“going sideways” is also bad. I guess the moral of that idiom is that directions are bad?

I guess “going forwards intact” would be the good version.

But they’re both Walt Disney, so does this say that he did character voices while masturbating?

Ah just as God intended.

I think you’re misunderstanding what I mean. Early Access is a newer term for getting paid access to a game early. Open beta is an older term but was used for free access to a game early for testing purposes. They used to have different meanings which is why early access was created as a new term to distinguish it from a beta. Calling paid early access a beta is intentionally misleading.

It used to be called early access. At least it wasn’t a misleading term.

And being able to use more complex object types like discriminated unions without having to constantly look up what’s in them!

Have you people never heard of a phone book? Phone numbers aren’t sensitive information. If they want to scrape your phone number they can legally and trivially do so through public data sources. Google does plenty of sketchy things around privacy, but this isn’t one of them, it’s just about security.

When companies do everything they can to maximize profits it’s smart and good business. When employees do the exact same things to maximize wages for some reason it’s greedy and bad for business.

Also helps to come out with a game so popular you can bank on it for the next decade