Hell yeah. Huge respect to him and the other youtuber that exposed this, it's crazy that Honey just pocketing most of the referral money has been undiscovered for so many years.

Definitely not. I didn't come to the Fediverse to be under social media companies again.

Isn't Black Swan just Perfect Blue for people who never watch anime?

Edit: For the people that don't know

The video pretty much describes why Fandom is so bad and why many games are moving their wikis to alternative services, and why you should stop using it in general. Some examples include:

• Ads everywhere, including autoplaying video ads that play another ad when they're done. There are also ads sneakily inserted in the middle of articles that are related to the wiki, like a Gamespot review (Gamespot is owned by Fandom)

• A sidebar you can't remove that promotes their content

• Fandom hijacked the community's Mcdonald's wiki to turn it into a giant advertisement

• Accounts that are 4 days old can bypass restrictions and easily vandalize pages

• Fandom sometimes introduces things nobody wants, such as AI generated answers that are usually wrong, take up the top half of the page, and with no way for wiki admins to remove it. They removed it after a lot of backlash but still...

• When people fork their wikis to other sites, fandom refuses to let admins delete their old wikis. This makes new wikis difficult to start because Fandom usually ends up as the top result on search engines, even if they're old abandoned wikis.

Extremely rare EA win

So tired of this dumb take. Reddit was never going to die, but the point is enough people cared to leave that alternative platforms like Lemmy are viable now. The Fediverse as a whole is getting more and more support every time a company does something stupid, so people that genuinely care and left Reddit did win.

50,000 reviews now. It's a shame, I used to play OW1 a lot even after they stopped providing new content for it. Came to OW2 and I just couldn't be arsed to grind for characters I don't have unlocked. You need to win 35 games, and since there's a basically forced 50% winrate that means you need to play 70 games to unlock a character each time. Wanted to play Ramattra, saw he's locked, uninstalled and didn't look back. The monetization is terrible. The balance feels worse than it's ever been.

This wouldn't be such a problem if they didn't literally SHUT DOWN OVERWATCH 1 to shove people into the cash shop grind sequel

What a disaster this is for absolutely no reason.

According to Sybran, the Code27 was created with four goals in mind, which were:

• l want a character l love, one that's special to me.
• Someone with a soul, not just a simple looping video.
• Someone who listens, shares in my joy, and values our cherished experiences.
• Someone who treasures every moment we share, without forgetting a thing.

Are the engineers there okay???

It's not even copyright, they're suing for using things they patented, but their patents are extremely general. I kid you not, they have a patent for MOUNTING CREATURES, something hundreds of games have done.

Abstract: In an example of a game program, a ground boarding target object or an air boarding target objects is selected by a selection operation, and a player character is caused to board the selected boarding target object. If the player character aboard the air boarding target object moves toward the ground player character automatically changed to the state where the player character is aboard the ground boarding target object, and brought into the state where the player character can move on the ground.

I'm no lawyer so I can't tell you how well this would hold up in court but it's ridiculous. See more: https://patents.justia.com/assignee/the-pokemon-company

I can really understand YT wanting to push ads because I know how expensive their servers are and all that, but I just can't get over how many ads there are. Two ads before the video starts is already pushing it, and having ads in the middle (which can be many times depending on the video) is far too much. If they crack down on adblockers I'll likely use alternative frontends like piped. No way I'm watching 6+ ads in one sitting.

For people who don't know what this is referencing:

which in turn is a riff on these stupid facebook posts:

TL;DR:

• They will avoid monetization

• They will avoid providing step-by-step guides to play games on the emulator (I assume they mean extracting games from the console using hacked tools)

• They will avoid providing keys or circumvent DRM, you'll have to get everything from your Switch

• The devs are upset at how much attention they're getting which is kind of ironic considering the article.

"We wanted to fly under the radar at the start [...] It's already much more widespread than ideal for the current stage of development."

Having 4 shades of grey as colors in a colored graph certainly is a choice...

What better features? Firefox has pretty much everything nowadays, and is as fast as Chrome.

They OCR the entire screen and store it in plaintext?! There is no way... I know it's Microsoft we're talking about, but are they really this stupid?

shocking users

Are they shocked though? It's getting common for piracy sites to disappear or move to different domains, there are always alternatives

Its not the email address Meta is concerned about. Its the IP, device identifiers and location.

This actually applies to the entire internet, look into fingerprinting. This website checks how susceptible you are to it: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

It's always bronies, isn't it...

There's no way Microsoft is going to let it go bankrupt.