On Wednesday, Facebook announced the rollout of Watch, what it is calling a new platform for shows on Facebook. Its yet another foray by the social media. Perry Mason Season 4 Episode 9. Ubisoft Removes Fourth Of July Fireworks From Watch Dogs 2 After Noise ComplaintsA temporary Independence Day celebration in Watch Dogs 2 was suspended early on July 4 because it was enraging too many people who still play Ubisofts late 2. The fireworks had been added to the game as part of the 1. They were set to erupt during the games night cycles from June 2. July 1. 0. On Twitter, they were described by gamers as completely obnoxious, fucking annoying and too frequent, too long and too loud. Someone else said they were scaring their dog. Initially, Ubisoft defended the fireworks. Three days ago, in reply to a forum thread titled Annoying Fireworks At night missions, a Ubisoft community representative noted While you may find them loud in game, they are really loud in real life too The sound carries over the water and you can hear them all over the BayBy yesterday, Ubisoft yielded. On Reddit, a company rep noted The people have spoken and we have carried out their will There was an annoying bug that snuck into our Independence Day Event that made the sound effects from the fireworks noticeable from everywhere on the map. They have been turned off as to avoid any further noise complaints. Ubisoft Its not possible to rush a fix for this so we made a tough choice to remove them. The heart says no but the ear drums say yes. When Tweeting the news, the official Watch Dogs 2 Twitter account ccd the outlet Ars Technica, likely because of the publications Tuesday morning story headlined Ubisoft wishes Watch Dogs 2 players a terrible Fourth of July. Of course, as fans of whatever pop song you hate can tell you that even the most cacophonous noise has its fans. Sure enough, a Watch Dogs 2 player on the games subreddit lamented the firework deletion. The Ubi rep replied We liked them tooA temporary Independence Day celebration in Watch Dogs 2 was suspended early on July 4 because it was enraging too many people who still play Ubisofts late 2016. Stargate Atlantis The Complete Series Bluray 20042009 Starring Joe Flanigan, Rachel Luttrell and David Hewlett. The featurelength pilot episode, Rising, sends. Astronomers, doctors and other experts alike are in total agreement on one pointdont stare at a solar eclipse without eye protection unless you want to damage. Watch Stargate The Ark Of Truth Online Mic TestBut when youre playing the game at night for hours and cant escape the popping no matter where you are, thats not a positive experience for the player. Its not possible to rush a fix for this so we made a tough choice to remove them. The heart says no but the ear drums say yes. Watch Stargate The Ark Of Truth Online MicrophoneFacebooks New Watch Tab Does Not Look Like a You. Tube Killer at All. On Wednesday, Facebook announced the rollout of Watch, what it is calling a new platform for shows on Facebook. Its yet another foray by the social media company from the business of distributing other peoples content into producing and licensing its own, and differs from its existing video content in that it looks a lot like Netflix or You. Tubes apps. Watch content will be produced exclusively for it by partners, who will take 5. That content will be spread via channels like Most Talked About or Whats Making People Laugh categories that will be determined by how users interact with it. Watch will offer both a live comment feed where users can interact with the wider Facebook audiencesomething that already exists with Facebook Live streamsand the ability to participate in a dedicated Facebook Group for the show. Heres a few shots of what it will look like on various formats, as shown in the press release. It definitely looks slick and polished, but even this initial glimpse hints that Watch is not the You. Tube or Snapchat killer Facebook wants it to be. Facebooks launch programming for the new video section is, uh, not exactly the A list talent one might think a company worth hundreds of billions of dollars could secure. It includes Nas Daily, a show from a guy who quit his job to make one minute travel videos together with his fans from around the world a preview clip is titled We Bought 1. Burgers a live show where motivational speaker Gabby Bernstein will interact with Facebook users a cooking show where children will attempt to make a recipe and in probably Facebooks biggest grab, one live game of Major League Baseball a week. Another show mentioned in the launch is Returning the Favor, where host Mike Rowe finds people doing something extraordinary for their community, tells the world about it, and in turn does something extraordinary for them. Yet another focuses on the passion and community of big time high school football in Texas. Theres a few more interesting options, like a NASA science show, and a live Nat Geo Wild safari program. But none of this seems particularly edgy or hard hitting. Its the definition of safe. This is the kind of generic filler that forms so much of You. Tubes bread and butterbut if thats all they have lined up, what could possibly lure people from You. Tube itself, which has long been pumping out much more interesting content tailored to virtually every niche interest and community Facebooks content strategy is almost certainly to prove functionality and its ability to drive users to the service, and then try to lure other content producers to the service. But like a number of Facebook products before it, its unclear why publishers would want to use the platform. For example, Facebook Live already allows publishers to stream content like protests or post Game of Thrones commentary live to their pages. They can also push regular video content wherever they want without an exclusive deal, whether its Facebook, Twitter or You. Tube, and all three of these channels can be embedded elsewhere. Another goal could be to compete with Snapchat, which lots of publishers have started using to push short form video content. But its not clear how Watch will get those users to return by replicating some of Snapchats functionality, especially since the latter companys video content tends to be in reality or unscripted formats which seem nicely in tune with its overall aesthetic. This looks a lot like Facebooks attempt to push publishers into the same kind of walled garden they built with Instant Articles. Large sections of the media were spooked it was a prelude to Facebook choking off traffic to other websiteswhy would Facebook let you link out when they can force you to live in the garden, rightbut the concept has stalled somewhat, as Instant wasnt driving enough additional traffic to offset its lower advertising revenue. Facebook has a tendency to build platforms it just loses interest in. Instant is still around, but in a diminished role as Facebook tweaked its algorithm to drive users to friends posts, video content and most recently another story format to compete with Snapchat. In the past few days, its killed off its standalone Facebook Groups app and Lifestage, a high schoolers only Snapchat knockoff that ended up ranked 1,3. App Stores social media category. Its certainly possible Watch will help Facebook swallow more and more of the internet into its ever expanding gullet. But supplying a nice looking video platform does not automatically create demand, and Facebook has repeatedly stumbled to create a business model that will keep both users and publishers inside of it instead of clicking out. Well see. No word on whether Donald Trumps real news program will get a slot, but we doubt it. Facebook Correction Wednesday, not Tuesday.