EA has tried this before, with predictable results. In 2020, EA Sports UFC 4 included full-screen ads for the Amazon Prime series The Boys that would appear during ‘Replay’ moments. These were absent from the game when it launched, with EA introducing the ads about a month later, thereby preventing them from being...
This is another reason I tapping out of gamepass now. With whats happening with streaming, I don’t even want to support a “good deal” when I know the prices will go up, they’ll make tier pricing and add ads somewhere. I want to own my shit. I’m done with ads. Amazon last change to prime made me cancel all services except youtube and bought a 14tb hdd. EA, Ubisoft, Blizzard are all on do not buy list for me.
I don’t use Reddit anymore, but I wanted to search something that I couldn’t find anywhere. This is what I saw. After killing all the other apps, Reddit now is trying to force us to use their own spyware app.
Life experiences can still teach you something even if you don’t start in the same place. If he has good advice it’s good advice at the end of the day.
I’m about to buy more hdd’s and set up my jellyfin/plex server again. I pretty much only sub to Youtube at this point and I’m not giving Amazon more money. I don’t even know how this shit is legal considering when I signed up for the service it didn’t have ads. This is not what I signed up for, seriously how this legal!?!?
Bud Light says it will avoid more boycotts by never standing for anything (www.lgbtqnation.com)
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EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again (www.techspot.com)
EA has tried this before, with predictable results. In 2020, EA Sports UFC 4 included full-screen ads for the Amazon Prime series The Boys that would appear during ‘Replay’ moments. These were absent from the game when it launched, with EA introducing the ads about a month later, thereby preventing them from being...
Michigan Dems OK $3M for e-bike discounts. GOP says plan is off the rails | Bridge Michigan (www.bridgemi.com)
Cybertruck Breaks Down 35 Miles After Delivery, Tesla Says Coolant Leaks Not Covered (www.carscoops.com)
Streaming is cable now | Seventeen years after Netflix and Hulu kicked off a streaming revolution, it’s looking more like cable than ever. (www.theverge.com)
What is Reddit doing (feddit.nl)
I don’t use Reddit anymore, but I wanted to search something that I couldn’t find anywhere. This is what I saw. After killing all the other apps, Reddit now is trying to force us to use their own spyware app.
Draw your own conculsions (lemmy.world)
I just want to play my game...
Apparently the Ubisoft servers are down so I cannot play SINGLE PLAYER Breakpoint....
Google fires more workers after CEO says workplace isn’t for politics (wapo.st)
Elon Musk is making millions from verified neo-Nazi X accounts (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance” (spectrum.ieee.org)
…replacing the previously hydraulic version....
ISPs can charge extra for fast gaming under FCC’s Internet rules, critics say (arstechnica.com)
Democrats need to pull themselves together and remember: Biden is still better than Trump (www.usatoday.com)
While rebutting another post here on Lemmy, I ran into this. This says exactly what I want to say....
Finance guru Dave Ramsey slams 'awful' Gen Zers and millennials who live with their parents: 'They suck. They can't buy a house because they don't work' (fortune.com)
The System Shock remake is getting a massive patch with a revised ending, choice of female player character '8 years in the making', and a significant quality of life improvement (www.pcgamer.com)
Amazon's Prime Video will start serving ads on January 29 unless you pay extra (www.engadget.com)