It’s definitely making their job harder on the face of it, but it also differentiates them from other ad companies, so I guess they’re betting on that being a draw for potential clients.

Advertising isn’t going anywhere, so investing in/supporting ways to more ethically serve ads without harvesting private data seems like a good thing?

Start paying attention to the top new & trending Spotify playlists in genres you’re interested in.

It’s always a year after release for EA Play, but I agree - it’s felt like a long time for this one!

Do you think people in the UK have to greet royalty every other week or something? I’ve lived here for 34 years and it’s never come up.

Can they not just send a DMCA takedown notice to the host of that web server?

Article doesn’t mention this affecting anywhere other than the US. Why is this in world news?

It’s like RoboCop having a meltdown when he tries to arrest an OCP officer

They had a falling out with the original publisher, Nacon. It was big & messy, so I won’t try to cover all the details here, but basically the game has been in legal hell for a while.

I mean, that’s basically the main character’s arc in Office Space, right? Still rings true.

I still remember the first time I saw the demo video where they flip a window around and write a note on the back of it. Blew my mind.

Starfield

Great movie, and sharply written too. The bit where they try to surreptitiously dump a body over a ledge, only to have it land in the middle of a group of party goers, had me crying with laughter the first time I saw it.

They should make it so that replying to a comment automatically disables your ability to downvote it.

Would simultaneously prevent people trading downvotes while they argue back and forth, and encourage people to simply ignore trolls and move on without replying.

I once lent a friend at school my copy of Star Wars: Demolition for PS1. Critically panned, looking back, but I loved it! … Got it back a couple of weeks later and the disk was snapped in half. Devastated.

Parents got involved, and he eventually (and reluctantly) had to give me one of his games as compensation. He gave me Mission: Impossible, disk only, no manual. Terrible game. I’m still annoyed.

The pyramids weren’t built with slave labour - common misconception.