It’s often not the speaker doing the editing, there are thousands of channels built around creating and releasing these cast-a-wide-net shorts to subtly drive you towards their goal of obsessively watching right wing vtubers saying things that compel you to be a selfish narcissist.

Yeah, for real. YouTube is essentially placing infinite bets that it can drive you into the rabbit hole. Watched a short of Dillahunty give Peterson a verbal wedgy? You must like big words, so here’s more Peterson! Watched a short of Joey Swoll telling people to be polite, because it rolled on automatically? Here’s an Andrew Tate wannabe with shrivelled nuts to subtly criticise you about your dad bod.

Obsession and radicalisation are one and the same to the algorithm, and both turn a targeted individual into a money printer. And fuck the consequences right? Because Google got theirs.

I came to PS through YouTube shorts and his streams were cut to ribbons and repatched into something resembling a zeitgeist-appealing view.

Then I watched a couple of his long form videos and was like … eh. If anything it taught me more about the danger of using shorts as an onboard to any big vtuber. Much like movie trailers and their movies, they tend to overpromise and underdeliver.

This became undeniably apparent when YouTube started shoving Jordan Petersen into my feed. Much like the thousand monkeys at their typewriters, you can take the words of anyone who talks at length almost daily on a subject and edit them into something that sounds reasonable and appealing.

I already knew that JP was a right wing rhetoric Markov chain posing as an expert/pundit before YT started promoting him, but it really did cement the point.

Do you have a special game planned for the year anniversary of your posts?

The point of that is to allow risky projects the opportunity to succeed in comfortable financial circumstances.

Cases like this abuse the system to scam people while using the ToS to skirt legal implications. So it is fraud, just dressed up as a gambling.

That said, the outcome is the same: don’t waste your money on Kickstarter unless you’d be willing to use the same money at a blackjack table

Describing design problems and attributing them to “bad code” is part of the problem tbh. The issue in your example started long before any code was written.

Me building mega castles on my one man modded Rust server.

They can’t. Star Citizen is the Trump of videogames

As a long time Bethesda game fan I agree with you on almost everything you’ve said about Bethesda… But the remaster is a terrible example of your points.

The remaster does exactly what it says on the tin and they’ve been very upfront about how it was made and why it was made in the launch video.

It’s hard to criticise them for cashing in on nostalgia when they’ve shown time and time again with Skyrim re-releases that do a fraction of what the Oblivion remaster does still sell like hot cakes.

Nostalgia is at the core of their business model. That’s why they march Skyrim’s corpse out every two years like clockwork; that’s why they picked Fallout for a new franchise after ES; that’s, frankly, likely why Starfield sucks so much.

Is this the end of the metaverse?

I mean, it was DOA so I guess my question is more: is this Zuckerberg acknowledging that the metaverse is dead, finally?

There’s a reveal trailer and a launch trailer for Clair Obscura that give very different perspectives on the plot, well worth watching both.

Obligatory: thanks for all the daily posts!

Any plans to play Oblivion or Clair Obscura?

They’ve been out of good ideas for years, not sure why they’d start panicking this far into the mediocrity

I’m really glad to hear I’m not the only one who balked on seeing the price. Off to Boost it is then!

EDIT: Editing this comment from Boost. Already prefer it to Sync. Can’t get my head around their pricing at all…

That seems extremely unlikely, and almost unheard of. If I wget the page I’m a container, I get the same as in browser, so that would suggest this isn’t the case.

That isn’t happening for me, nor has it ever when I’ve visited DHH’s blog. It’s possible your browser is compromised.

They’re using a third party called deft to manage the hardware. Which is a reasonable middleground between cloud and self-operated, the more I think about it.

I haven’t seen a lot of info on what the cost of that management is though but it’s likely to be leagues less than AWS/GCP

Yes hindsight certainly is 20:20 isn’t it. What a pearl of wisdom you have bestowed upon us this day.

The Todd Howardest.

He permits you to bathe in the light of his Todd Howardishness.

Welp

Console pads are a great analogy for this phenomena. Even Nintendo broke eventually

I’d be curious to know what they can’t figure out with Android.

I use both on a daily basis and there’s a severe lack of differentiation in experience nowadays. Both have icon based launchers, both have similar looking control centres, both have long form lists for settings pages, both have identical payments experiences, and so on.

They’ve stolen each other’s features liberally to the point where the only real differences are in the gnarly platform specific stuff that no one really touches unless they’re a super user and are mostly hidden away in settings screens.

Notifications are a bit different I guess, but even that’s a stretch.

He didn’t have anyone’s attention and he craves attention and now he has lots of attention, so I guess everything is coming up Milhouse as far as Shawn is concerned.