Outside of sports games & racing games, and Death Stranding & Monster energy drinks, what other games have ads?
Not being argumentative. I'm a PC gamer and I'm actually curious if there's like Pizza Hut ads while playing God Of War on a console or something!
I am bottom Shrek.
You don't watch a military movie and trash talk movie goers, threaten to bang their mom and then do a teabag motion when someone dies?
My wife, kids and I play video games together by sharing the controller.
We were playing classic SNES games together. Like playing Super Mario World or Super Metroid. My youngest isn't really good at bosses so he hands it off to his older siblings. Where my wife likes to draw various scenes from the game so we can color them later.
It started during the pandemic but we do it once a month now and it's been a great family bonding experience.
In the mid-2000s, I remember getting a podcast for my coworker and putting it on 80min CDs so he can play it in his car. So CDs were like [episode 15]. And sometimes, the podcast would go long so I had to make two CDs.
He didn't have an MP3 player and didnt know how to use the internet. And he paid me a few bucks for the work.
I think I made like a $100 from reselling free podcasts to my coworker.
This is where I'm conflicted.
I don't use Spotify because I don't believe in ads or paying money for things that are relatively easy to get. Im also not into music, which means my NEED to get anything is pretty low.
Where gaming, Steam is a platform. One could argue the ads are in the store page or all the sales. But there's still a huge pirate community. There's still GoG. All the other drm platforms are miniscule so not going to talk about them.
Where Steam is different is that shit just works on Steam. I can download a game from 2005, install, and I'm at the title screen. If I pirate, I have to do a handful of things to get to the title screen. Same with GoG. My Steamdeck is amazing! I've been actually rethinking building PCs in favor of just getting new Steam Decks.
a lot of people in agreement that the truth was out there, but bitterly divided as to what it might actually be.
This has been my take.
They're not there for the truth. They're there for validation.
This was highly effective when I used it in real life.
The conspiracy theorist got real mad demanding I name sources, I kept telling him to find it on the internet with fake search terms.
Ah yeah that's me.
The difference is where Orange Man actively instigates violence. Everything out of his mouth comes from a egotistic or selfish perspective.
Where me mocking idiots on the internet is more about shutting down bad ideas from spreading.
No kidding. Nextdoor is a disaster.
I checked in recently and this literally was my news feed
Self-professed Nazi: "Why does everyone keep macing me?"
The movie Everything Everywhere All at Once really brought a tear to my eye. It ignored a lot of "safe" conventions and just went all in on making a really good film.