There was a free version of Far Cry with ads back around ‘07 or ‘08.

It’s worse than that, even. Less than Lethal weapons were introduced as an alternative to having to shoot someone. Meaning, they were only intended for situations where opening fire would have been entirely justified. However, US Police have taken to treating the things like airsoft, and keep killing people with them.

It was an absurd if also necessary step—you have to defend your trademarked terms legally or you risk losing the...

Bonus in that it was an enjoyable 600 hours.

Has this ever proven to be true?

Would it be fun? For some people. There are some fun elements. Crafting is pretty in-depth, the world is a real treat to explore.

Marvel didn’t, “loose,” the film rights to Spider-Man, they sold them off back in the 90s. Same with the X-Men.

My experiences with Bethesda employees (the publisher not the developer, I only know one ex-BGS employee directly), have been universally pretty positive. If there’s anything to a “corporate culture” narrative, I’m not surprised by their approach to modding.

Legitimately, the only part of Mass Effect 2 that’s relevant to the larger context of the trilogy is Arrival. I’d peg the rest of it as a filler season for a TV show, rather than a single episode, but yeah, it does nothing but spin its wheels and go nowhere.

They were firing blank 9mm rounds in Star Wars.

I didn’t skip it, but I didn’t finish it either. It had some very well executed ideas, but, the level design was a serious step down. If Shadow’d been a little more polished, it would have been an excellent way to finish off the Survivor trilogy, but as is, ugh.

The main villain of San Andreas was Samuel L Jackson in a version of the Rampart Scandal.

Was that actually a thing?

It’s the part where this is front page on Steam; Amazon is throwing a lot of money into marketing this, and a lot of people are showing up to take a look.

It doesn’t. The beta was a separate key. In a weird move, Amazon actually revoked the beta keys ahead of launch.

I still remember the bit of drama where one of the devs was casually banning players they were in matches with over really petty shit. Got caught doing it, called out, Riot swore they’d change their ways, and do more reviews of developer issued bans... probably went right back to doing the same shit.

No, the shadiest thing about Roblox is how it’s practically designed for money laundering.

I mean, back when the paid mods thing was going on, they would have been... but, “the community,” raged about paying modders for their work, so Creation Club is work-for-hire, and modders don’t see any royalties.

I might be misunderstanding something, but the a spreadsheet of, “packet captures,” did show up in the defamation suit (where the motion to dismiss was just denied.) Except, the IP addresses shown were for the actual county websites. (So, nothing to do with the voting machines.) And the MAC addresses were fictitious.