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From: Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Ubisoft runs itself into the ground
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2024 11:42:29 -0500
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On Thu, 3 Oct 2024 07:58:25 -0700, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Dimensional Traveler wrote: 

>On 10/3/2024 6:37 AM, Ross Ridge wrote:
>> Rin Stowleigh wrote:
>>> Why do radicals (regardless of left or right wing) always lose their
>>> shit and go on emotional tirades like this as the smallest disturbance
>>> of their comfort zone?
>> 
>> Dimensional Traveler  <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>>> Because it violates their religious beliefs.
>> 
>> Really?  What religious beliefs does Rin have that causes him to go on
>> these rants?  His lack of medication explaination made more sense, not
>> being able to treat his illness is obviously going to cause problems,
>> but he now denies this.  It never occured to me that he could be some
>> sort of religious fanatic.
>> 
>We ALL have certain beliefs about "How Things Should Be" regardless of 
>whether or not we read a particular book or show up in a particular 
>building every week.  They make up our individual "religions" whether 
>they involve supernatural beings/powers or not.  Some manifest to others 
>as a sense of entitlement but the basis of it is the same.

TL;DR: I don't think religion is the issue here. Fanaticism is.

Long version...

Considered core beliefs and religious beliefs are clearly different. You
can arrive at your core beliefs both emotionally and rationally (and I do
mean *both*. Pretending you're a creature of pure reason is delusional).
Mine sometimes change with the availability conclusive evidence; they are
regularly up for review.

Religion is more authoritarian in nature. Many religions discourage
review. Worse still, religion often _can't_ be reviewed because there is
no objective supporting evidence at all. It's apples and oranges, and
insulting to careful thinkers to call them one and the same.

What we're really talking about is the difference between
emotional/rational consideration and pure emotional synthesis unfettered
by the inconvenient, painstaking employment of reason. 

That's fanaticism.

That can be useful too, but usually only on the battlefield or in a
crisis, with the sticky feature that it'll sure get you to one if you're
not already there.

To tie this back to the discussion, corporate decisions these days - all
of them - seem to be governed by a desire not to piss off fanatics
because it cuts into the bottom line when they start shooting up your
beer or boycotting your chicken sandwiches. So it's just cowardice, and
eventually cowardice breeds irrelevancy.

Ubisoft has become risk-averse, cowardly, and now inevitably irrelevant.

-- 
Zag

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