https://blog.sonofsuntzu.org.uk/tags/fortnite/ Recent content in Fortnite on Son of Sun Tzu blog https://blog.sonofsuntzu.org.uk/img/sosz.png https://blog.sonofsuntzu.org.uk/img/sosz.png Hugo en Tue, 25 Feb 2025 11:27:00 +0000 https://blog.sonofsuntzu.org.uk/posts/smooshification/ Wed, 14 Aug 2024 23:00:01 +0100 https://blog.sonofsuntzu.org.uk/posts/smooshification/ <figure> <img loading="lazy" src="https://blog.sonofsuntzu.org.uk/img/colour-669485_1280.jpg"/> <figcaption> If you mix all the vibrant paints together, everything becomes the same brown. </figcaption> </figure> <p>As with Cory Doctorow&rsquo;s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification">enshittification</a> it&rsquo;s useful to attach specific names to specific aspects of what&rsquo;s probably late stage capitalism. It just helps identify that aspect, and its characteristics.</p> <h2 id="so-what-is-smooshification">So what is smooshification?</h2> <p>Smooshification is the drive for anything to have the features of everything in its &ldquo;class&rdquo;.</p> <p>Now &ldquo;class&rdquo; is a vague concept here, so without going into a discussion around taxonomies I&rsquo;m unqualified to have, I&rsquo;m using &ldquo;class&rdquo; in a vague way. To use the definition from wherever Microsoft Bing gets its definitions from: &ldquo;a set or category of things having some property or attribute in common and differentiated from others by kind, type, or quality&rdquo;.</p>