The example being Sonic and Knuckles specifically is relevant, because despite being released and marketed as an expansion, that content was originally supposed to be part of Sonic 3 but was cut due to deadlines and development time.

Please name it and provide some information so we can check it out.

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That’s right. There’s an insightful blog article if you want to learn the full story.

You could get your PC upgraded for $99 if you also bought 24 months of dial-up Internet service through them. But you also had to pay shipping both ways, and be out the use of your computer while you did it! That seems so inconvenient I imagine almost nobody bothered. eMachines certainly expected people wouldn’t, making the whole thing little more than a carefully calculated marketing tactic. And it worked.

That said, their machines were very competitively priced even without the upgrade deal, and it really disrupted the incumbents, making them good value machines even if you didn’t take them up on the dubious “never obsolete” offer.

Or an alternative first line like

Me: “I’m so tired today, better not fall asleep at work.”

Thanks!

Seems like CCC may no longer be the best choice, but it is still a free choice, and the article doesn’t seem to suggest they are falsifying their data.

Good to know.

This custom SKU trick is also used by retailers to advertise “We’ll price match any other store!” when technically the only store who sells that exact SKU is them!

(Of course some retailers are genuine when they offer to price match, it’s not always a scam)

Do you have a source on that? I can’t find any mention of this from having a quick search just now.

Right. uBlock is perhaps becoming more common, but people who run sponsor block are already moving way out of the category of ‘average user’

When you’re a nerd yourself, and your friends are nerds, and you move in nerdy circles like most of us here on Lemmy it’s pretty easy to get a distorted idea of what the actual average user looks like, as opposed to the average within your group.

That’s exactly the point they are making.

As far as most ‘normal’ people are concerned it is incredibly weird to not have a youtube account, and just as weird to be doing it in the browser instead of using an app.

So for those people you’ve already demonstrated huge “weirdo” red flags by not being like everyone else.

If you own the perpetual version of Publisher you can still install and run it after that date :)

If you have the cloud subscription version, you’re sadly out of luck.

I can see why MS did this, because for the subscription version, if they allow you to keep accessing the final version under subscription license it means they also have to continue to security patch that version like the rest of the suite, because they are still responsible for it.

Legally, it’s a very different paradigm from software that you sell one-time as an installer, and then have no further responsibility for.

And that is not a defense of Microsoft - rather, it’s a criticism of the intrinsic reality of cloud software.

The only commercial software that will never betray the user is software that comes with an offline installer, and a perpetual license (and even then, only if it doesn’t need the Internet to activate. Looking at you, Adobe…)

This is going straight on my to-watch list

Ideally drunkenly, with friends.

TNT duping and bedrock breaking can be re-enabled using config, which is what I’m doing on my server in order to have those things.

Ender stasis is a supported feature in the game now since end pearls are also intentionally chunk loaders by design since 1.21.4

But yes, some things are just “fixed” without any choice.

This would looks pretty cool if it hadn’t bled into the white bit. That boundary encroachment makes it look like electronic barnacles growing

Me too, truck.

Also b3ta! The source of so many great shops.

Not sure why we even needed AI lol.

Nothing kills text harder than just drawing over it with a solid colour in the most basic image editing app.

“Double deliciousness all the way to the crust!”

Language trivia: In Japanese the “crust” of the bread is called the “ears”

With Greece and Italy giving us European in addition to Indian and Asian, D covers pretty much everything and makes it incredibly balanced. it’s the only choice.

How about an orangery? If we really want to spice things up