Contrary to my distaste for them, but I wouldn’t mind advertisements now and then. By now and then, I mean, like once every other hour or if they’re displayed in a way that isn’t obstructing. Obviously that is not how they are these days.
I know companies need to still get out there and be known but I do not need to know that much and I don’t really care of your business if I have to hear, see and have spoken to me of it at every single turn. I would especially love it, if everything wasn’t a paywall to not see any.
Advertisements are just simply a disease.
Large language models. I’m sure they’ll find their niche uses. But it’s not intelligent, and please stop adding it to every digital product.
How about lootboxes, battle passes and other predatory tactics used in many modern games? Sure, you can have those elements for those people who like them, but if your entire game is all about psychological manipulation tools, you’ve gone too far. Maybe some people like to roll the dice every now and then, but that shouldn’t be the main point of the game. You should also be given an option to enjoy the game without being exposed to extreme levels of of toxic design.
Yeah, games like DRG prove that season xp/unlocks can be fun and rewarding. But the key there is that:
- It’s completely free
- You can replay old seasons anytime, so there’s no cosmetics that you miss out on if you don’t finish by the end of the season
Done like that, it’s a fun system that gives you extra rewards for playing. But there’s never any punishment for not playing enough in a fixed period of time.
What drives me nuts is that they’ll charge ridiculous prices for that stuff, knowing don’t people will pay the big bucks, rather than offering them at a cheap price to sell more. It’s just more lucrative to make that higher grossing sale than it is to sell by volume. Is actually would have spent money off set was a buck here or a few cents there. Instead they want 10, 30, 50 bucks for this stuff. No thanks.
I’m tired of hearing the advertisers’ opinion. It wouldn’t be so bad if it were remotely accurate.
Yes ads, specifically tv and radio ads. They are designed to be bad, because either a very bad or very good ad sticks in the mind. It sickens me that a noble art line psychology is misappropriated for commerce.
The thing that bothers me most is that it should be easy to get rid of, if we were more conscious of what us going on in front of our eyes and collectively say ‘no’.
The idea of having personalised ads, so you don’t get to see super bad ads or ads for stuff you don’t want or need ever, is kind of okay. You just really shouldn’t want that kind of data in the hands of commercial conglomerates.
Founder’s Day. That movie fucking sucks. To quote Community “if you conspire with everyone then there’s no conspiracy, you’re just helping people.” Everyone seems to be betraying everyone for no discernable gain, none of the actors seem to be aware that they’re in the same genre as their costars, and it’s never clear whose side your on. Finally the mastermind of this scheme has what I call “the Palpatine problem.” If you’re capable of manipulating every side of a conflict in such a way that they all die and you’re left in power… aren’t you already effectively in control of everything? And isn’t it smarter to rule behind the scenes where you don’t have a target on your back AND you aren’t responsible for a bunch of serious crimes AND is it really important to you to explain your grand plans to a teenager? What do you gain from setting these events in motion? It’s a stupid ass movie, and I watch a lot of movies
Subscriptions. Some of them aren’t all that bad. Nvidia GeForce Now for example, 100 bucks for 6 months, 16.67 per month, but if you were to play 100 hours per month and would otherwise burn .5kwh per hour running that locally, you’re ‘saving’ the cost of 50kwh of electricity per month going this route, so 16.67 per month compared to 5-10 bucks per month in electricity (plus the cost of a gaming rig).
Sometimes it’s easy to rationalize a certain subscription but they’re basically everywhere and shoved at the consumer
Facebook ads are possibly the only ones I don’t find overly annoying, but then I can just scroll past them quickly if they’re uninteresting.
