Aren't the waiting rooms mainly for the non-paying customers? I thought as soon as you subscribe, you jump way ahead of most other users.
Surprisingly, if they have such waiting times, it seems to indicate they do have people using the service.
One of the recent examples of pulling more mindsets to your side is the “copy paste” trick with the Epstein files.
Some have theorized that the person who redacted them knew this, and that they were achieving malicious/minimal compliance by highlighting in black. It’s likely that no one would have risked such an act if they didn’t already believe such a large number of Americans would be on their side.
They might not believe that if protests were so rare that the administration’s control of journalism allowed them to pretend them absent.
I’ve heard old stories of people doing No Kings protests in red states, and getting more on the next go; because the dissent was already there, but needed a bit of public encouragement.
One issue is that men won’t start that conversation by shyly admitting there’s an issue they have a problem with, as some personal internal struggle. They’ll start by “complaining” about some external thing as the source of their problems. Women do this too, and it’s often readily accepted even if the other party doesn’t totally agree.
A 100% empathetic society would take time talking it out until it boils down to the internal issue, therapy-style.
Ark seems to fit into the same niche that enjoys Roblox, Fortnite, and Five Nights at Freddy's. That might make a statement about how much money they have.
I develop JS for a living, but for my personal site I faced the burden of PHP to load it directly, and kept minimal JS. I’ve had people note to me how quickly it loads.
Scroll bars are way too fucking thin now. When I have an app on one monitor, and try to scroll it, I’m battling the move to the next monitor with the teensy tiny scrollbar.
I’m even someone that knows how to use the mouse wheel and page down keys. It still has its place and so many refuse to acknowledge that. Sometimes I can’t even tell where on the page I am because the scrollbar activated its Octocamo.
The breaking point for me was Reddit’s assault on accessibility through API changes.
I’m not even disabled. I just work with accessibility features at some of my jobs and it gives a nice clean feeling of standards compliance.
A Rose in the Twilight. Pretty unexciting and quiet puzzle platformer with a main character that’s slow and hard to control and dies easily.
Then past the main credits, it pulls out a secret final boss fight with this banger.
It's a quandary that blasts the very question.
There is no good reason for us to define, or seek out, the "worst games of the year". Only outrage culture wants us to direct hate towards known bad games like Black Ops 7, even though by any practical analysis it's a better game than hundreds of ignored, pretty bad asset flips, and even some high-effort low-thought indie games that have come out.
Again: This is not a cake. This is a recipe book and an oven. Scenario's demo reel showcases models they have finished training, and vouch that you can make one from scratch. I am asking you for a finished AI model you have ready to use.
It is extremely rare - I do it when I have some form of dedication to the developer, or their rare variety of ambitious game. I may not have even done it once this year.
So I think that matches the OP’s feelings of buying early in support. Largely, it doesn’t matter.