From the first moment I first went online in 1996, forums were the main place to hang out. In fact the very first thing I did was join an online forum run by the Greek magazine "PC Master" so I could directly to my favourite game reviewers (for me it was Tsourinakis, for those old [...]
    • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Don’t hold your breath on the whole “wisening up to the VC funding” thing. People today still believe the moon landing was somehow faked to own the libs or something silly like that.

      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        1 month ago

        obviously but VC funding is predicated on very slimy concepts and it’s pretty easy for the broad market forces to adapt away from it, as we see with current VC projects. We just need to somehow deal with that problem. That’s the hard part though.

    • Croquette@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 month ago

      In an ideal world yes, but we’ve learned nothing from the Dotcom bubble, or the 2008 housing bubble.

      If there is money to be made, history will repeat itself.