Making corporations money, duh.
It’s not like you can pick your doctor either, have to be in network, etc, etc, unless you’re rich enough to afford possibly millions in medical bills
Making corporations money, duh.
It’s not like you can pick your doctor either, have to be in network, etc, etc, unless you’re rich enough to afford possibly millions in medical bills
Commenting/making posts has always required an account of some sort, at least as far back as I can remember. Maybe the IRC days you just needed a name
In other words, the branding is one of the main selling points
Basically
Google is paying something around $60m a year for AI training on reddit content
So that’s gonna be helpful lol
Made a legally binding decision to massively overpay what the company was worth, or probably ever would be. Of course the current owners are going to take it
Like what Cambridge Analytica did?
It’s basically the cable TV model just with more steps
Need like 5+ services you pay $5-20 a month to instead of one you pay $75 to (numbers made up)
Ghostcrawler is heading up a new MMO, probably a couple years out though
Not sure what Jeff Kaplan is up to, probably retired and I wouldn’t blame him
Relative to the cost of everything else / inflation, games actually were pretty cheap. They had been $50/60 for nearly 30 years. Now we’re in the shitty time where it’s $70 for the base game, $30 for day 1 dlc, battlepasses, micro (really macro) transactions, etc.
Also so many Linux memes
Apparently when cable first came to be, there were no ads
Which is weird, since there’s a new cod almost every year (or at least it feels like that)
People have been trying that for a bit, it’s not working too well