Not at all! I think StarCraft: Ghost is a reinforcement of what I said in my response to Makhno.

I thought Ghost was a great idea, but the context surrounding it was fundamentally different. Ghost was a spin-off alongside an active RTS series. Starcraft was still a core Blizzard product, and StarCraft II was already an expected continuation. Nobody thought Ghost was replacing the genre identity of the franchise.

You’re arguing against a position nobody stated. My criticism isn’t that an IP ever appears in another genre. It is the pattern of publishers repurposing established strategy franchises into monetization-friendly live-service shooters because that market is larger and more predictable.

Warhammer is a poor comparison. Games like Vermintide didn’t replace or redefine Warhammer; they existed alongside a still-supported core genre identity. The RTS space around StarCraft has effectively been abandoned for years. So when the first meaningful revival rumor turns out to be a shooter, I read it less as expansion and more as substitution.

If Blizzard announced a new RTS and also a shooter spin-off, I would not be critical. The reaction is about genre displacement, not genre diversification.

Let’s take something arguably genre defining and turn it into a fad chaser! Great idea.

Windows Defender has been sufficient for most users for a while. Which is just a default part of the OS unless you go out of your way to remove it.

It’s been long enough I don’t think I could faithfully remember the details of their argument. I think they were insisting that no AV was needed at all though, not that Windows’ built in protections are sufficient, which has indeed been true for a while.

Years ago someone told me on reddit that antivirus protections on personal PCs aren’t necessary and a waste of processing power.

Can’t really reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.

Ah neat. I saw this posted a couple days ago and meant to check it out, but lost track of the link. Thanks!

What a terrible day to have eyes.

I bet that shit got destroyed the same day.

This meme predates AI.

One is my favorite strips:

Please be a broken clock moment please be a broken clock moment.

Narrator: It was not.

Poorly Drawn Lines is an awesome comic.

That tracks.

Wait, what? That’s crazy.

Yeah. Memes like this are making the perfect the enemy of the good. Is there an issue? Sure. Is this the right time for that issue? I’m not so sure about that one.

That question doesn’t make sense. Did you respond to the right comment?

Naturally, the solution is to interrogate the critique rather than the problem. That approach has an impressive record of success.

Many people, likely a majority, are not in a financial or practical position to participate in a boycott or general strike. That constraint is not accidental. Considerable effort goes into structuring economic life so that such actions are difficult to sustain, and additional effort goes into convincing people they are even more powerless than they actually are.

Even within this comment thread, some seem to overlook the range of options that exist between blowing whistles on one extreme and violent confrontation with the red hats on the other.