davemeech

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[–] davemeech 53 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Probably an old man yelling at cloud sentiment, but I hated them from the very beginning.

[–] davemeech 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As someone who LOVES warp (despite not being crazy about requiring login), this is fantastic news.

[–] davemeech 14 points 1 year ago

Yeah this is never a good sign.

That being said, perhaps because I got into a couple.of their podcasts, but I like a bunch of people at IGN. How come you're not a fan?

[–] davemeech 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I have yet to have a solid informed grasp of whether Palworld manifested their sources of inspiration in good faith, but my tentative opinion at the moment is that hopefully this presses the Pokemon Company to innovate and elevate their overall game. The switch generation to me represented a generation of mismanagement and obvious management generated timelines and barriers, which is super unfortunate for Pokemon's transition to a console.

Competition hopefully might change that.

[–] davemeech 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

+1 on the "don't engage him or this" gang.

[–] davemeech 11 points 1 year ago

Split second is the horror movie I saw way too early in my life. I can't remember the circumstances but I may have been 4-5 seeing a particularly scary scene in the basement of my grandparents house.

Descent would have fucked me up, the claustrophobia messed with me seeing it as an adult.

[–] davemeech 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I know, right? But I suppose their reasoning is that my ads are also blocked across the rest of their ecosystem, my subscription isn't covering those losses.

Still though, a model that requires that customers look at something they don't want to nor will engage with smells like failure.

[–] davemeech 10 points 1 year ago

I can't remember what video I watched that talked about the unsustainabilty and likely the late stages of an ad revenue driven internet content model, and this situation reeks of that.

I don't know what new paradigm might replace it if this is the case, but the current model feels like it's absolutely failing.

[–] davemeech 58 points 1 year ago (19 children)

So I have YouTube premium but also have ad-blocker, for the first time yesterday I was noticing absolutely abysmal speeds on YouTube and I suspect this is why. I thought my computer was starting to shit the bed initially it was so brutal.

[–] davemeech 1 points 1 year ago

One can dream.

[–] davemeech 16 points 1 year ago

Smh my head

[–] davemeech 3 points 1 year ago

Count me in on the espresso machine. I'd not complain at the PS5 mind you, but I like me some really good coffee.

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