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prokopetz · 9 months

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I have a pinned post for my games in development, but it doesn't really describe what they're about, and apparently this is something we're doing today, so:

My games in development, in rough order of priority:

(Note: all of these have public playtest drafts behind the links.)

Eat God

A game about weird little anarchist muppets with reality-warping powers themed after classic Looney Tunes gags wandering around a classic sword-and-sorcery fantasy setting stirring up trouble. Roughly 50% character creation rules by volume, with provisions for randomising every part of it; the linked draft, above, includes an online character generator if you want to play with it. The mechanics are a sort of elaborated spiritual successor to Costume Fairy Adventures, a game whose development I headed up about a decade ago.

Current status: actively writing, hopefully zeroing in on a feature-complete playtest draft within the next month or two.

Tiny Frog Wizards

One of my customarily literal titles, this is a game where you play as wizards who are tiny frogs. Features elaborate semi-freeform rules for casting spells, lots of big stupid random tables for when spells go off the rails, and absolutely no mechanics for anything that isn't casting a spell; it's a very focused sort of game. Narratively, it's a game about being an overpowered little twerp sticking your nose into other people's problems and offering solutions no-one asked for. Portions of the rules crib shamelessly from @jennamoran's Nobilis 3rd Edition, for which I offer acknowledgement but no apologies.

Current status: development of the text has been set aside for the moment to work on visual identity, with an eye toward crowdfunding an expanded hardcover edition later in the year.

Space Gerbils

A tactical mecha combat game with a very silly twist: the entirety of the tactical positioning occurs inside the mecha, because the game's premise is basically "what if instead of the Big Reveal at the end of Metroid (1986) being that Samus Aran is secretly a girl, Samus Aran was secretly 3–5 small gerbil-like creatures operating a person-size mech suit?" Players engage in positional jockeying and resource management to determine which stations they're crewing within the suit, which is boiled down to a single roll of the dice to determine what happens outside the suit. Includes papercraft minifigs.

Current status: essentially feature-complete, apart from some character creation options and a planned random mission generator; this will likely be the next game I crowdfund after Tiny Frog Wizards.

Indie RPG Prompt Generator [working title]

Essentially a joke that got out of hand, this is a big set of random tables of common indie RPG tropes that you can roll on to generate a description of a hypothetical game, complete with specific rules toys and setting beats. I probably could have finished this up already, but I decided to include examples of each rolled element, which turned into this big hairy research project I'm not able to give adequate attention to right now. If you've got a game of your own that you think would be a good fit for a presently unfilled example slot, please, let me know!

Current status: plugging away at it in bits and pieces as I'm able.

Three Raccoons in a Trenchcoat

This is an anthology consisting of three minigames: the eponymous Three Raccoons in a Trenchcoat, which is self-explanatory; Unfamiliar, in which you play as uncooperative wizards' familiars; and System Crash, in which you play as malfunctioning robots. More a series of formal experiments in character creation and group composition than proper full-featured games, all share the same core mechanics, with milieu-specific addons of varying practicality; for example, System Crash has specific rules for which senses each player is allowed to use when asking the GM for information, because it's completely possible to have a group in which only one of the robots can see. Large portions of Unfamiliar were later re-used in Eat God, above.

Current status: I have a list of notes as long as your arm on planned changes to integrate into the text, and I'm confident I'll get around to doing so one of these years.

Gone to Hell

Literally a Doom (2016) pastiche as a Belonging Outside Belonging game, which is just as silly an idea as it sounds; grown out of an earlier 24-hour RPG called Doomguy. The central conceit is that there's only a single player character, with players taking turns assuming the role of the Slayer, while everyone else takes ownership of the various hostile factions comprising the game's conspiratorial twelve-car pileup of a plot. Lots of pontificating about the implicit power structures of tabletop RPG groups. This one probably needs a full rewrite in order to lend a bit more formal structure to the "one player character, many GMs" conceit than out-of-the-box BOB offers.

Current status: I have not looked at this game in three years, which is actually a really long time for me.

Rotate Bird

Another of my "is this a formal experiment or a real game" titles, this one revolves around constructing characters out of abstract symbols, which are interpreted during play to retroactively define what your character is actually capable of doing. Even the title seen above is an interpretive approximation; strictly speaking, the game is called 🔄🐦. Possibly the most shitposty game I've ever written, which is saying something, but based on playtest feedback it seems functional.

Current status: the only reason this is listed as lower in priority than Gone to Hell is because I genuinely don't know what to do with it. It's probably publishable, with some cleanup editing and graphic design, but it feels like there's something missing. I'm open to suggestions!

Get in the Fucking Robot

A pamphlet-size, competitive, GMless title that's at least as much a board game as it is a tabletop RPG, this one is about a bunch of dysfunctional candidate mecha pilots competing to be the first to pilot the titular giant robot. The game is played under misère conditions: while each character's IC goal is to pilot the robot, each player's OOC goal is to avoid that fate, with the player whose character actually Gets in the Fucking Robot being accounted the loser.

Current status: playtesting suggests the current framework of play doesn't actually work – like, at all – so this one needs to go all the way back to the drawing board; I don't feel like doing that any time soon, which puts it squarely at the bottom of the list.

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princess-of-the-corner · 4 months

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Toontown Corporate Clash Recap: Toontown Central Playground Tasks

Okay so, before we begin, there’s one thing I forgot to mention in the “tour”.

While you’re in Toontown Central Playground, you’re passively regain 1 Laff point every few seconds. Additionally, Ice Cream Cone treasures spawn around the Playground, and collecting one will restore 2 Laff to you. Knock-Knock Doors on the streets will restore the same amount of Laff if you stay still long enough to hear the entire joke (with the caveat that there’s a cool-down before you can be healed by the same joke).

That said, let’s talk about the optional Sidetasks. Sidetasks are represented by cream-colored scrolls. You can see how many steps are left by mousing over the magnifying glass. (Club Tasks have blue scrolls, Daily Tasks orange.)

You can delete Sidetasks, but this will require you to start the task all over again if you want the reward. Progress on deleted tasks is NOT saved.

All Toontasks turn green when they’ve been completed and you can turn them in. (Daily Tasks and Club Tasks, which are automatically turned in on completion, do not turn green.)

Toontown Central’s Sidetasks are as follows:

Pete’s Apology

This task is offered by Professor Pete in Toontown School House in the Playground.

Professor Pete feels kinda bad about how aggressive the Desk Jockey was.

Lowden wasn’t happy about that either.

Thus, he’s going to let you in on a little trick the Toon Council taught him. Well, the catch is that he’s not really ALLOWED to teach you this, but he’s willing to break the rules if you help him out here.

He’s talking Teleport Access.

Portable Holes have been used to teleport all over town ever since some very bright Toons invented them.

With this technique, you’ll be able to teleport STRAIGHT to Toontown Central’s Playground from ANYWHERE, as long as you have access to your Shtickerbook.

There might even be other Toons in other Neighborhoods willing to bend the rules for you as well, if you know where to look.

Step 1 is working on your arm strength, to make sure you can throw the hole hard enough. Using your Gags to defeat 10 Cogs should be enough.

Once you’ve defeated 10 Cogs in Toontown Central, Professor Pete will explain the next step: working on your leg strength.

Pete: “You can’t skip leg day, even in Toontown.”

For leg weights, he needs you to recover some Heavy Gears from stronger Cogs. (I think Level 4+ or 3+, but the wiki doesn’t specify, and I’ve already completed this task on both of my Toons and thus can’t go back to check.)

The Heavy Gears have a high drop rate but aren’t guaranteed to drop. Additionally, Toontask drops are counted per-task, and thus if two Toontasks ask for the same item, the drop will only count for ONE of them. (I only know this because there were a LOT of Toontasks in Toontown Online that required Cog Gears.)

Once you hand over the gears he asked for, Pete says to hand over the straps he had you collect so he can secure the gears in place and keep them from crushing your legs.

He then realizes that he forgot to ask you to collect the straps.

He explains that he wants mechanical belts from the strong Cogs walking around town, apologizes for forgetting that important step, and sends you out.

Once you bring back the belts, Pete is satisfied, and explains that you need to train with the gears so you can jump high enough to fall straight through the hole to pop out in Toontown Central.

“Just remember. The force of throwing it down, jumping high enough, and focusing on Toontown Central.”

Turning in the task earns you 464 Toon XP, Teleport Access to Toontown Central, and 30 Jellybeans.

Trashcat Troubles

Travis can be found in a trashcan to the left of Loopy Lane’s tunnel entrance in Toontown Central Playground.

When you pick up the task, he explains his deal: Nobody notices him, but he’s “all over da place”.

He picks up Cog parts, eats unwanted furniture, and even takes unwanted Gags. (While this isn’t stated in the task, this is a reference to how he’s literally just the orange cat seen in the delete button, personified as an NPC.)

“But nobody appreciates me, y’know?”

“It’s a darn shame, I’m always here 24/7 pickin’ up trash, eatin’ it, consumin’ it, digestin’ it, and I don’t get a single tank you.”

So, Travis wants you to do a nice thing for him for once, “Kapeesh?”

He’s hungry, and wants you to fish up a Peanut Butter and Jellyfish for his lunch.

Now, here’s where the Task gets confusing, because the game does NOT count any Peanut Butter and Jellyfishes you already have in your bucket. It’s specifically asking for a task item (represented as a package).

Thankfully, when your Tasked with fishing something up, Task Items take priority over fish, old boots, and Jellybean Jars. Unfortunately, they don’t reward Fishing Experience.

Once you’ve fished up the Peanut Butter and Jellyfish Task Item from any pond (including the one in the middle of the Playground), you can deliver it to Travis, who then explains his issue:

He’s been eating trash since he was a kitten. The Toon Council’s contracted him to stay in his trash can or go and clean up the streets.

“But dis here trashcat wants taste of da action to, y’know?”

He instructs you to meet with Sneezy Kitty, the Shopkeeper of “Weird Beard’s Disguise Shop” on Silly Street.

When you meet with Sneezy Kitty and request a disguise, he starts sneezing, and apologizes: Explaining he’s allergic to beards. As in, the thing he’s opened a shop to sell.

Adding to his misfortune is that a Swindler came in and stole his swindled his supply. If you can get it back, he’ll give you one for free.

He manages to stop sneezing long enough to thank you.

In order to progress the task, you need to recover “A Beard Supply” from a Swindler, anywhere in Toontown.

After you’ve recovered A Beard Supply, you return to Sneezy Kitty, who, while sneezing, manages to thank you and give you a free disguise.

You can now return to Travis in the Playground.

Now that he has his disguise, he just needs 5 of your Level 2 Gags.

If you’ve not yet unlocked your Level 2 Gags, you’ll need to unlock them to progress.

He’ll also take any combination of 5 Level 2 Gags. In my case, he took 3 of one Gag and 2 of another.

Once you’ve given him some Gags, he’ll ask you to go put in a good word for him “with da bossman”.

To progress the Task, talk to Flippy in Toon Hall.

“The Trashcat? Contractually obligated? Normal Toon? What is this nonsense?”

He then reveals the truth: Travis already IS a normal Toon.

He just likes hanging out in people’s trashcans and eating their garbage.

It makes clean-up a lot easier, so they just let him.

He then reveals that Travis does this all the time whenever he sees a new Toon in town. You’re not even the first one to “Put in a good word for him” today.

He apologizes on behalf of his behavior, and tells you to go and talk with him before he runs off.

When you speak to Travis again, he IMMEDIATELY tries to deescalate upon realizing you’ve caught on to him.

He then admits to the truth: he just wanted something to eat, and also a beard so he can look fancy every now and again.

To thank you for being so gullible all of your hard work: He’ll give you a proper reward: Some of his old clothes.

He’ll also keep eating your trash and anything you don’t want, so that totally makes you even, right?

Aside from Travis’ shirt and shorts, you ALSO get 528 Toon XP and 30 Jellybeans.

Travis is also one of my favorite characters in Corporate Clash, and this Task is a big part of the reason why.

New Toony Tourist

Keeping up with the theme of Tasks you can pick up right in the Playground, our next task requires that you speak with Tumbles, the Tacky Tourist who hangs out between Toon Hall and the Wacky Way Tunnel.

This surfer dude Kiwi at first thinks you’re a fellow tourist, then learns you’re a new resident who just moved in.

He asks if you want to go sightseeing with him, but is surprised to learn that you’re too busy with the Toon Resistance.

“Well, that’s no reason you can’t enjoy yourself!”

Tumbles is kinda hit with some decision paralysis (since there’s so much to do), and asks if you could drop by the library to see if they have any travel guides.

In the mean time, he’s going to admire the butterflies fluttering around the Playground.

In Toontown Library, located here in the Playground, you have to talk to Librarian Larry to continue the task.

When you ask for a travel guide, Librarian Larry sheepishly explains that a lot of them were checked out, but abruptly stopped being returned.

His best guess is that the Lawbots were responsible. (Context: This Task was added in the same update where a bunch of new Lawbots were added to the game.)

He doesn’t know when the next shipment of travel guides are coming in, but since you’re in the Toon Resistance, taking them back from the Lawbots is your best bet at getting them.

He wishes you luck (sincerely) as you receive your next task.

You need to collect 5 Travel Guide Pges from the Lawbots.

Yes, the Cogs tore up library books.

Kill them all!

Once you have all the pages, you can deliver them to Tumbles.

Since the travel guide is a pile of torn pages, he guesses you ran into some trouble.

He apologizes, and offers to take your picture to make it up to you!

Unfortunately, he then discovers that his camera is out of film.

He sheepishly asks if you could pick up some more film for him.

“For some reason, there seems to be a lot of unused boxes of film along the trolley tracks…”

(This is a reference to a removed Trolley Game: Photo Fun. The goal was to take pictures of Toons doing certain things. It was removed back in the Toontown Online days, and Corporate Clash was NOT one of the servers that elected to add it back in.)

The last thing you need to do for Tumbles is ride the Trolley.

Once you’ve ridden the Trolley, you can return to Tumbles, who thanks you for all your help and takes your picture.

This unlocks the “Selfie” Profile Pose.

Tumbles thanks you for your help, and lets you know that he’s going to head out to check out the other parts of town.

“If you see me around, don’t hesitate to say hello!”

Aside from the Profile Pose, you also get 238 Toon XP and 30 Jellybeans.

Tumbles will also disappear from Toontown Central Playground, and will now appear in the next neighborhood’s Playground, allowing you to complete the next Sidetask in the chain as soon as you progress the story to that point. Tumbles’ sidetasks have to be completed in order. He’s also a personal favorite of mine.

Bugged Out Bughunter

This is a Special Event Task that can ONLY be completed while the game is in beta. It’s represented by a Pink Scroll in your Shtickerbook.

Bay T. Tester can currently be found hanging out between the Wacky Way Tunnel and Restoration Station.

His issue is as follows: He’s deathly afraid of bugs.

And in Toontown Central, there are butterflies fluttering around all over the place.

He used to have a special bug suit he could wear to protect himself from the bugs, but he lost it.

How did he lose it?

He stumbled down a street while dodging butterflies, and ran face-first into a Cog.

The Cog stole his suit, and now he’s trapped in the Playground, with butterflies blocking his every escape route.

If he had his bug suit, he could flee back to his estate. So if you get it back for him, he’ll give you a snazzy outfit he was working on.

You need to recover 5 “Bug Suit Parts” from the Cogs in Toontown Central.

Once you return the Bug Suit Parts to him, Bay reveals that he now has another problem.

He peeked down a tunnel that leads to one of the streets and saw a Flunky.

Its glasses make its eyes look JUST like the eyes of a bug to him, and thus he needs you to go out and destroy 5 Flunkies in Toontown Central so he’ll feel safe.

After defeating the Flunkies and reporting back to him, Bay T. Tester thanks you for your help, and explains that he can head back to his estate now that he has his suit back.

He’ll give you your reward, but first: He needs you to clear out the Cogs on the Streets so he can make it home safely.

After you’ve defeated 10 Cogs and reported back to him, Bay thanks you for all your help, and gives you the Beta Toon Shirt, Beta Toon Shorts, and Beta Toon Skirt.

Now he just has to figure out how to get around those butterflies, and then he’ll be able to go home.

Unlike Tumbles, he does not leave the Playground after you complete his task.

I’m guessing it’ll take him until the Beta Testing is done for him to figure out he can just teleport back to his estate with a portable hole.

There are three more Tasks, but in the name of keeping this at a manageable level, I’m going to save those for later.

See you next time, when we cover the Sidetasks you can pick up from the Streets of Toontown Central.

Travis... why...

Also death is a fair consequence for destruction of library property. Ask anyone about the Library of Alexandria.

#submission

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mostlysignssomeportents · 1 year

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Podcasting "Twiddler"

This week on my podcast, I read “Twiddler,” a recent Medium column in which I delve more deeply into enshittification, and how it is a pathology of digital platforms, distinct from the rent-seeking of the analog world that preceded it:

https://doctorow.medium.com/twiddler-1b5c9690cce6

If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/27/knob-jockeys/#bros-be-twiddlin

Enshittification, you’ll recall, is the lifecycle of the online platform: first, the platform allocates surpluses to end-users; then, once users are locked in, those surpluses are taken away and given to business-customers. Once the advertisers, publishers, sellers, creators and performers are locked in, the surplus is clawed away from them and taken by the platforms.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

Facebook is the poster-child for enshittification. When FB welcomed the general public in 2006, it sold itself as the privacy-respecting alternative to Myspace, promising users it would never harvest their data. The FB feed consisted of the posts that the people you’d followed — the people you cared about — published.

FB experienced explosive growth, thanks to two factors: “network effects” (every new user was a draw for other users who wanted to converse with them), and “switching costs” (it was practically impossible to convince all the people you wanted to hear from to leave FB, much less agree on what platform to go to next). In other words, every new user who joined FB both attracted more users, and made it harder for those users to leave.

FB attained end-user lockin and was now able to transfer users’ surpluses to business customers. First, it started aggressively spying on users and offered precision targeting at rock-bottom prices to advertisers. Second, it offered media companies “algorithmic” boosting into the feeds of users who hadn’t asked to see their posts.

Media companies that posted brief excerpts to FB, along with links to their sites on the real internet were rewarded with floods of traffic, as their posts were jammed into the eyeballs of millions of FB users who never asked to see them. Media companies and advertisers went all-in for FB, integrating FB surveillance beacons in their presence on the real internet, hiring social media specialists who’d do Platform Kremlinology in order to advise them on the best way to please The Algorithm.

Once those business customers — creators, media companies, advertisers — were locked into FB, the company harvested their surplus, too. On the ad side, FB raised rates and decreased expensive anti-fraud measures, meaning that advertisers had to pay more, even as an increasing proportion of their ads were either never served, or never seen.

With media companies and creators, FB not only stopped jamming their content in front of people who never asked to see it, they actively suppressed the spread of business users’ posts even to their own subscribers. FB required media companies to transition from excerpts to fulltext feeds, and downranked or simply blocked posts that linked back to a business user’s own site, be it a newspaper’s web presence or a creator’s crowdfunding service. Business users who wanted to reach the people who had explicitly directed FB to incorporate their media in users’ feeds had to pay to “boost” their materials.

This is the (nearly) complete enshittification cycle: having harvested the surplus from users and business customers, FB is now (badly) attempting to surf the line where nearly all the value in the service lands in its shareholders’ pockets, with just enough surplus left behind to keep end-users and business-users locked in (see also: Twitter).

There have been lots of other abusive “platform” businesses in the past — famously, 19th century railroads and their robber-baron owners were so obnoxiously abusive that they spawned the trustbusting movement, the Sherman Act, and modern competition law. Did the rail barons do enshittification, too?

Well, yes — and no. I have no doubt that robber barons would have engaged in zuckerbergian shenanigans if they could have — but here we run up against the stubborn inertness of atoms and the slippery liveliness of bits. Changing a railroad schedule to make direct connections with cities where you want to destroy a rival ferry business (or hell, laying track to those cities) is a slow proposition. Changing the content recommendation system at Facebook is something you do with a few mouse-clicks.

Which brings me to the thesis of “Twiddler”: enshittification doesn’t arise from the special genius or the unique wickedness of tech barons — rather, it’s the product of the ability to twiddle. Our discourse has focused (rightly) on the extent to which platforms are “instrumented” — that is, the degree to which they spy on and analyze their users’ conduct.

But the discussion of what the platforms do with that data — the ways they “react” to it — has echoed the platforms’ own boasts of transcendental “behavior modification” prowess (c.f. “Surveillance Capitalism”) while giving short shrift to the extremely mundane, straightforward ways that the ability to change the business-logic of a platform lets it allocate and withdraw surpluses from different kinds of users to get them on the hook, reel them in, and then skin and devour them.

The Twiddler thesis, in other words, is a counter to the narrative of Maria Farrell’s Prodigal Tech Bros, who claim that they were once evil sorcerers, but, having seen the error of their ways, vow to be good sorcerers from now on, forswearing “hacking our dopamine loops” like vampires swearing off blood:

https://conversationalist.org/2020/03/05/the-prodigal-techbro/

People who repeat the claims of Prodigal Tech Bros are engaging in criti-hype, Lee Vinsel’s term for criticism that repeats tech’s own mystical narratives of their own superhuman prowess, rather than grappling with the mundanity of doing old conjurer’s tricks very quickly, with computers:

https://sts-news.medium.com/youre-doing-it-wrong-notes-on-criticism-and-technology-hype-18b08b4307e5

That’s what twiddling is — doing the same things that grocery store monopolists and rail monopolists and music label monopolists have always done, but very quickly, with computers. Whether it’s Amazon rooking sellers and authors, or Apple and Google’s App Stores rooking app creators, or Tiktok and Youtube rooking performers, or Uber rooking drivers, the underlying pattern of surplus-harvesting is the same, and so is the method. They do the same thing as their predecessors, but very quickly, with computers.

A grocer who wants to price-gouge on eggs needs to dispatch an army of low-waged employees with pricing guns. AmazonFresh does the same thing in an eyeblink, by typing a new number into a field on a web-form and clicking submit. As is so often the case when a magic trick is laid bare, the actual mechanic is very, very boring: the way to make a nickel appear to vanish is to spend hundreds of hours practicing before a mirror while you shift so it is clenched between your fingers, and protrudes from behind your hand (sorry, spoiler alert).

The trick can be baffling and marvellous when you see it, but once you know how it’s done, it’s pretty obvious — the difference is that most sleight-of-hand artists don’t think they’re sorcerers, while plenty of tech bros believe their own press.

There’s a profound irony in twiddling’s role in enshittification: early internet scholarship rightly hailed the power of twiddling for internet users. Theorists like Aram Sinnreich described this as configurability — the ability of end-users (aided by tinkerers, small businesses, and co-ops) to modify the services they used to suit their own needs:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vk8c2

Arguably the most successful configurability story is ad-blocking, which Doc Searls calls “the biggest boycott in human history.” Billions of end-users of the web have twiddled their browsers so that they aren’t tracked by ad-tech and don’t see ads:

https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2015/09/28/beyond-ad-blocking-the-biggest-boycott-in-human-history/

Configurability was at the heart of early hopes for mass disintermediation, because audiences and performers (or sellers and producers) could go direct to one another, assembling a customized, un-capturable conduit composed of an a-la-carte selection of payment processors, webstores, mail and web hosts, etc. Whenever one of these utilities tried to capture that relationship and harvest an unfair share of the surplus, both ends of the transaction could foil them by blocking, reverse-engineering, modding, or mashing them up, wriggling off the hook before it could set its barbs.

But — as we can all see — a funny thing happened on the way to the 21st century. The platforms seized the internet, turning it into “five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of the other four”:

https://twitter.com/tveastman/status/1069674780826071040

Three factors let them do this:

1. They were able to buy or merge with every major competitor, and where that failed them, they were able to use predatory pricing to drive competitors out of the market:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/16/tweedledumber/#easily-spooked

2. They were able to twiddle their services, setting them a-bristle with surveillance beacons and digital actuators that could rearrange the virtual furniture every time some knob-jockey touched their dial:

https://doctorow.medium.com/twiddler-1b5c9690cce6

3. They were able to hoard the twiddling, using laws like the DMCA, CFAA, noncompetes, trade secrecy, and other “IP” laws to control the conduct of their competitors, critics and customers:

https://locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-doctorow-ip/

That last point is very important: it’s not just that big corporations twiddle us to death — it’s that they have made it illegal for us to twiddle back. Adblocking is possible on the open web, but to ad-block your Iphone, you must first jailbreak it, which is a crime. Yes, Apple will block Facebook from spying on you — but even if you opt out of tracking, Apple still spies on you in exactly the same way Facebook did, to power their own ad-targeting business:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/luxury-surveillance/#liar-liar

This is what Jay Freeman calls “felony contempt of business-model” — the literal criminalization of configuration. When Netflix wants to decide who is and isn’t a member of your family, they just twiddle their back-end to block the child that moves back and forth between your home and your ex’s, thanks to your joint custody arrangement:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/02/nonbinary-families/#red-envelopes

But woe betide the parent who twiddles back to restore their child’s service, by jailbreaking an app or the W3C’s official, in-browser DRM, EME — trafficking in a tool to bypass EME and reconfigure your browser to suit your needs, rather than Netflix’s, is a felony punishable by a five-year prison sentence and a $500k fine, under Section 1201 of the DMCA:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09/open-letter-w3c-director-ceo-team-and-membership

This is the supreme irony of twiddling: Big Tech companies love to twiddle you, but if you touch your own knob, they call it a crime. Just as Big Tech firms turned “free software” into “open source” and then took all the software freedom for themselves, configurability is now the exclusive purview of corporations — those transhuman, immortal colony paperclip maximizers that treat humans as inconvenient gut-flora:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=vBknF2yUZZ8

If we are to take the net back, we’ll need to seize the means of computation. There are three steps to that process:

1. Traditional antitrust: Merger scrutiny, breakups, and bans on predatory pricing and other anticompetitive practices:

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/01/federal-trade-commission-justice-department-seek-strengthen-enforcement-against-illegal-mergers

2. Anti-twiddling laws for businesses: A federal privacy law with a private right of action, labor protections, and other rules that take knobs away from tech platforms:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/you-should-have-right-sue-companies-violate-your-privacy

3. Pro-twiddling laws for users: Interoperability (both mandatory and adversarial — AKA “Competitive Compatibility” or “comcom”):

https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/05/time-for-some-game-theory/#massholes

Monopolists and their handmaidens — witting and unwitting — want you to believe that their dominance is inevitable (shades of Thatcher’s “there is no alternative”), because the great forces of history, the technical characteristics of digital technology, and the sorcerous mind-control of dopamine-hackers.

But the reality is much more mundane. Digital freedom was never a mirage. Indeed, it is a prize of enormous value — that’s why the platforms are so intent on hoarding it all for themselves.

Here’s this week’s podcast episode:

https://craphound.com/news/2023/02/27/twiddler/

And here’s a direct link to download the MP3 (hosting courtesy of the Internet Archive ; they’ll host your media for free, forever):

Here’s the direct feed to subscribe to my podcast:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/doctorow_podcast

And here’s the original “Twiddler” article on Medium:

https://doctorow.medium.com/twiddler-1b5c9690cce6

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Filling Up Your Playlist

Today's MP3 technology gives user the power to be a disc jockey on their own, letting people play songs they want anywhere anytime. This has been the biggest boost technology offered to people who can hardly survive a day without listening to their favorite songs or artists.

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You can rip and convert music into MP3 format from your collection of CDs at home and place it inside your player. Some MP3 players even have this feature on its software. To rip songs, simply follow these 5 easy steps:

1.Place the CD inside your PC's CD drive 2.Choose tracks of the song/s you want to rip and convert to mp3 format 3.Convert the song/s 4.Copy the file to your hard disk 5.Download the file to your player

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Many websites online sell music in MP3 and even in Video formats. iTunes, is one of the most popular brand of downloadable songs. They also offer some songs for free as a way to introduce new artists.

Another option for music downloads is subscription-based plan like the Rhapsody. It provides various songs you want to have in one flat fee. There are two types of Mp3 formats on this subscription, the copy-protected and unprotected. In copy-protected, songs can't be shared or copied, this also means that if your subscription is over, you can no longer play the music in your mp3 player. This system enforces the subscription agreement and limits the burning of songs. In the second one -- unprotected files, often offered by eMusic.com for free, music and song files are unrestricted, they can be copied any time, can be downloaded to your played and be used forever.

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Knit Underwear and Nightwear Market 2024 — Size, Share, Trends, Growth Analysis, and Outlook by 2034

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Online Gambling & Betting Market Will Hit Big Revenues In Future | Biggest Opportunity Of 2024

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Spinning Stories: Unveiling the World of DJs

DJs have long been regarded as the lifeblood of any celebration, seamlessly blending beats and rhythms to create an immersive experience that keeps the energy flowing. When it comes to weddings, finding the perfect DJ is crucial. Whether you're looking for a top-rated wedding DJ in Austin or affordable DJ services, the options are vast. Austin, known for its vibrant music scene, offers an array of experienced wedding disc jockeys ready to make your special day even more memorable.

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Digital DJ pools have dramatically changed the landscape of music curation and playlist creation for disc jockeys. These online platforms offer a treasure trove of curated, high-quality Hip Hop, EDM, and Pop tracks spanning various genres, ensuring DJs are always equipped with the freshest beats. However, with so many DJ pools to choose from, selecting the best one can be overwhelming. To assist…

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Valuable Tips That Could Help You Avoid Mistakes When Shopping For Cars

Car shopping can bring dread to your heart. It could remind you of times past where the salesman took advantage of you. Stop the insanity and read this article as the advice here will keep you safe from the sales pitch of even the most advanced car jockey on the lot. Before you set foot into a dealership, do some research online. Check nearby dealership's websites and record their listed price on the vehicle you want, as well as any special deals they might be offering. Having this information at your disposal will be a valuable asset when it comes time to negotiate with a salesman. Take a look at owner reviews before selecting the car you want to buy. These can be found online, at many different websites. Owner reviews give you a good idea about how much others enjoy the car, and if they would recommend it to friends and family. They offer a different perspective than professional reviews, and they are very informative for anyone who is car shopping. Research trade-in prices before turning over your older vehicle. If you are planning on trading in your current vehicle to go towards the purchase price of your new one, be armed with the proper value ahead of time. Checking prices online or using the Kelley Blue Book. Just make sure you are checking the wholesale price, not retail. A great tip for those looking to buy a used car would be to research what the resale value of the car is. Look at the Kelly Blue Book value and compare it to the condition that the vehicle is currently in to see whether or not the price is fair. Avoid being distracted when you are shopping at a car lot. With so many vehicles available, it is easy for all your research and planning to go out the window. Remember, you should have a clear idea of the vehicle you want before you set foot on the lot, and do not let the salesperson steer you from your goal. Know your credit score before you enter the showroom. Your credit score will help to determine your financing rate, and knowing it helps you to understand how much you will have to pay for your car. The best financing rates are often reserved for those with the best credit score. Knowing yours can help you to be realistic about your chances of getting the very best deals. Once you know how much you have to spend, find out about the cars within that range. Learn about the car itself, its miles per gallon, number of doors, trunk space, driver's reviews, safety record and how frequently it needs repairs on average. Assign each a rating and go for those at the top of the list. Have a firm price in your mind before you set foot in an auto dealership. This number must be based on what you wish to spend, along with market research on your chosen model's general value. Talk to your bank or credit union before you head out to the dealership when you are in the market for a car. Find out how much of a loan you are eligible for. This way, you will know how much you can afford to spend, and you will know what kind of car to look for. If you are looking to purchase a used car, it is of the utmost importance that you get a copy of the vehicle maintenance and repair history. This will allow you to see what has been done to the car, and if it has been in any serious accidents. You are a female shopping for a car, never agree to work with a salesman who treats you in a condescending way. Some salesmen will try to take advantage of female shoppers and offer them unfair prices or financing terms. This is not what your car-buying experience should be like. If it is, visit a different dealership. See? This simple, easy to follow guide of advice will give you the power next time you're the one negotiating for a car. Print it off and study it as you prepare for the big day and I'm sure once you own your new car you'll be bragging to your friends about what a great deal you got.

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Top 10 Influencer Marketing Agency

1.Global Fox Events

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Kofluence, the AI-powered Ad-Tech influencer marketing platform, revolutionizes brand and influencer collaboration. Employing advanced AI algorithms, Kofluence excels in pinpointing highly relevant influencers from a diverse creator pool, ensuring tailored matches for each brand's needs while providing robust fraud protection.

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Before everyone was talking about it, Confluencer was already making cool stuff with famous people on the internet. They're really good at helping companies connect with popular folks on YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, and even making funny memes. They do this all over the world, working with all kinds of famous and not-so-famous people.

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Confluencer is like a guide for companies in this big online world. They help brands meet famous folks who fit perfectly and make awesome stuff together. They're the go-to people if you want to be ahead of the game in working with cool internet stars.

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"Welcome to our premier Indian influencer network, a powerhouse in facilitating enduring partnerships between influencers and brands. Our agency boasts a diverse spectrum of influencer categories, ranging from comedy, finance, parenting, beauty, and fashion to fitness, food, gaming, technology, and travel. What sets us apart is our unwavering commitment to nurturing long-term relationships, aligning perfectly with the preferences of 80% of influencers who value sustained collaborations.Our success stories speak volumes as we've collaborated with industry giants including Flipkart, TATA Cliq, McDonald's, and a plethora of esteemed brands. Each partnership reflects our expertise in leveraging influencer dynamics to achieve impactful marketing results.

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Influencer Marketing Factory pioneers impactful campaigns across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. Our agency partners with industry leaders like Google, Meta, and Universal Music Group, crafting authentic strategies that deliver measurable ROI. With precise influencer matching and in-depth audience insights, we ensure each collaboration resonates authentically with target audiences. From concept to execution, we guide brands through every stage, creating captivating narratives that connect and convert on digital platforms.

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At GRYNOW, we're all about making brands stand out using social media influencers. We help brands team up with all kinds of influencers - big celebs, everyday YouTubers, Instagram stars, and even those with smaller followings. Think of us as the matchmakers of the internet!

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9.Socio Influencer

Socio Influencer is like a big brother for brands in India. They help brands become famous by teaming up with cool people on YouTube, Instagram, and other places. Imagine Amazon or Samsung working with famous friends to tell stories about their stuff – that's what Socio Influencer does!

They have lots of friends already, like Amazon, Flipkart, and Samsung. They're super good at making fun and interesting stories with their friends, who are famous on the internet. They also know famous people like Kuldeep Yadav and Himanshi Khurrana and make them friends with brands too!

10.InfluGlue

InfluGlue is an influencer marketing company that helps small and medium-sized businesses team up with awesome online creators. These creators are famous on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and blogs. The company's super-smart team makes special plans to help businesses grow fast and see real results, like making more money than they spend.

They work with big and small creators to make cool campaigns for brands. Whether it's making videos, writing posts, or sharing about products, they cover it all! InfluGlue also helps brands with social media, creating content, promoting their name, checking out products, and even making funny memes to get attention.

They've teamed up with famous brands like Flipkart, Acko, Coin DCX, PharEasy, Johnnie Walker, and KGF. InfluGlue isn’t just about getting likes—it’s about making sure businesses get lots of attention and real connections. They promise to help businesses grow in a big and reliable way by making friends online and showing off their stories in a cool way. If you team up with InfluGlue, get ready to see your brand become a superstar!

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Top 3 players in India Hosiery Market: Ken Research

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Lux industries Ltd.: A leading contributor of India Hosiery market. Lux Industries is known for its brands like Lux Cozi, ONN, and many others. They offer a wide range of hosiery products, including innerwear, socks, and thermals.

Rupa & Co. Ltd.: Rupa Co. is popular in India with brands like Rupa, Jon, Frontline, and Euro. They are famous for diverse range of products, from innerwear to casual wear.

Jockey India: Jockey India is the international brand, which provide variety of hosiery items.

According to Ken Research, the India Hosiery market is anticipated to evolve by 2028 by growing at a CAGR of ~12%.

The India Hosiery market is rapidly growing and is anticipated to attain a significant level of growth in the upcoming years.

There are many reasons behind the growth of India Hosiery market. Some of these reasons include penetration of online sales. Attraction of youth towards yoga and work out which need hosiery clothes. Changing lifestyles and demographic factors are bringing changes in demand patterns for hosiery.

1. Lux Industries

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Founded in 1957, headquartered in Kolkata West Bengal, having more than 4000 employees worldwide, and wide presence in India along with a total revenue of ₹ 2312 cr (FY 2021-22)., this company is a leading contributor of India Hosiery market. It has establishment of over 500,000 retail outlets all over India, and has offices in Kolkata, Delhi, Agra, Indore, Mumbai, Ludhiana, Jaipur, and Roorkee.

The new trends and innovations in Lux industries, which are significantly contributing in the market, are organic materials used in their clothing and having collaborations with various celebrities. The products made by this organization has various styles and range in clothing such as Vests, Gym Vests, Drawers and Trunks, Polo & Tees etc.

The economy or mass segment accounted for nearly 48 per cent of the company’s turnover in volume terms and nearly 33 per cent in value terms in 2022-23. The company had posted a total turnover of ₹2,368 crore during the year ended March 31, 2023. The semi-premium category accounted for nearly 41 per cent in volume and 52 per cent in value terms while the premium segment accounted for 11 per cent by volume and 15 per cent in value terms of the company’s total turnover.

2. Rupa and Co. Ltd.

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Rupa and Co. is one the most popular hosiery player in India. Established in year 1968. It has been growing with significant growth in Hosiery market and made a revenue of Rs. 195.44Cr.

It has its headquarters in Kolkata, India with thousands of branches all over the country. Lux, which occupies nearly 15 per cent share in the men’s organised innerwear market at present, is also hopeful of growing the womenswear segment and has identified it as one of the growth drivers.

It has launched a range of women’s innerwear and outerwear products under the brand Lyra. The company is looking to grow the women’s wear segment by introducing new products that are comfort driven. The women’s wear range contributed to close to ₹400 crore during year ended March 2023 and is likely to touch ₹600 crore by FY25, the company said.

The company is also looking to grow the premium innerwear range under the brand ONN among others into ₹500 crore by FY25, up from the current ₹349 crore in FY23.

3. Jockey International

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Jockey international is the world-leading brand, which is established in 1876 and became a public company in 2007 in India. It has its headquarters in Mumbai, India. It has a dominance over Indian region because of huge customer base and trustworthy quality. Jockey is leading in Hosiery market due to its innovative merges and collaborations in India. Some innovations are like.

It is setting new manufacturing units in Ibrahimpatnam Telangana and expanding its area. They have recently launched 3D briefs in India, which are quite popular in other countries. Their innovations are evolving the dominance of Jockey in the Indian Hosiery market.

Jockey has many Products available across India like briefs, socks, stockings, legging and innerwear for men and women. Main reasons for the growth of the market are its constant expansion and innovations in clothing market.

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