To understand it, your need to understand that in the eyes of someone who loathes censorship, the extent of the censorship being considered is a distant secondary factor. Censorship is wrong, whether what is censored is a hardcore interactive SM gangbang gameplay segment, or a modest one-piece swimsuit.

Ah, the classic random beams of light, so well known for obscuring everyone’s sexy parts for generations in... Western... media... ?

I’ve been going there for years, and have like 20+gbatemp.net tabs open right now, but had no clue that there was a side to the site that didn’t involve console/game hacking and modding. You learn something new every day...

You just seem to have a very stiff definition of unbundling that doesn’t seem to match any of the actual usage of the term: unbundling content from different creators, which no one gives a rat’s ass about, because it’s useless for the viewer.

Ah, the movie industry - they produce so much good entertainment, they almost make you forget sometimes that 99% of the people at the top are giant sacks of crap. But then one of them starts overflowing and spewing that crap for all to see, and you remember.

It’s not really “unbundling”, though, it’s just creating new bundles where, once again, to get the 10% you want, you have to pay for the 90% you don’t.

Except Google is an advertisement company, and selling that information would go directly against their business model- THEY may show you ads based on your Android TV activity, but that’s it; selling that data to advertisers would just be shooting themselves in the foot, because THEY ARE ADVERTISERS.

I have a Xiaomi MiBox S I picked up during last year’s Black Friday sales for $20 through Google Express, and I love the little thing to death.

That’s going on my list of post-it reminders on the fridge, right next to “Bleach + Ammonia = ☠️☠️☠️” and “In case of Zombie, always double-tap”.

Stupid slow tortoise refused to walk any faster. How was I to know it would make the pyramid really huge?

I actually wanted to write my thesis on differences between Western individualistic cultures (US, specifically) and Eastern collectivistic cultures (Japan) for the longest time, although it would have been on differences in regions of the brain responsible for self-related memory storage, and in what qualified as…

Funny, same situation here - I reluctantly left Kotaku behind a few months ago, even despite Fahey’s presence, as I finally admitted to myself that the movement from a Japan-centered gaming and culture site, to a multiplayer-gaming and gender/sexuality-politics focused site was permanent. Things do not seem to have…

“A good test, they say, uses declarative statements and a range of answers from “strongly agree” to “strongly disagree.”

It’s the Google part that annoys me, I can live with prefacing commands with “OK”. I’m telling my house what to do, or maybe the crazy robot running my house, but definitely not a billion-dollar company. Shodan, HAL, Jarvis, House-bot, Operator, Computer, or even Assistant, any or all of these would be fine, even…

Uhm, Goblin Slayer is about a guy with major PTSD-issues that have caused him to devote his entire existence to a genocidal crusade against goblins, in a world where the threat they pose has otherwise largely been dismissed, because their low bounty has relegated hunts for them to rookie adventurers, who either get…

Thank you! I really hate it when people make overly-broad, often entirely incorrect judgements about a series based on either minimal or no actual exposure to it.

Knights are definitely not mercenaries, given that (with very, very few exceptions), you could not be both at once: Knighthood is a title, generally requiring an oath of service or loyalty, whereas mercenaries are purely contract-bound, and are only loyal to their pay. Except for fairly unique exceptions, a Knight’s…

I’m just not entirely sure about anyone placing Royalty above Divinity, what with most Royalty officially ruling by Divine Providence or Mandate... and the fact that Divine beings are, you know, Divine. As in, that’s the category whatever God or Gods you believe in go, as well as the ones that created all existence,…

If I for one second thought that would be the most profitable course of action for them, I wouldn’t doubt that would be exactly what they would do. But Google deals in large-scale trends, personality-typing, profiling and targeted marketing to *billions* - the resources required to make a specific, personal profile…