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Re:370 Books in 20 months: South African author defends her ... by Razengan on Monday November 09, 2026 @06:59AM (#50424401)
Yeah, people suddenly got selective amnesia and act like "slop" never existed before 3 years ago.

Hell, look at the video games from the 1980s. Download the scans of any early gaming magazine or a MAME ROM archive. At least 50% of the games were derivative slop. Crappy movies and books were around for a 100 years too.

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Re:370 Books in 20 months: South African author defends her ... by cwillu on Monday November 09, 2026 @07:06AM (#50424481)
No, people are rationally responding to a massive change in the economics of producing the slop.
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Re:370 Books in 20 months: South African author defends her ... by soon_to_be_sb on Monday November 09, 2026 @07:08AM (#50424494)
>act like "slop" never existed before 3 years ago.

Volume matters lol..

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Re:370 Books in 20 months: South African author defends her ... by jasomill on Monday November 09, 2026 @08:15AM (#50425174)
True, but at some point it doesn't. Ignoring the 99.99% of titles on Steam I don't recognize from reviews, known developers, or word of mouth isn't meaningfully harder than ignoring 99%.

This is worse for new entrants than either established developers or consumers, who will have to work harder to get their work recognized amidst the rising tide of slop.

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Re:370 Books in 20 months: South African author defends her ... by soon_to_be_sb on Monday November 09, 2026 @08:52PM (#50435084)
> Ignoring the 99.99% of titles

Point is that you can't ignore well marketed slop. It will show up everywhere. Volume of slop matters because that drags down the median quality so that it becomes feasible to market slop and get returns on it.

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Re:370 Books in 20 months: South African author defends her ... by Razengan on Monday November 09, 2026 @09:43AM (#50426340)
> Volume matters lol..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983

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