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It's like the CEO of Reddit editing users' comments. Once you've opened this can of worms, you can't exactly close it again.

Outside of expected circumstances like long-term inactivity or having snuck an inappropriate username past automatic censors, being forced to forfeit your handle is simply unspeakable on social media platforms. Your identity can be straight-up stolen, or altered, without forewarning, for any reason, and you have no recourse at all. And the guy deciding who gets screwed over like this is a rich, entitled right-wing monster who blatantly hurts others if he~~ thinks it might align with his politics somehow~~ wakes up on the wrong side of the bed and you're today's punching bag, frankly.

They're complaining about when people with preorders don't pick up their order - which means those people basically gave the dealer a free $500~1000 with the only string attached being that the dealer now has one more vehicle on their lot to sell.

I've put down a few preorders and across the board the story I get is the same: once I fully place my order (customize and lock it in), I can't get my deposit back. So the only ones really losing, IMO, are those who assume a preorder means a guaranteed sale. That was never the deal they struck, and it seems they've forgotten the wiggle room they built into the deal to manage the pitfalls of losing that 'guaranteed' sale.

Particularly when it comes to these trucks, both Ford and Chevy promised "$40k" for theirs and that definitely moved massive numbers of deposits. Both jumped to an entry level price of around $70k, and that's if they even let a consumer buy the lower trims. If that keeps happening to other models, like the promised $30k Equinox EV, they really can't get mad when people back out once more details are known, or get cold feet when they realize the market's not in a good spot for them. Personally, I'm not finalizing any purchase or locking in my deposit if I can't get hands-on time first. If that's not workable for dealerships, then good riddance. They have one job, and that's to educate me and let me test drive.

100%, gotta be a car lobby thing. If dealerships provide an important service, then put it in the market's hands and let people decide if that service is worth paying for.

I can assure you, this is not about people wanting to take down the 15M subscriber titan. (though undoubtedly some haters are just jumping on the opportunity, I don't think that's the majority) For many of us fans, we have been seeing this coming for a while, or those who are blindsided feel utterly betrayed after such a long time watching LTT religiously. It's always been possible to ignore the awkward moments in videos or write off the bad behavior as just an "on-screen persona" thing. There's a clear problem with company culture at LTT, and these things usually come out in this way, with victims waiting for the right moment. Presuming innocence on his part means presuming lies on the part of the victims, and that doesn't sit right with me. I wouldn't necessarily take it 100% at face value truth but there's no doubt something majorly wrong going on in that office.

As a fan, I want to see transparency and a healthy working environment behind the videos. Linus' response wasn't just underwhelming, it was a complete betrayal. Even before I knew about the nasty working conditions, the simple back and forth between GN and Linus was enough to put a massive crack in the LTT facade. I didn't need someone to confirm the working conditions were bad, to make an educated guess at how the guy totally unwilling to spend "up to" $500 man-hours more on a video to ensure it's done right probably isn't running a fair system of work.

Lately there's been this weird undertone of discomfort in Linus' videos, and I think I now understand why. He does a great job appearing to be a decent and relatable guy who's just being mean for a gag, but it's becoming more clear that's not a bit. His relationship with the people he appears with on camera only seems to work because there's a back and forth in their quips and insults. Whenever he's on with someone who's not a staple of the channel, there's this sense that he's untouchable, that he can dish it out but grounds for pushback are shaky at best. Communication overall seems to suck, and there's never not a Disappointed Linus moment when he's involved in a project. You can really feel the unnecessary stress he's piling onto the situation, and if it's that obvious on-camera, how bad is it when nobody else is around? Or for the employees who feel like a bit of a squeaky wheel? It's been clear for a long time that Linus is a cheapskate (he openly complains about relatively acceptable prices for the silly stuff he's doing in videos pretty often) but for some reason in the back of my mind I thought maybe he wasn't so stingy as a boss, where it counts. Wouldn't bet on it now.

For someone who's even a little bit out of place at LMG, I can 100% see how Linus has built a toxic work culture. It should speak volumes that nearly everyone, when given a chance to speak without Linus' final say on the video, expresses much the same criticism toward his hustle culture. They don't have the time they need to do good work, I don't get the sense that they have a supportive and creative environment conducive to enjoying the process, and the output is clearly suffering.

Linus' initial response dropped the ball harder than anything he's dropped in his storied career of dropping things. But even if his response was heartening, the further reports of toxic culture and fanbase are enough for me to keep my distance. I'm going to miss their flavor of "tech nerd fun" videos, but the "Linus is a bad guy" Pandora's box is open, and it's going to take a lot of goodwill before I can just enjoy their videos again. Sad to see another titan of Youtube let it all go to his head, but this just goes to show that success doesn't make a man better, it just makes him more powerful.

10 kWh per day from a washing machine sized cube is nothing to sneeze at. Whether the humidity to keep it powered consistently is achievable and the maintenance to keep it running is sensible and the cost of building up enough of this stuff to output that level of energy can be commercially viable - that's the big question.

Title gore?

For whatever reason, when I hear KOSA, it conjures up SOPA and PIPA. Feels like it's been so long since any of these came up but I guess existential-level threats to internet content and privacy never fully die~

I don't want to gatekeep what is and isn't aww, but I definitely don't appreciate the realization that something fake was slipped in right under my nose without warning. AI may be harder to get good results from than I imagine, but if it's not being presented as exactly what it is upfront, it's naturally going to fool a lot of people into thinking they're seeing an extraordinary image.

Come to think of it, this doesn't just extend to AI. If someone was trying to pass a photo realistic render or heavily Photoshopped pic off as real (and I mean on the level of replacing, grafting and moving parts of multiple images to make something that gets attention for how surprising or special it seems) then I would feel the same way about that. It's about honesty. I want to see all kinds of mediums on here allowed to shine, but not if it's done through obfuscation of the medium used.

And also, AI stuff just skeeves me out. I want to be able to filter it out, or just know that there's a rule against it and another community for that content. There's something deeply human and heartwarming about an "aww" to me, and if it's not real, or at least presents itself honestly in a way I can appreciate the love that went into the craft, it's no longer aww.

Congratulations! You have now opened up the navigation tab, giving you convenient access to the many info and control screens for vehicle functions!

Your next press will take you to the climate menu (if you hit the right spot this time) where you can browse a complicated set of icons and visual aids we made way too stylish and modern to understand at a glance. Eventually I'm sure you'll figure out the very intuitive way that you can change the direction of AC airflow by swiping near the digital version of your vent and staring at it the whole time because there's no feedback on how far you're moving it except for the subtle, minimalist misty lines coming off the graphic~

Your example is unambiguously plural. It's not a good illustration of "they" creating confusion.

It's truly not a problem. I could contrive a reason to talk about a couple (they plural) and a nonbinary person (they singular) and end up with sentences where you don't know which I'm referring to, but the exact same issue happens if I'm telling a story about two "he" or "she" subjects. And it's solved in the same way.

I think Active needs some harsher falloff for older posts. I always seem to see multiple days-old posts on the top under Active because they keep getting new comments which appears to bump them right back to the top. Recent comment activity shouldn't be weighted anywhere near as highly as the post being more recent, and I'd honestly prefer a fairly hard cutoff after 24~48 hours.

Wouldn't seem like it should be a problem but the end result of using Active is that every time I refresh I'm seeing mostly the same stuff I saw several hours or a couple of days ago. Hot always ends up giving me super recent posts (last 30~60 minutes mostly) where the comments haven't filled in much, while Active is leaning on too much older content. I find there's no happy medium like I had with Reddit where every ~4 hours I'd have a mostly fresh selection to look at.

I'm rooting for Smite 2! Very different perspective from League, but if it's successful at fixing some of the ancient jank of Smite's current decade-old engine, I think it's one to keep an eye on as an alternative. It's different enough to not feel like a pale imitation while translating a lot of that core game flow.

Yeah, the framing is cutting off/hiding most of the bird.

Convenience would be knowing whether the show I've queued up to watch will remain on the service, or getting warned well ahead of time if it's going to expire. Or having every season of a serialized show available or at least something showing that not all of it is on the service before you get deep into it and suddenly cut off halfway through. Or easy access to my watch history and likes, as well as more robust settings (or heck, any settings) to tailor the way content is shown so I can get a consistent user experience whether I'm browsing new shows or diving back into the next episode of something.

I think Netflix could get a lot more convenient.

Electrify America just can't catch a break, can they?

Going on about how "censored" everything is and how "certain political ideologies" are the only opinions allowed and anything else is "insta-banned" reeks of right wing extremism (hence, dogwhistles). I know I'm sticking my neck out to say so but given nobody has yet provided a single receipt/anecdote to back up their claims I find myself super skeptical at the idea that they're presenting even a marginally balanced version of the truth right now. There's a reason "certain political ideologies" (ie. the "eradicate trans ideology" and "destroy wokeism" crowd) are not accepted in decent online circles. There's no room for that kind of hate, and I've never met someone on that side of things willing to hold an honest conversation on it. They just want a platform to be hateful.

This strategy reminds me of right-wingers I've dealt with in the past who complained about being banned from Twitter for 'simply saying "learn to code"'. If you understand the context, the harassment, kicking someone when they're down, the dogpile they contributed to, the absolute hate campaign their seemingly innocuous (piece of a) comment contributed to, there's completely sensible reasons why a ban like that took place. But I know the playbook; these guys thrive in the darkness. The moment I start prodding into the nuances, they pretend they were trolling the whole time and basically ragequit. If they control the messaging then they can make themselves sound reasonable by tearing away context and presenting a whitewashed and often unrealistic version of what happened.

I could be wrong; for all I know this guy's talking about truly god-awful subs like r/TrueRateMyFace (I forget what the name was and it doesn't deserve to be remembered, as the mods explicitly support men posting their exes on there and actively ban commenters who "overrate" the scores they give out, while pretending they're working with an objective measure of true beauty) but I haven't experienced this egregious political de-platforming they're talking about and it's telling that they didn't go into any level of specifics except to keep harping on the "censorship" point. Not every opinion or argument deserves a platform.

While we're on the subject of DS classics, here's an even more obscure one: Over the Hedge.

While admittedly it never quite got the time in the oven it deserved, being a release tie-in with the movie and put out alongside all the console versions, this one in particular was something special. It's a third-person over the shoulder perspective stealth game with tank controls, sneaking into the hilariously well-protected homes of humans to steal their junk food. And if that wasn't enough, it had you managing two characters in real-time by swapping back and forth between them, using their varying strengths to defeat the ridiculous laser alarm systems and traps along the way. It's slow paced and relatively simple, and I used to have a blast finding ways to completely break the game because the devs didn't have enough time to iron out all the kinks entirely, but it never quite got the attention it deserves for being such a unique labor of love.

I have to give it massive props for having so much creative heart when a tie-in for a mediocre animated movie has no right to be that good. The developers saw the opportunity to make something that put its source material to good work instead of just another hack-and-slash romp (like the console tie-ins were) or a minigame collection (like the later DS game (???) was) and their dedication to the craft of game development really shines through some of the jank involved in its presentation and sometimes wonky physics. By now, a unique take on a stealth game is nothing all that special, but at the time this was one that really grabbed me.

I'm convinced that your average hardline "Roguelike means strictly 'like Rogue'" player would even leave Mystery Dungeon games off the list. It's such a useless genre definition if you can only point to a handful of games that would even meet its criteria.

Ultimately it's a term that has long exceeded its original use case. Maybe to some it feels like calling certain modern shooters "Doom clones" again, but it's just not generally useful as terminology if the only games it "should" define are reskins of Rogue.

Ugh, should have known. Even the sub's logo is AI generated, now that I'm looking.

Time to scrub this sub from my watchlist and find a better source for my aww's. Last thing I need is more fakery being passed off as real in my life.

Is it wrong, though? Hours and days cancel out to give you the energy production rate (10,000 watt*hours/24 hours or just under 420 watts).

We're talking about a Mustang, so the proper term is "unbridled"~

Honestly? I think they should be more disposable. You can do stuff like sell, butcher, overwork or fuse away your Pals (all of which are rather deliberate on the player's part), but I genuinely think if there was some threat of permadeath or having them stolen by the Syndicate baddies if you get sloppy, it would give the adventure a greater sense of threat/risk. People seek out Nuzlocke rules for a reason, and currently I find the options for dropping your items and Pals on death don't really make compelling gameplay sense (you just walk back and get them).

Setting/story-wise, Palworld supports that kind of thing so I figure it's most likely coming as an option eventually. The game is on track for some interesting things, and as half-baked as parts might seem now, it's already fairly fun. Definitely an addictive formula.

It's worth waiting to see where they take it if the journey and developing those bonds with the creatures are a big part of the draw for you. I doubt you'll get compelling turn based combat at any point, though.

Star Wars is an awkward example because it's already pretty well tainted itself with mediocre films.

But yes, unironically I would actively stop looking for the shreds of good among the carnage that is the once-beloved franchise if I knew its creator, whose name is still tied to it and who financially benefits at least from the propagation of successful entries under that IP, would be just a little bit more able to get their awful views out there thanks to that success.

Carbrain caveman hates lefties? I'm shocked~

There was an era when I used to watch basically everything that Thunderfoot, Sargon, TL;DR and Bearing (and I'm sure others I'm forgetting) did and it's shameful to think back on how gullible I was. Them piledriving on Sarkeesian was part of what drove me away from that alt-right pipeline. Much as I was cheering on their takedowns of her legitimately bad points, I was scratching my head at their inability to give credit to the good ones.

That's the thing about these people; it's all or nothing. Every point you can harp on about has to be added to the video. Exactly like the woman they were criticizing, they felt an inescapable urge to argue every possible point or angle, no matter how weak and indefensible, because otherwise there's less video to monetize. They bounce between relatable and sensible counters, to complete nonsense with the exact same self-righteous "owned" energy. Much as I sympathize with Anita especially today, I don't give her a pass on some of her boneheaded arguments. Bad reasoning deserves critique. But she got a lot more than critique. These internet bloodsports types went right for the jugular, and none of them had any credit to give on a point well made.

I think out of the lot, Thunderfoot is probably the closest to reasonable because he is legitimately educated and intelligent as far as I can tell, but I would caution anyone watching him to take it with a grain of salt because I can pretty confidently say he's willing to bend the truth to make a point on a factual basis. I would not trust him even on simple math/science matters if there's a possible agenda in the way. And that agenda might be as simple as wanting to dunk on someone he knows the algorithm enjoys him dunking on. Be wary of misinformation.

::: spoiler spoiler Case in point: I recently saw him on my front page tearing down another Musk special: Tesla's electric big rig. Hadn't seen him in a while so figured I'd give it a look. Now there's an easy half-dozen reasons why a battery electric hauling truck probably isn't the best idea, but a large part of his argument stemmed from the notion that they're not saying how much it can haul. Sensing an opportunity to get another 'own' in, he decided that this means the number must be really embarrassing, so he picked out an image that was posted as proof of how much the Tesla truck can haul, involving a load of concrete Jersey barriers on a flat bed trailer, and proceeded to calculate its weight vs what a regular truck was hauling.

I forget exactly what weird reasons (if any) he gave for it, but he calculated the diesel truck's barriers as weighing twice as much apiece in spite of the fact that they were clearly a lot smaller, with a lot more of them fitting on the same sort of platform trailer. But his assumption on the weight of the ones on the Tesla truck was insane. He grabbed the value from some website but I couldn't find any similar number from my own searches - Jersey barriers generally come in a very standardized size and weight, and it was like 4x the figure he managed to scrape together from a product page for something that looks noticeably smaller.

So, he gave some examples, did some 'research' to fill in the blanks and did some math, and that math was technically valid, but he did some sleight of hand in the process of filling in the blanks to massage out a clearly bad result for the Tesla truck. All because the Tesla hauling like 15% less than a normal truck is rated for just isn't as juicy as making it look like an anemic toy for rich kids.

I hate Elon, and Tesla over-sells the capabilities of their tech and their hype cycle should not be trusted, but I would seriously caution watching guys like Thunderfoot without a lot of scrutiny and a good dose of scientific literacy. :::

All I ever see around crypto is this vague notion that it could someday be acknowledged and used widely as real money is. But so could bottle caps. I don't see the mechanism for how it realistically happens. It's no less a moonshot than it was 3 years ago, IMO.

Just because a lot of people are buying into crypto doesn't make the underlying inefficiencies in its design (depending on the coin) disappear and make way for common usage. As it stands now, cryptocurrencies are basically glorified ponzi schemes. The people nonstop defending them deserve to be treated with constant skepticism because they have skin in the game and know there's nothing preventing them from losing it all. It's in their best interest to believe in it and spread that belief.

You really should!

I was big into Starbound pretty early but never quite felt the highs I got from Terraria. I would say if Starbound is up your alley, Terraria is a must-try. It's great with friends, too, and if they're anything like mine, the moment someone brings it up after a year or two, they're always down for another Terraria playthrough~

I think what appeals a lot about Terraria is the world. It's like a living thing in its own right. Biomes don't just sit in place, and the world doesn't just spring up on creation and stay static except for what you do to shape it to your liking. Building is less convenient than Starbound, but also more central. As you stretch out into the world, it quickly becomes your home. It's so comfy and pleasant to come back to and build a new place. Upgrades and progression are kind of nuts, too. You're always moving forward on some game-changing new accessories, new crafting items, new NPCs to buy neat stuff from. Even when it's starting to feel like you've explored everything, your progression is set to change the world and make it feel new again.

Starbound felt like more of a streamlined story/experience built around the bones of freely exploring terrain as you like. Worlds have this No Man's Sky effect of being mostly the same across the whole surface and populated by randomized variants of the same recognizable critters, but ultimately not feeling like there's much unique to make them distinct from each other. They feel rather disposable, like you have all this space but it only makes it harder to determine where you want to set down your roots and develop a personal connection to a place. Ultimately it was challenging for me to keep pushing through when it was so optimal to leave systems behind once I got what I needed there.

I think it needs to be pointed out how Thunderfoot's videos came in combination with dozens of other fairly large channels all making "epic owned feminist" videos blasting Anita in universally extreme terms, simultaneously with her receiving incredible amounts of legitimate harassment and death threats. Never do I remember these people reminding their audiences not to act out like that. Not once can I recall them giving her credit for points well made. No balanced point of view was ever given. It's just internet bloodsport.

I understand people having missed the broader context of contributing to a harmful pile-on, because my dumb ass clearly did back then when I was watching these channels. I would have been a lot more critical of what I was watching, a lot sooner, if I realized just how one-sided and tone-deaf these people were in light of what was happening to the targets of their hate campaigns. But they controlled the narrative as long as the people watching weren't seeking out other avenues of coverage.

I'm on my way out of this sub right now due to AI posts, so feel free to disregard my salty butt, but I feel the need to say that I'm really not okay with AI generated content in this community, especially it being allowed to go up un-tagged and un-filterable (if there's a way to filter out posts on this site I wouldn't be totally against it as long as there's a rule to tag images appropriately).

I find the idea of putting an AI generated image up as the community's banner is asking for exactly the wrong kind of content. Look - real life can't compete with this stuff. Any random dude with a graphics card can Stable Diffusion the cutest and most exotic pic you've ever seen, (an approximation of) the kind of thing a photographer might capture after years of seeking out that perfect one in a million shot. The guy who made this can casually pump out several dozen like it's nothing. You want a baby red panda and a squirrel instead? They'll have it generated and posted in the time it took me to write this rant.

There's a specific community on this site for AI generated aww, and I recommend people who like these go make it active. I don't think I'm alone in saying people don't expect that content here. Most don't know what to look for and aren't zooming in to spot it, and while this form of misinformation (presenting pictures that are not real as if they were, as another AI generated post here has done by being posted without context or tagging as AI generated) is far from innately harmful, I don't think it should be allowed in this sub's rules. If that other post's comments are anything to go by, people feel cheated realizing it wasn't real.

Again, I don't entirely mind if the sub isn't strictly limited to real pictures only. Aww comes in many forms, from real life to movies to games to art. IMO, AI is far too much of an 'easy button' to get a free pass, though.

Around here (western-ish USA), EVs are mostly $50k+ SUVs and aren't super high in demand, and dealers are dropping pretty big discounts. But it's just starting to put them into affordable territory for me (at least, where I've set my expectations) and upcoming models are promising to compete comfortably within my budget so I'm hoping preorders are a decent means to get lined up for what may end up being some very highly in demand new models in a price tier that's not seen much competition.

I'm hoping it prevents a painfully long wait if these prove to be the go-to new standard everyone's lining up for once they're getting previews/reviews. If not, shouldn't be too painful to get my deposit back if I go another route. I'm hopeful this lets me keep my options open, even if it's keeping some of my money tied up for now. It syncs up well enough with my strategy of waiting and I can keep an eye out on the market to see if something better comes along in the meantime.

Can we clarify what "not much different" means? I'm not mad at this guy for calling people names...

You take care of that part later, I guess. The whole point of the shower orange IMO is to go primal on it and tear it open and chow down without concern for mess or eating it efficiently. Leaving the peel to pick up afterwards probably just gives the rest of your shower a nice citrus aroma.

Genuinely, people are shitting on it because it sells itself on a meme, is made by a dev with shady history, and likely has its creature designs aided strongly by an AI model trained on Pokemon.

With all that in mind, it punches WAY above its weight class. There's shockingly little jank for an early access game this massive (it legitimately feels like a complete game worth paying for right now), the designs look super derivative but they're nearly as well executed as the original Pokemon that inspired them so I'm still falling in love with everything I see, and the uniquely dark way they handle the subject matter gives it some sense of danger to the journey without getting in the way of critter companionship people seek out in a Pokemon game. I honestly can't find much to fault at all. And any concerns that it won't get future updates to smooth out rough edges, add more options and content are nuts, IMO. With the momentum this game has going, no chance the dev pulls out before making good on promises.

I wouldn't say that anything Palworld is doing is groundbreaking on its own. Most critters feel like Pokemon parts and colors reassembled into new combinations. Exploration is a jankier clone of BOTW. The environment is way nicer looking and more interesting than anything from the last few Pokemon games but that's hardly a high bar. Survival mechanics are uninspired. Base mechanics and managing active pals are pretty similar to Cult of the Lamb. But the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

I don't like blocking people, but this guy appears to be just reposting popular things for points so yeah. Not much lost there.

Hopefully the mods make the right choice and remove untagged AI content in the future. Tricking people for upvotes is very anti-aww to me.

You (and OP) have awakened some deep memories with this one. I think they could make a pretty legit modern take on DQH Rocket Slime. Slingshotting around with a more fluid control system would make for an awesome time~

My point might be a little Covid brain fogged but I'm just pointing out that they did exactly what the guy asked for, if they bothered to click past the title which makes it sound like a targeted "ban Tiktok" law.

I'd reach out to grab my smartphone only to realize there's now two of them on my desk. I'm about to have a very bad day~

I think you're making assumptions that I can read into what exactly you find wrong with Tiktok. That context is not there in the original comment.

No, you are mistaken. That's clearly Dog, not Rock~