Youtube: “GOD PEOPLE KEEP SKIPPING ADS, WHAT CAN WE DO TO STOP THIS LOSS OF REVENUE?!”

Viewers: “Maybe have standards for length and content and moderate the platform to prevent malicious actors?”

Youtube: “I KNOW, I’LL JUST MAKE FORCED ADS LONGER AND MORE OBNOXIOUS!”

Viewers: “JUST MODERATE YOUR FUCKING PLATFORM, YOU HAVE THE MONEY AND RESOURCES TO FUCKING DO IT”

Youtube: “Users are just so selfish and entitled, trying to skip ads…”

Viewers: " Fuck it installs ublock origin

Yeah, and you are conveniently skipping over the most relevant part.

Lowest price history for cyberpunk 2077 is 20 bucks. 20 bucks for a 5 year old game is ridiculously overpriced.

Grand Theft Auto never goes under 15 dollars, which is over priced for how old the game is.

I personally wouldnt consider borderlands AAA games, but congratulations, you found the one game that had an actual legitimate sale and age related price drop with Elite: Dangerous, with the base games lowest sale price recorded as 2 bucks. WIth it currently on sale for 5. for a 11 year old game. Which is what the prices should be for an old game, and what all the other games should be doing once they are out of their content window.

Also, you don’t have to be so goddamn dismissive and hostile. I gave an example of my argument. Did you expect me to spend 3 weeks researching so i could produce a scientific paper detailing every game that is over priced?

Brother, this isnt 2004.

AAA games rarely go on sale anymore, Dragon Quest Builders 2 is like 7 years old, and still 50 bucks, and last sale it went down to 25. 25 for a 7 year old game is just brutal absurdity.

and I just use that as an example, its the same almost across the entire board.

The only saving grace in gaming right now is indie games. Which are typically affordable.

a humble bundle subscription pays for itself a dozen times over, too.

I’m sure he appreciates you rushing to his defense trying to somehow justify it.

Still, if this TV came out tomorrow and Wendell from Level1techs said “your Linux pc can get 4k, 120hz, HDR FreeSync out of this” and showed it working, $3500 dollars wouldn’t stop me from buying it.

I wish I was this rich to impulse buy something that expensive because a man on the internet said something positive abouti t.

What you say is true but it’s off topic because that’s not the current situation. What we’re actually seeing right now is that parents literally do not want to take their devices away from their kids and they don’t want to supervise their kids. It really is that simple.

So saying its a parental responsibility is off topic, and what we should focus on is… parental responsibility.

The typical under-13 social media user is not a sneaky kid. It’s a family making a decision together.

Yep… Theres an idiot in my family that gave their grandkids unrestricted, flagship phones, with full social media account access, at 7 years old.

And no, they are not too old to understand technology. They perfectly understand technology, the internet, and everything else. They are just stupid.

Its on the grandparents for doing it. its on the parents for not taking the fuckin phones away. and its also on social media companies for being algorithmic predators.

Saying stop ignoring parental responsibility, doesnt mean ignore everyone elses culpability.

Teachers should be legally allowed to posses a metal gauntlet for backhanding idiot parents across the face.

Why is everyone forgetting the parents in this shit. They are the ones giving their kids access to this shit, not monitoring and moderating their access to this shit, and letting screens do the job of raising their kids instead of doing it themselves.

donate 10 dollars, then deal with 5 years of constant email harassment for more money, despite saying they wont harass you for more money cough wikipedia cough

your mother.

Googles half the malware themselves.

Cant install (random app name here, since we cant use X anymore as a generic thanks to musk and his 13 year old obsession with naming everything X) app, without having 1500 different google bullshit data trackers installed.

You are either going to donate, or spread word to others, who will pick it up and donate themselves.

Money still gets made, its just less opportunistic and predatory, and more a reward from those who can afford, to fund for those who cant.

I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again.

Nvidia is destroying gaming.

They started the destruction with the idea of 4k gaming.

When they realized native 4k gaming wasnt going to be feasible… They knocked gaming to the ground and started kicking it in the ribs with this upscaling bullshit, because who doesnt love a 1080p picture shittily stretched to 4k?

And they curb stomped it by making video cards cost more than what most people make in a fucking month.

and they’re beating its unconscious body with bats over this DLSS5 AI obsession bullshit.

and at every step of the way, the gamers were there to deliver dumptrucks of money because they don’t give a fuck about ruining everything as long as they can have their new shiny. Being in the cool kids club by having a new shiny is more important than the havok they are wrecking with their decisions to support this shit.

But don’t worry…They’ll still go online and cry about the unfairness of it all.

and AMD is desperately trying to play catchup so they can try to steal a sliver of the bullshit pie as well, before someone tries to point out me not addressing AMD (since its not the topic), or try to hail it as the saviour of gaming kind.

This makes me think that the people who install brave, are the people who, 15-20 years ago, would have a IE install that was half toolbars.

God…remember all the scammy toolbars for IE? and how they could take up half the damn screen on some peoples machines?

Whats going on with RetroArch? I havent really paid attention/kept up since I set up my last Raspberry Pi.

I thought people gave up on Tor years ago when it was revealed that it wasnt as anonymous as people expected due to the number of entry and exit nodes controlled by governments and spy agencies.

The North Dakota and Tennesee officers involved in this need to be arrested, and convicted, for kidnapping, abuse of authority, elder abuse, and whatever fucking other charge they can be trumped up on.