Because… why?

There will be no Freelancer slander!

Yep. What they should have written:

“We recognize that our recent runtime fee policy announcement wasn’t well-received. We genuinely apologize for the oversight and any confusion or concern it caused. Your feedback is invaluable to us. We are actively discussing the policy with our teams and the community and will be revising it based on your inputs. Please bear with us as we work through this, and expect an update soon.”

PR is hard, let’s go shopping!

Here are some more candidates:

1. FREEDOM: Full Range Enhanced Experience Derived Online Marketing.
2. LIBERTY: Leveraging Internet Browsing & Experience Records To Yield profits.
3. JUSTICE: Join Users’ Surfing Trends for Intelligent Commercial Engagement.
4. PRIDE: Personalized Recommendations from Internet Data & Exploration.
5. HONOR: History-Oriented Network for Optimal Recommendations.

Video in question: https://youtu.be/sGKCrcNsVzo?feature=shared

I bought an Xbox S and I wouldn’t mind, personally. To be fair, it’s mostly a streaming/Plex machine for me anyway.

If there’s nothing good to watch, whatcha pirating then?

I use it because of inertia. I jumped from Firefox to Chrome back when Chrome was new and came with hot features, like tab isolation, or being ultra fast. Google has gone through enshitification though, and FF has gotten much better since those days. I’ve started the migration back to Firefox now though.

I don’t know, ads were always dog shit. Yeah you had your static banners and what not, but I remember the popup wars from the 90s.

Hasn’t it been in early access for a few years?

Being able to quickly try out a game before downloading the honking thing is gamer hell?

Ybox and Swatch represent, who needs a GameStation anyway?

Wipeout 2097 (XL in the US) is superior to Wipeout 3 imo, better music, better power ups, MUCH better Menü System (what were they thinking with that grey minimalist mess that is 3…).

Someone found out.