Oct 15, 2026, 5:24 PMidiots in competition do often seem to focus on the most superficial of things, meanwhile those of us who are just trying to make some shit that works are literally going "here, we hope you like it and if you can please give us some money to keep that going"
Oct 15, 2026, 5:25 PMbut we're branded as the weird ones for not taking that hyper-competitive attitude into our hearts and our output.
Oct 15, 2026, 5:39 PM@cyberquixote indeed if the only goal or purpose is competition for the sake of victory and nothing else, the easiest way to "win" is to pick the stupidest possible grounds for competition. the pro-capitalist propaganda pretends that this leads invariably to optimizing on quality and utility but that's demonstrably false