Yes. When you have 15 minutes to play, you just want to open the website and play, no figure out where to torrent things or which emulator works where and fiddling with the settings, etc.

>Now you can just dump whatever you want into the game.

Couldn't the same be said when the PS2 came?

Are you aware of https://openship.io/ ?

I remember a recent demo I saw here on HN where someone set up a fake store with only hallucinated items.

Yeah, I hear twitter won't survive the weekend too.

Twitter is essentially dead. If I go to my "For You" tab, it is literally 100% pro-Trump bot posts.

Musk keeps it running as a mouthpiece/propaganda and vanity project, but it's not a viable business anymore due to all the $13B Musk borrowed to acquire it, as well as loss of advertizers. It's estimated to break even on an operational basis, but loses about $1B/yr when you include interest on the debt.

Is it dead? I feel like this is more of a "you" thing than you might realize. At least for sports, twitter is 100% still the dominant medium for reporting.

I'm looking at the same post on a players status for this weekend from 2 hours ago on 3 platforms:

- Threads: 5 likes, 2 comments, 15 shares

- BlueSky: 19 likes, 3 comments, 3 shares

- Twitter: 1500 likes, 105 comments, 281 shares

Doesn't really seem like twitter is the one that's almost dead...

How much of that Twitter activity is human vs bot?

For anything politics related the activity is almost all bots.

The example I gave is for sports. Not politics. My point is specifically that the politics side of twitter is probably giving people a weird/not fully accurate view of the site as a whole.

Uh isn’t the “for you” literally the algorithm based feed for your direct interests? My for you page shows zero trump. And this is exactly the reason why it’s still so valuable, it can feed the echo chambers for individuals and keep them engaged (and seeing ads)

That means they think you're already in the fold. Advertising is to convince people that are not yet convinced.

Trump has a 30% approval rating and will never run for office again. Rest assured that anyone engaged in a sophisticated right-wing propaganda racket would not be talking about Donald Trump.

I've no idea how the "For You" works, and my interests certainly do not include Trump propaganda. The only Twitter content I engage with is from people I follow, which is basically just AI/ML.

Just because you are not the target audience, does not mean the company has no income.

Just because a company "has income" doesn't mean it's a viable business lmao

This is one of those funny times people don't realize "For You" is personalized. It's like when Google rolled out personalized search by default and people started asking "why do all my search results have porn in them" and it's like uhh dude because you look at porn all the time.

Turns out you just love Trump.

Well, not sure what the intent of the algorithm is - I'd guess increased engagement vs echo chamber (i.e. could be stuff you hate just as much as stuff you like), but in any case it's a failure since I'm not going to read stuff that is a) annoying and b) posted by bots.

There's a "play anyway" button at the top right (on Desktop).

Disregard the haters. They were here yelling about how bun rewrite would never work and yet it's done in a couple of weeks.

It might get millions in founding.

Maybe you're remembering the Turn-1 instead of this Turn-3?

Well, they can block their competitors ads...

And replace them with their own?

The NHL does it. Watch a televised hockey game, and the ads that the venue has sold on the dasher boards are electronically replaced by ads that the broadcaster has sold. Sometimes when there's a different camera angle you briefly see the ads that are really there.