As a RuneScape player I'm astonished at how well Jagex have done to revive the old RS community by bringing back the old version of the game, and then polling in new features.
Hopefully Blizzard can take notes from this with WoW classic
Most of my friends who played RS in their youth are now in their mid-20s playing OSRS.
It's just astonishing how well they've managed to reclaim their market.
I know a couple maxers who still devote 10-20 hours a week to RS. I can't fathom how they find new ways to entertain themselves, but they do. It never gets old for them. I never got into RS but by all accounts they've perfected a genre.
It's great community engagement for certain values of both "community" and "engagement". Personally, I find that (largely as a function of the consensus-manufacturing effects of Reddit) it leads to a distressing loss of diversity in the ways the game is enjoyed. In short, you get a feedback loop. A blob of players vocally supports a particular paradigm of gameplay (call it the PvM/ironman/slayer industrial complex), so they talk about it on Reddit. It helps that this approach is attractive to newcomers and inexperienced returners. The developer notes this and produces content accordingly. More players are attracted/kept around by this additional content, leading to requests for more of the same. Rinse and repeat.
As a result, the more fringe communities (which tend to be correlated both with emergent forms of gameplay and experience with the game; skilling and PvP being the big examples) get starved or actively harmed by the course of development. As a result, those players leave or become less engaged, furthering the cycle and leaving the game a less-interesting place.
Back in the day I never thought I'd whine about Jagex becoming better at listening. I guess it's sort of similar to issues that can be had with A/B testing - when engagement is the name of the game and you have easy access to knobs and feedback, you can end up overfitting. In the terminology of this thread, the bean-counter approach makes you long for the touch of the auteur.
disclaimer: 20k-hour multiply maxed get-off-my-lawn grump with several axes to grind
"A freelancer or freelance worker, is a term commonly used for a person who is self-employed and is not necessarily committed to a particular employer long-term. Freelance workers are sometimes represented by a company or a temporary agency that resells freelance labor to clients; others work independently or use professional associations or websites to get work."
I think their point isn't that the terms are incorrect but that the word freelancer is undervalued by respective clients versus consultant/contractor. Similar to how if you say you are moonlighting, people will take you less seriously regardless of actual skill.
I don't think they would have given you the same dose if it was to treat depression. By the sounds of your trip, you had way more than the standard dose (even by recreational standards).
Agreed. The post is from Nov 2018, both Amazon and Target now have different product images. The post is accurate about deceptive mislabeling, but the example is out of date.
