In the next 5 years?

I’m skeptical. In the next 20, sure.

So people are morons?

Serif (which owns Affinity) was just bought out by Canva, so it’s only a moment of time before they are enshittified unfortunately.

Nice list, definitely gonna download some of these demos.

The Alters looks really cool, and What the Car seems like a fun time.

Yeah, that trailer was brutal. I was impressed, it’s definitely the most gnarly thing to come from Blizzard in a long time.

1×2=2

Wow. Much brain. Maths wow.

They released one on Egypt pretty recently.

It’s the mindflayer power upgrade tree from Baldur’s Gate 3.

They made an agreement to not have CoD as a Gamepass exclusive as a part of their acquisition.

(Although I wouldn’t be surprised for them to reneg on that.)

https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-call-of-duty-activision-xbox-ps5-1848507995

Fall of Civilizations podcast.

Great insight it a number of civilisations that have collapsed throughout human history. Explains their rise, peak and of course collapse in great detail.

Fakespot add-on for Firefox for browsing Amazon.

Probably the ones outlined here, which you should be aware of, given there are statements from you included in the article: https://docs.beehaw.org/docs/important-questions-decisions-and-reflections/beehaw-lemmy-and-a-vision-of-the-fediverse/

Use the checkered deck lol it’s like cheat mode for the higher stakes.

They are probably using the default installed theme, which doesn’t have scalable icons so everything is horribly pixelated. Not sure why it’s still the default, but as you said it’s pretty easy to change.

Because YouTube and Twitch are notorious for reducing ad payments or demontising creators. Have you forgotten about the adpocalypse already? Patreon also increased their fees with very little notice in 2019.

It’d honestly be an idiotic move to not take a video sponsor if they’re offered, because that is guaranteed and likely upfront, supplemental income to support the creation of videos.

Nebula is collectively creator owned, so it’s the only one of those that won’t fuck over creators for more money, but as I said, not a lot of people are paying for subscriptions. It’s small, the per-creator payouts are probably even less than Youtube.

And finally, the real answer: Man’s gotta eat. Simple.

All of that considered, I didn’t even see the sponsor ads you’re complaining about because I have Sponsorblock skip them automatically.

Well you can watch it ad free on Nebula, as linked in the video description. I honestly can’t hate on him for that decision, he needs to eat as much as the rest of us, and unless we’re paying for a Nebula subscription, video sponsors are the only way to do that.

It’s naive to think AI is going to disrupt the status quo from the rich. It’s just going to make the rich richer. Just look at who owns the AI.

It’s not weird at all, he owns a car company.

How convenient.

It’s gonna get a lot worse before then.