Why do you say that like it’s a bad thing?
thatKamGuy
Plot twist: the job is specifically for a transcriber/translator and requires high level of accuracy.
I could totally see this as being a thing back in the day before everyone was walking around with a supercomputer in their pocket capable of OCR.
He probably thinks it’s pronounced like this:
Dude’s a billionaire, he very likely has a team of people whose sole responsibility is to keep him out of the news and/or media, unless explicitly allowed.
Only Elon Schmuck (and maybe Kanye West) are deranged enough to think they can manage their public presence positively.
Tell that to my banking apps!
In terms of programming, absolutely some bloat there.
But I would wager a majority (or plurality) would actually be high(er) res media assets, embedded animations and video etc.
I can’t wait for the capital-G Gamers response to this..
..no matter how bad of a take I can think up, they always manage to out-do themselves and genuinely surprise me!
As for the workers, good for them - being on the strikes!
For publisher bottom lines, it absolutely would be!
Basically anything not purchased this fiscal quarter may as well be non-existent to them - hence the push towards reoccurring monetisation.
Meanwhile I’m currently (slowly) playing through a massive backlog of games from the 2010s, so I’m good!
producing war machines that fight each other for territory to build more war machine factories until you can’t expand anymore for one reason or another.
As seen in the retro-documentary Z!
Just think of it as admission by omission.
Ethereum is probably the most well-known of the ‘proof-of-stake’ cryptocurrencies, which don’t require massive resources in order to generate/validate transactions. It made the switch back in 2022 I think?