Honestly, some are better than others depending on priorities, but literally anything is a better option than Spotify on most fronts these days.

The first link I posted is for Guided Access.

I also mentioned hidden albums because that was the second thing the author requested in the blog post.

Literally both of these things already exist.

Android example already posted, but for iOS:

• Lock device to one app
• Hidden album in Photos

What’s with the editorialised title? How do these changes make it harder for new creators?

Was £1,235/mo in 2016, now a similar flat in the same block is around £2,000/mo.

Honestly, I’m surprised it’s not higher.

The companies listed are the publishers, not developers.

It’s a little messy, but Cendant later became Vivendi, and then merged into Activision.

If it’s for iOS, is there any reason you’re not just using Notes and Reminders? Either one of them could easily handle the use cases listed, including sync between users/devices.

The original epic was also made for entertainment.

But it’s July…?

There’s a detailed wiki article about it here.

TLDR: it’s specific to the US and UK, has been in use for over a century, and is largely metaphorical.

Berzerk and Wizard of Wor are both fantastic fun.

There’s also a homebrew port of Bosconian, which gets my vote for one of the most underrated arcade games of all time.

I worked on a game where we added the ability for the player to react to messages from other characters, but was told we had to remove 👍 as a reaction because it’s offensive in some places.

Yeah a two-finger salute (back of hand facing them) is equivalent to giving the middle finger in the UK.

DLSS 5 looks horrendous but let’s not pretend gamers haven’t been able to reshade and mod the everloving shit out of games for decades. Saying it’s not a real game because someone decided they wanted to slap on a cel-shade filter or turn the art director’s carefully crafted dragon into Thomas the Tank Engine isn’t really a defensible position.

Albums as monolithic artistic creations definitely peaked in the 70s-80s, but albums as a simple collection of songs have existed for almost as long as recorded music. Until the late-1960s it was the norm; we’re just experiencing a return to that being the dominant format.

Agreed. There’s so much pointless elitism and snobbishness in this thread; very disappointing from so-called music fans.

That happened back in the day too. Low effort releases are nothing new, we just ignore/forget all the bad stuff and end up with rose-tinted glasses.

This is it exactly: the UK is made up of separate nations, and each nation is allowed to be separately represented.

Another example is the Faroe Islands, which is part of the Kingdom of Denmark but has their own World Cup team.

It’s all thanks to the Muzak company and studies in the 50s/60s that suggested bland music made people work better.

There’s an article on it here to get started.