It’s a little inaccurate to say that they’ve made no attempts to make these technologies offline, because there are examples of offline speech recognition, and all of them suck. I’m not arguing in favor of Google Assistant or Alexa, but cloud processing does result in a much better experience.

My brain wen to a worse place. I thought maybe they were tracking periods because they wanted to find out out when they were least fertile, and thus, less likely to get pregnant if officials raped them. I hate that I even had that thought.

If they weren’t still the most popular MMO by far, with four times the subscribers of their closest competitor, you might be onto something. Most games would give anything to “tank” like that.

WoW’s not even close to tanked. Yeah, the sub numbers are dwindling (and will continue to do so) but the game is over 10 years old... it’s obviously not going to be at its peak any more.