Endymion_Mallorn
@Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
Just a nerd who migrated from kbin(dot)social.
- Comment on oh the consequences of allergies 1 day ago:
It's treif, yeah?
- Comment on My credit union no longer allows me to payoff pending purchases made on my credit card 1 day ago:
Call the bank, explain the situation, and see if they can give you a reasonable workaround.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Rachel deserved better.
- Comment on If spiderman shoots webs from his wrists would not the tension of shooting and swingiing up a skyscraper pretty much break his wrist? Also why SpiderMAN shouuldn''t it be SpiderTEEN? 6 days ago:
Mayday would prefer against that, since it causes hassles with her existence.
- Comment on What is it called when you believe the U.S. political parties shouldn’t exist? 6 days ago:
Following Washington's guidance is what I call it.
- Comment on The Internet Will Be More Dead Than Alive Within 3 Years, Trend Shows 1 week ago:
Or, in more realistic terms, the internet is already mostly dead. Half of the stuff that should be available on clearnet or the visible web is now hidden in Discord chats. The hope lies in things like Gemini, Tor, and Freenet, but even there the braintrust is in Matrix.
- Comment on The Internet Will Be More Dead Than Alive Within 3 Years, Trend Shows 1 week ago:
If you mean it's the hot sheets and they're never wrong, I don't disagree.
- Comment on meal 1 week ago:
The chocolate is the only thing that makes me question what's going on.
- Comment on If you've ever wondered how many poptarts you can stack on a borzoi, it's at least 8 1 week ago:
That is a very obedient borzoi. I love the breed and all the hounds.
- Comment on Biblically accurate Furby 1 week ago:
This makes me wish we could use our AT Field.
- Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why? 1 week ago:
The Statue of Liberty wasn't something commissioned by the USA. It was just how one French guy saw us. The New Colossus is not law, it's a poem.
We've never really been proud of immigration. The only President with a reasonable take on immigrants was Teddy Roosevelt - and his belief was that the only path forward is full assimilation.
- Comment on Without unions, they'd have us working around the clock 2 weeks ago:
So it's unions to blame that I have 48 directionless hours where I end up destroying myself and alienating people?
- Comment on After More Layoffs, Unionized IGN Workers Are Done Picking Up The Slack: "We feel greatly understaffed and undervalued" 2 weeks ago:
I've already paid for it. I bought a TV, a radio, multiple computers, and I pay a subscription (much to my chagrin) to access the Internet and the Web. And yes, I have looked into the cost of a single-purchase backbone, but it didn't work out in my favor.
- Comment on After More Layoffs, Unionized IGN Workers Are Done Picking Up The Slack: "We feel greatly understaffed and undervalued" 2 weeks ago:
Oh. Good for them, I guess. I've never heard of them. Heck, the only one of those i ever heard about was Giant Bomb, and what I knew was that they died and got rebooted.
I guess it's a good thing that some people are willing to whale for media figures. I won't bother, because I don't give enough meaningful data to be part of a valuable product in the older world - then again, I also still watch TV by antenna and listen to terrestrial radio most of the time.
- Comment on After More Layoffs, Unionized IGN Workers Are Done Picking Up The Slack: "We feel greatly understaffed and undervalued" 2 weeks ago:
Like the Spartans said, "If."
- Comment on After More Layoffs, Unionized IGN Workers Are Done Picking Up The Slack: "We feel greatly understaffed and undervalued" 2 weeks ago:
I've never heard of that company. What's their quarterly ad revenue? I don't mean their minor hobby nonsense on Patreon or the scraps they get from Google & Amazon, I mean direct ad rev from studios or the like. Also, what's their average visibility on Metacritic? Do they get counted as a "professional" outlet with pull quotes, or are they in a category that doesn't count?
- Comment on After More Layoffs, Unionized IGN Workers Are Done Picking Up The Slack: "We feel greatly understaffed and undervalued" 2 weeks ago:
I have a very dim view of their content and that of their staff past and present. That's just a note to begin with, so my own bias is clear. IGN isn't an independent reviewer, they'll gladly say anything that gives them ad rev - and the few times that they don't need to cozy up to a certain publisher, you get scores like their infamous God Hand review, which is wildly inaccurate. They're in the business of marketing and advertising, not meaningfully independent journalism.
I believe that they're big enough that the games industry executive teams believe they're too big to fail, and they will continue to receive ad rev as long as they keep Metacritic scores where the publisher wishes them to be. I believe that the "AAA" studios are deluded into thinking that there's any relevance to review scores that aren't the Steam reviews from 6 months after the game releases, or the appropriate storefront page per platform. That group of greed-driven suits are their real audience, not the people who aren't paying. Remember - if you aren't paying, you're the product.
I do believe that they will be able to have a contractor write a prompt along the lines of, "Write a 1500 word article in the style of IGN's game reporting based on [game press package], which will lead the reader to consider a score of [x] to be justified.", yes. And as long as it keeps the Metacritic score where the publisher is happy, the ad rev rolls in.
And that's all that matters to them. Only if the ads stop selling will they even begin to take notice.
- Comment on After More Layoffs, Unionized IGN Workers Are Done Picking Up The Slack: "We feel greatly understaffed and undervalued" 2 weeks ago:
You're probably right that it's weird. I think most of my amusement comes from the way that those of us who are powerless delude ourselves into believing that we can be powerful - but no matter how you count it, zero times two is still zero. And I've just realized, they probably won't hire that many contractors, they'll test out LLM slop first. If it sells ads at the same rate, they'll "phase out" the human side over time. The corp ideals will put profits over people, always. They'll take the obvious path, because they care about one metric: profit.
- Comment on Anon is a fact checker 2 weeks ago:
My parents had church when they were my age.
There's the thing I think many of us have been missing. I expressed to my group of gamers that our multi-table Friday night one-shot group was our version of church before the pandemic broke out. We don't have a community and we don't trust the greater institutions, and it's driving us mad because we are fundamentally social creatures. We need that time together in a shared experience. It doesn't matter what you're doing together, but it's what we live for. Sports, church, board games, art, it doesn't matter in specific. What matters is the community.
- Comment on After More Layoffs, Unionized IGN Workers Are Done Picking Up The Slack: "We feel greatly understaffed and undervalued" 2 weeks ago:
Okay. so it'll be amusing when IGN decides to pivot to 1099 contractors and terminate these employees as well.
- Comment on The Techlords and Their Ideology Are Mortal Enemies of Humanity 3 weeks ago:
Techlords? Wait I've heard this before.
No, wait, that was the Teklords. But they're still evil enemies of humanity that need to be destroyed.
- Comment on What is "human husbandry" called 3 weeks ago:
Eugenics and slavery.
Note that those are widely considered bad things.
- Comment on Anon is a fact checker 3 weeks ago:
Fair enough, but I'm sure there's an alternative.
- Comment on Anon is a fact checker 3 weeks ago:
I don't really have a way to deal with that. I have my own issues, but I do fight past them to try being social whenever I can. The biggest thing I can say is to find groups who do voice & video chats more often.
- Comment on Anon is a fact checker 3 weeks ago:
That's the hell of it, but if you feel lonely at a base level, I suggest you try to find or start community events. You'd be amazed how effective Meetup is.
- Comment on Anon is a fact checker 3 weeks ago:
Yup. the sexual loneliness epidemic is easing up, because we're all fighting back to 'normal'. But ask most men this simple question: how many non-sexual friends do you have in your life that you communicate with more than once a week?
- Comment on BEAR MODE 3 weeks ago:
Rachel deserved better.
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 3 weeks ago:
The avalanche definitely ups her count some.
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 3 weeks ago:
Then Ripley should count too.
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 3 weeks ago:
Okay, but Kidagakash skews the average so sharply that she's proof of the need for weigthing.
Also, are Alice & Jane actually considered princesses? Jane is Lady Greystone and I could accept her for that, but Alice is just a kid. And if direct adaptations count, why not Wendy? Why not Tiger Lily (who counts if Pocahontas does)? Or Dejah Thoris, the titular "Princess of Mars"?