The objection isn’t charging for it, it’s the rate they’re charging.

He was willing to pay for API use, just not a stupid exorbitant amount and on such a short time frame. (Like basically a month or so before it went paid.) 

Landed gentry generally got money from what they did.

Nothing screams “I’m not bothered or riled up” like a wall of text about how funny it is to you. Reddit is (soon to be was) a platform run by its users, ya dink. All your presuppositions are wrong

Theres one little problem with this argument. The issue isn’t that Reddit wants to charge for it’s API, but that the amount they want to charge is astronomical and way higher than other websites such as Imgur, and the extremely short timeline they gave with pricing information.

The bandwidth itself is relatively cheap. At an average 1kb payload per request, Apollo’s 7 billion monthly requests add up to about $500 on AWS (where, as far as I know, Reddit is hosted). The compute costs of retrieving and assembling the request data are much harder to estimate but they’re going to be the bigger…

“Rest on one’s laurels”?

A good reminder that you could save a company hundreds of millions of dollars, but in the end, they’ll still tell you to fuck off when they feel like it.  Your hard work will never be rewarded or treasured.  You are nothing more than a negative balance on their profit sheet that they’re constantly looking to get rid…

I feel like Lightyear had a poor performance because it had no idea what audience it wanted to direct itself towards. It was a complete reworking of a character to make him less fun, and the tone far more serious than it should have been. It’s plot was meh, it’s twists were meh, it lacked a whole lot of imagination,…

oh look... yet ANOTHER shooter... yay...

So, a company whose business model is buying up other companies, and whose value is solely in how many companies they can buy, lost half their money when someone said they weren’t going to give them even more money to buy more companies.

That does explain some AND makes me worried about DA: Dreadwolf. Story is the main draw of those games. Heck, it’s what makes me forgive gameplay that I might be frustrated by or not enjoy that much.

Fine, it’s not a scam. But it is a cult.  

It’s been 23 years since Chris Roberts stepped out of the the director’s role on Freelancer, a space sim that made all the same promises as Star Citizen, because of the numerous delays and cost overruns. It’s the same story all over again: the dude has a decades-old vision he wants realized, but he simply isn’t a good…

When governments attempt to suppress all points of view other than their own, they violate the human right to free expression and education and contribute to disinformation.

I love VR but I do not get what Meta is spending their $1B a month on. If it’s mostly R&D, they have little to show for it. Pancake lens technology isn’t revolutionary or new, other VR headsets are doing similar things. Other headsets are using prismatic lenses which are super cool. I just can’t fathom what they’re…

Y’know, it super fucking sucks that Ken Levine killed Irrational and put a ton of people out of work because he wanted a smaller, leaner studio to do something different than Bioshock, and then the first fucking game he makes with that new studio is Bioshock in all but name.

Literally the first of these reactions: “even more than the first one!” Girl, you enjoyed the first one? Why?

I’m so happy that Avatar-heads are getting what they prayed for, a decade later, but the first movie was such a miserable and endless slog through bad dialogue, weak characterization, and powerfully ugly…

Someone must’ve mentioned Hong Kong again.

Blizz certainly has its share of jerks, but let’s not pretend like the way China operates and forces ‘partnerships’ leaves them blameless.