Has Penny Arcade always been this hideous?

Oh wow. A truely stunning achievement for this small indie studio.

Bethesda can’t even get ladders working in their engine, and y’all were expecting seamless atmospheric re-entry?

Is this an out of season April fools joke?

Can’t tell if this is damning with faint praise, or just an incredible self own

I’ll die before I install Facebook Messenger

We don’t need to become Reddit

We wouldn’t even move the amount by a percent

Doesn’t sound like a senior dev to me. Sounds like someone who thinks they are.

I really want to use Firefox on android, but the swiping gesture sensitivity (google images, closing tabs, etc) makes me unreasonably angry. I have to swipe 3 times just to get it to stick.

And?

Oh this isn’t meant to imply that rich people are smarter than anyone else. More hard to believe in that I don’t want a man with such immense power and wealth to be absolutely stupid. The obvious best choice is no one having a billion dollars.

The only reasonable answer is that Musk is intentionally killing Twitter, which is conspiracy theory levels of dumb.

The only other solution is that the richest person in the world (officially) is this stupid. This is almost harder to believe than a conspiracy to destroy twitter.

You’ve inspired* me to try installing Linux on my $50 windows atom tablet. I wonder if I can dual boot…

*reminded me that I owned the piece of junk

Oh I definitely expect racists to show up and get handled. I meant specifically my racist uncle. Fuck you, Roy.

Well the communities are pretty new and need time to grow. That said, it does make me a little sad that enthusiastic people might be scared off of the platform due to it being more complex. I’m just not completely sad because my racist uncle won’t jump on here.

The simple existence of different instances will be enough to scare away casual users.

I’m not entirely sad about this.

The same reason that a lot of crosswalks have fake buttons. So you feel like you have control.

The author seems to be injecting their own version of what they want federated software to be on top of what the fediverse is.

It’s not the panacea that will break the capitalist oligopoly and bring about The Revolution.

It doesn’t require an idealized future where ever person is tech literate enough to host their own email server.

It’s not a system for close friends to congregate in small social circles.

It could be a lot of those things, but the author is projecting. It’s software that is decentralized, can be connected to willing partners, and each instance has the freedom to set their own rules about who they do and don’t communicate with. The author seems to be adding their ideal goal of what the software should be to what it is.