People seem to be forgetting something: if the odds are actually even, you bet on Kamala as a hedge:
Trump wins: All your other investments go up, you win if you bet or not.
Kamala wins: US economy tanks, any gambling winnings work in opposition to your other losses.
So she should always have a bit of an artificial boost in the betting odds.
You're going to have to be more specific.
Unless you just mean this one that I found by typing "uguu," clicking the first link, and scrolling down slightly. It is 17 years old, so maybe?
>I work as a Director of IT, and most of my engineers are guys who live alone with their cats and girlfriends. If some Metal band endorsed this lifestyle, it would be a home run.
>guys who live alone with their girlfriends
Not the smartest bunch are they?
It's kind of obvious.
Star Wars became celebrated being sci-fi skinned fantasy. So when it became a political thing, that's not what the fans were there for.
LOGH was heavy into politics and diplomacy from the start. So that's the fanbase it had.
Cake is good. Steak is good. Biting into a cake and finding out it's steak with chocolate frosting is not good.
it doesn't have any pumpkin in it, it's literally just some fucking flavouring
I used to have this (understandably) mistaken assumption as well. "Pumpkin Spice" is the spice blend they use for seasoning pumpkin, like for pies: cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. Sometimes one or two others. It is not the pumpkin itself.
it's essentially no more fraudulent
Sure it is. The advertiser paid you for displaying your ad to a person. If they ignore it, aren't in the room, instantly close it, etc. is the end-user's choice. The advertiser knows this too. You still fulfilled your obligation to the advertiser as the app developer as long as you did what you claimed to.
I'm not crying to advertisers but the difference is very clear cut. If you trick a user into clicking via fake "X" in the UI and things like that... that's a different story.
You're missing the obvious part for the AI twist.
Listening to Their Songs with Bots
Even if he made his own legit songs, and then view botted until he was paid $10m, it would be fraud. Creating fake listeners to receive payments under false pretenses is the slam dunk fraud.
Flooding them with AI music is probably a TOS violation. But if real people were listening to the ads on those bands, the platform wouldn't give shit beyond maybe banning accounts. I kind of doubt there's going to be charges related to that part unless they just use it to say, "he spread it out to make it harder to detect, proving that he knew what he was doing was fraudulent."
Edit:
"We need to get a TON of songs fast," Smith emailed his alleged co-conspirators in late 2018, "to make this work around the anti-fraud policies these guys are all using now."
Okay. He already made that argument for them. And I guess it was royalties rather than ad payouts.
It really depends. I'm no game dev but they're so reliant on pre-made engines these days that I would imagine cross-compiling isn't the challenge it used to be. Mobile is dominated by ARM and Unity shit move between them and PC fairly easily from what I've heard.
Also, the Switch is ARM so people already ask for it. As were the 3DS, DS, GBA, Vita, and N-Gage (lol)
Retirees with access to streaming services watch whatever is new. If it's not shit enough to turn off in the first 5 minutes, they "watch" the rest of it autoplaying while they sleep. Or it's background noise for someone.
There are a lot of passive consumers of television.
We could very well see a contraction. Maybe even a large one. But I don't think we can ever repeat the '83 crash. It's too mainstream now. The crash was a 97% drop.
Very rough math from random sources, but ballpark total video game revenue is about $180B. Around $30B of that is Tencent. You could loose every video game company besides Tencent and that would only be a 83% drop in the industry.
Even if a huge swath of AAA folds, the money is just going to move around to other games. No one is going to go, "Activision is gone. There's no new CoD to play. I think I'll take up fishing."
Hm. Not video but the one that comes to mind are those infamous Kanon (2002) faces: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FuGcYgyWYAYoSF1.png