the only good youtubers are the ones that upload a 2 hour long video essay with works cited on some obscure topic like once every 6 months.
Shout-out to Rhystic Studies if you like (or liked as it may be with the current state of the game) Magic the Gathering
And Summoning Salt for speed running essays with chill synthwave in the background
I could probably write a couple thousand words on it, since I've been playing the game for over 25 years and legitimately believe it is the best card game ever created, if not best game period, but it comes down to the same thing that ruins everything else: capitalism. Wizards parent company Hasbro replaced some C-level ghoul or VP of Whateverthefuck a while back, and the new guy didn't like that the line wasn't going up fast enough so that's lead to two major problems:
- Printing intentionally overpowered cards at the highest rarity in order to sell packs (this has the nice bonus of ruining older formats as well).
- Shitting out product to a ridiculous degree and expecting people to buy it all.
When Magic was first printed they had no idea what they were doing, but it eventually coalesced into an extremely well-balanced and thoughtfully-designed game. Banning cards was extremely rare, because they usually did a good job of balancing the sets. There were periods of competitive play that were stale because certain decks dominated the metagame, but overall you had options. Since this recent decline they've had to ban more cards in a year than they had in the previous 10 years combined. This is also after they hired former pro players to create a new internal team dedicated to game balance and made a huge deal of it (whoops....). I don't think the Play Design Team are stupid, I just think their hands are tied and they're forced to allow cards that are so obviously and ridiculously broken that they become must-have chase cards that immediately shoot up in value on the secondary market to $25+ per copy (I also 100% believe there is "insider-trading" where people in the company scoop up a bunch of copies of broken cards ahead of time, or sell them off before bans being announced).
So to go along with that, the printing schedule for Magic sets used to be pretty fixed and only 2 big sets were coming out a year. This was a nice rhythm and not an overwhelming amount to keep up with, and again ties into point 1 because it gave the designers plenty of time to fine-tune things. They recently bumped it back up to 3 sets per year, but the real problem is the supplementary stuff, I mean look at this shit. There's also another cost-related problem with card quality, foil cards have such bad warping and bending that it's a complete joke within the magic community to call them pringles.
I'd already realized how stupid it is to spend money on fucking proprietary cardboard a while ago, but all of this shit certainly sealed the decision to never give them a cent again, proxy everything and encourage everyone else to proxy rather than spend money on cards.
When I was younger and on youtube (A mistake I hope those with children don't make) there was at least a false sense of humbleness, the "front page" was filled with minecraft players, make-up and D-list comedians, the lot of them millionaires smart enough to seem working class. Now it seems to be filled with wealth porn, and I worry it fuels an even greater materialistic existence.
At a certain point, hitting the Feed Bar generates diminishing returns. People get burned out on the same recycled crap spamming them endlessly. It tends to prompt the nostalgia culture - vaporwave aesthetic is a great example of this - which can be good and bad. But it also just turns people off, broadly speaking.
Everything looks so pleasing and aesthetically consistent, it's as if you were living in a Wes Anderson movie. Feel like shit, just want it back. :virgil-sad:
Wow, I didn't know the Soviet Union had themed restaurants for kids. I thought that was a weird western thing.
Youtube is so boring, worrying, nauseating, idk what emotion I feel when seeing this but not good. I like all the things it's recommending me now but that was after a long time using it and it knowing what I like. Occasionally when I look up a video I'm not sure on in incognito mode I get glimpses of this regular youtube. Also fun to see how quickly you can go from this youtube to some alt right nationalist vids and by fun I mean distressing.
I dunno much about computers other than the one we got at my house, my mom put some games on it and I play em sometimes, but when I end up logging on to the youtubes, usually all I watch is PBS Spacetime and Numberphile and sometimes vSauce if I'm feeling kinda edgy. I don't know who gives a fuck about 👆THIIIIIIIIIIS 👆 🔼 ☝️ 🦶 sort of 🔺 shit 🔝 👍 but it seems clear to me that there's far better nonsensical balderdash that the leftovers you seem to be watching
so what you're saying is you're 90m away from maybe getting like $10k if you subscribe and follow him on twitter and shit.
this is what cable television looks like to me now, I haven't seen it in like 8 years
lol yeah, I only see cable tv commercials like once or twice a year when I'm with my parents, and holy crap are they weird now. like, at least on their cable it was a very jarring mix of ultra high end productions and very cheap "just make whatever" ones.
Vanced is good too, still has recommendation ads, but no pre/mid rolls
No side loading necessary anymore, you can just download the microg mod and the manager and it works on an unrooted phone. Bonus is that it maintains your subscriptions and lets you log in as an anonymous user. I've had problems with being rate limited with new pipe before, I think Google limits the amount of videos that you can play through their API? Haven't had that issue with Vanced before.
I always thought side loading was done through the bootloader, I know the older version of Vanced required you to flash it through the bootloader. The newer one is just a standalone apk that doesn't require root.
Yeah, the new Vanced manager somehow spoofs the Google signature without root access no idea how that's done lol
Yeah, it's definitely a bit worrying, but I figure it can't be any worse than the official app
Freetube is good for being able to browse your channels, disable recommendations and still watch videos through a proxy instead of downloading.
That said youtube-dl is still far more reliable than freetube/invidious and other options
the bullshit
i also see it on the invidious frontends homepages. don't look too long, it'll burn your retinas.
Hey, you don't have to watch any of this if you don't want to.
I mean, if his videos are getting recommended to you, you can specifically block his channel so you don't have to see them anymore.
the amount of free-time/boredom people have to consume youtube videos is something that i was just a few years too old for and it feels very foreign to me
This dude have a very strong 19th century snake oil salesman vibe on him.
1mill to spend in 1 minute?
me, whipping up my venmo furiously and typing 'consulting ;P'
or log into Robinhood and buy $1,000,0,00 worth of shares from Tesla, and then by the time the minutes is over you'll end up having closer to $2,00,000,0 of TSLA shares, or you'll be really unlikely to do it exactly at the time where the devaluation begins and all you'll have is the warm thoughts of Musk having to go through with the losing of 20000x more of the money than you will.
