I like how china’s investment strategy is “just own a bunch of shares in popular western studios and IPs, then just let them do whatever.” Then westerners feel compelled to start pandering to Chinese audiences even though the Chinese investors are just interested in making money with existing services, and the updates and subsequent games become dogshit and Chinese investors feel compelled to step in and show them how to correctly pander, which leads to Assmold type streamers to soyface about China

These sets are like $4000-$45,000 lol. Don’t lnow if most of us can drop that kind of cash

be me

spend $100 million to mo-cap models’ boobies and hire hollywood actors

spend budget on secret side project horror game that everyone still freaks out about to this day

get fired

everyone hates my former employer and support me

create my own studio

receive infinite funding from Sony to make first strand type game

former employer falls down the shitter

release first strand type game - receive even more infinite funding from sony

former employer re-releases all my games because they can’t do anything without me

former employer re-releases 20 year old horror game because they can’t do anything without me

former employer must be nice to me to appease their customers

Luckily he’s not living in America, because he would’ve shot up a Madden tournament at a mall

Imagine marrying someone who prioritizes his internet persona for teenagers than being himself around you

It’s not really meant to be discernible. It’s the digital equivalent of a stadium of 30,000 cheering. It just becomes a sea of indistinguishable noise

Imagine Aristotle or Plato making up stories about themselves debating other philosophers. Or imagine Greeks and Romans making up random stories that involved their gods and goddesses and then becoming popular to the point of being canon. Or imagine Christians holding councils to determine which biblical story is “real”

It started with Vine which was 6 second videos. That got shut down and briefly taken over by Music.ly, which was bought by ByteDance and relaunched as TikTok after which every major social media site tried to emulate following Trunp’s proposed ban

Imagine the millennial obsession of Bradgelina. Or Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman or Justin Timberlake. Or with hot tub streamers, imagine having a crush on your older sister’s female friends and trying to impress them. Or millennials who saw Evangelion and were like “omg so me” instead of having parents.

I literally cannot wrap my head around the appeal of watching another person that isn’t an actual friend play a videogame.

Imagine Wombo Combo or Leroy Jenkins but instead of millennials screaming and hollering together, it’s zoomers.

If you can understand these things, you can wrap your head around streamers.

When they skibbidi their rizz without being sus

Correction - ”you’re already inside my walls”

I think he only shows up twice. First time he’s protesting random trivial crap, second time drilling oil

I know minecraft is a classic game for everyone, but how many players are using an adblocker enough to make an impact? Modding isn’t particularly difficult that only tech savvy people do. Almost no one in my CS major uses an adblocker lol. I know someone who does, and he felt bad so he disabled it

I know. Im just saying I preferred the creator-centric ads

Back in the classic roblox days, all of the ads on the platform were created by players and advertised their own games on the platform (roblox is essentially a platform and engine for you to do whatever you want). I don’t know if this has any relevancy, but I enjoyed seeing those “ads” because they were created by players with the intention of drawing support to their creations. I would prefer that over corporations injecting tracking software to advertise irrelevant products

Modding takes a shit ton of work, but it’s sad seeing that a lot of people rely on meager donations to stay afloat. I wouldn’t blame them if they decided to paywall it because people aren’t entitled to anyone’s work for free, but at least a paywall won’t affect random users

Look sometimes smartphones just text people automatically okay? It was a mistake!

He wasn’t justifying it lol

Linus is so lucky that they both had different understandings of the phrase. Imagine if they were on the same wavelength and just kept talking assuming everyone knew what they meant lol

well guess what? do your homework because being committed to a streamer in a parasocial relationship wont help you pass ap geometry, kiddos

You’re supposed to flirt with streamers and convince them to pay someone to tutor you in geometry

Even if this was one of the cases where teenagers like being annoying or try to prove they’re “mature” by trying to impress or flirt with adults, normal people would just say fuck off. This grown ass man kept humoring the kid and interacting with her