... That's not the point here. The point is that they decided that if they launched the in-game shop at the same time as the game's initial release that they would get a bunch of bad reviews. This is worrying mainly for the fact that if they had this train of thought, that means that it must be super predatory.

Even emails have tracking pixels at this point. Like, I route all of my email through a client that blocks all outside media without asking lol

There is no such thing as an unintrusive advertisement.

I saw someone with this bumper sticker on their car the other day lol

Finally, an excuse to use the Wayback Machine for all of my searches!

Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux OS, not Linus of Linus Tech Tips.

My go to lazy meal: • $5 Costco Rotisserie Chicken

That's it lol

It's really just disturbing how they have the gall to say the quiet part out loud now with no repercussions

Wait how do you disable shorts this is the first I'm hearing of this

It was a "god-damned photo app". Now it's a version of Facebook with pictures at the forefront as opposed to text walls.

Are they really dogwhistles when it's so obvious? Pretty much air raid sirens at this point.

The Doom Eternal soundtrack was super delayed, and Bethesda/iD put the blame on Mick Gordon saying that he missed multiple deadlines to finish up the masters of the tracks. (Iirc they also fired him and hired someone new to make the DLC soundtracks) Mick Gordon responded a while after with reciepts that proved that they gave him practically impossible deadlines.