Meh what’s the difference, a digital nonsense machine or an IRL nonsense machine, both with 0 accountability

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.

A marginally faster glass rectangle with 15 cameras, take my money!

What a bizarre hill to die on, how the hell is this such a hot issue? I would dropkick a living baby into a volcano if it would prevent my partner from dying…

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Wouldn’t that kind of defeat the purpose of the fediverse because you would need some kind of centralized system to keep track of all instance’s reputations?

Ironically, this was contadicted in the same documentary by the Half-Life devs when they were talking about Xen and how they were aware that it kinda sucked but the deadline was coming up…

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.

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~3.5M posts per day across ~40k active users?

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.