Meh what’s the difference, a digital nonsense machine or an IRL nonsense machine, both with 0 accountability
Meh what’s the difference, a digital nonsense machine or an IRL nonsense machine, both with 0 accountability
Babe wake up, the new stupid thing has dropped
True, but I would rather buy a dozen quality $0.99 games with high replay value (still fun 13+ years later) than several dozen “””free””” ad-filled games that constantly bug you for a $3.99/week subscription to get more BullshitCoins
No they didn’t. I have a 1st gen iPad loaded with old versions of popular games (e.g. Jetpack Joyride, Angry Birds) and there are literally zero ads and in-app purchases.
Many people keep asserting that DuckDuckGo is as useless as Google, but I haven’t had a single issue with it. Could it be a regional thing?
That every TV show and movie seems to re-use the same sound effects. Always takes me out of the story when I hear the same crying baby or fake “car clunking and breaking down” noises for the 1000th time.
Same for mattress and shoes, don’t cheap out on stuff that keeps you off the ground
Devil’s advocate: basically the only proper way to figure out how people are using your product and how you can tweak it to achieve its goal is by firing events and including relevant metadata such as how much time they spent on a screen or how far they scrolled. Telemetry is not necessarily “evil” by default.
It this supposed to be some shocking revelation? They are literally an advertising company
~3.5M posts per day across ~40k active users?
I’m not a violent person but it sure would be nice to wake up one day and read a headline that says “Andrew Tate beaten to death with brick wrapped in barbed wire on live TV”.
Half-Life was a game changer when it came out.
First-person shooters in those days were basically just spawning in a level, shooting generic bad guys and picking up loot. Half-Life had this insane story and they didn’t use any cutscenes or take away control from the player except to load the map, the whole story was told through the environment you explored and the characters you interacted with.
Even 20 years later, people are still having discussions about who the G-Man works for, or whether Dr. Breen (HL2) was a good guy.
This is so insane, if your business is not sustainable with normal salaries, you have no right to exist. You fucked it, try another business model.
Same for software development. Create a ticket or piss off, I will not do undocumented/uncredited work.