"The messy WordPress drama, explained"

"WordPress cofounder Matt Mullenweg is going after a rival hosting firm he says is 'strip-mining the WordPress ecosystem.'"

Yeah... this is the first I've heard of any "WordPress drama," and all it does is make me glad I never really got into seriously using WordPress for anything significant. I do have a WordPress account, but I use that almost exclusively for making the occasional comment under entries on John Scalzi's Whatever blog.

The last bit of "drama" I had with a blog service led me to almost immediately abandon ship entirely. See also: Facebook and Twitter, better known as 卐.com now I mean X.com now. (Just to note, in case it's not obvious, that "Twitter" link back there is actually three separate links, because I "deleted my Twitter account" on three separate occasions, with only the last one being the final, permanent one. "So far," at least, though I seriously do not ever see my self creating a new account on 卐, not even for "placeholder" reasons. So, again, if anyone ever happens to see "KaneMagus" on Twitter X 卐, it is most definitely not actually me.)

Glad nothing like that has happened (yet) with Dreamwidth. ¬_¬ (The only real "problem" I have with Dreamwidth is that the number of characters allotted to the subject field is often woefully inadequate, as I often mention in related posts.)

I also, interestingly/weirdly enough, already have a "wordpress" tag. Go figure.

"FF7 Rebirth Sales Fell Below Expectations | Castle Super Beast 287 Clip"

Watch on YouTube

For what it's worth, I haven't bought a Final Fantasy game since Final Fantasy XIII (only the first one, not the sequels), back in 2009, so I guess this is all entirely my fault. But then, on the other hand, I also didn't contribute to the sales numbers for FF15 or FF7 Remake, either, so maybe not so much. *eye roll*

As for FF7 Remake/Rebirth/Regurgitation (or whatever they end up calling the third part, assuming it ever actually gets made/released, at this rate), I intend to wait until a full-ass video game is released, and all parts of that single, whole-ass video game are available in a reasonably priced bundle that is fully available on PC (so far, only the first part is on PC[1]), and none of those parts are infected with shit like Denuvo or whatever, before I even begin to consider maybe purchasing it someday.

And considering that they have not, to this day, removed the Denuvo infestation from Final Fantasy XV on PC, despite that game having come out in fucking 2018 (on Steam), it is on my "do not buy" list, where it will remain until the contamination is removed, though that is looking ever more unlikely as time marches onward (since, apparently, it was added before Irdeto switched to a time-based subscription model for Denuvo, which is why more recent games tend to drop Denuvo like the plague it is after a year or so, nowadays). And since the same corruption is still in FF16, too, that's also still on my "do not buy" list and will remain so until the pestilence is removed.

"Oh man, this industry is going to fucking crash soon." Please, Pat, don't get my hopes up so.

"No layoff announcements just yet. We will see." Yeah, Woolie, that's pretty much the true indicator of success/failure these days. Well, except that even games that sold like gangbusters are still seeing their dev teams almost immediately laid off...

[1] - And the whole thing probably won't be properly available on PC until, say, at least 2030 or later, since the second part is still exclusive to the Playstation (and I won't consider the second part coming to Epic Gangrene Shit in 2025 as being "available on PC" at all), and the third part hasn't even been created yet, for any platform, obviously.

"Main character syndrome"

"Why romanticising your own life is philosophically dubious, setting up toxic narratives and an inability to truly love"

Alternatively: "Why main character syndrome is philosophically dangerous"