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While the game is paused, if a player were to click on the "level up" buttons for their skills, each click actually advanced the game by 1 frame - so it was possible for people to die etc. during a pause screen.
It helps to not have to sink most of your initial motivation energy on setting up the most basic mechanics like player movement physics from scratch and demo level templates.
That's half the point of the article, that the culture is to follow that one clear format to avoid ambiguity, and that other formats are seen as creepy, privacy-invading, etc.
- Really pushing softcore porn by putting their icons in the sidebar and over home page by default (they disappear once your stream viewing history is something other, but default behavior is to recommend it to all)
- Adding more noise to chat: Obnoxious particle effects once "enough people pay money to Amazon", highlighted flashy banners
- Overlays over the video that you can't turn off, makes the player very heavy, popups over the player that you have to click to close
- Autoplaying media on home page
- Strange inconsistent regulations of streamers (who/when they get banned and how long)
- Strange attempts at noisy virtue signalling - such as overlaying sombreros and maracas on emote images for "Hispanic celebration month", which is so unnecessary and comically unthoughtful
And there really is nothing cozy about data-hoarding closed mega-corp software like Discord and Snapchat. As convenient as they are, 'cozy' is not the word.
The writer likely just thinks "LinkedIn and Facebook == Bad!" and "My two Discord servers with my friends == Good!" and just made huge generalizations from there.
"telemetry.optIn defaults to true" indicates that some setting, somewhere out in the world, defaults telemetry to true. It's a clickbait title.
Poster should have titled it "Kibana Telemetry Is Opt-out" if they wanted it to be a proper title.
Sure, this would be considered the "excess", but I'm not sure if it's the kind that children should be made to deal with at such an age in such high volumes.
But we suppose the group who would fall for this kind of strategy is the exact audience the author was going for.