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I'll make more balance ideas tomorrow as Reddit only allows up to 20 images for technical reasons. Enjoy the fun!

Huh. Classic by-product mass-installed because of Satya Nadella, the Slopaneer. How original, thanks for making the best OS ever known to mankind!

As a digital minimalist myself, I just think that the app TikTok is causing too much mental harm and brainrot onto users (like the average Joey) that have been spending constant hours doomscrolling.

I very much describe the app as "CrackTok" because it's digital nicotine that makes you always come back, and back, and back, and back.

YouTube has this similar problem when they released YouTube Shorts (which turned it into CrackTube if you're on the dark side), and that's competition unfortunately. Enshittification will always strike back, even when users call for deshittification.

Do you think TikTok and short-form content should be erased off the internet completely, and why is that?

We are witnessing a textbook case of enshittification at Microsoft. Over the last year, the company has systematically degraded its most reliable, lightweight core utilities by forcing AI integrations where absolutely nobody asked for them.

The strategy under Satya Nadella has shifted from creating functional software to aggressively justifying their multi-billion-dollar OpenAI partnership to Wall Street. To do this, Microsoft engineers are seemingly being forced to cram Copilot into every corner of the OS, regardless of whether it breaks the user experience.

Here is how the degradation is playing out in real-time:

• The Ruining of Notepad: For decades, Notepad was the gold standard of zero-latency, lightweight text editing. It opened instantly. Now, Microsoft is testing "Explain with Copilot" and AI text-generation tools directly inside it. A utility meant for quick scratchpad notes is now bloated with cloud-dependent background processes, turning a 50KB utility mindset into an AI-data-scraping vector.
• The Bricking of Photos: The default Photos app used to just... show photos. Now, it's bloated with cloud syncing prompts, OneDrive hostage-taking, and unwanted generative AI features (like object removal and background styling) that regularly cause the app to lag, freeze, or completely crash on hardware that should easily handle a JPEG.
• Forced UI Intrusion: Copilot isn't an opt-in feature; it’s a UI parasite. It’s baked into the taskbar, the context menus, and the hotkeys.

Why this is classic Enshittification: Microsoft knows that Windows users have high switching costs (due to gaming, proprietary enterprise software, or habit). Because consumers can't easily leave, Microsoft is actively destroying the user surplus of their operating system to juice their "AI engagement" metrics for investors. They are turning a functional operating system into a monetization and data-harvesting machine, rendering basic apps utterly unusable in the process.

I used to rely on Windows for a seamless workflow, but now I’m constantly fighting the OS just to keep it from gaslighting me into using an LLM. Has anyone else noticed their system stability tanking ever since these AI updates started rolling out?

There's a reason why I would never touch Microsoft products... EVER AGAIN after the Notepad incident! Nobody should recommend this over Linux as Microslop made a fatal mistake at hiring a slopaneer to get the dirty work done (albeit dumb)!

I used to play Random Dice: Defence, GO and RollRoll a lot before 111% ruined the entire franchise for what's about to come!

It was really popular back in mid 2019 as "Royal Dice", the game mechanics were really fun to play around and deck-building is what made it so special.

Before becoming the fallen pioneer for 111Percent's own hands, they released several Random Dice titles throughout 2021 and 2023 (Random Dice: Wars, GO, RollRoll, Dice Kingdom and Dice Quest) that were super exciting to go back and forth to test new strategies out, but there's a few caveats I had to point out during the franchise's runtime:

1. Legendary inflation: Essentially flooding the dice catalogue with unwanted, overpowered legendaries (such as Devil Sword Dice and Predator Dice) over prioritising lower rarities to "milk" the wallets of whales. This has happened across all different Random Dice games, not just limited to Defence.
2. Excessive microtransactions: This became noticeable with Dice Kingdom & Dice Quest (before both of those games shut down), such as unnecessary "energy systems" to force players to pay for in-game store microtransactions to proceed the campaign mode.
3. Shift to corporate tone: Modern Random Dice: Defence update preview videos on the RD Official YouTube channel has completely assassinated the fan-favourite mascot Pinkie in in exchange for generic and robotic update previews nobody asked for.

In 2024, they stopped updating all the Random Dice spinoffs in demand for Lucky Defence, which is a ripoff of RD: Defence with completely similar gameplay but a shift in artstyle. They ended up shutting down Dice Quest on 27th May 2024, and Random Dice: Wars on December 2024, and further proceeded by provoking RD: Defence updates since version 9.4.0 just so they can make a quick buck on Lucky Defence!

Then, Dice Kingdom shut down sometime in mid 2025 (presumably July), and that leaves us to Random Dice: GO & RollRoll's service termination on 26th June 2026. What's bizarre about the termination of GO & RollRoll is the poorly-timed announcement of Random Dice 2, which is mobile slop designed like Lucky Defence for maximum "filthy lucre" gains, as if the microtransactions didn't make enough money on the Random Dice games.

What have you loved about the Random Dice franchise so far before 111Perslop made the franchise abandonware in favour of pushing for new trends? I'm very sad that they removed Turretz and other fun titles from their app stores while posting my thoughts on Random Dice.

I used to play Random Dice: Defence, GO and RollRoll a lot before 111% enshittified the entire franchise for whatever slop they made in return!

It basically acted as the fallen pioneer for its creators. It got completely ruined by the legendary inflation (=flooding the dice catalogue with unwanted, overpowered legendaries such as Devil Sword Dice over prioritising lower rarities for maximum financial gain), excessive microtransactions (especially on Dice Quest with energy systems) and the assassination of the fan-favourite mascot Pinkie in the most recent update preview videos of RD: Defence in exchange for corporate-style update previews nobody asked for.

Now we got Lucky Defence and Random Dice 2... some of the trashiest games I've ever seen this company to produce so far when I grew up with Turretz and other addictive titles before they pulled the plug on those fun mobile games on the app stores. We never asked for Lucky Defence and Random Slop 2 in the first place, especially given the latter of how AI-generated the trailer and footage they gave to us and then called it a day.

What have you loved about the Random Dice franchise so far before 111Perslop made it into nothing but a cash grab designed to be abandoned for an eternity?

I would just rather stick to 4.6 and watch my quality go up over 4.8 gaslighting me as if he was slacking his day's worth, just so that my work quality becomes amazingly high over a clanker that simply makes your life hell, especially for us vibe coders out there.

In case you don't know about the permaspike effect, it describes a phenomenon where a flagship model gets unintentionally "dumbed" down in order to save computing resources or patch a rare, high-grade prompt injection exploit, causing it to perform worse than intended, named after the most-nerfed tower in BTD6, Perma-Spike.