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Not very funny or insightful. It's not nice to say it, but RM for the moment is mostly out of fresh ideas. His obsession with lists, intersecting lists, mixed
by Udik 6y ago
Not very funny or insightful.
It's not nice to say it, but RM for the moment is mostly out of fresh ideas. His obsession with lists, intersecting lists, mixed up lists, made up lists... It feels like he's stuck in some feverish thought loop. He might just be very busy with something else or in need of a break. Producing a new funny, interesting and insightful comic three times a week is probably not sustainable for anyone on the long term.
- PaulHoule 6y agoIt makes me want to cry actually. The space of "chat" program makes me feel despair. Back in 2000 I helped localize Paltalk for Brazil and since then there has been CUSeeMe, AIM, ICQ, Facebook Messenger, WeChat, and many others. Microsoft alone has had Microsoft Messenger, Skype, Skype For Business, Linc (as opposed to Linq), MSN, etc. The pattern is not "competition" or "monopoly" but rather some new platform fixes the worst flaws of the current platform, replaces it, then itself decays. It's hard to see how there's been any advance from AIM to Facebook Messenger except one was tied to the AOL platform and the other was tied to Facebook. Platform lock-in is the song that remains the same, but no vendor in this space is able to maintain a chat platform that remains workable over the long term. People who really "think different" might care about privacy (Signal) or care about openness (XMPP) but the main market for openness in chat seems to be military, intelligence and law enforcement. If the euros wanted to win for once they might try to do something about chat because the Silicon Valley model has failed consumers here.