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  • I would suggest redirecting slightly. Every single publicly traded tech company eventually fully enshittifies into predatory ad/data revenue generation due to the fundamental requirement that they not only generate profit, but that they consistently generate growth.

    I could create an amazing app, sell it for $5, and if 5 million people download it and I don’t sell out or incorporate and go public, I could just cruise on it and retire happily. There’s no intrinsic pressure to switch profit models because I don’t owe anybody shit.













  • That game was the mutt’s nuts. I’m still looking for a good way to replay it. I still remember how blown away I was when, in classic Bond fashion, it just threw me into a completely badass car chase/sniper mission before even showing a title screen.

    Fun fact: there was a GBA port that, while it is pretty clunky in a lot of ways, is also unbelievably ambitious for the platform. Full 3D engine, multiple paths through levels, etc. It’s worth trying if you’re a big Nightfire and/or retro technology nerd.


  • EvilBit@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzno ragrets
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    Fun fact (because there’s nothing more fun than technicality!): Technically it wasn’t his life’s work. Well before his work on nuclear fission, Oppenheimer was actually responsible for originally theorizing the existence of both antimatter and black holes. He was a more intuitive physicist than a technical one, so he didn’t follow through on these ideas, instead letting others carry the work forward.