merch vendors or whatever other hoops we want them to jump through for their food.
I had already read that book prior to my teacher reading it aloud in class. She couldn't read that chapter, so I volunteered to, having already had my trauma from the scene. We didn't end up watching the movie, though.