If your complaint is “this business won’t give me their services for free”, then that’s not a real complaint.

No, my complaint is that they were doing all they could to force me to pay up, possibly because I’ve been a free user for too long. Yes, I get they’re a company intent on making money, but they already severely limit free users to 50 likes a day while dropping ads between profiles.

Since I’ve used them a couple of times between 2015-2018, I did see firsthand how it enshittified

Those thieves are like the diablo

Understandable, the overlap between furries and bdsm is very wide

I did dabble with event handling many moons ago, for anime stuff instead of furry - helped a buddy that was more into it. Running around, making calls, asking people for space, trying to work out schedules and prices, making promos. I don’t want to deal with that again anytime soon, especially as the promos and advertising part nowadays has to use instagram/tiktok to have any significant reach :/

Pothead girl is shy, tall and weird, clearly one of us

I can imagine some people taking that “drug bug” literally, calling exterminators to deal with the problem

Increased productivity from better tooling has never equated to less working time. Increased productivity from better tooling always results in more working time, because now you can “produce more”. The only exception is farm stuff for small producers. The big land owners can now use more land thanks to better tools.

How do you get less work from zero work? Does it underflow and rolls back to maximum work?

It was.

My gf was one that initially didn’t understand that dynamic and nearly lost our match, she had to be told by a friend (that recommended her use the app in the first place) that she had to send the first message. Dunno how much could be the app’s fault, it does state during profile creation that women make the first move, but it probably didn’t put any other reminders afterwards.

Other dates I went out with also had similar stories of not paying attention to that message.

I used to back in 2004-6, as my PC was too weak to run GTA Vice City. The vast majority of those cafes (Lan houses, as they were called) disappeared here in Brazil.

And if that’s not enough, here’s more denuvo on older games that didn’t have it either!

That’s why you need to convince, not show proof :)

Chrome running with a single tab on the google homepage eats more RAM than most AAA games of 2007

The market can stay irrational, yadda yadda. Also, Nvidia and Microsoft know they’re the major pillars of the bubble (M$ being the single largest backer of OpenAI) ones that have the most to lose, so they have to keep the illusion going to keep their stocks from nosediving and, more importantly, to keep lawyers and prosecutors off their backs.

Yeah, been hearing that shit since OnLive. 15 years later and cloud gaming is still niche. Throw that prediction together with “we’ll have super AI by 2030”. Neither Nvidia’s Geforce NOW or Xbox Cloud Gaming have open financial reports, being thrown together under other umbrellas. Google didn’t have the foresight to see that cloud gaming wasn’t “the next big thing”, but at least it was a project that surprised no one when they announced it was being killed.

The only reason to think “we’ll all be streaming games” in 3 years is because nobody will be able to buy electronics due to AI shitting the RAM market. The more likely result is more people making do with what they have and less games aiming for 300GB install size and 16GB minimum VRAM

Don’t forget the great success of Google Stadia!

Relampago Marquinhos in the ptbr version, which translates back into “Lightning Lil’ Mark”

Probably some bullshit legacy design choice from steve jobs

Nah, match group has been using fake accounts to lure mostly men into their sites for decades. Make a free account, get a message within 30 minutes, pay 5 bucks to read it.

Last time I used tinder, in early 2023, the app was actively hiding any of the “49+” profiles that had swiped right on me. I’d get, at best, 1 match a week. I mean, 300 (yes, I counted) swipes left and not a single “you missed a match”?? They probably had fingerprinted my device and knew I was a returning user, even if I was on a different phone number, so I was a better target for them to sell their subscriptions. Either that or the algo caught how I was just going left without a thought and kept showing all their fakes and bots.

hell, tinder is so awful that the vast majority of brazilian users there just leave their instagram handle on their profile, with a few also asking to “only message if we match”

I’ve met my current girlfriend via bumble, back in early 2023. As a man, I was extremely annoyed at how many women would match with me and never send a message, felt like a full 2/3. Seems like half of them skipped the “you, woman, are supposed to start the conversation”, never understanding why none of the men ever sent a hi