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[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

The apps weren't profitable. They sold rides for less than it cost them, which killed the industry. That's what all disruptive companies do, sell for an unprofitable price and have investor money make up the difference.

Taxi companies could not compete. How could they? It didn't matter if they were good or bad. There was no chance to compete because they all went out of business.

Again, the apps didn't win because they were better, it's because they didn't allow competition. In a sane world they would have had to have made a profit, and the taxi companies would have made their own app, and things would be pretty much equal across the board. But that never happened.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

Fair use depends on a lot, and just being a small amount doesn't factor in. It's the actual use. Small amounts just often fly under the nose of legal teams.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (3 children)

If you read an article, then copy parts of that article into a new article, that's copyright infringement. Same with ais.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Shockingly I'm also mad about that. I suppose you support that situation?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's easier to make than you would think, maangchi on YouTube has some good videos. Make a bunch kimchi for a month and it'll taste way better than store bought

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

.... like a disk or cart? Yes that's fine. I do that.

 

I look forward to this video every year. An industry animator talks about the best animation found in last year's games. There are always lots of games I've never heard of, and I end up appreciating something about a game that I've never thought about before.

 

March 14, 2024 beyond excited for this, EDF

 

Part five in this long running series looking at the animation in each Final Fantasy game

 

(december 8th, with demo)

 

Not exactly what we usually post here, but I really like these

 

Only ever released briefly on vhs, then later on dvd in Spain for some reason, comes The Midnight Hour. A teenage Halloween party that turns deadly and bursts into song!

also starring Le Var Burton! It's a really fun Halloween movie that I try to watch every year, even if the quality is terrible

Trailer The Entire Movie

 

Okay, there aren't actually that many frogs in this movie. But there is always a vague croaking sound in the background track so that counts right?

Trailer

 

Plugging this website I've used for years for video game music, it provides internet radio (you can listen in the browser or music player [like vlc]) and all the music is chosen alternately randomly and by requests (sign-up with discord to put requests in)

the request system has cool-downs to stop certain games from being overplayed so I've been introduced to a lot of music I wouldn't have ever heard otherwise thanks to it. Plus it's just nice to have people pick music rather than an algorithm.

 

I've been waiting for this for so long... 2024 can't come early enough

 

I feel like this whole soundtrack gets slept on in the vgm world, but I've been obsessed with it since I first heard it 20 some years ago. It's very 90s, but the entire soundtrack has great themes that run through it, and it has that oceanic choir running through a jungle beat thing that never quite made it out of the 90s

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