It got away with it due to period accuracy (and it had a decent plot too).
Now move that to a modern setting and it feels icky and gratuitous.
Avatar is a lemming in bed because this account wasn’t intended to be used except for creating communities… and then my instance announced it was closing.
It got away with it due to period accuracy (and it had a decent plot too).
Now move that to a modern setting and it feels icky and gratuitous.
Both have their names on RFCs and have developed many of the protocols we all use. To give them credit, the R&D backend side of things they are both pretty good at.
I’m not sure the research teams have anything to do with business models, or indeed research for what users actually want.