Indeed. I chalk it up to the power of narratives and emotions. These are emotional decisions by managers who don’t know what they’re doing but salivate at the opportunity to limit someone’s access to something for not paying them or for using something differently than how they’d like to after paying. You know, stupid s**t like kernel level anti cheat and denuvo.

They’re gonna have a good story to tell Gandalf about how they lost the ring while orcs are marching them to mount doom.

For anyone wondering how bad brain rot can get, even here on Lemmy.

This. This is how bad it can get

The passive aggresive small d**k energy this person is showcasing is part and parcel of the normalization of authoritarianism and idiocracy in modern times. This is the type of acute mental darkness that awaits all of us if we don’t resist and organize against fascism and the rise of Big Stupid.

Tell me you have no expertise in political science without telling me you have no expertise in political science