That’s not a bait and switch, unless you’re talking about the Kotaku title. Game Trials for Nintendo Switch Online have been a thing for years, and the marketing was up front about it being just that.

your stupid long-form essay above on why “Mario Kingdom Battle is free on switch right now” technically means whatever the free market wants it to mean or whatever

They complain because the site is annoying sometimes and getting others to agree with you is cathartic sometimes.

1) Make engaging content that people want to see.

I dunno why people think this is some kind of “gotcha”. Do you think people working here get their food and rent for free? How do they pay for living? By earning a living. How does a website earn money to pay writers (even if poorly)? It shows ads. How does a website show ads? By generating page loads. How does a…

Tim Sweeney discussing trademarks, 2022 (colorized):

“Texas franchised dealer laws protect competition and provide the most efficient and effective delivery model for new and used car sales in Texas,” said Jennifer Stevens, a spokesperson for the Texas Automobile Dealers Association. “The current system works well for Texas and Texans.”

And, for what it’s worth, the current admin’s constant slighting of him remains generally counterproductive to our collective interest in an EV future.

Android Auto also allows you to use any map SW you want as well... I have Google Maps, Waze and GaiaGPS all loaded in as options...

Found the person who buys the new iPhone right after they get done checking their apple stock value.

I’ve thought long and hard about this and while I’ve never read it anywhere, I have to believe that the reason we don’t have proper phone mounts in cars is that manufacturers don’t want to be on the wrong end of litigation about distracted driving.  Creating a phone mount in the car basically invites users to user…

dead world? you think humans make the world alive? Humans suck all the life from this world, remove most of them, and this world explodes back with all sorts of life.  All these zombies movies/games make the same mistake.

Because a ton of people care about it?

Honestly it’s kind of hard for me to get mad at the NYT for not letting you guess racial slurs in Wordle anymore. When “slave” and “lynch” were the words of the day (and they were both going to be), don’t you think they’d look bad on social media? I get why they wouldn’t want that.

This is Amesbury, MA we’re talking about. Not NYC or Boston. The cops telling the guy, “Dude, we’re almost done, chill.” should have covered this entire saga. No, the dude comes back to continue to yell at the police, who were there for a legitimate reason and they asked him to chill again.

I-ANAL (hyphenation intended) but at some point one may have crossed the line from yelling to harassment.

“artificial attempt at garnering interest"

As a non-north american… living in north america…every place over roasts the beans. Don’t roast them to the freaking second crack! One crack will do it and you’ll have more caffeine. The only place that may make a good cup of coffee here are smaller places that do their own roasting. The bigger coffee places all sell…