to this day I still cannot grasp the ridiculous amount of hype around the PS2 before launch, you had to be there to experience it, it's like the PS2 could cure both cancer and AIDS, it crushed the competition while the only available game at launch (in my area) was Fantavision a sort of fireworks simulator. It took a while but it actually became a solid system a few years later.

1. Enforce auto-play on TV devices (even with auto-play disabled on settings). 2. Viewing metric is ~5 seconds playback=1 view 3. So most content that you dare to read synopses immediately autoplays and counts as a view 4. Profit?

I wish they would just take a chance with the story used in the 2.0 videogame which still seems way more interesting than any of the stories used in these sequel movies.

Meta hasnt even touched their own in-house messaging platforms. Whatsapp x FB Messenger integration was announced around 5 years ago IIRC, also later on Instagram DMs were supposed to join this WA x Messenger integration as well.

There has also been some serious unaddressed enshitification of Google Assistant and related Home functionalities since the start of 2025.

the phones are manufactured by that israeli covert firm so they are actually kaboom-phones that will simultaneously take out the elite in a Mr Robot-esque coup

This exploit can be triggered using one of the following games: -Tony Hawk's American Wasteland / -Rock Band Blitz

In my city and also the capital there has been a huge effort to effectively punish anyone using a car while simultaneously enshitifying all possible public transportation options available to the point where they are barely usable.

not working in Europe "34 unavailable videos are hidden"

People on now unsupported OS's like Win7 which already stopped receiving Chrome updates about 2 years ago

So years later after the war, this PS1 clone is using the Saturn's video port? How the turntables have turned!

news for nerds?

this plus if you do get to the finish line alive you wont get a prize, not event a bottle of water

This deprecation started a few years back but was never completed, meanwhile Windows 11 was released and half-deprecated Control Panel is still around, about half of the stuff is already avaliable in Settings meanwhile the rest is scattered around several win9x/nt4 low-dpi cpl items.

This has been a trend for awhile, most japanese music was only popular abroad due to piracy and they went to great lenghts to gatekeep it and geolock everything. Even 15year old youtube clips of music videos have been taken down. In the dawn of broadband internet and filesharing many artists gained notoriety and got to tour and sell worldwide because of this. Now that we have all the tools the platforms and technology to legally reach these artists, their labels and industry chooses to geolock it making even harder to reach than it was in the early internet days, so now their music industry became stagnant and their artists stopped touring and selling abroad. Well done Japan.