• qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.one
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      I swear I will just stick with paperback books for all entertainment if they continue to further infect my current forms of entertainment. Lets seem them try to insert an unskippable ad into a paperback book.

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        “Please watch the ad on the included smart book accessory device to dispense the solvent that will un-glue the next 10 pages”

        Relevant Simpsons Joke:

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            We already have ad books. They’re called magazines, just give it a couple more years and regular books will be filled with ads too. I’ve already encountered some regular books that have an insert talking about another book from the same creator. Sure it doesn’t seem bad now but soon it’ll be an insert about a friend of the creator, then about the same company that did this book, then in similar genres, then more inserts about products that might make your book reading experience better, etc etc.

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              I’ve already encountered some regular books that have an insert talking about another book from the same creator.

              Oh, those? We call those reading snacks. You just rip them out and dip them in a blend of extra virgin olive oil and nicely reduced balsamic vinaigrette. Perfect pairing with a nice drama or thriller.

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              Any book that gets a movie or TV show seems to replace the original cover with an ad for the movie/TV show

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                Yea it’s unfortunate.

                Reminds me, the box a pet rock came in that my brother gave me this last Christmas has the frigging minions logo on it. It says ‘as seen on [minions eye logo]’.

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                That’s really an advert for the book appealing to people who only know the TV/film though

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                Jokes on you, I pirate my books. No idea if the book youtubers I watched were paid but their sensibilities are similar to mine and so far they haven’t lead me astray. I like supporting my book writers directly instead of giving money to corpos whenever possible.

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        I will stick to emulating 30 year old video game consoles and fan reimplementations like OpenMW and OpenRCT2. I am driven by pure spite. They will never get me!

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          Yeah. It’s wild to me that the idiots making these enshitification decisions don’t understand this.

          I could retreat into my existing installed Steam library for decades, to avoid their crap, if necessary.

          And my retro game catalog dwarfs my modern game catalog, since I’ve been collecting those games longer and some of them are devilishly hard to master.

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            It’s wild to me that the idiots making these enshitification decisions don’t understand this.

            They understand perfectly. Enough people don’t share our attitude and so this kind of behaviour is still profitable for them!

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            some of them are devilishly hard to master.

            The Magmoor Bomb Jump energy tank in the original version of Metroid Prime wants to say hello.