Video Beagle

One big problem here is "what country sets regulations and what countries follow them". Even allied countries differ on these sorts of things, and if one country has severe limits, and another doesn't...doctor and patients just go there. The 2nd pill costs cents to produce. The first costs millions or billions. Well, it's also run by heartless psychopaths. ...........

THIS! This is what's really annoying me on the whole "steam supports right to repair!" "steam has teardowns!" PR push. LTT's teardown..and iFIXIT's own, show how awful it is to access the battery. That's the MAIN thing that any normal person is going to access and replace, and it's ridiculously hard...ifixit...who we now see has some vested interest in the pr, kind of handwaved it as doable if you heat things up, which at least linus points at the problem with that. If i remember right, they had said back during the inital announcements it was going to be like this, with things like the joysticks being available first and more parts down the line. I think it's less "non comittment" and more "taking baby steps as we're a bit unsure how this model will work out"

why xbox one? isn't that old?

There is some irony to @DCCFan claiming to not be a pirate with a Luffy avatar Yup. I have the youtube ad server whitelisted in my pi-hole for ages (youtube ties..or tied...account watch history to the same servers, so if you block one, it (or did..haven't checked if changed) messes up that kind of stuff)...but calling people "pirates" which is literaly saying "you are a criminal", anoyed the fuck out of me. As for petulant..well, just look at the recent wan show where he mispoke, was corrected by his chat..even his yes man pointed it out, and he raged that he wasn't wrong.

Because that's what they desire. If they chose to swallow the costs, then that's one thing. They, as a business, do not choose to do so. The "entitlement" here is you feeling you should have people give you stuff on your terms, not theirs. the label would be "spoiled brat" to be honest. "Moral high ground"... I've heard a bunch of excuses to justify leaching (which this discussion is about) and piracy (which this discussion is not about) and that might be the most...ridiculous is frankly not condescending enough of a word...I've heard. if you want to block ads, block ads...don't try to frame it as some lofty mission.

Gee, It's almost like your country being run by a totalitarian regime is a bad thing.

I think, if nothing else, this thread has shown that @Middcore has a talent for visual discription.

tell me more about this rolled ice cream.

This is the only thing. Everything else is window dressing and hand waving for the rubes.

then you use a pay to view service. Those costs are irrelevant. Whether a video is someone filming their cat, lmg spending hundreds on an unboxing video, or Dua Lipa spending thousands on a music video, they all go up onto youtube for free. Youtube offers them free hosting in exchange for youtube being able to sell ads to surround or insert into them if youtube chooses. That is the transaction. There is a gamble or hope in there that youtube will share some of the money they make with the provider, but it's not a guaranteed amount (*I guess since some people sign actual contracts with youtube, there could be some, but that's not a normal case).

Because electricity and hardware and land to put that hardware isn't free?

He doesn't pay to upload because youtube takes money. Youtube sells ads on his content that he uploads for free and gives him a cut. There's a difference between the two. No "theft" at all. It's mooching or leeching. Except it's free content, so not piracy. There may be an assumption that in exchange for the content, you'll watch ads, but that is not an agreement made. But by not participating in the assumed system, you can be seen as a moocher or a leech, but you're not violating a law or and agreement, thus not a criminal, thus not piracy as piracy is a criminal act involving theft by definition. A problem is linus believes he has an agreement with the viewer. He does not. He has an agreement with You Tube. You Tube provides him video hosting in exchange for possibly selling ads viewed with his content, in lieu of charging him a hosting fee. He is not selling videos to youtube...he's not wholesaling videos that youtube then retails. That he spends tons of money to make the videos is irrelevant. His video made by 10 people costing thousands of dollars is no different than a video I post of my dog, as far as the content maker <->Youtube<->viewer relationship is concerned.

What a curious irrelevant response, as the subject isn't spreading out revenue, but getting paid for ads played during your paid ad spots, with a bit of shame thrown at entertainer who calls his fans criminals.

and since it's monitized, linus double dips on ads, yet he calls his viewers pirates.

It's not piracy. it is leaching or mooching. They are different things.

I've been accused of MANY MANY dirty things in my time...BUT NEVER, and I MEAN NEVER, have I been accused of something as low and base as watching a Louis Rossmann video. How dare you, Sir or Madame, HOW DARE YOU? If this was piracy, WHICH IT IS NOT, I'd challenge you to a duel. But as this is leeching or mooching..I can't. Also, wanting correct words to be used isn't "Nitpicking". It's saying "words have meanings and just because you're too lazy to learn the right ones, doesn't change you're using the wrong ones." You'll kindly point to where I defended adblock? No. I said it's the wrong word, It's also the wrong concept. No where in this thread have I expressed my personal position on blocking ads or not (though you can probably infer from the post I just made in General about getting youtube ads during THE MIDDLE of the LMG baked in ad in today's short circuit).

I'm watching the new Short Circuit about the OnePlus phone, and when Brandon switched to do the baked in dbrand ad...the feed switched to a Youtube 2 pack of ads (with the press button to skip at 5 seconds)... Didn't linus in his rant calling his viewers criminals proudly claim they don't have mid-youtube ads because of their baked ins, which he's talked about many times before. LMG testing on how more they can get money by having ads run...and run during their own ads? Gotta say, that's actually innovative.

Except it's not, as cable service is a paid for good. You can only get it for free. Content such as youtube is not provided as a paid good, IT is provided as enticement to get you to pay attention to the advertising, but there is no obligation or contract to that.

IT IS NOT PIRACY. It is leaching. Different words have different meanings. Piracy is by definition a criminal act. Blocking ads is not. It's not even violation of a contract, literal or social, unless you've made an agreement to watch ads in exchange for content. I certainly have not signed such an agreement with linus or ABC or google. An obligation can't be assumed to exist just because someone wants it to. In online vernacular, blocking ads is leaching. From Wiki:

Is NOLF playable in this day and age? Or does it show it's age too much to be fun? I always wanted to try it back in the day. Oh, you can bet on that. They only IP that does well for them really has been the Spider-Man stuff...and they have to share all of that money in varying percentages with Marvel/Disney. Thinking of Sony as ONLY a game company misses that they're a major entertainment company competing with Disney and Warners (or at least want to be) and that means getting IP of your own to develop.

It's a combination of passcode and scrabble. It's a bit brilliant in it's simplicity. I've only played it twice, but it hits that nice zone of being challenging so that you feel good when you succeed, while not being so complicated you just give up. And it's a nice little exercise for the brain, which lets be honest, after the past few years, we all can use.

really? it doesn't fetch the daily puzzle and word list from online? (Also, good for the dude making bank on his game.)

HALO was, though, aiming at being a 3rd person game when it was showcased at Mac World. I don't know if the switch to 1st person was before/after/due to the Microsoft purchase, but would it have become the game it is without that? I don't know about grungy cyperpunk...but Oni as a fluid anime combat game, with one of the best combat systems ever would be a big hit updated, I think. and it's easy to forget that EA was also a big game player in those early days... can't quite recall them on the Mac (did they do Dark Forces and other Star Wars games at the time?) but I can remember the EA logo on Apple II games.

hell..a fully done Oni 1 for modern machines would be good.

Go out to the nearest dock and look out into the harbor....you see that? That's the ship that sailed a long, long time ago.