game-related lolz of some fashion

holy shit

There is nothing sadder than the distillation of everything to "content." Like, there are names for literally everything they are calling "content," but the actual, er, content doesn't matter at all, it just has to take up space/time. "You know, during the pandemic I've been watching a lot of content, reading some content, but what I really want to do is write the Great American Content. A lot of people don't know this, but I actually have a degree in content from the Iowa content program."

Anyone else see the Times article from a week or so back about iirc Chinese real estate companies selling shares in reality TV etc. housing compounds, enticing investors with a piece of their revenue streams?

Yeah framing it as "content" like that always gave me a similar impression- like it's just indistinguishable stimulation-gruel poured unceremoniously into the trough that is youtube or twitch or whatever. This content vs that content? What does it matter? It's content; consume it. It's about quantity and there always needs to be a fresh supply. Nothing else really matters. The purpose of it is the same and about as scrutinized as cartoons to keep a toddler occupied or HGTV in a dentist's waiting room.

the "content" thing has been around for a long time now. for me, it's an extremely useful indicator of sorts - "content" people are fucking weird and definitely stay far away from them

That video is like willingly signing up for an ouroboros human centipede of content creation/consumption for $13/hr.

I'm just going through all of Vanessa Beyer's Totinos commercials on SNL

one of the few good things snl ever produced
MY HUNGRY GAMERS

i knew someone who got too wrapped up in his job and would say "product" over and over again and it drove me crazy. this "content" stuff reminds me of the same thing

also people who aren't game developers using "assets" when they're talking about art / environments

images as "assets" come up frequently outside of game development, too.

assess ass asset assimilation

sound familiar? this is corporate speak for "evaluate photos of butts for the big presentation". Thank me later- oh and congrats on that promotion ;)

When your daughter is offering you a side quest pic.twitter.com/ajELjydYAn

— Rosalind (@rozya) January 2, 2021

pic.twitter.com/Gu5quHNecI

— barroo (@averycutedog) January 8, 2021

The guiltiest lol

"Steve made us go meet with Nintendo to see if they would consider being acquired. They just laughed their asses off. Like, imagine an hour of somebody just laughing at you. That was kind of how that meeting went."

Oral history of the Xbox by @dinabass: https://t.co/Wnqpe1Dje4

— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier) January 6, 2021

https://i.imgur.com/sVtiPSZ.jpg

Lol at Karl’s vid!

Love this too

The whole story is even more hilarious pic.twitter.com/FT993gSOpx

— Erik Fossum (@ErikFossum) January 6, 2021

Lol. Bear in mind this was also during maximum Square Soft "high on their own supply" era, during the Spirits Within and FFVII movies.

pic.twitter.com/B2moP3FXed

— Perfectly Cut Screams (@AAAAAGGHHHH) November 19, 2020

Moral Choices in Video Games pic.twitter.com/Z9mz0Qev7t

— Chelsea Saunders (@PIXELATEDCROWN) January 18, 2021

haha! was always curious about Live a Live

live a live is cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvFk8hapDZY

Gamestop stock up 125% thanks to r/wallstreetbets

lmao pic.twitter.com/Gsu6xHgeTB

— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) January 25, 2021

wait, whaa? i don't feel like going on reddit but they somehow saved gamestop from going out of business?

not at all but it's a helluva story, google it.

https://www.wired.com/story/gamestop-stock-wall-street-bets-short-squeeze/

i should wait for this news to spread and then buy low on gamestock

I am morbidly curious to see how high GME will go this week. already peaked at $150 today - this stock was around $20 a month ago, and $5 a year ago!
Not sure I'm curious enough to start a Robinhood account though... but money won is always better than money earned, right?

Embracing the pyramid scheme of the stock market.

Should people be shorting GME or are there too many morons available to prop this thing up for long enough to make shorting prohibitively painful?

it's because there were already people shorting GME, that it's rising, because the stock market

Is this situation ONE WEIRD TRICK that's inherent to shorting, and that GME happened to be the one company that this happened to?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP468OEln4U

good one

excellent

Power to the player!

posted three months ago!
https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/jjctxg/gme_squeeze_and_the_demise_of_melvin_capital/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSgrumHw-XA

President Biden competing in Mario Kart against granddaughter Naomi. She says he “barely” won. pic.twitter.com/JhDMX1TTMv

— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) February 14, 2021

just waiting for the conservative/tucker carlson exposé on "cheating" and "rubber-banding" in mario kart. biden didn't win, he cheated! the whole game is rigged!!

thinking about if i’ve seen a single photo of trump and his grandkids

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Francisco_de_Goya%2C_Saturno_devorando_a_su_hijo_%281819-1823%29.jpg

trump would play a 1-player game, promise to hand it off to the grandkid when he lost, and then every time he lost he would claim he was cheated and deserved another free turn

That Joel Haver channel is a real goldmine

the current state of Twitch: the official Twitch Gaming channel cut off the live Metallica concert to play 8bit folk music to avoid DMCA pic.twitter.com/sCn56So8Ee

— Rod Breslau (@Slasher) February 19, 2021

There are articles about this but really that has it all.

https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/twitch-shamelessly-replaces-audio-of-metallicas-blizzcon-show-to-avoid-dmca-news.127063.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxmLD8y0RNQ

Why did that video decide to put the punchline right at the start?

probably b/c videos have about four seconds to get ppl's attention before they click away

Well, it worked, because even though the video is like a buck-thirty long, once I realized the bulk of it was the "making-of" the two-second joke, I didn't bother.

I assume that I am late to Japan World Cup, but what the hell:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdmsRcsl_xA