Maybe old people were right about too many guard rails makes people dumber…

stainless steel or glass. Those are your options for growth-free stuff. Even then, water only, or you’re only creating a science experiment. Even then, wash frequently or you’re only creating a science experiment.

Ehhhhh it kinda’ depends. Most things that are merely changing how something already present on the page is displayed? Probably don’t need JS. Doing something cool based on the submit or response of a form? Probably don’t need JS. Changing something dynamically based off of what the user is doing? Might not need JS!

Need to do some computation off of the response of said form and change a bunch of the page? You probably need JS. Need to support older browsers simply doing all of the previously described things? Probably need JS.

It really, really depends on what needs to happen and why. Most websites are still in the legacy support realm, at least conceptually, so JS sadly is required for many, many websites. Not that they use it in the most ideal way, but few situations are ideal in the first place.

A lot of this is just non-tech savvy people failing to understand the limitations and history of the internet.

(this isn’t to defend the BS modern corporations pull, but just to explain the “how” of the often times shitty requirements the web devs are dealing with)

Because it’s up to good people to stop evil, yet religion has brainwashed everyone in to thinking punishment comes in the “next” life.

How convenient for evil!

“intelligent” bots? Nope, not even once.

I mean, outside of .ml and hexbear and the like, it’s an “echo chamber” only in so far as there is cohesion amongst ALL leftist ideology. … meaning there are many different groups with many different opinions and they argue all the time.

Are they stopping development though? Stopping production when there is an abundance of stock to sell already is just normal business.

Oh no, we will die because of ecological collapse caused by climate change. So it just depends on how many steps you count as being involved, but we will die, ultimately because of anthropogenic climate change.

No, it artificially creates a psudo-second market by introducing scarcity. Why is this concept so fucking difficult for you?

You realize making an arcade game that eats quarters for breakfast is a monetization scheme… Don’t you? You realize Mortal Kombat and many, many older games started in arcades, right?

How can you be so dense as to fail to realize the similarities between microtransactions and arcade games eating quarters? Except microtransactions are much worse because they do not enable a secondary economy like arcades did.

Again, artificial scarcity is bullshit. It was BS back then, and it’s WAY more BS these days. It is not something to celebrate, unless you’re a piece of shit that wants to leverage things against other human beings for profit unnecessarily.

No, you’re just proving to be too dumb to understand the nuance I’m aiming for.

Do you think there would be dozens of versions of Mortal Kombat if it stayed as the arcade machine? Or did removing the monetization when they released it on consoles allow far more people to truly engage and fall in love with it?

I’m sorry you’re too dumb to understand the problems of rent seeking from modern corporations, but denying them won’t fix anything.

Just because the artificial scarcity is digital doesn’t magically make it different. If the intent is to get more money, it is exactly the same. No wait, it’s even more despicable because there’s no reason for actual digital scarcity.

Just like most games that were designed to eat quarters in arcade machines do not receive any honor after their time, these decisions invariably go down in history as just greedy fucks being greedy fucks.

No way. There are many ways to introduce artificial scarcity to digital goods, and no it is not a new or good use of the tech… Artificial scarcity is a huge part of all of the world’s problems.