Absolutely devistating.

You should tow it out of the environment or something.

That line was really funny. The first time we heard it. Many years ago.

From the link:

Definition: A gaming dark pattern is something that is deliberately added to a game to cause an unwanted negative experience for the player with a positive outcome for the game developer.

It’s okay, we’re getting rid of history lessons too!

Building shareholder value, duh.

I used to work with a guy who was religious about backing up his files to an external drives. Until someone broke into his house and stole his computer AND his external drives. He lost everything.

“human capital management”.

*dick

Capable? Yes. Willing? No.

I should have said “literature”.

I agree with everything you said.

However, fiction world building and game world building are hugely different.