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Cake day: October 29th, 2026

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  • My big issue is that I use a lot of stuff offline and I have found that many of the downloader options to be limited. Not the fault of the app developers, they are fighting against a service that is constantly changing the back end to prevent them from being consistent.

    I like said, I think Google is looking to start locking this down big time in the coming years. They have accepted that people will use all kind of means to get around downloading content and skipping ads so long as the business is growing. But as it plateaus and their dream of AI become much more realistic, the squeeze to lock everything down is going to get much harder in years to come.

    I said it years back, wouldn’t be surprised if many websites and services just become a giant webASM blob so that it makes scraping information near impossible. Roll content and AD’s into a single DNS and have the web blob handle all the splits internally.

    I have only had premium for many 4 months now and I am probably only going to use it for a month or more at this stage. It is fine but there just isn’t enough to justify it.













  • To be fair, Reddit has been Zombie Reddit for about 5 years now.

    When they received $150 million from Tencent in 2018, the writing was on the wall. You cannot accept that kind of money and keep to the original aspiration. The IPO just accelerated it.

    The amount of slop on there nowadays is wild! Even the smallest communities are being overrun with it and they don’t give a damn because it is good for business short term.





  • I am starting to think that having hard technical or imposed market limits might be a good thing, or at least the lesser of two evils.

    It you had to build a game on before the era of cheap middleware engines, there was a natural barrier to entry. The Nintendo seal of approval used to mean something at least even if the game was still trash.

    But now, you can flood the space with minimal barrier to entry and we are being flooded with junk. But those that control the access and making big money off this so they turn a blind eye.

    A few months back, there was a reddit post for my local town, it was about self publishing their new game on Steam. Anyway, about a dozen others posted links to their projects all releasing within the next few months, all of them copies or low effort projects. This is a single town, in a single country, that is releasing potentially dozens, possible hundreds of games a year. The market is flooded because we have made it so easy to pump this junk out and there is little interest in putting even vague restrictions on it.

    The crash is coming and we will all know why it happened.