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local_crmdgeon commented on Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/MurizS

minimaxir · 2 years ago

The AAA gaming economics are a different issue: budgets have ballooned so much that it's near impossible to hit breakeven.

The games you mentioned are extreme outliers (no one expected BG3 to do as well as it did), and there have been a number of studio-killing bombs this year.

local_crmdgeon · 2 years ago

Can you name them? I have a lot of anger at the AAA studios

local_crmdgeon commented on Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/MurizS

wozniacki · 2 years ago

Also not mentioned is the recent rise of Ad-Free ( yes completely AD-FREE as in not a single ad ever! ) platforms like KICK.com [1][2]

Amouranth used to stream exclusively on Twitch.com but now has moved mostly to Kick.com and streams the majority of her time there.

In this respect, Twitch's draconian content policing needs mentioning. People would receive week-long bans for unnamed reasons or super petty things. They rode the woke train as hard as they could and it was a sight to behold! They've recently slightly relaxed some of their disallowed content policies.

[1] Kick - Statistics & Facts https://www.statista.com/topics/11394/kick/#topicOverview

[2] https://www.similarweb.com/website/kick.com/

local_crmdgeon · 2 years ago

Does this read like an ad to anyone else?

local_crmdgeon commented on The teen mental illness epidemic is international (2023) afterbabel.com/p/internat... · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi

throwaway092323 · 2 years ago

Why put "feeling unsafe" in scare quotes? There's a lot to feel unsafe about right now.

local_crmdgeon · 2 years ago

We live in the safest time in human history by a margin so wide it's remarkable.

local_crmdgeon commented on FTC bans X-Mode from selling phone location data, and orders firm to delete data techcrunch.com/2024/01/09... · Posted by u/marban

LanzVonL · 2 years ago

They are free to leave a message, and I'll get back at my leisure.

local_crmdgeon · 2 years ago

This is also a much healthier way to live life

local_crmdgeon commented on Scientists discover 100 to 1000 times more plastics in bottled water washingtonpost.com/climat... · Posted by u/clouddrover

j-bos · 2 years ago

Class? Perhaps it has to do with the fact that many trusted municipal water systems have been reveales to have temporary or extended contamination?

local_crmdgeon · 2 years ago

I asked! These are New Yorkers, we have good water.

To your point though, there was an issue with lead in schools and in NYCHA that may be at play here.

local_crmdgeon commented on United finds loose bolts on plug doors during 737 Max 9 inspections theaircurrent.com/feed/di... · Posted by u/etimberg

jacquesm · 2 years ago

You are both missing the 'faulty process' and 'faulty communications' options.

local_crmdgeon · 2 years ago

And:

- "bad parts from vendor" - "bad programming on torque wrench from MRP" - "insufficient training on process" - "tooling was programmed correctly but bad sensors" - "lube mislabeled for 3 days"

This is absolutely not some simple thing. This is why people don't take us seriously as engineers.

local_crmdgeon commented on Scientists discover 100 to 1000 times more plastics in bottled water washingtonpost.com/climat... · Posted by u/clouddrover

yetihehe · 2 years ago

Why can't you drink tap water? I drink maybe 5 liters of bottled anything in a week.

local_crmdgeon · 2 years ago

There's a class thing to this - everyone I know who's working class refuses to drink tap water. Even if they're on a perfectly good system, it's 100% bottled water or soda all the time.

Was told that "tap water is for broke people"

local_crmdgeon commented on United finds loose bolts on plug doors during 737 Max 9 inspections theaircurrent.com/feed/di... · Posted by u/etimberg

free2023 · 2 years ago

Why are there bolts and machine screws in use in the first place?

The seating configurations for United and Alaska, the 2 major customers for this aircraft, don't require this plug-door feature. Structurally, for these large carriers, the plug door serves only as a fuselage weakness and failure point.

Why don't they just rivet it permanently to the fuselage and make it non-functional? Per the diagrams shown, it's a complex assembly that serves no purpose at all for these carriers.

(Apparently it was used as a cargo door to furnish the interiors, which seems like a trivial use case.)

local_crmdgeon · 2 years ago

Saves Boeing money by manufacturing 1 frame

local_crmdgeon commented on Navajo Nation request to delay private mission placing human remains on the moon space.com/nasa-responds-n... · Posted by u/vasco

local_crmdgeon · 2 years ago

Ridiculous. Deeply unserious stuff

Reminds me of the THE WHALES WILL DIE offshore wind suits. No, they won’t- but they will at 3C of warming

Hate living in a vetocracy.

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