@yangwenli @matrix @VD15 Look how they massacred my boy.
They changed literally the entire character design, and now this new sanitized horseshit is what everyone associates with Ekko now.
@yangwenli
Right but imagine if Microsoft released a absolutely piss awful proprietary as fuck Linux distro and then everyone around the world thought that was Linux.
Even though there's a small number of people who know the difference, at the end of the day, if you say "Linux" on the street, no longer will anybody think you mean GNU/Linux.
I hope Netflix does the same shit to one of yalls favorite animus so you understand.
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@yangwenli
Exactly. This is the big problem.
If I took a random sample of people, and queried them as to who they thought "Ekko" was, their brains would fetch and render (bad) information from the Netflix show. They would do this because this is what they are exposed to.
Again, if Microsoft made 8 billion people (that's all of them) think that their cloud-native telemetry-tastic woke-enforcing advertising-filled bastardization of GNU/Linux, was Linux... Would you still be proud to say you're a Linux user?
You *could*, but now you're forced to make it perfectly clear that you mean the *real* Linux. And then people will behave just as you are now... "Oh man I just like it for what it is... I don't know why it's such a problem for you.... No I don't want to learn more about the real thing, I like my ESG-approved Ekko that's approved by my corporate overlords"
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@yangwenli
Yes I can.
I can be very very mad at a Corvette engine having been plopped into a rusted out 71 Ford Pinto. I'd rather the Corvette engine be in a Corvette body.
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