A hundred percent, but the fact remains that journalists have a very hard time supporting themselves in their profession. A job that is critical (when done well) to an informed public.

It must be depressing knowing you could just take a TypeScript React bootcamp and probably double salary in a year. Like, journos have an important job. It’s just not lucrative, despite its value to people/society.

I see what you’re saying, and agree with your clarification. Maybe a board term like red ocean wasn’t the best choice of words.

I was thinking more about how it’s harder for individual (or tiny) contributors to stand out. This is just one metric, but look at steam games tagged as “indie” released over the years. Game developers went from having stand out among dozens of other games, to hundreds.

Like I’m part of a group of solo/tiny game devs outfits, and we’re seeing first-hand how a game is almost dead in the water unless you spend serious time/money on marketing.

Hey at least melodramatic walking simulators are trying to say something

A lot of indies, too. And quality isn’t enough to rise above the fray anymore.

I’m not going to say it’s too many, because that’s subjective, but in business terms it’s a “red ocean”

Why is zoo in red 😳

Yeah, 22M+ minus 1, me. I didn’t plan the boycott, I just don’t agree with giving my money to JK. So I didn’t.

I mean it worked for me - I didn’t buy it or play it, despite it looking pretty cool.

Haha yeah I’ve seen the error of my ways.

But seriously I think it varies by use case. “Tight” languages like golang, python, ruby, or most backends (other than Java)? Going over 80 is a bit of a smell. But if we’re talking about a React frontend? Then yeah, an 80 character limit is obnoxious.

I think it’s just because they’re old. I’ve got told “ok boomer” for complaining about lines of source code longer than 80 characters.

Care to explain yourself

Also most people won’t play past the first act. The first act was well worth the price of admission, and now I just kind of want it to be over.