Reply 60 of 161, by Shreddoc
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I dislike the homogenisation of content, as computing has become mainstream. That is, the very fact of mainstream trends (the most extreme of which society now labels "viral") themselves now having a greater hold upon the world of computing in general, a world which was formerly an imaginary sanctum of greater nerds.
I have another disliked trend, tangential to that. And correct me if I'm wrong, as I'm not the most up-to-date about the personalities of the modern computing scene. But here it is : the end of the holy-crap-how-did-he-do-that, nerd's-nerd, super-programmer (i.e. The Carmack). The need for one such has been downgraded by the modern reality of rote teams of identical programming-degree clones churning out "saleable content" <shudder>.
[but then, in my ideal world, the really kickass programmers would be celebrated like music and movie stars are, if not moreso - the stuff they do is so much more worthy of role-modelling than prancing around in front of cameras and microphones]
I'm not here to say if these things are good or bad for the world, but they are things I nostalgically miss and consider to have changed in flavour from what they were.
Oh, and I really hate the trend of Sega struggling as a business for the past umpteen years despite having a widespread and glorious legacy of creations, but that's an entire topic of it's own...