i came to the same conclusion :\
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 15 January 2016 21:02 (eight years ago) link
But you can’t steal something that isn’t owned. You have to own something for it to be able to be stolen.Yeah, that’s a fair point. But I feel like the skinning of a game is really important. Brenda Romero designed a game that was about the Holocaust, right, and the same set of rules could just be Candyland, and that’s the way we think about it too. It’s not supposed to be about people, but about these representations of them as cards and you’re collecting them because you like them, not because you want to own this person.
Yeah, that’s a fair point. But I feel like the skinning of a game is really important. Brenda Romero designed a game that was about the Holocaust, right, and the same set of rules could just be Candyland, and that’s the way we think about it too. It’s not supposed to be about people, but about these representations of them as cards and you’re collecting them because you like them, not because you want to own this person.
this dude is like, the entire justification for humanities education
― j., Friday, 15 January 2016 21:21 (eight years ago) link
$twtr has lost 67% of its value in the past 8 months. Their burn rate is reportedly $3M a day with no chance of seeing profit in the near or distant future.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 15 January 2016 21:54 (eight years ago) link
#techbubble
nice
― lag∞n, Friday, 15 January 2016 21:57 (eight years ago) link
I'll miss it when it's gone, I suppose
maybe not
― Οὖτις, Friday, 15 January 2016 21:59 (eight years ago) link
twitter not gonna die, they cld be profitable tomorrow if they just gave up trying to grow to facebook size
― lag∞n, Friday, 15 January 2016 22:00 (eight years ago) link
even if they go bankrupt someone will buy the service and keep it going too many user to fail
― lag∞n, Friday, 15 January 2016 22:01 (eight years ago) link
now on the other hand if they start losing users
― lag∞n, Friday, 15 January 2016 22:02 (eight years ago) link
why would anybody buy a service that doesn't make money
― Οὖτις, Friday, 15 January 2016 22:03 (eight years ago) link
The idea is there so it'll probably survive in some form.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 15 January 2016 22:04 (eight years ago) link
I'll buy them when it's really really cheap.
― Jeff, Friday, 15 January 2016 22:04 (eight years ago) link
cause u cld make money off of it pretty easily it wld just involve laying off 3/4 of the company xp
― lag∞n, Friday, 15 January 2016 22:05 (eight years ago) link
― lag∞n, Friday, January 15, 2016 5:01 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
#TooLit2Fail
― flopson, Friday, 15 January 2016 22:05 (eight years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Friday, January 15, 2016 5:03 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
revenue != profits
― flopson, Friday, 15 January 2016 22:06 (eight years ago) link
I should know better than to try and make sense of the internet economy
― Οὖτις, Friday, 15 January 2016 22:07 (eight years ago) link
twitter had like ~$2b revenue last year
― lag∞n, Friday, 15 January 2016 22:09 (eight years ago) link
just out of curiosity, what are the 3/4 of the company doing if they aren't adding value to the company?
― Οὖτις, Friday, 15 January 2016 22:12 (eight years ago) link
can we back up to the Stolen debacle, because holy shit
― its subtle brume (DJP), Friday, 15 January 2016 22:13 (eight years ago) link
twitter is trying desperately to grow is the thing but its not working so theyre putting a lot of resources toward something thats not paying off
― lag∞n, Friday, 15 January 2016 22:16 (eight years ago) link
a large part of their valuation is based on the idea that they cld become facebook sized, but if their stock drops low enough that cld justify giving up on the world domination project and instead just trying to maintain twitter and make it good
― lag∞n, Friday, 15 January 2016 22:18 (eight years ago) link
twitter does about 1.5 billion in revenue im sure a PE company could buy it and gut it if they wanted to
― 龜, Friday, 15 January 2016 22:19 (eight years ago) link
lol xp
sry dan u got out thought leadershiped
― lag∞n, Friday, 15 January 2016 22:19 (eight years ago) link
twitter also spent 1.5 billion on R&D and sales and marketing last year i mean seems like there's a lot of fat to trim
― 龜, Friday, 15 January 2016 22:20 (eight years ago) link
when you get out thought leadershiped <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
― 龜, Friday, 15 January 2016 22:21 (eight years ago) link
seems inevitable that they will eventually arrive at the smaller twitter model
― lag∞n, Friday, 15 January 2016 22:22 (eight years ago) link
I seriously need to come up with an insanely stupid idea and then find a white or Asian man to present it to some venture capitalists
― its subtle brume (DJP), Friday, 15 January 2016 22:23 (eight years ago) link
im aways open to stupid ideas
― lag∞n, Friday, 15 January 2016 22:23 (eight years ago) link
― its subtle brume (DJP), Friday, January 15, 2016 4:13 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
would it surprise anyone to learn that the writer of that article was harassed overnight for writing it
[seriously nsfw image here: https://twitter.com/holly/status/688034893536858112 ]
the app has been pulled, and now gamergaters/breitbart and the like are attacking the writer as a 'censor' and defending the app. this shit is like clockwork.
― goole, Friday, 15 January 2016 22:24 (eight years ago) link
― its subtle brume (DJP), Friday, January 15, 2016 5:23 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark
im available
― 龜, Friday, 15 January 2016 22:27 (eight years ago) link
how about... an app where you can track the location of everyone who tweets with location services on in real time
― its subtle brume (DJP), Friday, 15 January 2016 22:27 (eight years ago) link
oh u mean rumblr http://app.getrumblr.com/
― 龜, Friday, 15 January 2016 22:28 (eight years ago) link
haha
― lag∞n, Friday, 15 January 2016 22:29 (eight years ago) link
is there a separate thread where someone can explain the love of this (presumably the same or highly overlapping) class of men for jerking off onto photos and screens and then taking pictures of it and uploading them to the internet because
― j., Friday, 15 January 2016 22:29 (eight years ago) link
this is the first ive heard of it and im ready to move on
― lag∞n, Friday, 15 January 2016 22:30 (eight years ago) link
Ugh
― Saoirse birther (darraghmac), Friday, 15 January 2016 22:31 (eight years ago) link
Or an app that lets you match your friends' Twitter accounts against profiles on dating apps; it could be called Yenta for maximum cluelessness
― its subtle brume (DJP), Friday, 15 January 2016 22:31 (eight years ago) link
lol
InfoSec Taylor Swift @SwiftOnSecurity 6h6 hours ago
@holly I'm sorry. I spent a few years on /b/. I've seen things.
― j., Friday, 15 January 2016 22:33 (eight years ago) link
welp an app called Yenta already exists
hi dere I need a time machine
― its subtle brume (DJP), Friday, 15 January 2016 22:34 (eight years ago) link
coming up w stupid ideas isnt as easy as it seems
― lag∞n, Friday, 15 January 2016 22:35 (eight years ago) link
need to be stupider
― Οὖτις, Friday, 15 January 2016 22:35 (eight years ago) link
I do have to give a special shout-out to Yenta for the tagline "Find Your Jewboo!" though
― its subtle brume (DJP), Friday, 15 January 2016 22:36 (eight years ago) link
an app that converts yr stupid ideas into truly moronic ones
― lag∞n, Friday, 15 January 2016 22:37 (eight years ago) link
that thinkpiece bot on twitter is pretty good u could probably make one for apps too
― 龜, Friday, 15 January 2016 22:54 (eight years ago) link
twitter not gonna die, even if they go bankrupt someone will buy the service and keep it going too many user to fail― lag∞n, Friday, January 15, 2016 2:00 PM (50 minutes ago)
― lag∞n, Friday, January 15, 2016 2:00 PM (50 minutes ago)
http://myspace.com/
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 15 January 2016 22:55 (eight years ago) link
pfft I'm goin back to friendster
― Οὖτις, Friday, 15 January 2016 22:56 (eight years ago) link
Friendster actually was active until June of last year!http://cos.h-cdn.co/assets/15/25/1434726176-tom.jpg
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 15 January 2016 22:59 (eight years ago) link
oh did they finally die? I thought they were being kept afloat by Filipino users or something
― Οὖτις, Friday, 15 January 2016 23:02 (eight years ago) link
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, January 15, 2016 5:55 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
stupid post
― lag∞n, Friday, 15 January 2016 23:20 (eight years ago) link