Spyke
lemmy.world

Greed applies to all of these companies let's be honest.

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lemmy.world

Greed could encompass most of the 7 sins.

Lust - Greed for sex

Sloth - Greed for relaxation

Gluttony - Greed for food

Envy - Greed of others stuff

The only two that don't really fit under greed is pride and wrath

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4amreply
lemm.ee

Pride - Greed for attention

Wrath - Greed for violence

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I was gonna put pride in there as greed for power but pride comes in many forms.

As for wrath I don't see it as a greedy thing it's something that is provoked. Evoked I should say.

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Greed, the character from FMAB, has an interesting take on this concept. He extends the concept to call the idea of the heroes winning completely (i.e. they get their bodies back, defeat the bad guys, no one dies) to be a form of greed, and the idea of greed is independent of morality.

You could call this unhelpful broadening of the concept of greed, but I think it's an interesting reframing of something people usually think of very negatively.

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That's kind of companies work. The problem is when the company becomes the industry standard.

Basically go for smaller companies and generic brand products. They are better sometimes anyway.

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There should be a memorial for victims of EA (all the studios they have acquired and then shut down), similarly to the Victims of Communism memorial.

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lemmy.world

I get all of these but lust for blizzard, anybody care to explain it to me?

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Oh yeah now I remember...

I love how they responded to that by changing McCree's name (I'll call Robotnik Eggman before I pretend Cole Cassidy isn't the most generic shit I've ever heard) and then censoring the hell out of World of Warcraft

Two things that didn't really need to happen... and I love how basically no one, not a soul, honors the new name of Jesse McCree

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lemmy.world

Nonsense. The porn has way better quality models than the game.

Or so I heard. I don't play Overwatch.

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Overwatch is an amazing porn series that has an incredibly shitty game based on it.

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lemm.ee

What's the sin where you can't count to 3?

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sh.itjust.works

It’s not AI generated, it’s AI upscaled because the original was very low resolution and I was to lazy to remake the meme

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ludreply

Fair enough.

That's for upscaling and not uploading memes in shit res though!

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sopuli.xyz

Probably so they have a defense when Nintendo sends a cease and desist order for using their logo.

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Alright, I normally show up to these to be the voice of reason and moderation...

...but no, this one kinda tracks, actually. Carry on.

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lemmy.ca

Konami published a lot of games that had potential but they didn't really take them anywhere.

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Could also be they fired Kojima because they just wanted to release Metal Gear themed pachinko machines and Kojima wanted to make more ambitious and original games.

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They keep releasing collections and new games are all outsourced.

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It’s not AI generated, it’s AI upscaled because the original was very low resolution and I was to lazy to remake the meme

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lemy.lol

You know, I remember there being a video about this. Like a long format video essay in which nintendo was the last videogame company to be mentioned and the sin was pride.

I don't remember who made the video, but I think it was super eyepatch wolf or another youtuber with a similar style. I tried looking for the video but I couldn't find it. It was really good.

I remember EA was greed, Valve was Sloth. And l think Bethesda was lust(? (Because of constant harrassment allegations in their offices or something like that), but the narrator kept reminding the audience that all game companies were all guilty of the same sins.

T'was really interesting

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A "boys club" scandal a couple years ago where the male higher-ups only hired women who would tolerate being sexually abused. Some ex-employees described it as "company culture" that propagated for a decade or more. There was an investigation after some women spoke out that led to a lawsuit, several top level managers being fired, and a couple CEOs being scrutinized really hard.

All of this is off the top of my head and maybe somewhat inaccurate, but that's the gist of it.

Edit: Here's an article for you

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Multiple sexual harassment claims and lawsuits, including incidents of stolen breast milk.

  • Alleged cubicle crawls where drunk employees go cubicle to cubicle harassing females.
  • Multiple C suites resigning due to personal indiscretions.
  • A "Cosby" suite
  • Suicide due to extreme harassment
  • Multiple allegations of breast milk missing from office fridges.

You can't make this shit up.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Department_of_Fair_Employment_and_Housing_v._Activision_Blizzard

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lemmy.ml

I could think of why each one is assigned, but I couldn't figure out why Ubisoft is pride. Any ideas?

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My thoughts: they pridefully use the same formula in each of their open-world games, thinking consumers won't recognize that Far Cry's gameplay is basically AC with guns and a different story.

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Possibly because they refuse to admit that they are being obtuse.

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Wouldn't EA be more Pride? Y'know, Pride & Accomplishment and all that jazz?

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lemmy.world

Lots of words that really just mean Greed (Glutton, Lust, Envy).

It's like people have known for thousands of years that greedy people are the fuckin worst

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lemmy.world

That’s because the sins are about exerting your will over others’/the community’s benefit and we use greed to mean wanting. Pride is greed for accolades, sloth is greed for rest, wrath is greed for emotional release.

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