And where does Hollywood come into things?

Also, Adventure Quest had a subscription (not necessarily micro transactions) and the image for Bloons TD is, as far as I understand, from modern Bloons with micro transactions.

Donko Donko Literate Club

I hate shit like this. Fym we celebrated it’s downfall?? Excuse you?? I was not happy about it.

I’m not the one who said it’s dead. I’m not disagreeing with you, I’m just trying to better understand you.

😁

It insists upon itself.

Define Hollywood

The president is a pedophile btw, so he’s a bad guy

Oobinga is so overrated… Archunga, btw

They said they didn’t wanna carry ice. There’s no reason why it wouldn’t work, they just didn’t want to bother with ice.

If you get anything digitized, sanity check the results, my mother in law got some done that were really weird, like some other family’s stuff and then it just cut out or something. I don’t think they put any effort into making sure it was correct. Especially if it’s somewhere disposing of the originals.

It’s for a portable cooler though, you’re not optimizing for heat removal per watt, you’re optimizing for size and weight.

In general it wasn’t too bad but there were some times playing late at night, deep underground when the ambient noise that plays when you’re near caves or whatever would spook me.

An especially haunted copy of Hey You Pikachu

I’ve never seen zoomers get scared of this game

Ah, of course. The model isn’t wrong, it’s the input that’s wrong. Yes, yes. Please give me investment money now.

Finally, T10

It’s sort of the opposite (prior to Windows 12 supposedly being subscription based). They were claiming you’d pay once and get get all subsequent versions for free. The way they offered upgrades to 10 and 11 for free from previous versions.

I don’t wanna sound like someone defending Microsoft, but that line was taken out of context. It was originally something like “last one you’ll buy” meaning they’re giving free upgrades now to future OSes.

…but then again, even under that meaning this is pretty shitty. Most people would rather buy something than have to rent it forever. Especially when the norm is already that they own it. Doubly so when that price is already hidden and baked into the price of the hardware the user is buying. Most folks probably aren’t even aware they’re “paying” for Windows in some form when they buy a laptop.

(Yes yes nobody owns Windows, they own a license to use it blah blah blah.)

It’s sort of funny to me, that original Windows 10 “last OS” thing came from around the time Jetbrains tried to push a subscription model over a purchase model. They ended up going with subscription with a perpetual fall back license which seems to be the best of both. (Once you pay for 12 continuous months, whatever version you had at the start of the 12 months you get a perpetual license for. So if you stop paying the subscription after 15 months, whatever version existed 12 months ago you can use forever.) I can’t really see Microsoft doing that though.