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Cake day: January 8th, 2025

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  • It feels like so much of the games industry is a weird circle jerk. Big game companies feel this weird pressure to make giant games that have 3TB of textures because they’re building everything to be cut into a trailer that looks as flashy as a big blockbuster film, requiring hardware no one can afford. Meanwhile, they add 13 layers of organizational overhead, so no one can do anything on their own because the writing team have to have a meeting with the texture art team and the modelling team and the voice acting and SFX team just so they can even ask the question of ‘How much time will it take to add this NPC in this area and will it justify that much extra artist time/pay by selling another X units?’ much less actually make a good estimate as to the answer. Then you have players, a bunch of whom somehow still get suckered in by those trailers but then spend the next year complaining how much the AAA game sucks but unable to play anything else because of network effect lock in, only to do it all again the next time they see another flashy trailer. Nobody learns the lesson. Everything just repeats until it breaks down as is replaced with the next generation of misery.


  • If you pay $14 for YTP and watched literally only one channel, ever, that channel could get up to a max of $7, less transaction fees. Alphabet eats the other $7. If you use uBlock and SponsorBlock, you get the same ad-free experience and can then control how the $14 gets distributed. I technically spend more than the cost of YTP each month on the creators I support, but I can see my contribution going directly to the creators in nearly the full allocated amounts. That’s a huge difference to small channels. Corporate lackeys will go ‘but the server costs!’ but Alphabet made ~$34B off of other people’s creations last quarter alone and have consistently made the user experience worse since they acquired YT, so any complaints from Alphabet’s C suite can be safely filed under BS.



  • I mean… so, yes?

    Those skills being taught are there to help you come to a state of acceptance, an emotional place of ‘It is what it is. It happened, but I don’t feel thrown into an emotional spiral by remembering it.’ Shitty ‘be a man’ therapists or ‘counselors’ might try to get you to just repress the feelings to pretend to have reached that space for the sake of fitting in. Grifty ones might have you come in and talk endlessly about it so they can charge you for all the time while you effectively talk yourself through it enough to suck some of the power out of the memory. It all seems to land somewhere on a spectrum within the space of ‘it is what it is,’ whether it’s a healthy version or not.