r/enshittification

Haven’t had Oreos for a long time.. like a few years. They are not my personal fav, but I bought them to bring camping to make s’moreos and figured my toddler would like to try them as a special treat. I don’t know what happened to the recipe (I do) but these taste like total shit now, am I right?

Side note: he didn’t even like them. He took a bite, set it down, and forgot about it completely lol

You can do something about it actually.

This guy made a video about what you can do against it

https://youtu.be/bQVPe2yqqjI

Went to the café. Not only were prices remarkably higher, but we were given paper/disposable dishes and silverware. While I appreciate the compostable nature of what we were given, using the plates and cups they sell used to be a nice cafeteria experience that let you "try out" what they sold.

Edit 1: Location Midwest USA

Edit 2: I asked about a broken dishwasher and was told nothing was broken, but rationelle for disposable was vauge.

be safe out there ya fanooks 🤌

EDIT: Since I've had a lot of responses asking how a company can count sales one way or another that doesn't seem to make sense: Hollywood Accounting is a common way studios and manufacturers in the media industry will shape numbers for sales, manufacturing, and a number of other factors to reflect a particular outcome. The Empire Strikes Back has famously never turned a profit in decades despite making $550 million dollars at the box office due to this kind of accounting. Not separating DLC, Microtransactions, free PS+ games, F2P titles, and slop titles from full game releases allows a company to put a thumb on the scale and leverage loss leader subscribers or F2P whales who buy microtransactions and DLC to heavily skew the numbers in favor of all-digital despite the ratio of sales for full retail games with a physical variant skewing closer to 50:50 with it's digital counterpart. A great example of this is Capcom insisting on counting Game Key Card sales on Nintendo Switch 2 as "all-digital" despite the fact that someone who is going out of their way to get a game key card at a store or having it delivered to their home is clearly indicating their preference and view of it as being a physical purchase compared to simply downloading it.

Original post follows:

The entire situation around this is complicated and has a lot of layers. But the stuff going on behind this decision has been building for months and amounts to Sony using fudged numbers on their sales figures to hide a huge corporate restructuring of the business for Sony itself and it's divisions like DADC (disc manufacturing) and SSS (semiconductor and sensor manufacturing) to fully support the AI industry at the expense of their legacy disc manufacturing business and PlayStation customers:

What we know of physical hardware and game sales from independent industry retail and digital purchase tracking sources.

• Sales data from the first two years of the PS5 showed that physical has overwhelming preference when it comes to games that are not sold as download-only. Sony sells three physical titles on average for every two downloads.

• Console sales data also shows that 82% of all lifetime PS5 console sales are for a console with a disc drive

• Disc sales and manufacturing data shows that Sony manufactures 300,000 Playstation discs per-day, 24/7, 365 days a year at the plant that is being shut-down. If we further break that down, it's 109,500,000 discs per year. Sony themselves claim 1.6 billion software units sold over a combined lifetime for PS4 and PS5 and when combined with the data they released about disc manufacturing it seems to appear that they are selling every single one of those discs that they have manufactured to hit that target.

For how Sony's disc manufacturing plants are being repurposed, Sony DADC is a division of Sony SSS which manufactures semiconductors and is a big player in the data center equipment sales and silicon manufacturing industry.

• Sony SSS have recently partnered with TSMC to provide optical vision sensors for AI, and optical solutions for the manufacture of AI silicon and emerging products for data centers and hardware manufacturerers.
• In addition this includes the use of DADC's optical expertise for memory and sensory systems to substantiate new and existing products for data centers. Notably in late 2024 when Sony SSS and Sony DADC's laser and optics research enabled the manufacturing of 30TB hard drives specifically for the data center market and partnered with Seagate to produce these for data center use
• Sony has also clearly stated their intention to repurpose DADC facilities into the production of optical and semiconductor products for emerging industries such as in this press release from 2022 at their former Terra Haute disc manufacturing facility That facility is currently being used for the purpose of supplying sensors and other parts to the AI industry, along with custom manufacturing of other items which can require clean room and high optical precision such as semiconductors and lithography for AI chips.
• Sony has been pivoting to ditching disc manufacturing and instead promoting DADC as able to showcase readiness and training for AI-driven factories and related manufacturing since at least December of 2025. Sony DADC to Partner with DMSCA on ACCELERATE2026. The Training and Educational Event on AI-Driven Manufacturing and Smart Factory Readiness

For those who think physical sales are next to nothing, here is a basic breakdown of current sales of physical and digital for notable marquee first party story driven or single player/couch co-op targeted Sony releases in the past 8-10 years for which data is publicly available.

• Uncharted 4: 83% physical, 17% digital
• Sackboy: 77% physical, 23% digital
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart: 76% physical, 24% digital
• Demon's Souls: 70% physical, 30% digital
• Spider-Man: 66% physical, 34% digital
• Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales: 66% physical, 34% digital
• The Last of Us Part 2: 61% physical, 39% digital
• Astro Bot: 55% physical, 45% digital

There's a good breakdown here of the sales number fudging for digital sales by counting DLC and digital-only titles like free-to-play and $1 cashgrab slop games against physical, instead of properly counting physical vs digital solely for dual release titles, that Sony is using as an excuse to make their current decision by. Source is from a post online by Canadian Guy Eh on twitter/X that I will quote here, and include his sourcing just like he did:

>Did a little research into this "85% of games bought on Playstation are digital". So I decided to look at the EXACT wording of what that meant.

>Spoiler: Its not "Out of 100 copies of Spiderman sold, 85% are digital"

>Here's how they calculate it.

>Digital Units sold, Divided by Total Units sold, times 100.

>Straight forward right?

>In Q4 of 2025, sony sold 74.6 million units in total, that is both Digital and Physical units.

>But the "85% of all games bought are digital" has a HUGE skew to it. Why? Because there are THOUSANDS of DIGITAL only games that do not get a PHYSICAL release. Think the 5$-20$ indie titles or digital only ports of older games.

>However, those digital sales are counted AGAINST the physical sales. Meaning? Even if EVERYONE who stopped buying Physical in the past 5 years, went out and bought one game a month? Digital will still dominate physical because (mostly) everything thats physical is also digital, but very little that is digital is also physical.

>The Comparison is not fair and when its thrown around on social media its literally framed in a way for the stat to prove how dominant Digital sales are while excluding a number of factors. Doing so would be like comparing Your local Wal-Mart's stock to Amazon.

>Not only that, but there are many digital only sales that are held that puts STEEP discounts on games that in-store simply cannot do. Of course there are some games that are on sale in-store that are not on sale digitally, but those digitally only games ALSO go on sale which the retailer has Zero access to because its digital only.

>There's also digital incentives where buying the game digitally grants you more content vs buying it in store, driving more sales. Then, there are some games that release digitally, and then have a physical release MONTHS later; or, allow you to play the game a few days early.

>If you wanted a more fair comparison? It would be "Digital media with a simultaneous Physical Release vs The Physical Release" Having this stat would reveal the true number. But even THAT number is missing details because that also doesn't include people buying the game second hand/Used from GameStop.

>However, while Im sure that stat would STILL benefit digital sales, I would suggest and conclude that it wouldn't be "85%" as many people are suggesting.

>Sources: https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/library/presen/er/pdf/25q4_supplement.pdf

I'm sure with some time and some more digging the community will likely discover and pick out other sources related to Sony's odd sales numbers, and the press releases of their subsidiaries that are related to all of this. But it appears the decision by Sony to axe discs is something that seems to have been in the works for a while. It comes off more like the company potentially trying to pivot their existing manufacturing to the AI and data center business at the expense of retail customers while the frothing demand and bubble money is still there like what much of the tech industry has been doing.

Correct me if I'm wrong. I don't want to jump the gun, but I would not be surprised if they were being hypocritical dirtbags.

https://youtu.be/BVGJvlvlaY4

So apparently now I need a pro subscription to Billboard just to see what the top 100 is. What the fuck is happening in this world?