Or giving yourself ulcers
Like most really early animated characters, Mickey Mouse was a lot of things over a long period of time. And as far as American animation goes, Mickey Mouse has been a staple for the childhood of literally every generation. Younger millennials and zoomers grew up on Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. Children in decades prior watched Mickey be a musketeer in one short and starving due to poverty in the next.
So while the rough edges of the character have been sanded down over time, he's still very much a plucky, brave, kind, and helpful protagonist in most of the media he's in.
Which to your average adult viewer means... he's a bland and uninteresting character.
That said, he's still an icon of animation as a whole, and most things with Mickey in them are doing some new and novel something (design, production pipeline, whatever) that pushes the whole industry forward in some way.
Reefill.com isn't even a registered domain. I call horseshit.
That's, uh. Certainly a thing you said. Cool.
I think it's slightly more than just that. Those are big parts, don't get me wrong, but Valve has legitimately done a decent job with their store from what I understand. Nearly two decades of regular, if incremental, improvements. That sort of quality is difficult to catch up to.
I think if the Epic Games Store had come out swinging with a more fully fleshed out user experience, instead of relying almost solely on the free game lure strategy, it might have grown to be a much bigger deal. But all Valve had to do was pretty up their UI a smidge and they were at parity or outcompeting EGS in every category.
I dunno. Maybe that's just me.
I left mumble, teamspeak, and Skype for Discord.
Discord is easily the better options among those choices.
I also can't think of much use for being in more than one call at once. I dunno seems like you're just looking for a different thing. And that's okay.
Just watched the new episodes that dropped recently. Cried several times. God, I've never had a show with such a deep emotional understanding and enduring compassion for both children and adults.
Bluey is a goddamn treasure.
Enshittification, also called chokepoint capitalism, is a term coined by Corey Doctorow (sp?) that lays out a common pattern with platforms in a capitalist system where:
- Platform builds a product to entice users to it for little to no cost to the user (Google search, Facebook, Amazon shopping, etc)
- Once users are locked in, make the experience worse in ways that increase profits for business partners (Google ads partners, etc)
- Once business partners are locked in, screw them over to rake back as many profits for the platform owner.
Maybe it's just the circles I run in, but I understand "tankie" to mean leftists who think Soviet/Maoist/vanguard-party styles of Communist revolution/rule were good, actually, to the point of denying any bad things they did/do as "Western propaganda".
Given the red scare in the US, our ability as a whole to use any sort of leftist political labels accurately across the population is basically non-existent, so I do understand the frustration by both tankies and non-tankie leftists about how the term gets used lately, especially in produce circles on social media.
But again maybe that's just me. I don't know if I would consider myself a communist, but I do consider myself as a yet undetermined variety of socialist, if that helps at all.
I think their point is that the pilgrims set the cultural precedents for what would later become America, to which later immigrants would be beholden.
I don't know how true that is, but I think "protestant work ethic" is at least one example of that sort of thing.
I may not be any of those things... but turns out I enjoy the humor of all of them greatly!
Clear temples?