Ryusui @theryusui@computerfairi.es

@anildash like i'm sorry to be doomer and defeatist on this but we're seeing, on this front, the inevitable end result of capitalism in this space

tech designed not for people, but for shareholders

@anildash and there's a final thing to consider:

how exactly will Google and Microsoft respond to the existence of a competitor who threatens to upend their self-devouring search engine ecosystem with a product that, you know, actually WORKS?

it wouldn't even need to be a THREAT (god knows Google and Microsoft would win by default in any competition of brand recognition, even if Bing is a distant second); they have the wherewithal to annihilate any POTENTIAL competition without issue

@anildash like who's going to pick up on the sales pitch "we're going to make a search engine that makes it easier to actually find the answers people want, without all the SEO garbage, and we're going to compete with Google"? every piece of that pitch is infinitely appealing to US, the people who have to suffer through our broken search engine ecosystem, but not to the money people who want "eyeballs" and "exposure," for whom the actual UTILITY of search engines is a non-consideration

@anildash at the same time - in our ghoulish world of race-to-the-bottom capitalism, is there truly a market for such a thing?

like the obvious answer is YES but keep in mind, the search engines are shit because the EXPECTATION is that the relentless march of SEO will squeeze more profit out of end users but the REALITY is that the content is being generated by algorithms TO SATISFY OTHER ALGORITHMS

we are not the market for search engines; marketing is the market for search engines

@LordArse let's go!

@danacorn agreed, All Good Things was incredible, and so was First Contact

i can get being unhappy with Insurrection and Nemesis (i sure was!) but there's nothing stopping folks from doing what i do: just ignore the entries you don't like!

@Sacchi it's not as bad as it sounds, Chain of Memories is TWITCHIER than i expected (seems like we have to be almost to the edge of the death zone to not pick up stacks) but the big thing is that 1. we need (ranged) DPS to kill Level Checker but also 2. we need heals to top off after Delta Attack

there's also the fact that surviving the meteors at the start of the Level Checker phase is a 50-50 coin flip (opposite-pole tethers = survive, same-pole tethers = fucked) but at least it's doable

@Sacchi i was confused for a sec till i realized you meant A8S and YEAH, A FRIEND AND I RAN A SHITTON OF SAVAGE RAIDS UNSYNCED, WE RAN INTO PRECISELY THIS

we made it all the way up to O11S which has been a brick wall for us so far, i have every job at 90 but she only has Dragoon, we need a different party consist to survive Program: Loop -> Delta Attack