They are in cahoots with the RAM cartels to push gaming onto their cloud services so that competitors like AMD don't just pick them up. Trying to make everything into a service is just a side benefit, although I'm sure they realize 16 bit SNES games are still fun and that people will just be driven to less powerful entertainment platforms.
Lemmy.ml is propaganda, and it will always be a disturbing reminder that Lemmy was developed by propagandists.
Except it is and it isn't. He's been laying the foundation to do just that. This is consistent with his "homegrown are next" messaging. Regardless of how many times he contradicts himself, it's where he is most consistent that are most troubling because it signals at his longterm agendas: his third term aspirations, his comments on annexing Canada and Greenland, his comments on "you won't have to vote again" in four years, his "homegrown are next" messages, etc.
He doesn't need to distract with distractions when he can distract with all the shit he wants to bring about. He just needs to shift the news cycle at a high enough pace so that yesterday's insanity becomes old news that is overshadowed by whatever BS people have to deal today.
Well informed and respectful response? Bigot, out with you! But calling Ukraine "the empire's Nazi regime", totally not racism or bigotry.
It's so ridiculous to claim to have a modlog for transparency, then just slap a no-reason number or flat out lie. Kudos to the admins and mods that don't do that.
The real problem is, the main Lemmy developers actively peddle Russian and Chinese propaganda, and they know it. It really de-legitimizes Lemmy as a platform.
Unless your game is actively getting generated by AI, handling multiple branching storylines is n times the amount of work for n branches of the storyline a lot of players will never get to explore and will just watch on YouTube.