Exactly, any other time that would be called consolidation … but that doesn’t drive engagement so we will say leaving. …

Ignoring also it’s Australia instead of America broadcast channel… Which most people would assume.

Such a non story.

Ten percent of people didn’t know and now feel bad they were tricked…

The other ninety percent don’t care because they just have hate boners for Twitter.

"But it was a cess pool in the way I like it … fuck it I’m going back to Tumblr … "

“Random”… no “Random”… no. “Random”… no… ugh god damn it I’ll just go get a new quest that will get me primed for these quests.

Are you talking about “Wanted lady who didn’t pay her bar tab?” that sounds like a bounty hunt quest.

“Just throw it in the backlog, I’ll eventually do it.”

I really liked the Nexus Line of Google phones and from what I’ve seen the Pixels are great phones, but the price puts them outside of what I want to pay.

The 3a, and the 6a might be the only ones I considered, but the rest are just “Flagship priced phones” and yeah they may have the hardware to back them up, but paying 600+ dollars for a phone is ridiculous. With them reaching for a thousand dollars is a hard no.

You basically hit on it. They’re trying to make them into iPhones… people are on Android specifically because they don’t want Apple prices, or that type of enviroment.

It costs penny on the dollar to archive the final code base of these games.

Saying it’s fine is like saying a artist shouldn’t keep copies of their work on the wall because there’s no money it’s it.

Companies should have pride in their accomplishments. These companies only care about profitability, and care nothing about what they have done in the past unless it makes them more money. It’s why modern gaming feels soulless.

Theres no used to be when it comes to these rants. It’s just a ticking clock to the next one

Downloading and watching is a crime. One night be able to say they didn’t know what they were downloading but likely the file name and site or torrent is a good clue that’s bullshit.

Your probably discussing chance of getting caught. You likely will see a DMCA complaint or something like that to your ISP at worse for downloading but enough of these might get your service terminated (some ISP don’t care.)

Sharing the files and usually sharing a lot of files publicly or semi publicly will get you more attention and that will get the media companies more likely to take you down as a distributor.

VPN and smart browsing habits will reduce a lot of this risk though.

Think of downloading is one star in GTA. They will chase you if they are you. Uploading is two stars when they start shooting at you. Profiting of it is like three stars and that’s when they get more aggressive. You can get busted at one star but it’s just very unlikely.

IT’s also lacking viewers. Odyssee is a great idea, but I converted all my videos over and get 0 views. Odysee’s biggest problem is they need to advertise for viewers, but anyone who goes “Watch me on Odysee” sounds like an idiot, or a scammer (I know Upper Echelon pushed it for a while, but he pushed all sorts of stillborn projects, so it just was yet another one…

It basising a lot of it’s reward structure on a crypto currency doesn’t help much either.

If you’re demanding I watch ads, it’s not “free”. you’re demanding my time and probably attention.

I really think we need to stop with this idea that “Something is free” because no money is exchanged. Some stuff ARE free, there are repos on git, where you can download software, there are websites that ask for nothing. However Gmail, Youtube, reddit, and the rest are not “Free” just because they aren’t directly asking for money.