Once upon a time they were the “good ads”. They had an unobtrusive but instantly recognisable ad-format that was reasonably tolerable and text-only. It was once they started showing sponsored search results that it became apparent they were willing to be subversive to get clicks.

Their whole image was built around user trust and the moment they had everyone hooked they 180ed.

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Hi, after seeing the couch I just want to say I’m not interested in purchasing it any more. I’m looking for a blue couch and that one is clearly brown. Thanks.

Very fair point about Tails, although I appreciated the joke about him being Sonic’s wingman and him reaffirming that they work as a team with different skills. Super wholesome way of saying that everyone is important. Also we got the plane scene which was the best nostalgia hit I’ve had in a while.

Let the hype train keep on rolling!!! 🚂

Me in this thread

Gorgeous. Is this stock on device?

Are you hyped for the fourth movie? I didn’t see the post credits until I watched it again yesterday with my daughter. I’d been pretty miffed that they gave us Shadow before they gave us Amy!

When you say you got rid of it, is it for sale? I’m in the market for a blue couch

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization_of_Internet

The direction of travel is towards “internet” (lowercase), but pedants gonna pedant.

True, but the damage to community features was done long before the buyout.

Imagine if they had a usable notification system. It would be glorious.

I swear I saw a Tom Scott video about this, but quite some time ago. Possibly same method but different insect…

0.5D chess

X had a predecessor called W that ran on an operating system called V.

No

Can I have a go on your time machine?

Lol I really shoulda looked it up first

Probably-crones-disease homies, represent

without pulling out your phone, [doing phone stuff x10]

Ding ding ding.

Everyone is so focused on AR glasses having some killer use case that must justify it’s existence. The use case is simply not pulling a phone out of your pocket; not waiting for face ID, tapping your way to the necessary app, and so on.

Removing these micro inconveniences has always been Apple’s forte (even if a little stagnant in recent years), so it’s no surprise that they will continue to pursue the same.

You don’t have to strap the internet to someone’s face to distort their reality with it, as demonstrated by… Well, gestures broadly