I had a hunch that the original image would be Nyarlathotep related, aaaand:

I think someone’s been feeding them Call of Cthulhu game module plots. I hope they do Beyond The Mountains of Madness next.

The problem with knowing any amount of history is that any time anything happens you’re just like:

‘Oh. This again’.

It’s somehow both tedious and horrifying.

Wake up about 15 minutes before I have to be out the door. Just enough time to go to the loo, brush my teeth and chuck some clothes on.

If I give myself more time than I need, I just get sidetracked by something and end up making myself late.

I saw an early screening of that episode at a post-con event at a Star Trek pub in London.

When that scene came on a ripple of ‘FFS - really‽’ laughter went round the room, just because of how blatant it was.

Clearly they used methane.

Crowds of farm labourers during flood season, all lined up just waiting for their turn to fart into the balloon.

“The mudbloods are stealing our magic!”

I bet he drinks Carling Black Label.

(https://piped.video/watch?v=aY9GBl7UmVs)

I think that was definitely the impetus - I first read about the changes in this article back in April: https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/18/reddit_charging_ai_api/

The closing statement is interesting:

The spokesperson we talked to also wanted to make clear the Data API was still freely accessible for appropriate use cases through the Reddit developer platform; hopefully app developers and other small-scale operators won’t have any surprises ahead this summer.

I suspect they ran the numbers and started seeing dollar signs - they don’t care about the third-party apps (which don’t make them any money directly), they’re just trying to cash in on Microsoft etc.

I have a sneaking suspicion they’re going to end up back-pedalling, but it will be too little, too late.