... 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.

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

It's because far right folks are slowly creeping in as a majority of the party, and will excommunicate any dissenters pretty much

I understand why you're getting down voted, so I'll explain a bit: although union members are able to leverage protest for a variety of reasons, that's usually the last thing anyone wants to do. Negotiations are always the first step so that actors or whomever can still get paid, since while on strike that's not paid labor.

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.