He probably has a team who helps him. He makes bank so not unrealistic

To an average Joe, this might not look like anything but to me this is wild. How do you people even come up with these things...

Now make it multiplayer!

If I am allowed not to look at the screen when an advert is playing, then I should be allowed not to play it in the first place. There is no moral obligation on the part of the viewer here.

An advert is an investment: someone pays money to broadcast something and hopes that will generate awareness. Any investment is allowed to fail.

Google is doing everything in their power to make me move to an iphone... between shit like this, effectively bricking some old models of pixels with un-rollbackable patches that destroy batteries, closing down the android development process, making absurd testing requirements to publish apps, etc.

Google doesn't make better phones, they were just less hostile to the consumer. That seems to be going away :(

There used to be iPhone apps that did something similar -

https://www.theverge.com/2015/10/28/9625340/iphone-6s-gravit...

This can work both ways. If the program needs more memory than the computer has, it can't run until you buy more. But if it takes twice as long, at least it runs at all.