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No.

Those pictures show frustration with the punishment in the same way a toddler does. These people are messed up.

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I want both.

Depending on mood, I may want a show that is entirely linear.

Other times, a one off.

It's evolving, but not exactly better. Just because it's different, doesn't mean it's better. Doesn't mean it's worse, but not necessarily better.

Why?

Book is book.

SOOO many low quality videos....

You're conflating several points here.

Things change. Focus and platform and format and emphasis change.

But also, late stage capitalism is ruining everything.

I still enjoy watching and discovering a lot of stuff that I missed growing up. I'm literally searching for Stargate DVDs right now because I never watched it all the way through. But also, brainrot can be fun, modern depth is just as depth as older depth, with similar rates of rarity. Meaning, it's there, but lots of other stuff mixed in.

So yeah, you are getting old. But only because of your inflexibility to adapt to newer methods and models and stuff. Take the best from the old, and try the new and find the good stuff. That's what I've always historically done anyway. Because if you do that, over time, let's say you get desperate in a drought. Then you just lower your standards a little bit and end up planning on watching things like buffy or sg1 in 2026.

And maybe, just maybe, those things, while problematic of their eras, may have otherwise been way ahead of their time or you'll grow to appreciate them long after their time. Take breaks, come back in a decade or two and try again and maybe it'll be better or worse. There's no wrong answer, even if you're getting old. Especially if you're getting old.

Also, complaining, while valid, is also not as productive as finding things to be passionate about. For example, I just played through the original turok on pc. That game is wayyyy better than I was told it was when I was a kid. And now that I've played it, I can say stuff like "games these days, while fun, are missing X or really could incorporate Y to be even better".

Tldr: getting old. But also kinda worse. A lot of it is perspective and how you get around whatever era's issues.

Oh right, there is one more factor to consider. As you get older, you DO get wiser and more experienced. Stuff stops being aimed at you, and in a lot of ways, I've found society not catering to me because I'm expensive compared to the dumb kids of today who don't know any better.<- now take this, and think about it from an older person's perspective, where YOU are dumb kid.

Now, go out and touch grass. It really is better and will make you feel better. It usually works for me.

Or kinda like what Valve does, where they wait, collect internal lists, do research, then do big ban waves.

Or like what they do to scam call centers where they let them continue being shitty for a while, while simultaneously conducting deep investigations, after which they arrest the fuck out of everybody involved.

I think the only way is to be less popular and to keep moving. People that run bots are like bullies, and are either crazed zealots that eventually will run out of motivation, or already have limited motivation and you have to make it harder for them until they stop caring. In which case, they basically just become an actual user.

Now the trick is how to string along your users in the same way that doesn't turn them away.

Offer something juicy to people who care, but foul to those who don't.

Or just have better human moderation, like what Ada said. Treat your instance like a community and a team, watch over them and get rid of the bots, and then block instances that do a bad job at that. Isn't that basically the fediverse way, already? Because there will always be spam and bad actors and dissent. Only through the strengths of humanity can we beat the bots.

Combine these two arms, and they would be pretty solid. I leave the more rock hard, third arm solution to somebody much smarter than me, but welcome it gratefully and happily if and when it comes.

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Haven't done it, but i always wanted to put all the GTAs into one world, along with modded areas, and have it all connected.