Yeah there's a lot of variables for audio depending on peoples setups, but having the volume default to 100% is not the correct thing for applications to do, ever.
verysoft
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Yup its stupid af. I can adjust my game volume on the fly with the setup I have, so it's always nice to turn that shit down or mute it when I start up a game, but the fact I have to is insane.
You could prep volume mixer too, and tab out when the game launches to turn it down. Or developers could just not put loud splash/logo screens at max volume.
Just laziness or ignorance, I made a game and set the volume to 30% by default (it was a bit quiet for my setup), there were no loud splash screens, just some music on the menu - why that is so difficult for developers to do, I don't understand.
It's also an extra crime when they force an unskippable cutscene on you or start a tutorial before you can even access the options screen. The very first screen you should get, should be the fucking options.
Yeah, no thanks Paradox.
Ads got too aggressive, people made adblockers, ads got more aggressive because of lost revenue, almost everyone starts using adblockers.
They did it to themselves, people were content with simple ads on a page, it's once they started interfering with the content and access of it that they became a problem.
I think christmas has lost it's religious connotations, nobody I know thinks of it as a religious holiday at all. It's just a time for giving gifts, showing love and spending time with meaningful people in your life.
If you want a catch all though "Happy Holidays" covers it.
The GitHub DMCA report linked in that post seems fake to me. It's unprofessionally written and has many mistakes and inconsistencies across it.
The creators didnt want to monetise it, they wanted 6s video clips without ads interrupting it. Fair play to them really, but it did mean the end of it, Twitter wasnt really profitable either so they couldn't endlessly dump money into it and the rise of other short-form video was biting at Vine's ankles as well. I think the original creators went on to make byte, a similar service to Vine, but it never took off, cancerous tiktok did instead.
Because the "smoothed out the cars from the 90s" are practical, serviceable and (American pickups aside) not gargantuan space hogs.
Who cares if something is 'fake' if you get enjoyment from it? It's the same as any scripted comedy.
Yeah, gunshots really loud, footsteps really quiet is common.