I have passwords and instructions. The directions are "burn it all to the ground"

I would love to buy software that doesn't pull this shit. It shouldn't just be a expensive version

Good! Although 20 years too late

I think a lot of people have been saying this for years. However most people until recently thought it was unfounded hyperbola.

We should at least be skeptical given the connections the founder has.

Just like, until recently, Europe (and especially Germany) thought it was paranoia to treat Russian oil and gas dependence as a risk.

German policy was out in la-la land. Politicians sold the public on green policies before the infrastructure was ready and heavily relied on imported non green energy to get there. They didn’t have to shut down their nuke plants, but ‘make happy’ led them down that path of dependence —just as most of the industrialized world is dependent on another questionable government for consumer goods and microelectronics. Offshoring is awesome for the ruling class until it isn’t.

Exactly. These are very costly lessons, learnt on Ukrainian blood....

Worse. It's the system working as built and intended

It was a cutesy novelty that was invite only for iOS only and meant for the "elites" of silicone valley

Where in game advertising felt real and sensible. Yet was low key

Then advertisers went bat shit insane

Or, perhaps it was the sweet spot. A few years earlier a 7up advert was the game¹, although to be fair it isn't that bad for a 90s platformer.

¹ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Spot

David Perrys game. This one was good because the Brand let him do his own thing. His earlier Global Gladiators for McDonald was also good for same reason, but MCDonald hated it because it didnt feature creepy clown enough :) They insisted on brilliance of "Mac and Me" :-)

You cant hear about it from David himself in this podcast: "The Making of Earthworm Jim with David Perry - The Retro Hour EP319" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzETRBuzfWY

part about advert gaming is at https://youtu.be/UzETRBuzfWY?t=3820

Cereal mascots also starred in one (starts with a surprise sound effect if you launch the emulator, keep volume low): https://archive.org/details/KELLOGG_201902

Pepsiman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsiman_(video_game)

it was more like how kubrick made use of real branding in 2001 a space odyssey. it actually played a role in advancing an optimistic futurist aesthetic.

Java has needed that since day one of it's release

I am assuming it has plenty of cell spoofing tech in there too

It's Only posting carefully crafted an curated thinks to show other you too can be a shallow fake human being