I know, but that’s not funny and doesn’t let me make a joke about Dude Wipes in the same breath as Clair Obscur (a fantastic game). I remember being broke and having a person I barely knew buy me Diablo 3.

I definitely would have used this experience 15 years ago. I’m not actually opposed to it, but it is funny to imagine a depraved utopia where truly nothing is sacred, furthermore these jokes serve as a way to inoculate ourselves against reaching that technologically possible but hopefully ethically dubious destination.

I think it is safe to assume they'll start with a lower level of ads and will increase that later. This always works out the same way.

I refuse to believe that more ads won't be forthcoming. Perhaps they enforce a time limit on play sessions and require more ads to resume, or leverage their position as a cloud service to seamlessly halt the game, insert a midroll ad, and dump you back into whatever you were doing (after an on-screen timer gives you adequate warning to avoid heavy action, of course).