On one hand, abusing staff just doing their job is abhorrent. This shouldn’t happen, nobody should do it, and anyone doing so should be asked to leave. There’s no excuse, not even being in TV show that had a decent opening season 17 years ago.

It’s like the UK tabloid the Daily Mail. An enormously popular media empire, built entirely on hypocrisy.

Personally, I mostly use it for videos on how to put up tents. Of the three times I’ve watched YouTube in the past year, two were tent-related.

This article seems to consist mostly of social media embeds.

Ask the entry-level contacts at any company any question about any product and you’ll get a generic response.

I didn’t hear about that one, but the censorship rules around games specifically state that “rewarding illicit drug use” is not permitted.

The real tragedy is that we are so far away from a meritocracy that there’s a significant intersection between the type of people who can afford to drop $70k on a flight of whimsy, and the type of people whose idea of metaverse fun is twerking in a bathroom.

Social media feeds users’ worst impulses by encouraging people with extreme views to congregate in the same place, losing perspective.

It wouldn’t be the first time this was necessary. Fallout 3 hit ratings trouble because the player could take morphine for damage resistance. The ratings board in Australia saw this as rewarding drug use. So the developer hastily changed the name to “Med-X” and all was well.

According to The Guardian, the organiser has published “reams and reams of apparently AI-generated self-published books”, achieving a “samurai-level expertise when it comes to parting people from their money”.

I’m a heavy gamer, but never really got into Final Fantasy. During its “golden age”, I was mostly a PC gamer, and could have easily skipped over the likes of Final Fantasy while playing PC RPGs of the late 90s.

I hated the grinding, repetition and random encounters in the original. I loved the core gameplay, world and story, but everything around it was just really irritating filler.

Played: 90 hours across the main story and nearly all side activities.

I’ve heard of “4D” cinemas that entice people to the cinema with physical effects.

Spoiler: she becomes a widow and you can romance her.

No comment from me, but while working at my first coding job in 2001-2002, two of the development team got into a literal fist-fight on the topic of romance options in Baldur’s Gate 2 (specifically Aerie vs Jaheira).

Audiovisual capture devices most certainly record objective data. “Real” is real (within the constraints of the capture device).

The whole “adult video helped VHS beat Betamax” myth is one that just won’t go away, but there are no solid figures to back it up. Porn was a tiny fraction of a percent of the media market, and no contemporary sources seemed to consider it a major issue.

This was actually a solid awards ceremony with cross-generational appeal. It was a textbook example of how to do it well.

Why would an XBox owner care?