What is the benefit of premium if you still have to watch ads?

Ask your mom if you can have friends over to play this weekend.

If people keep buying it, they gonna keep doing it.

Anyone who doesn’t play a game because it’s woke, has their head so far up the culture war ass, they have lost all reason.

It’s also the same people where the message behind more subtle media is lost on them. Starship troopers, for example.

As someone who hasn’t played wow in almost a decade, it looks exactly like I remember it.

This is what happens when you try to develop as a triple a studio against trends. By the time your game comes out, you are too late to the grift.

Yeah I will never understand why discord has replaced both forums and subreddits, the form factor doesn’t fit the discussion style.

For me, I hate the influencer culture around many of these things. On paper, loops, and the like, are good ideas, but when you fill it with people with MBAs trying to sell you things, it feels fake and goes to shit. My experience so far with the fediverse is that it feels generally organic and I have no reason to believe loops would be any different.

Certainly no underlying political message.

TIL Groupon is still a thing

How is this not “fuck the police” it’s a camera, controlled by the police, to surveil people.

Totally a bug to show ads, and not an attempt to see what they can get away with and then lie when there is a negative reaction.

Absolutely not. When the board is looking into it, it’s because they are not returning shareholder value and they are pissed about it. This will likely end with the C-suite being butchered.

That is the most delusional take.

Big oil thanks you for spreading their propaganda for free.

Free speech absolutist

As an American, I believe you have the relationship wrong. We are Israel’s bitch.

You are conflating CEOs with game directors.

Racism

As someone who thinks we are in an AI bubble about to burst, this article has “old man angry at the kids using new technology” vibes.