Ads got too aggressive, people made adblockers, ads got more aggressive because of lost revenue, almost everyone starts using adblockers.

They did it to themselves, people were content with simple ads on a page, it's once they started interfering with the content and access of it that they became a problem.

The GitHub DMCA report linked in that post seems fake to me. It's unprofessionally written and has many mistakes and inconsistencies across it.

Steam awards is just popular vote and memes, why did last of us get best soundtrack? Why did rdr2 get labor of love? Why did hogwarts win best on steam deck? Dont take awards seriously, they are just a bit of fun.

I mean its objectively incorrect, but having a personal preference is fine.

Games normally give a lot of auto aim these days, so if you want an easier time it makes sense you would prefer a controller.

Twitch was good when it was video games only, it really went downhill since Amazon bought it.

Yeah, I wasn't expecting that to be the bulk of their spending. Maybe they should remove the need for phone numbers now they removed SMS.

Cool article actually. Even for non-autistic people, the internet was a better place before all the consolidation onto cancerous social media sites.

People defending CDPR when they completely lied about the product aha, consumers be crazy these days.

Ahaha. He managed to write all that and say nothing, he really needs professional advice before making public statements, he can't help but jump in with his first thoughts. Classic linus though just deflecting "we got some really big things coming up guys! forget about this!"

People missed the point of this, its games that you waited for after release, not games you waited to release.

Rebranding one of the worlds most recognisable brands is a bad idea.

I hope they remove the reputation display, people farming karma points was stupid.

Up/down votes should be used for post/comment organising and nothing more imo.