Idk what your privacy concerns are, but an Android stick is a much more open platform allowing you to install whatever and avoid all the Google stuff

I understand it can be grating for parents, but it’s quite good at soliciting speech. Also the original seasons are now quite nostalgic feeling with it’s point and click PC game theme

Tarzan

Zoho? Not the best in regards to privacy though

It’s a Google website address that’s supposed to be opened on a different device. If you don’t have a second device you’re out of luck and can’t advance

Grayjay

Lost any interest in Skylines once I learned it’s not a real simulation and some people teleport to work when you’re not looking

Direct quote: “10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have completely turned.”

This is laughably incorrect. Then he turned around and repeatedly said his statement was politically neutral.

Tapo

The ingenuity and innovation required to make space travel possible (and efficient) is remarkable. Definitely falls into the category of “it’s not the destination, it’s the journey.” It’s important to continue challenging ourselves as a species.

Couldn’t it get flagged and manually reviewed leading to a ban?

Still loading fine for me. Have a VPN or adblock enabled?

This is the best, most comprehensive list I’ve found: https://www.clicknourishment.com/

Knowing what you’re watching on the screen is different than what you’re saying out loud near the TV or remote. Plus almost all TVs can run without an internet connection too, which renders this concern somewhat null

There’s no need for uploading a constant audio feed or transcript (something that would be easy for researchers to detect in the network logs) to show you an advertisement like that.

Your phone knows all the things you wrote in the post, namely: your location, that you are physically with those friends, the wifi network, the search history of everyone there. Because of all that metadata, advertisers probably know you were playing a TTRPG, maybe even the specific one

Aren’t most long running and active media franchises just cash grabs?

I prefer Windscribe

I’m not sure the people who think they can find love in AI are the people who fall in love with AI. Same principle with cults-- virtually no one joins a cult knowingly. They’re just looking for connection and find it in a weird place

The idea of not “bothering the rest of us” seems inherently flawed. They are someone’s offspring, sibling, neighbor, coworker, a voter, etc. Having folks in our communities be so isolated isn’t healthy for a functioning society

Idk if it counts but the first Venom movie was quite good and unique. Blends rom com, action, and a little sci-fi. Unfortunately the sequel was bad and I heard the third was even worse