If you block somebody that quote posts you on Bluesky, their quote post no longer has your post in it or anything pointing to you. You also can straight up delete people's replies to your posts there. Hopefully Masto's iteration on QRTs works similarly, though people always have the option to "screenshot dunk" instead.
Genie's out of the bottle now though. The casual-attracting features needed to be in place before twitter exploded. They weren't. Bluesky's were. Casuals don't care about what-ifs or principles, it's a miracle Musk let Twitter get so terrible that the casuals even noticed. It'll take a monumental event now to get the casuals to switch again from the blueskys they just made and got invested in.
This is just an SBC with production value though. Devices like the Odin 2 can already "serve as anything from a game controller to a media player to a penetration testing tool" since all you have to do to claim that is run Linux or Android.
Nice that this one's got hardware ports on it other than USB-C though. No adapter squid.
Tell that to the Gamecube and Wii U eras. Funny that those are also all-time peaks for game quality, Nintendo is better at making video games when they're struggling.
Not at all that kind of manga.
Even limited to 2D Sonics, there are official Sega products that are just terrible. Remember Sonic 4?
"Official Sonic games" run the gamut from Sonic 2 to Sonic Boom/'06. It's kind of the poster child for a franchise that is an unstoppable media juggernaut that has beloved all-time classic games... and some absolute garbage games.
"it's so good it could be an official Sonic game" is... not very indicative of quality.
There's also just grammatical stuff that looks better in text. "In the future, it's player driven" would conversationally flow perfectly well, but as written text the tense of "it's" doesn't line up with the statement being about the future. Hence the present tense being corrected to future tense.
Krafton seems to be attempting to diversify with this purchase and also the purchase of Unknown Worlds. We'll see how many enshittification mandates they force on their studios when Subnautica 2 hits early access this year (it's already confirmed to have online multiplayer so eyebrows are raised)
the game is a slot machine. It's a purely aesthetic slot machine (zero ads, zero MTX, zero premium currency, zero paid DLC), but it turns out "does it look like casino gambling" is the concern, not "is it actually something that you can ruin your life over because it preys on gambling addiction"
It looks like the dev is just gonna sigh and accept the garbage "age rating" system, and let LBAL stay on the store as a "mature 18+ audiences only" app.
There's also just the naming problem. Social media works best when its name sounds like a place and its verbs sound like normal actions. Mastodon is a three syllable elephant (or a metal band), versus a sky or a book (note: this isn't a hard and fast rule, since Twitter and Instagram pulled it off). And they call their posts toots. Officially, too, unlike the user-made meme of "Skeets". Toots are farts. No politician or business professional is going to say "retoot" with a straight face.