I literally sold the consoles I had and all my games with it because games became shittier each year.

Imagine having to pay 80+ dollars/euros for a game that isnt even the "finished" product.

I'd rather just save my money and spend it on things where I don't get absolutely railed as a consumer.

1 set of games that felt ahead of their time were Pokemon Gold/Silver and Crystal.

They had so many interesting mechanics and mechanics that (for some reason) were not introduced in the later games that it almost feels like robbery.

• Day/night time switch with corresponding pokemon. I remember you could encounter night specific pokemon and also daytime pokemon in the night who were fast asleep when starting the battle.
• Two regions in 1 game.
• End boss as Red in MT silver
• Rematches with trainers.
• Pokewatch system overall
• Hapiness system for Eevee evolutions
• The encounter system for suicuine, Entei and Raikou
• Pokemon crystal with the Battle tower.
• Moving sprites in pokemon crystal.

Probably even more, but for me it is still the best designed pokemon game to date and really ahead of it's time.

It also felt like one of the last games that was oozing with the passion that the developers put in it.

Decoupling from Reddit has been easier than I thought.

Am actually rotating between Lemmy instances and Kbin to read the articles and thoughts in between my workday and it works like a charm.

It also really helps that I pavlovd myself to associate Reddit with garbage and instantly make the connection to how they see and treat their userbase.

It made me open reddit only once during the last days.

• To run PDS after the blackout.

The relay creator did the math and came to the conclusion that an subscription model might maybe work but it would be to tight. It reads as the person is saying that it is unfeasonable.

Even if the apps would comply;

• Reddit will jack the prices again when they see fit.
• Reddit also wins with this pricing because they are gonna pocket the cash.

Reddit will limit 'Recommend' and NFSW content to its official app. >

And ohw yeah you are gonna get less content for your subscription. It is all in bad faith.

Then the people who still use Reddit can leave or accept the changes.

I expect the people who actually gave a beeswax are long gone than already at that point, so the community can then shout into the void if they would disagree.

After slandering the Apollo Dev, Steve now starts to slander the entire userbase.

I am gonna be honest but instances going down and losing communities could have the same probability as Reddit shutting down Subreddits just because they feel like it.

I understand your concern, but I think it would first be wise to let some communities flourish and look how it holds up in the grand scheme of things.

I can understand where mstdn.social is coming from and it is an "uneasy" situation. But the fact is that you have a choice here in which with whom you communicate.

The irony though of Reddit discussing to stay on Reddit and actually comply with the Autocratic leadership it has.

True freedom is the ability to spout nonsense on a forum, label a community the way you see it, call the people illiterate and see the moderators as authoritarian without getting punched in the face.

Ohwww the irony.

The amount of projecting going on in some subreddits the past days is telling.

People are quite afraid that in fact the "leavers" won't come back.

I won't be back honestly.

The fact that they are "willing" to go this route is the writing on the wall.

I also find it so interesting that people and reddit themselves see the platform as "Social Media" and development is has been going that way.

I see it as a link aggregator and forum and treat it as such. I just want to find information, comment about it and have it as dense and "clean" on my screen as possible. but The fact that it looks like another Facebook and instagram clone and it is gonna be the only way to experience it is a hell no from me.

If it is true than he literally shot himself in the foot.

Just like you said if it is true that the "1-3%" of the users that use 3rd party apps (by spez his word) can actually provide a profit for the 3rd party apps and the 90+% that uses official reddit channels still cannot... then they have a very big problem.

I wouldn't even be surprised though. His whole demeanor reeks of jealousy and contempt.

The fact that a 3rd party app was actually featured on the Apple event multiple times and name dropped multiple times as "the" way to use reddit, has to absolutely sting as hell.

Edit; experiencing some lag ;)