Fascinating, thanks for breaking it down for me!

I’m saying the content itself can be tagged with “Mountain Dew Major Melon” .. this could have be done ages after the podcast was made, entirely independently of the production of the podcast. In other words, content providers (roughly speaking, the website or app you downloaded it from), go back through all their…

Advertisers know your traffic (unless you’re blocking all cookies) so all they have to ask it, “Target this ad at users that saw this podcast.” The end. People really don’t understand how online advertising networks work. Advertisers don’t have to have any relationship at all to the placements (websites you visit). The…

What’s your explanation for why not a single person has EVER found a shred of proof when they actually study the issue? You’re also suggesting that thousands of employees at these companies have perfectly kept a secret about massively illegal behavior at these companies for a decade or more. Why would they do that? You…

There are more answers than just “you search for more than you think you do” to explain eerie ad appearances. I expect people will also reject these explanations, even though there’s never been even a single instance of a substantiated claim of “listening” advertising:

That’s typically due to location tracking settings. Your coworker bought the home gym and then both of your phones were in close proximity to your coworker’s phone, suggesting a relationship. Then the home gym company uses that data to target people who are lose to their customer, reasoning that they might be talking…

Geodata can do that. My friend was pregnant last year, and for a few days after every time she came over we’d get ads about baby stuff. If you’re in proximity to someone for a period of time, your ad preferences will “bleed” over to other people based on the (often correct assumption) that you’ll be discussing…

Okay, how? How exactly does Fortnite supposedly manage to avoid this problem?

I’m sorry but this post is embarrassing Kotaku. All of the “sources” are Youtubers and Twitter posts. There’s only one link to an official EA site. There’s one link to a esports.gg article (lol) that cites a reddit post (double lol). And one link to a Best Buy store page....

Hell yeah for fans using this increased attention on the game to roast EA over the highway robbery they commit wrt their cosmetic prices.

How much of that map is worthwhile content though? Because I read this and imagine vast emptiness filled with monotonous busywork like so many massive open-world games today (looking squarely at you Ubisoft) but with the added fun of archaic game design.

This game is mid. Many better RPGs from that era on PC.

As someone who runs a site that does this, albeit one a week, I can assure you there’s little money in those hills. People simply don’t click on articles about games they’ve never heard of.

Remember when you went into a store and you could just feel that the store was dying? If you are really old you felt this way entering a Sears. Then it was Toys R Us. If you are only slightly old, maybe you went into a Circuit City post 2005? Anyway, I think you all know that feeling. You can just tell.

Did anybody actually rent the items from Ravio? I know it was an option, but every time I played A Link Between Worlds I had enough money to buy the items outright as I needed them. Then again, I was an adult when I played it, if I had played it when I was 10 it may have not been the same experience.

You know it’s a slow year for RPGs when Lies of P (possibly the worst name for a video game in history) makes the list. No disrespect to P as it’s a very competent and interesting Soulslike, but that seems like a stretch.

Look, I don’t want to be annoying about it, but RE4 has no business being up for game of the year. It’s a fantastic facelife, but it isn’t a new game. The same goes for Deadspace (which, FWIW, I think was always a more interesting action horror game than RE4), and I’m glad that one didn’t get nominated.

It’s fine, no one’s running defense for that abusive PoS unless they’re MRA folks, and nobody cares about those folks lol.

Photoshop has Generative Fill now, which (according to them) is made using 100% opt-in Adobe Stock images. I use Generative Fill in practically EVERY project I do now (I’m a video producer), and I never once have to indicate to anyone that I used AI to expand an image or remove people or objects (or add a kitten). I…

Again, the Pinkertons are a division of Securitas AB (pedantically, there are no Pinkertons, since the company went under in 1999, and it’s technically Securitas Security Services), and they provide corporate security for a lot of companies. It’s not like Hasbro sought out the worst people on Earth to harass this one…