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It’s about ads. The great thing about putting videos on YouTube is that Google does the work of selling ad slots for you, the not-so-great thing is that because those advertisers are actually Google’s customers, if they think they might be upset to see their ad running in your video, they’ll err on the side of pulling it.

But I daresay if Russell Brand had advertisers working with him directly, most of them would also be suspending their relationships with him right now; nobody wants anything to do with this sort of allegation.

So we’re currently at the ‘apology that actually makes things worse’ phase, which means just a few more days until ‘unconditional surrender but even so nobody will ever trust you again’

It may have been more like:

Unity: “We love money and hate our customers, who can we hire to realize that vision?”

EA CEO: “Finally, a job that understands me”

Mr Musk had initially rushed to embrace the news when Jenna, formally known as Xavier, transitioned at age 16.

To me this suggests that he first thought it would seem hip and contrarian to support his trans daughter, then he realized that actually the people he considers hip and contrarian are all about hating on trans kids now, and so swiftly pivoted to doing that. (I don’t imagine he had any strong feelings about his daughter as a person either way - it’s not like he was around for her childhood changing diapers or whatever)

• Update to a newer SoC; NVIDIA’s latest chips at this thermal displacement are like 4x as fast + would easily run PS4 games
• Upgrade the controllers to be more reliable + feel better

That’s pretty much it; the OLED model is fine as far as physical design + screen, it just needs more competitive performance and to fix the Joy-Con drift nightmare

a, i, it

Apple’s managed to become a credible player in the TV space in a few short years by, essentially, hiring some competent veteran executives to run the thing and throwing buckets of money at it; I think any sufficiently motivated big tech company could do the same thing with games.

For games, my suggestion is that you try a whole bunch of them; get Google Play Pass and, if you have a Netflix subscription, browse through the list of Neflix Games and try anything that looks remotely appealing. None of these are gambling or freemium - they have no way to make money from you except for your continued subscription - and there’s something for pretty much every conceivable genre.

If you can give any guidance about the specific sorts of things you like from games (action, story, puzzles, building stuff) I’m sure people can recommend some specific titles.

This - a lot of people don’t know this, but the beginner method for solving Rubik’s cubes is pretty straightforward algorithm that anyone can memorize; competitive speed cubers use a much more complicated one, but even with the beginner method, with enough practice you can get your times down to under a minute.

Yes. And even before the Russia mess they were going to replace nuclear with LNG, which is still pretty bad.

No. Among other things it remains the linchpin of energy security for industrial countries like China and Germany that lack adequate domestic oil or natural gas reserves to power their economies with those.

It’s not as useful for day-to-day budgeting as a more granular one, but people generally only look at their finances closely once a year at tax time and so it’s a good point of comparison for that; get a sense of how your financial life is evolving.

It’s also the number you’re asked for on tax forms, other financial forms (loans, financial aid, bank accounts), questionnaires (though you can lie or ‘prefer not to say’ on those)… comes up a lot, basically.

a) Good for them

b) How long before NVIDIA throws up their hands at the whole thing and does their own Linux distro + pushes all their cloud AI customers to use it? (it doesn’t seem like they’re ever going to be shamed / coerced into actually open-sourcing their driver)

Sure, but after years of fucking one can eventually find oneself feeling a biological urge to procreate as well.

It’s not a blood superiority thing, dude - we’re instinctually driven to procreate. If for whatever reason you can’t or don’t want to do that, you can adopt a kid and love them exactly as much and in exactly the same way as you would your biological offspring, but the idea of conceiving and bearing a child appeals to a very basic part of human nature for a lot of us.

Yeah, everyone I know who adopted did so as a last resort and had a long expensive miserable slog of it; once you get through that experience it’s just as satisfying as having a biological kid, but it’s no picnic.

Look at the mess they made of my boy…

If the best praise their PR people have to put forward is that it’s not quite as horrifically buggy as previous Bethesda games, that’s… not a great sign; Microsoft paid $7.5B for ZeniMax in large part so that this specific game would be an Xbox exclusive, if it’s not the level of masterpiece that gets people to buy Xboxes just to run it then it’ll be one of their biggest fails since Clippy.

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You’d think with a wrap it’d be easier to just stuff it with cheap starch and keep it looking big and satisfying in the display case.