Majoras mask is the best game. Truly a work of art

We must end capitalism. It's not democratic at all. Myth. Socialism is, IS democracy in OUR economy

Unelected minority running everything: wages, prices, employment, et cetera VERSUS Everyone decides that together ❤️

He thinks we can stop it😂

If they go under we know it was the boars

I welcome our new boar overlords!

Tbf, without boars the world would be unboarably boaring.

boar me once, shame on crack. boar me twice, shame on those seal-flipping Orca's that are definitely talking crap about me!

Katy may be an eldritch horror but she is NOT a puppet!

I did not realise he was supposed to be stoned all the time 😅 I thought he was just quirky 😂 Also: I think I missed that - what was his past background?

do ya think she might be one of them... feeeemales? @@TheDarthbinky

This whole system is like running a rat race while having to also spin a hamster wheel.

an Eldritch horror disguised as a puppet. - Never heard a better description of Zuckerberg. I don't know who the boss of UKposts is, but I think the situation has only changed slightly for the SMN crew. Also I am sad, that I only got to meet them on youtube, since I am very very glad I never subscribed to Assbook .. ( you know like the Duke said .. your face your ass .. whats the difference )

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you could just not pay them. the figure they chose is fake, and divorced from reality; more, there is no enforcement mechanism to collect medical bills.

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What's your etsy store name so i can purchase?

Just be grateful that the manufacturer of your sowing machine ALLOWED you to repair it. /s

This seems to happen a lot. Makes you wonder why we never see this coming, never have a plan to stop it, never have a way to fight back, and why nobody ever exacts vengeance on the people doing it!

That is, unfortunately, the inevitable fate of anarchy: to be hijacked by whomever is most powerful.

Why I'm skeptical of actual anarchy, too. Concentrated power isn't good. But neither are power vacuums. 😬

Yeah it was free for about 40 years other than the monthly subscription. Even then there are ways around that. Libraries, cafes and other public places. Services weren't gatekept behind paywalls, subscriptions and microtransactions. Nobody really asked you for money. You could use them for free and they would actually do what they said on the tin. Now it's just mining your wallet and personal data. You have to download and use so many things like adblockers, JavaScript blockers, sign up/in/paywall hoppers just to get it back to even being usable. I miss when the internet was run by a bunch of nerds, geeks and dorks. It so was fun and silly. So many experimental flash games, art and web comics that would seemingly go on infinitely. The internet was created by CERN scientists to share info freely. Now everything is so depressing and cynical. Even the most minor and harmless of words/criticisms will get you shadowban-ed. There's a committee at Stanford that was specifically created and designed to control the narrative. Kinda ironic what it's become. We can get that back by saying f it to the big corps and going to the Fediverse and the small web. Just chat. Don't buy anything.

​@@stoodmuffinpersonal3144That's the irony. Anarchists originally created Silicon Valley because they were sick and tired of being abused by working for the big corps.

2nd most: funerals

Apparently it is for GFMs founder as well

​@@shoveIi agree we need more parties and am a fan of the ranked voting idea. That said, there are two major differences in the parties and how they govern. Both are owned by the corporations, but the GOP also has to bow to the evangelicals and the NRA. Because of that, the LGBTQ community will always be a target and guns will always matter more than children. Until a better party comes along, I will have to bite my tongue and vote blue.

Murica fuck yeah!

Murica

gotta love competing with all the child labor overseas factories the HAND MADE marketplace

I just made a comment about this individually, and I'm only coming to this perspective as someone who buys stuff from Etsy. But it's so fucking exhausting trying to figure out "can I find this cheaper on AliExpress/Temu/Shein, or is this actually a handmade product". 99% of the time it's the first one. Like I mean I also understand that as a seller it's exhausting, I'm not trying to say it's not. But man it's so hard trying to shift through crap.

Gotta love when the most accessible retailers sell 90% straight to landfill.

I had to leave Etsy as a buyer because they were refusing to refund money when a seller ghosted me. I hate that it's become a cesspool for independent sellers and unsuspecting buyers. I loved being able to find unique products while supporting small businesses, but now it's such a slog to find quality, handmade work with fair policies it's no longer worth it. I am very sorry it's a source of exhaustion for you. It should be easier and accessible. I am always open to alternative site suggestions if people are moving elsewhere.

It's hard now to find actual artist on the site without some other platform advertising them. I miss the days of finding them just scrolling through Etsy

Hey! I was so happy to hear Cody mention you guys! I find so few people these days that know about 5 second films, but you guys were way ahead of the curve!

I still watch "Missing" at least once a year :)

I'm so glad you guys are still around

ROBODOG: SIT

I doubt anyone at Cody's Showdy followed Somerton, but I'm sure they follow Hbomberguy

His mother must be proud. Wait, that was the other guy.

@@Joe90hOOF

I'd crawl under a rock as well, homie is done for

​@@Joe90h get this guy another Guinness world record!

Indeed, capitalism ruins everything in pretty much the same way. Make something a commodity because it's good, then that attracts the middlemen, gatekeepers, and vultures, and there's seemingly no coming back.

You think that's depressing? Most major (print) publishing companies now are actually subsidiaries of the "big three," and those in turn are owned by - *drumroll* - toilet paper companies. Yup. This has been the state of the book publishing industry ever since the toilet paper companies figured out there was money to be made there, and bought up the book companies.

I feel like today online there is at least easier to setup options of moving to different "distributors". More of a challenge if the banks or credit card companies decide they don't like something. There is also still an issue of content creators not being an employee and closer to gig workers.

@@SomeGuyAsWell Banks and credit card companies don't have likes and dislikes. There are a bunch of businesses they won't work with because those businesses are high risk, are they because of increased regulatory scrutiny or because many of their customers will fight and dispute charges. But those are purely business decisions. Banks don't have advertisers and they're generally not worried about losing individual customers. Now they're marketing departments might have different requirements for where they will advertise but when it comes to who they'll take money from that's purely a business decision.

There is nothing new under the Sun

Wait... Are you saying that Etsy posted ads for competing suppliers on your page? If so, that's awful. If not, do you mind explaining what you mean?

not the original commentor, but it was mentioned in the episode. Etsy decides to promote your content by providing ads for your content and then take a cut from your sales when people come to your site through those ads

Etsy takes one of my posts and puts it on a featured ad against my will or consent (they don’t even alert me that I’ve been selected) then if someone clicks on that ad to come to my shop and buys *anything* they take an extra 15% on top of all the other fees.

Don't forget Maggie Mae Fish, she still makes video essays and many on genre film 😊 her exclusive series on sex in cinema history on Nebula is worth it.

It certainly worked out in the end! But just goes to show what a foolish decision it was, kicking all these talented people to the curb when they had built-in audiences to follow them to their next joint

Definitely can’t forget Maggie Mae Fish! The best cracked comedian who is also a sentence

What ever Happened to Adam Todd Brown. His articles were great, and he had a podcast for a bit. I've lost track of him. C'mon. Give me the link I desire. Oh shit, I forgot. UKposts has gone out of it's way to enshittify.

@@LegoDork he runs Unpops.

I always equate it to WWE wrestlers.

@@bazzfromthebackground3696 That's a seriously messed up situation. Like, it should literally be illegal. It is a textbook example of misclassification of employees.

@@ichijofestival2576 the governing body that would do anything about that have had their teeth pulled.

It's the beauty of the gig economy baby! All the profit and all the exploitation at the same time!

Was it the one written by the wonderful creator james somerton? So glad to have people making original content in times were capitalism has transformed so many ideas into empty soulless husks

@@keksfaktor3650 Surely you're not attributing the work of Thomas Andrew Tallarico to some plagiarist?

Chiming in to raise awareness that Toddintheshadows uploaded a new video which may as well be an official companion piece to said recent vid. Not only does it throughly debunk many things said by Somerton, it also manages to spotlight Nick actually being a part of the problem.

I'm still trying to finish that video! Can only do it in 1/2 hour chunks.

Don't look at the timestamps.

The runtime fee will still exist, but they become more cautious of how they do it than their initial thing. One change is that the fee wont count for any Unity game using versions older than 2024 version. The update shows that they mean initial installs (though they changed the name to clarify that installing the game, deleting, and rei-installing it only counts as one install, rather than the theoretical 2 that people feared). Even back in the original terrible version, you weren’t charged if you didn’t make money. Though I’m not sure how that would work when it comes to subscription services. I might sound like I’m defending Unity. Nope, screw them. I’m glad they made the fees better, but I just don’t know why they didn’t do the tried and true “if you make money, we want a small cut”. It’s funny because they kind of added that in a roundabout way while still sticking to the runtime fee for some reason. You pay whichever cost you less money, be it from runtime fee or 2.5% of revenue. Sources: Fee FAQ (current stuff) unity.com/pricing-updates Fee blog (outdated stuff) images.response.unity3d.com/Web/Unity/%7B410f1e43-64c2-4d2e-819a-0fa291ce719e%7D_09-12-2023-Unity-plan-pricing-and-packaging-updates-Unity-Blog-V1.pdf?.13.23

Yeah this is the shortest one after the one about my favourite guy Jordan "Bordan" Peterson

It's odd. This could have easily been a 60 minute video.

I'm playing it twice so I don't feel weird.

He only got 30 minutes of the upload before UKposts " had an issue" That's why he did the credits at the beginning! 😂

Cody got some hemmeroids. Give the bloke a brake

They didn’t backpedal fully. It’s just now capped at a % and doesn’t retroactively apply.It’s still an insanely scummy change that is meant to punish small devs and mobile developers to force them to use their ad service and kill their competitors. All of it is legally gray and I wouldn’t be shocked if they just slowly implement the original policy over the next couple years.

@@MogDog9 Don't really care much about the mobile game developers, since that market was screwed over a long time ago, flooded with shameless cashgrabs, predatory monetization, and outright scams - but with the state of the AAA game industry, currently headed in a direction similar to the mobile games, indie game developers are more important than ever.

The bulk of us moved over to Godot's engine and have been adapting to Python, even after they "walked back" some of their bizarre changes within Unity, the problem a lot of us saw has been the writing on the wall for years now. Unity's new board of directors have been making radically bad changes, cutting resources, and adding predatory features baked into the engine over time. Even when people were laughing and clapping at the CEO stepping down, there's still a whole slew of corrupt assholes just waiting to direct the ship. One of which being notorious for pushing adware. Godot isn't perfect, but at least for now we have to wrestle with issues like spotty physics and not the whole engine going bottom-up at whim of some dumb millionaire.

"Growth Capitalism" baby! Because wages and salaries are for the poors and stock options are how you get rich.

The crackdown/hiding of posts on anything resembling an ad for your show or product or whatever, if you don’t pay to boost it, is something that definitely needs to be covered.

@@barleymepodcast2301 1000%

It's just another gig delivery service taking half the revenue for basically no cost. We paid to build the internet, and we paid for the service. It is past time for municipal internet. It is a good time for guilds. Neofeudal does seem to be the vibe of 2023. Pitchforks & torches, tar and feathers, public stocks for failed leaders... we rebel or we continue as a permanent undrrclass.

I'm glad someone brought this up. I saw some interviews covering his opinions on "rent-seeking" and "technofeudalism" from months ago. A few others have commented on this in the context of the Unity debacle, and how it's going to inspire other companies. Very concerning. In a way, it's like Bethesda's horse armor DLC. While it was criticized, its financial success encouraged other companies to make similar moves.

IKR? forty-three seconds in and I'm out of here.

The video on Jordan Peterson which was a totally normal and reasonable length must have been a real treat for you then.

I remember when Cracked was a paper publication. It was the poor man's Mad Magazine and kinda disappeared in the late 90s before cropping up again in the mid-late 2000s as a website with user-written comedic list articles.

That's Warmbo talking to you.

Warmbo TP would definitely sell to a friend that absolutely hates him.

There's a mousepad? Nothing I need more than a Warmbo mouse pad.

I dunno. I like X, formerly known as Twitter. As it's like you're respecting his rename, but then jabbing in a reminder that no one actually knows wtf X is and it's still twitter to everyone.

I like X'ed out twitter. Personally. Twitters dead, X is the parasite that feasts off its remains, you wouldnt call a maggot a lion because it grew on a lions corpse would you?

I like the jab they did recently when they mentioned how much Twitter was worth vs how much "X" is worth. I just think of that every time I hear it.

⁠@@prettyevil6662000for me, Ill start respecting the rebrand when Musk starts respecting his trans child

​@@YumixfanExactly this.

I have been bracing myself for the Bandcamp implosion since it got bought out. 😢

@salyx same here. Dreading having to move my music to dsp's at some point

@@salyx it got bought out? Great...So we can't have a less shite version of spotify without someone buying it to make it just as bad?

I genuinely don't know any replacements for Bandcamp. And now that spotify is going to pay their artists even less in 2024, fuuuuck, man. Tickets and merch are the only good ways to support left

@@randomusername1735 yeah it really sucks, hoping for the best with it. Their union just closed a deal on a contract with Epic so we'll see.

ITS A GOOSE

It's my personal theory that they write the copy for each other's ads and don't let each other read it until they film 😅

Katy: If you reshoot that AG1 chug.

Time is money, and she’s got a hot tip about the ponies on the other line

​@@afreaknamedallie1707I am stealing your theory.

@@afreaknamedallie1707 I think you're right- i especially get that vibe from this ad.

Oh my god, agree! After Hours I still will go back and watch thru! I found their videos right as they were...yeah.

I actually didn't like The Last Remnant, but you do you. ... ... ...I'll just see myself out. Please don't throw anything while I'm fleeing.

Fellow Cracked alumni are still floating about. Behind the Bastards is Robert Evans, and Seanbaby is doing... something.

@@zerodollarbird I know Dan O'Brian works for last week tonight on the writing team, and is now an academy award winner for his work.

@@miisgi9641 I just recently rewatched all those and was reminded how snappy the writing was. Their fan theories were sooo entertaining.

Honestly that hole situation is almost a net positive, the amount of people that made the switch to open source software and the big donations to open source projects done out spite is really going to help the industry move forward. Unity is going to have to do a lot more than just reverse some bad decision if they want to compete with free and I am not just talking about it costing $0 I am talking about having the freedom to chose how to distribute and monetise your games. They have violated peoples trust and that is not something that is easy to earn. If they made the attempt to do that out of desperation and not greed then things might be worse than we thought and I won't be surprised if they end up declaring bankruptcy very soon.

Ah, I actually have some knowledge of this - I'm currently studying game design. You left out that they did this shortly after Godot 4 released, which was basically the point at which Godot became as good as Unity. My teachers have said that relying on Unity is a business risk, and are actually changing the curriculum they teach to be less reliant on Unity. That should say a lot about how good its long-term prospects are.

@@releasethebogus8581 First, Godot isn't as good as unity, not by a long shot. Also your teachers are teachers, they know about as much as you do about the actual ins and outs of the games industry, their prognostications carry zero fucking weight. Actually, they probably know less than you, as they're teaching some mickey mouse "game design" course. Then again, you signed up, so maybe there's a knowledge parity there.

@@HerrCron Woah, calm down! First off, most of my teachers are currently working in the industry - one of them released a game just this year. I chose the course I'm doing because it's let me learn the skills used to make games in a context that I'll enjoy more than a generic C# programming course. Second off, I have used both Godot and Unity, and while I would have agreed with you in the case of Godot 3, Godot 4 is absolutely usable for large games, and I honestly prefer it to Unity. First off, Unity's documentation is all over the place, and chunks of it are just... not there, especially when working with shaders. Godot's documentation is, contrary to what you may expect, a lot better, though obviously not perfect. And worst case, you can just look at the source code - not so with Unity.

@@releasethebogus8581 Wow, one of them released a game. This year and all? I take it all back!

Or making sure no competition can form to begin with. A lot of companies in most businesses sectors seem to be channeling the spirit of Standard Oil. And by that i mean they either bully smaller businesses out of the market, undercut them, or buy them out.

I mean, I don't think it makes too much sense to blame them for anti-competitive practices. Like, yes, they are pure evil and probably kick puppies, but it's not their job to make the economy functional or to ensure "healthy free market competition." No individual company gives a crap about the free market, why would they? They're just doing whatever they can to make money, using whatever is available to them. Expecting them to ever reign themselves in is just dumb, because they never have and they never will. What needs to happen is government action, whatever form that takes.

@emisformaker Writing novels is such a difficult way to go that I respect most people who pursue it. For one thing, none of us are making money except maybe Neil Gainan. I could sell 10,000 copies next month and between Amazon fees, shipping, publishing costs, etc I'd still make nothing worth getting excited over. Second, no one cares. Of all the creative paths out there, it's the hardest one to get any kind of traction. Social media is never that exciting or it's disingenuous, if you're doing any kind of a good job with it you spend a considerable amount of time between projects, and the amount of time needed to dedicate to reading a book or evening listening to an audiobook is a whole lot more than watching a video. I've known people for well over a decade who will, to this day, tell me "Oh, I’ve been meaning to read your books." Lastly, as I kind of alluded to in the last point, the sheer amount of time and money it takes to properly produce a novel. Besides just your own writing, you need to hire editors, proofreaders, cover designers, possibly a formatter, and that's before the audiobook with the talent and audio engineer. And for anyone saying well if it costs so much and makes so little, just stop doing it. We could, but then there's no more books. Anyone in the publishing world right now who isn't the one percent of the one percent who's getting paid by a big publisher is in this purely for the love of the game and I respect it. If you're spending months to write 80 to 100,000 or more words, putting it through the editing process, doing it again, taking care of printing and design and most expensive of all, marketing, only to have people complain the ebook is more than a dollar, all while most certainly holding down a career that actually pays your bills, then again, huge amount of respect. Because god knows the rest of the world doesn't respect authors.

Yeah part of what sucks with Kindle too given Amazon demands no competes for KU.

Me, a budding author currently working on their first novel: [cries]

@@SpoopySquid I said all of this and I'm currently writing novels 5, 6, and 7 at the same time. You're going to be all right. For all of those negatives, there's nothing quite as satisfying as having a book in your hand that you wrote and now someone else has on their shelf. My grandmother passed away, and my whole life she knew how important the dream of becoming an author was to me. She got to read three of my books before she passed, and the immense pride she had for me is something I could never replace with anything. There are negatives, sure. The lack of money, the time commitment, the mutated wasteland that is Goodreads; the positives though are what you should focus on. Writing a novel you're proud of is a mountain frw ever climb. And it's easy to many fun of people climbing up mountains for how dangerous and low reward it is when you're sitting at home in safety, but the completion is often the reward.

@@SpoopySquid The crushing part wasn't only selling 70 copies in my first year, the crushing part was learning that was 5 times the average.

Honestly you better enjoy AI now because in the future, I can see it going the same way as the internet.

I swear if hbomberguy gets to the middle of his next video and says "This video is actually about Cody Johnston", my computer is going out the window and I will retreat to live out my days in a hut in the wilderness.

Same tbh.

Why wouldn't he keep his scalp? Hbomber's not in league with the boars, is he?!

​@@g.f.martianshipyards9328 please help me understand Wdym

@@prettyevil6662000HYDROGEN BOMB IS A BORE???

I on the other hand appreciate the red borders around the ads, as it makes them easier to skip

I have my suspicions that their agreements with AG1 don't actually require Cody to drink the stuff, he just does it because he knows we like to watch him suffer.

@@SirPhysics If he actually drinks it on camera, requested or not, they're going to want to keep him coming back. Makes sense to just do it honestly.

​@@SirPhysicsI think he's pretty directly said before it was his idea and suggestion, that he just genuinely doesn't mind doing it. I think he leaves it to your imagination whether or not he enjoys it or just doesn't mind lol

You know my sister was once bitten by a møøse

Mind you, møøse bites can be pretty deadly... @@OmGwTf117

They're still under UKposts control sadly, but yes, it felt cathartic, I didn't even watch zero punctuation before, but now I do watch ramblomatic religiously.

@@mrptr9013 "Control" is too big a word, I'd say. The ad revenue is only a bonus for them, as they're entirely crowdfunded. So as long as they don't play pr0n games or dismember live babies, I'd say they're pretty much safe.

College Humor now Dropout is a better example. They're their own website now. They basically just use UKposts as advertisement to get people to subscribe to their website instead.

I have no excuse; I'm just easily confused 😆

There are no words to describe what I feel about _Dream_ existing

I actually really liked After Hours

There were a lot of videos being produced that *weren't* doing as well as all the ones you remember. That's how it failed.

"Floss your butt twice a day" sent me

People: Let's upload our minds to a computer, so that we can live forever! The computer/internet: Is filled with lots of lost media, photos, and memories; some of which are hard to recover or completely lost forever. Honestly this is kind of a terrifying concept, imagine if people uploaded their minds to a computer but then something happened to that computer and thus people's consciousness are now lost forever.

I'm surprised I had to scroll down this far to find someone mention this. And I'm surprised SMN didn't have a more nuanced explanation. Usually they're better researched than that. The problem wasn't just that the stock was taking off, it's the fact that the meteoric rise drew in a massive flood of new users hoping to get on the GME bandwagon but Robinhood's policy for new accounts was incredibly risky. Essentially, they'd front the cash for new customers when they joined because initial deposits take several days to clear and that could cause major liquidity problems as the situation changed so quickly. Maybe there is an element of truth to, "They were just trying to protect the hedge funds," but the mundane answer is more likely. Robinhood was worried about running out of money because of their own inherently risky practices for new accounts.

Yeah, and that's the problem innit? They did it to protect their own ass. It's almost like all these jackasses don't own anything more than wind and wishes, because they can all collapse at a moment's notice. No matter how much they own in legal assets or contracts when push comes to shove and it actually starts to unravel the whole web of lies all of their assets become piss in a hurricane.

Spotify did WHAT? Honestly I think they tell their employees their fired by making a Spotify Wrapped style report of their performance and finalize it with “so you’re fired. Bye, enjoy your (shitty) severance!”

@@auliamate they laid off like 1500 people and have apparently been telling tons of indie musicians that the pittance they pay is about to be down to zilch

Glad i ditched them after the Some More News vid