I mean maybe for you...

That Eldritch biology experiment shares many great memes & such though.

We are already experimenting with Lemmy, daily. The Rexodus happened, bringing an influx of users to this platform, and that crowd now wants different things than the prior one. And normies would want still more divergent matters. Though it matters little what people want, and more what people will expend effort to build.

In fairness, the power of friendship, being the real treasure found along the way, beats everything!:-)

Caveat: the graphics were fairly low-res even for its time, and that bugs some people.

Everything else though... it is made by the people who did the early Final Fantasy series, who were given the free reign to do as they pleased so this is how they wanted games to be. e.g. battles aren't random but you can see them on the screen before you fight them, which increases the level of immersion. Most are also skippable if you wanted, though if you fight each battle once then you need do no grinding at all unlike most early JRPGs.

It is super short, but has a New Game+ feature with >15 different endings. So very replayabile. It offers very little difficulty, but that's not what it's for, being a story game. Especially the first time, set battle mode to "Wait" so you have all the time you want to think through things.

And I wasn't exaggerating saying that it's a strong contender for best game of all time - again caveat those gfx but otherwise... The reviews it got were phenomenal and as you see it has a cult-like following!:-)

Ofc, there's an xkcd for that:-)

Ah, sohcahtoa. Not to be confused with

The Picard is beyond such as our mere mortal minds can comprehend.

Best damn game of all time!!!

Yes but... while they are greedy MFers, part of the problem is that they did need to find a way to make the whole affair profitable, not only for that goal by itself but also so that it could be sustainable. A lot of the controversy is in how he tried to accomplish that goal, not that he needed to do so - bc any company needs to be sustainable.

Reddit is likewise far from the only tech product that has been enshittified by chasing after profits to the exclusion of all else, so there's that too. And I'm not even going to go down the rabbit hole of how much of this chases back to some changes in USA governmental policies at the time (Republicans were in charge of basically everything in ~2019).

Ultimately, Huffman has set himself up as the fall guy - the effigy to hold our attention and hate despite how he merely carried out the will of his masters, the venture capitalist bros behind him. So fuck spez, but also... not just him.

Though his ideas and execution of them were really fucking spectacularly BAD, so yeah, maybe him more than capitalism even. e.g. the Musk is really dumb, but then along comes Huffman who worships at the guy's feet, thereby making himself somehow even dumber!?!?

So yeah, all their changes were designed to get profits. They didn't work bc again they are REALLY dumb, and did not understand the slightest thing about ~~humanity~~ their userbase, but that didn't stop them from trying to fleece people of as much money as they could. i.e., their stupidity was only outpaced by their greed. 😞