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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon watches youtube⁩ ⁨⁨56⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  but the key point is the contact with advertising customers, i.e., companies that want to engage in social media marketing. These contacts are only accessible to private individuals if they already have one or multiple successful accounts, which unfortunately only very few of those aspiring to a professional career in this field ever achieve.

  I get the impression that you also generally have to already have a successful account to be considered by agencies, which would defeat the point somewhat of it being a way to get over the initial hurdle. I watch vtubers on Twitch and from what they sometimes say about how sponsorships work, much of it is somewhat automated and gated mainly by account popularity metrics, which makes sense because why would advertisers want to pay a premium to another middleman if they didn’t have to? There was a vtuber agency that collapsed recently when it came out that they were insolvent and had been defrauding many people they worked with along with various other corruption and abuse, and given how similar scandals aren’t uncommon and the need for creators to be doing the work of building themselves up as a business regardless, makes it seem like a pretty bad deal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon watches youtube⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  from whom influential financiers can choose the content and the faces to go with it and pocket the lion’s share.

  How? This kind of doesn’t make sense to me because it seems like some kind of talent manager wouldn’t have a lot to offer in terms of actually increasing someone’s chances of making it big on social media, if it’s a type of content that doesn’t require any special resources to produce and is suited to being made by one person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Final Fantasy X programmer doesn’t get why devs want to replicate low-poly PS1 era games. “We worked so hard to avoid warping, but now they say it’s charming” - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Props to this article for actually attempting to explain about how 3d graphics worked

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seeing shit like this kills me. People are so ignorant.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I am skeptical that most people saying this type of shit really have no concept of the US having freedom of religion and separation of church and state as founding values. They just believe in the rightness of propaganda and catchy ideological phrases above actual truth and reality, because they’ve been conditioned to think that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DoorDash wants you to lobby Congress instead of just employing you⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What is the bill they are talking about and what does it do?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the maximum number of potatoes you could grow in your house or on property you own before it becomes a crime?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe you could look up instances of electricity usage based marijuana raids in your area, and if they list the amount of electricity used that triggered the warrant. Then pick out the smallest number.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There was pushshift, but it’s locked down since the API thing, there’s pullpush.io, but that seems down atm. Also there is reveddit. I think most or all of these do not store content that has been deleted by the user though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG Launches NSFW Game Giveaway "To Raise Awareness On Censorship In Gaming"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean yeah if you do that, but since it’s free and most people redeeming this giveaway aren’t actually interested in playing all of the games, they won’t have them downloaded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG Launches NSFW Game Giveaway "To Raise Awareness On Censorship In Gaming"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think part of this is, if later there are takedowns of these games, many people will experience them being removed from their ownership.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The precedent setting supreme court ruling I’m thinking of is very recent, and there are other recent significant changes to law that could also be relevant. My guess is that the phone calls didn’t make the difference on their own, but rather prompted an internal conversation about legal liability given the new landscape and how they should be handling it to best avoid potential damages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or if there is any possible ambiguity in the law. I’m thinking it’s possible this has something to do with the recent weakening of constitutional protections for adult content in the US, where censorship by states of somewhat arbitrarily “obscene” content can be deemed illegal. The quote in the article by Valve seems to reference the concept of offensiveness in Mastercard’s policies:

  Payment processors rejected this, and specifically cited Mastercard’s Rule 5.12.7 and risk to the Mastercard brand. See www.mastercard.us/content/…/mastercard-rules.pdf.

  the rule including the text:

  2. The sale of a product or service, including an image, which is patently offensive and lacks serious artistic value (such as, by way of example and not limitation, images of nonconsensual sexual behavior, sexual exploitation of a minor, nonconsensual mutilation of a person or body part, and bestiality), or any other material that the Corporation deems unacceptable to sell in connection with a Mark.

  So what I’m reading between the lines here is, there is now doubt among the lawyers of credit card companies or the lawyers of their middlemen that these games are for sure legal, and not in violation of obscenity laws that rely on hazy standards of offensiveness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Itch.io are seeking out new payment processors who are more comfortable with adult material | RPS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but it wouldn’t be realistic to say “we accept crypto now and also are refusing to comply with credit card content policies” right away anyways, because that would just lose them all their business. The better plan would be to do what they seem to be doing; comply, while simultaneously looking to branch out with the payment options they accept, so that at some point in the future credit card companies might have less leverage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Itch.io are seeking out new payment processors who are more comfortable with adult material | RPS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  since Mastercard and Visa would absolutely block them if they tried it.

  They didn’t block Steam back when it accepted Bitcoin

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon makes decisions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  various forms of explicitly engineered right wing political propaganda last I checked

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did you decide what you generally wanted to do with your life?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really hated highschool, so avoiding anything remotely like that has been my main guideline.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Kind of inevitable when automated moderation becomes the norm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of r/Steam.

  Hmmm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Petition to tell MasterCard, Visa, and activist groups to stop censoring legal fictional content⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if the real reason credit card companies have been responsive to these groups is the potential for lawsuits that drag payment processors into them, which is a result of various shitty laws that have been passed to generally empower these sorts of regressive trolls to do so. If so petitions from the other side might not be as effective, because they can be sued for providing services to the wrong people but not so much for cutting off service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now that I've got my conclusion, it's time to go look for evidence that only supports said conclusion!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds like what they want to do is write an essay from extensive personal experience (presumably the topic of the essay is being critical of the education system), but since that isn’t accepted they have to find articles about the same topic. IMO there is nothing wrong with writing an essay based on personal experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨well?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s wrong about it? It seems like the obvious assumption that running into intelligent alien civilizations would be extremely dangerous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What are the criticisms? Genuinely curious, have no idea what problems anyone might have with it, other than some quotes from the Ubisoft exec trying to act like implementing user run servers is borderline impossible

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon wants robux⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or black hat hacker confirming that a stolen credit card works without raising red flags

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Travel reporter accuses Hyatt of $500 smoking fee scam⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The crazy part to me is how the sensors company advertises as a selling point how much “smoking fine revenue” increases with their product

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z's 'overemployed' solution for a broken economy: 5 jobs and $3K per day. It's totally legal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is just being a freelancer, with extra lying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It can get kind of old seeing stuff on social media that’s just using every easy trick available to fish for engagement though, especially when now a lot of it is probably bots and various propaganda campaigns. Especially if it’s being posted somewhere that people can otherwise have more thoughtful and interesting conversations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitch's largest political streamer, Asmongold, shovels racist and xenophobic messaging to his audience of 52K+ live viewers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing I dislike about streamers is when you can tell they are using their voice in a “hey you should take me seriously, I am obviously right” kind of tone, and are good at that, but the actual words are just repeating a common opinion and devoid of any substance or argument. Like they think adjusting the way they say something makes them more right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I found voter irregularities in my home district do I have to hire a lawyer to prove it.? Or just let it go and the Florida Orange win?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Could this be done such that a person cannot prove that they voted a certain way (the source of the problems people mention, like vote selling becoming viable)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well what I’m seeing in this thread is two metrics, BLS and LISEP, with the argument being that the distinction between them doesn’t matter because unemployment is right now historically low by both measures (I don’t really know the difference between them myself, or whether these are the only meaningful ways to measure it). And you’re reiterating that there exists some measure where it is high, but I think for that to be a convincing counterargument you would need to say more about what that measure is, show that unemployment is high by that measure, and make an argument why that way of measuring things is more relevant than the other ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The comments you’re responding to are not making that kind of general argument though, they are only talking about whether a specific claim makes sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is WW3 more likely to accelerate or slow down anthropogenic climate change?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but the opposite way you might be thinking since mass death from war and other catastrophe is strongly correlated with very high birth rates. We’re on track for the global population to stabilize around 10 billion right now, but if billions die in a world war we will probably go exponential again for a long time.