u/Otheruser337

It's an ongoing trend that will never settle in the crazy world of capitalism we're in. I can perfectly describe the scenario as the "mendacification" of mobile game advertisements, not just limited to enshittification which is already occurring to this day.

Pin pullers, math gates, all this slop designed to get you to try out the game, only to realise that it doesn't look exactly like the ad the developer has promised as far as money goes.

Do you really hate modern mobile game ads, and how developers utilise human psychology to attract especially vulnerable people onto their digital clutter?

In case you're wondering, Ninja Kiwi has decided to hyper-focus on BTD6 more than anything throughout the entire lifespan of this.

Battles 1 has severely dropped in update quality ever since Battles 2 was in the works, most notably back in early 2021 as it was coming out in the end of November 2021. Many die-hard fans like me love Battles 1, and it's such a shame that it's never receiving new awesome content that we once did with Sandbox mode and Professor Evil (albeit "lazy" due to zero balance changes and minor bug fixes, as it was mostly server-side focused). Unfortunately, in recent years time, NK has been focusing on the BTD6-generation titles too much that it leaves all the BTD5-generation titles in a really bad and sterile position.

If we make a protest to try and get Ninja Kiwi to stop working on malfunctioning titles such as Bloonslop Glitz and Slottles 2, then everything may rejoice for a new and modular gaming experience that we once had back in the old days like all average bloonaholics have been doing at this time! NK should also start testing highly-competitive tourneys more as "bloonathons" to get returning skilled players back into the esports scene.

I've noticed a weird trend going on where everyone is glued on their smartphones. I had this period where my college friends became soulless freaks just because they shoved their one-dimensional rectangle on their face, only to then show that they're realistically on TikTok or a generative AI app.

This isn't just happening to teens and adults, but also kids and even elderly people! Tech companies made a truthful promise that a 'smartphone' can solve all your everyday problems that the dumbphone can't, but in reality it's completely dishonest and it just makes you dumb for using it, which is the opposite as for the dumbphone has achieved in the first place.

I think dumbphones make you smarter over the course of using it of your life, mainly due to the phone calls that you can make on important work colleagues and your friends of course, otherwise internet-free text messaging is A-Okay. They also save tons of money over bills that the smartphones seemingly bill more for just so that phone companies can rip you off in filthy lucre, which is a form of mendacification as if fake mobile game ads weren't enough.

Overall, I'd strongly recommend not using corporate technology and start using cellular classics like Nokia 110 4G if you don't want a google-ridden Slopdroid or Apple Slopple device! This is one of the true reasons I never want to get in touch with these crackphones ever again!

If only we ever time-travelled back into the late 20th century without this absurd crap...

Hey everyone, if you’ve tried running any multi-file agentic workflows lately, you already know GPT-5.5 is completely broken. We’re dealing with a massive permaspike effect: OpenAI slapped on so many hidden safety patches, alignment constraints, and aggressive context compression tricks that the model is basically lobotomized. Instead of just writing code, 5.5 constantly gets stuck in infinite loops, over-hedges every single prompt, and burns through monthly token limits just to drop a few lines of broken syntax wrapped in a generic apology.

It really shows how much of a GOAT GPT-5.3-Codex actually was. 5.3 just got things done; you could throw a messy, complex architecture at it and it would instantly spit out raw code without wasting time talking back to you. 5.4 was a massive step down because they tried forcing those experimental "computer use" features and weird background routing onto it. That choked the context window, made the model feel heavy, and caused it to constantly lose track of repository states.

Now with 5.5 turned the entire Codex platform into Slodex, it's barely usable. The model spends so much energy treating every instruction like a security threat that it literally forgets what it was doing halfway through a file. I'm honestly ready to move my entire setup over to Kimi Code or Minimax Code, seriously, they are running absolute circles around Claude and Gemini right now for heavy dev work and actual repo management. Is anyone successfully saving 5.5 with custom system prompts to kill the constant lecturing, or are we all just jumping ship?

YouTube was everybody's paradise when it came down to watching and publishing videos. I remember past news articles about the kids wanting to become YouTubers and make long-lasting content for their fans (usu. gaming).

But ever since they dropped YouTube Shorts globally in July 2021, it became a completely different service. It just feels like... a completely different dimension. You have short-form content that turns you into a soulless screen zombie once you're hooked to the doomscrolling mechanism, and that makes you wanna stay on your phone as if cocaine was consumed directly through the use of screen time.

Nowadays, I call it "CrackTube" because YouTube is trying to sell an addictive product in order to compete with TikTok (better known as CrackTok). The algorithm is so fricked up completely by a random generator that is designed to provide an advantageous lead for content farms who milk popular kid's cartoons with whatever slop they have designed, only for YouTube themselves to then recommend it that nobody wants.

Do you really hate modern YouTube the most? It feels like it's impossible to grow your channel adequately when the busted algorithm is around, only ever promoting clickbait over quality. I describe this as the "mendacification" of YouTube itself, as if fake mobile game ads like pin-pulling puzzles and idle slop (often with floor tiles like those Roblox games) weren't enough.