• minorkeys@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    Could but won’t. Your argument is the same as always. Is it a good idea? Yes. Would it help us affect change? Yes. Will people do it? No.

    Everyone is good at either not caring or accepting an excuse they can live with so they don’t have to make a sacrifice. They would follow the majority if the majority actually did something but that is very likely impossible. Any movement to boycott AI games would have to compete with literally billions of dollars invested in marketing, advertising and social engineering that coerce us to buy in. At some point you just have to decide how you will delay with the reality that the majority really isn’t an ally in waiting, its your biggest opposition, content to do whatever is easiest for themselves, even if you can see clearly how unwise it is.

    Much more significant ethical and moral issues have arisen that have also been crushed by the selfishness of the herd. If you boycott, you cut yourself off, diverging from the majority culture, in which most of our collective resources are invested. The majority is what makes being a minority, of any kind, a risk because it moves us in a direction with little regard for who it leaves behind or why.

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      19 hours ago

      imagine being this dedicated to being fucking mid

      e: correction, rolling over and exposing your belly for generative fucking AI of all things isn’t mid. it’s fucking broken behavior, especially right after similarly unpopular garbage (crypto, metaverses) pushed by the exact same people failed in the market because the target audience mostly just sneered at it and refused to buy in

      like I’m sorry you feel like you’re forced to buy CoD 7 or whatever other AAA games succumb to this shit, but have you considered expanding your tastes past garbage? if you want to say fuck you to Tim in a language he understands, go play a good epic game or a a great epic game for free instead of paying $80 or $200 or whatever the fuck these jokers think it should cost for fucking trash.