Tag: wonky
Whether it’s the original or the remake, I can’t unsee Silent Hill 2’s wonky parking
This article contains spoilers for Silent Hill 2, including some of the game’s endings.
In my restless dreams, I see that stupid, selfish parking hog, James Sunderland. That’s not quite how Silent Hill 2 goes, but I can’t stop thinking about protagonist James’s terrible, terrible parking.
As with a lot of things, this disturbing revelation began with Twitter. I couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve played Konami and Team Silent’s famous survival horror, but I’d guess it was well into double figures. During all that time I never gave a second thought to the way James’ left his car, straddling a space clearly meant for a bigger vehicle.
Marmalade sales are up after Queen’s death while hard-up Britons opt for wonky veg
There’s a wonky number at the core of Elon Musk’s case against Twitter
Listening to the lawyers representing Elon Musk and Twitter argue over which documents need to be provided as part of legal discovery today, I began to wonder if it is possible to measure anything at all.
The arguments centered on a wonky count of user numbers: mDAUs, or “monetizable daily active users.” It’s a nonstandard measure — most social media companies use daily or monthly active users — that focuses on which users can see ads. But Twitter is a nonstandard social media company!
Twitter is suing Musk for abandoning a deal to buy the company for $44 billion. Part of Musk’s argument is that he was misled about the amount of spam and bots on the platform and that, therefore, the deal can’t…