Digg failed fast due to people already using reddit. Many users had an account on each by the point of the big update. Enough were giving up on Digg for earlier changes.
Digg kept trying to find better ways to monetize, but eventually just gave up on keeping its own identity. By the time Digg released the big UI change, many users just stopped using Digg and used their reddit accounts. Many did have to create new accounts, but reddit was functionally better Digg by that point.
So what made Digg fail fast was due to it already being on the ledge. Digg chose to jump as opposed to get pushed off. Reddit didn't have a strong alternative coming up like Digg had.
I guess I'm mostly rambling, but Digg was set up to fall already. It just decided to go for it. And reddit was so good for so long that alternatives never built up a users.
Digg had bled users to reddit over the course of a few years before the big one. Many users had accounts on both for that period as well.
"This was on reddit yesterday" was a top comment on Digg often enough.
You can bake the dough most way first, then load it up with the sauce, cheese and toppings before finishing the bake.
It's a play on the term "grass root movement". A grass root movement is one that starts with the people at the bottom, not at the top. So if a bunch of people got together (mostly independent of each other) to promote or protest something, that is a "grass roots" action.
Astroturf is basically fake grass, so "astroturfing" is something that is made to look like a "grass roots" movement but it isn't.
Not the person you replied to, but I have read the series and watched the show. It's fantastic. I highly recommend both.
I'm different. The appeal of owning the game on cartridge to me is to have the entire game on the cartridge. If any significant portion is downloadable only, I see no reason to not just download the whole thing.
I can understand your argument completely though. It just feels like a waste of material to me when the cartridge doesn't carry the game(s) itself.
Off topic, but this here really hit home for me (not a linguist student but someone plenty interested).
Digg didn't "die" from a single change. It bled users over the course of multiple changes. The size of the waves was based on how many users were affected. The big wave was when they redesigned the whole interface.
I don't think Reddit is done changing, so we'll see where things go. I know that eventually they'll kill off the old interface, and that will lose a large portion of users as well.
He may have been your father, boy, but he wasn't your daddy.
The big problem is the short shelf life of RBs. The average younger RB in the NFL is better than the average older RB in the NFL. As consequence of the position, they take a beating, and that beating shortens their careers.
When it comes to working with the cap, the value for almost every RB in the league isn't there. There aren't too many Adrian Petersons in the league. No matter how good these guys are when they sign, teams know that, in two to three years, that value will disappear.
Fans were calling this out when Ezekiel Elliott got his big contract, and they were proven right in that case.
I find it funny that I see Tiamat's Wrath as the weakest of the final three. I still think it is really good, but it still felt mainly like a bridge between Persepolis Rising and Leviathan Falls to me.
I really liked Persepolis Rising. I liked the down ending, but that could also be why many don't like it.
And then Leviathan Falls has a very good ending. It felt right. The main characters had their threads closed up in a way that shows their character. Holden goes a very Holden way. Alex finally chooses family over space. Amos is weirder than ever but acts as if it is completely normal.
Actually now that I think of it while writing, I may be coming around. Tiamat's Wrath had the most badass Bobbie moments ever. While it still may not be my favorite book, anyone who read the book will know which Bobbie event would likely be one of the greatest sci-fi episodes ever.
They did a really good job adapting the books. I often conflate the two as well. Only the big changes are the ones that I can remember are different, but most of the changes are subtle.
My favorite change is Drummer. Drummer on the TV show is amazing, but is a combination of characters from the books (mostly: Bull, Drummer, Michio), and those characters from the books were all individual great characters.
I've seen the show completely twice, and the first couple of seasons about four times. I've read through the books only once, but the books are just as memorable. I recommend it all for anyone.
It doesn't matter how many users leaves. It matters how much contribution is lost.
The right users leaving is worse than half of everyone else leaving.