hiddengoat

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I would imagine that most people aren't on YouTube except when people send them links to videos. Once they deactivate their ad blocker to watch a three minute cat video and get four preroll ads and a couple of midrolls they'll immediately turn their ad blocker off or just never come back.

This diminishes engagement, doing the exact opposite of what they're trying to accomplish.

By all accounts YouTube is profitable, it's just owned by greedy cunts.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Reddit-tier effort in your response.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Outside of Baldur's Gate, which people seem to forget was in Early Access for quite some time, what release has NOT had a lot of negativity?

It's a fucking hobby for some people.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

There is nothing cheap about Texas.

Tax burden is roughly equivalent to California, it's just hidden in ways these idiots don't realize before they move because all they see is "NO INCOME TAX." They don't realize those relatively cheap homes come with preposterously high property taxes that would get you woodchippered if you tried to raise them to this level in California (4-5x higher). Well okay but your home was still cheaper and it's bigger except, by the way, you're now making significantly less money and you knew that going in. Right? You DID account for that, didn't you? Food isn't really less expensive. Toll roads are fucking everywhere. Gas may be less expensive but everything is farther away and if you want to save money by taking public transport you're fucked unless you live in Dallas because it's the only city in this state that has something resembling a fully functional system (and it's still utter shit compared to LA, Seattle, Boston, DC, Chicago, and even fucking Atlanta). Also your house has foundation problems because the soil in Texas is made mostly of moisture with some dirt holding hands in between.

On top of that you're constantly dodging tornadoes, you're surrounded by people far more racist than your "my Mexican neighbors play loud music sometimes and I don't like it" could ever comprehend, a trip to any large public area will guarantee you're in the midst of random assholes with guns on their hips, the government is trying to defund public education (and you can be fucking CERTAIN your property taxes won't fucking go down), the government is such shit that it rejected improvements to Medicaid it wouldn't even have to fucking pay for, abortion is basically illegal, and our cops will in fact just let you and your children be murdered rather than do their jobs. So at least you'll feel right at home on that point.

Texas is shit. It's expensive shit. If it's actually cheaper for you then chances are good your children were already in private schools, you utilized no public services, and you were already raking in $500k or more a year. THEN you might find things easier because this state was designed to kowtow to your 1% ass.

Otherwise, move literally anywhere else. Texas is the perfect storm of dick in the ass and no reacharound.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

And how often do you intentionally look for news on the Vice President?

Or do you just expect everyone else to spoonfeed you everything?

https://ground.news/interest/kamala-harris

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Calling it a paradox is failing to understand what a paradox is.

Again, it's just linguistic horseshit that adds nothing to any conversation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It's not a paradox and it's not fascinating. It's linguistic horseshit. Allowing genocide is not fucking "tolerance" and any attempt to equate same with something like... for example... NOT allowing genocide is absolutely stupid.

Tolerance: "Ted's a bit of a loony with his religious rhetoric but it's not like he's a diddler or something."
Not Tolerance: "Ted's a racist asshole that calls for the genocide of all non-white races and acts politically to that end but we have to let it go. Also he's a diddler."

Don't diddle kids. I'm gonna write a song about that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Gotta wonder how long whatever idiot executive came up with this idea is actually going to last. This is the kind of thing that gets you shitcanned whenever you ignore the CTO that tells you all it will do is piss people off, lower engagement, waste time, waste money, and never generate worthy ROI.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I would jizz through the roof if they did that. I have repetitive stress injuries that massively limit my gaming and the touchpads are a godsend in first person games. I set it up to act like a trackball with inertia so instead of holding a direction to turn I could just flick that way and "catch" it when it got to the right spot. Seems like a PITA but after about five minutes you completely forget it was ever weird.

Mix that in with the motion control and you can get really accurate shooting.

When I had a Deck I set it up the same way and... yeah, perfection. Just chop the middle out of the Deck and give it to me, baby. Uh huh. Uh huh.

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