In my opinion, we're reaching a moment where people are realizing that having lots of users doesn't matter that much if you can't monetize them. We took a lot of services for granted that maybe don't make any financial sense, which probably only survived because both the company and investors hoped that as long you could attract users, you could monetize them later.

I think that "later" is now.

Today I noticed that youtube has a new feature that unlocks more bitrate, but only for premium users (there's two 1080p options, one normal and another with more bitrate). I'm expecting that these social medias and other tech companies will try to monetize us further

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for the new story. Base game owners will receive these updates as well

The more I dive the worse it smells. Willing to bet this situation would be less worse if they just came out and said "Alright guys sorry but we're banning 3rd party apps", instead they make more and more lies

Yup it did

Also something weird, when I saw this combo, iamthatis was the first reply. Now it's way down there, despite the upvotes and gilds.

I really don't like putting on the tin foil hat, but since spez admitted in the past that he changed other users comments, I'm calling it, this guy is still messing around with things behind the scenes

Wish there was a pin comment feature here.

I’m very excited for this expansion, but at best I’m buying it on the release date

I want to see it but at the same time I know I will regret it. The last time he never answered straight and avoided tough questions. It's not going to be different this time. I would love to be proven wrong though.

Edit: called it

insert here the definition of insanity lol

Every year it's the same thing with pre orders

Base game owners will also receive these updates

Yup it happened, back in 2016 during the elections. He edited comments (and posts I think) in r/the_donald, people originally said "f*ck spez" and he edited them with the moderators usernames. Things like that.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13739026/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-edit-comments

Now, let me just say that I am aware of how toxic that sub was, but regardless spez opened a bad precedent

It isn't surprising, at least with my anecdotal experience, but still higher than I expected. Two girl friends of mine started to play lan parties with us since covid, and I know another that is completely obsessed with Valorant, and another that is equally obsessed with Football Manager.

I tried to find the original study and can't. The only source that everyone points to is this tweet by the executive director of Circana. Anyone knows where I can find it?

Good luck OP

I've seen small communities on reddit that were also made as a joke/parody. Then they grew and the joke got lost somewhere along the way, and they became the very thing they were parodying. This process is never clear, I only noticed these happening in hindsight, never in the moment.

Try to plant a healthy community that calls/kicks out people that do not get the joke part.

It kind of doesn’t matter which distro you use. They should all work similarly with gaming, there’s no distro with some magic formula that makes it more compatible or with better performance than the alternatives. So pick one that strikes your fancy.

If you’re new, it’s probably better to stick with well known distros. I recommend Mint and Pop OS. Both are based on Ubuntu, so every time you run into an issue or have a questions, you can google solutions for Ubuntu which will also work on Mint/Pop OS. But both also have big communities, so you’ll always have help.

Word of advice that Nvidia and Linux don’t really work that well together. Some games will have issues. AMD GPUs work just fine though.

He probably is still rich (hell, he made more money in a year than I probably ever will in my life), but yeah probably not as much as some people may think.

He did estimate that if everyone asks for a refund, he'll have to pay out $250k, ouch.

Yeah this. Maybe I could agree that it’s too soon to be testing these auto pilots on the road, but I dislike how people miss the point with this tech. They set an impossible standard for a technology that could potentially be better than us on the road

base game owners will also receive the updates, according to the link

According to the link, base game owners will also receive these updates.

I’m guessing that the expansion will include the story and (likely) new ending

can it even be done?

I was talking in general and not necessarily about this article alone, although it plays some notes that are common in stories/articles critical of this technology, like using personal individual stories to appeal to emotion. It's an article so yeah I expect them to do that, but when it comes to safety it's better to look at the numbers, as every option will have tragic stories.

We humans suck at picking the better options if we let subjectivism and emotions take too much over the discourse. The US had a "war" over seat belts for example.

As for Tesla, not at all surprised about the points the article rose though. Few weeks ago we found out that Tesla asked employees to not register complaints on paper, and there was also the fiasco where employees where sharing around private images of their customers. Tesla is a sick company and I wouldn't be surprised if they have more skeletons in their closet.

Yeah probably, but that’s just me guessing. We’ll know more in the coming months I expect