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The article says the game had to be modified to stay on the app store. Maybe the play store version was also modified?

Does kbin.social have some kind of reputation or something? I'm not defending the commenter BTW.

A lot of the proof is classified so he's only able to tell it to members of Congress with the proper security clearance. That's just the shitty way the US government is run, we're not allowed to know anything.

Monetization is certainly worse than it used to. Look at Minecraft java edition vs bedrock edition. In java edition, the older one, the only in game purchase is realms, everything else is free and community made. Bedrock edition on the other hand locks a lot of that stuff behind paywalls and your not even really paying the creators because of the huge cut Microsoft takes. Sure, on android and windows you can play content from outside the shop but that's only a portion of the players.

Apart from that every game NEEDS to have paid dlc it feels like. Again addons for games has always been a thing, going back to sonic 3 & knuckles on the genesis (which is arguably different since each part of the game could be played completely independent from each other, you can't purchase modern addons without the base game) but now dlc is in everything.

I don't but I've have a few pairs of socks turn blue so maybe it's a good idea 🤷‍♀️

I get what you're saying but people shouldnt have to pay for such an important thing. Obviously news publications need money somehow but paying for news should never be required.

Its just like, what other word should we use than cisgender? We can say people whose gender matches their one assigned at birth I guess but that gets annoying. In certain contexts the cisgender label just makes discussion easier.

Before flatpak Linux backwards compatibility was rough.

Yeah mods were over hated on reddit. Large communities would go to shit without thwm. Sometimes they didn't always make the right decisions but ultimately large subreddits couldn't exist without them.