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   Dagnar (dagnar@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 16:36:06 JST Dagnar

   • Mancow Muller ?
   I started calling this shit out back in the 70s.
   "Oh Dagnar, you old fool! There were no vidya games back then!"
   Right, but the concept of churn did, and it started in consumer products like toasters and fast food crap. Churn out shitty products that decay at an accelerated rate (planned obsolescence) to pump up annual, semi-annual, then finally quarterly sales rates. By pinning profits to that sales rate and detaching it from product quality, they cheapened and ruined everything. We saw it music, movies, appliances, cars, houses, you name it. Over time, the churn mindset infected everything and the landfills got fuller.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 16:36:05 JST 翠星石

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     • Mancow Muller ?
     @Dagnar @cowanon There were arcade games in the 1970s and even those had churn.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 17:23:40 JST 翠星石

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     • Mancow Muller ?
     @Dagnar @cowanon Asteroids was 1979, pong was 1972 and arcades started to get popular ~1976, with breakout and sprint and sprint 2 etc.
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     Dagnar (dagnar@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 17:23:41 JST Dagnar

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     • 翠星石
     • Mancow Muller ?
     First arcade game I recall was Asteroids.