This reeks of selling games on a “pay per new game save” kind of move. If “replay” is a threat, how long until they move to eliminate that?

The book industry will be doing this with digital copies if they haven’t already.

Given the industry’s “you aren’t buying, you are renting” mentality… very, very optimistic.

Plus 1!

They had centuries to make pong, so I wouldn’t get your hopes up with context-free assumption.

“AI pictures” are AI in name only. There is no actual artificial intelligence involved in any of this bullshit.

Maybe someone will catch on to who the actual enemy is here…

instead of using his seemingly infinite wealth to engage in any real systemic change

Do we know this? I don’t follow the comics at all but do they ever go into the things Bruce Wayne does as CEO of Wayne Enterprises? I can’t fathom we have gone decades without someone touching on this.

I can recall numerous comedy movies I went to where I was the first to laugh. Like a full “ha” before everyone else started laughing. I am unsure if I influenced others to laugh, I was more satisfied that I didn’t need another person to laugh to actually enjoy what I was seeing.

It wasn’t “just” the audience. Sweetening enhances the laughing - it doesn’t replace it.

I always thought of it this way. You see fun videos of sitcom outtakes, everyone is having fun on set. This means multiple takes. How hard would you imagine it is for an audience member, on the 15th take, to laugh? Sweetening.

You are partially correct. The pacing is a thing, for sure.

But if you do watch those videos there are plenty of non-joke pauses for laughs. I can recall one where one of the guys walks up to the others sitting in the cafeteria and says “hey guys”… pause for laughs. He wasn’t dressed funny, he wasn’t doing anything odd, just… “time to laugh, I guess”.

IMO, canned laughs are the tool of those that aren’t really that good at writing comedy.

Someone is making a new one. I have it wishlisted on Steam. It is called Cleared Hot. Granted, I heard about it a LONG time ago and it still isn’t out.

I just wish people had long enough memories to see the cycle for terms like these. Some new word catches vogue, companies fall over themselves trying to find ways to implement them for shareholders and consumers who have no idea what they actually represent. As that fades, a new term arises… it’s sad.

So what’s the statement here? As long as it doesn’t affect you, you shouldn’t care about how it affects others? That’s kind of a shitty way of thinking.

Jokes on you, they already keep charging more.

I bet if the government is footing the bill they will demand lower tuition. And unlike lowly poor people, the government is someone they will have to listen to.

You aren’t wrong with your point. But both should be true.

you can go consume their media

Can they, though? Can they?

Pretty sure fluxuating your property valuation depending on your need is actually illegal and not just loopholes. But i think you knew that.

Couple this with defrag, a nice relaxing time.

I was at a Cracker Barrel last night and among the random shit on their walls was an old checker board. The border of the board, taking the majority of the space available, was covered in ads. I guess it never changes.

It never ceases to amaze me how far idiots will go to avoid learning the most simple things. SQL isn’t hard, people’s difficulty with it says a lot more about them than it does SQL.