Pretty fascinating! I would’ve expected the dongle to be doing something more complex but, as the author says, it’s possible that these developers underused it.

https://newzoo.com/resources/blog/global-games-market-to-hit-189-billion-in-2025

Closer than I remembered, but console is still larger and projected to grow faster.

It’s hilarious that you think game development is a ‘cushy corpo job’.

Ah yes, all those game devs famously enjoying competitive salaries and rock solid job security.

Game development is hitting your head against a brick wall because you believe in the art form. Anyone who tells you they’re in it for the money is lying to you.

Yep. PC players tend to be very outspoken, but they’re easily outnumbered by the console market, and the mobile market dwarfs them both.

Game Changer is their flagship show, and has been consistently great at reinventing itself and surprising season after season. It’s a game show where the game is different every time and the contestants have to try and figure out what’s going on. It goes places.

If you enjoy long form TTRPG, they have dozens of Dimension 20 campaigns with all kinds of settings and genres.

Smartypants is a show where comedians get to give PowerPoint presentations on anything they want.

Play It By Ear is a personal fave - each episode is an entirely improvised musical, which feels like an incredible magic trick when they pull it off.

Um, Actually is a nerdy quiz show where contestants have to interrupt the host with factual corrections about video games, anime, sci-fi, etc.

Gastronauts is a cooking challenge show with professional chefs trying to fulfil unhinged requests from comedians.

There’s way more on there besides all that, but thought I’d share some highlights.

True, it doesn’t seem like something that would kill the business. But still, I would think the prospect of migrating an entire streaming service to a completely different platform might warrant losing at least a little sleep.

Isn’t all of Dropout.tv hosted on Vimeo?

Edit: yes it is

“Do not build your own app. Vimeo’s right here. I don’t have to worry about customer service. I don’t have to worry about legal compliance… Our budget can go to what actually matters to us and what we’re actually good at, which is content."

Andrew Bridgman, Chief Digital Officer at Dropout

that might age poorly

Ah yes, I think we all remember the moment back in 2016 when Apple famously announced the removal of the foreskin from the iPhone 7.

Nope, she’s a calico shorthair.

Our cat loves bedtime - it genuinely seems to be her favourite part of the day, even over mealtimes.

If we don’t go to bed on time, she will come and yell/paw at us until we start getting up off the sofa. The bedtime routine starts with feeding her, but 9 times out of 10 she will ignore the food and run upstairs to wait for us.

Once we’re settled in, she jumps on the bed and gets brushed. Then she waits for me to turn off the lamp before she will get up and go eat. It’s like she’s putting us to bed. She then comes back and spends most of the night with us.

I’d think it’s obvious that downloading isn’t illegal in every case, otherwise you’d never be able to watch/listen to any media online.

A differentiation is necessarily made between authorised and unauthorised downloads, such that buying and downloading an album on iTunes is legal while torrenting that same album is not.

Music on YouTube is authorised via licensing. That’s why videos get routinely flagged for using copyrighted music without permission (and sometimes even with permission due to overzealous or malicious DMCA claims, but that’s a separate argument).

I imagine they’ll try to make this increasingly difficult; maybe even impossible.

Yep, and the option to filter them is already in settings and has been for some time.

The fact they had to do this to earn a promotion is an institutional problem. Don’t hate the player, hate the game.

JP Allard says his company uses AI to create adverts with authenticity, heart and emotion

hahahahahaha

In that case, I believe your options are as follows:

1. Don’t.

Took me a second but I see it now - very cartoony. I like it!

Off topic, but I’ve not seen that emoticon before (unusually left-facing too!) and it’s adorable.

people want a keyboard on a phone not more folds

I don’t give a shit what most people want

🤔

Sales figures and market trends suggest most people do not, in fact, want a keyboard.

You might want a keyboard on your phone. Lots of people here might want a keyboard on their phone. People on Lemmy are not most people.