to me, loot boxes/crates are an unethical gamifying of monetization, even if it’s only for cosmetic items.

before it went Free to Play

well that’s the thing, it went free to play. Pretty classic enshittification arc.

they weren’t intentional bait, the MBAs just hadn’t invented all the ways to scam users with it yet.

did you forget that they’ve been operating this way since at least the beginning of iphone?

edit: when idiots get called out they get sensitive, I guess.

what specific skeuomorphic elements do you want back? it is still there in lots of places and I don’t think liquid design removed any more of it. i also don’t think the amount of color in design necessarily correlates with skeuomorphism.

seems incongruous to me that the NDA is that strict but the prototypes are allowed out in the wild. I guess they need real world testing somehow.

don’t you avoid taxes anyway if you’re not profitable?

just the US.

downvotes for truth, ok lemmy.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2vgkn7w10o

why would that happen?

except cancer vaccines would make someone tons of money.

we’re nearing 20 years since the 2008 financial crisis, seems like we’re due for another.

but there also needs to be incentive for sites to host content. if it all gets hijacked by search engines that isn’t sustainable.

bluesky is populated “enough”.

they would never do such a thing. not after calling out hillary clinton for using private email servers.

i mean just not having space travel automatically makes it way better than starfield.

Because a fully new game takes way longer and more resources to develop than remasters.

The problem is LLMs are programmed by biased people and trained on biased data. So “good” AI developers will attempt to mitigate that in some way.

agreed to all of the above. I also found the texture on the trackpads to be quite irritating after a while.

What is the definition of “processed” here? blended meat? high salt %? specific preservatives? artificial casing?

you won’t live longer, it’ll just seem longer.