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Cake day: August 29th, 2024

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  • Honestly not so sure. Cooking at home is cheaper and more accessible than ever with all the recipes available free of charge. Not to mention the global economic slump with aging and (hopefully) declining populations, less people are in a hurry to get to work.

    McDonalds was able to get to where it was by offering fast and cheap food because it was more efficient, but that might not last forever. It’s only 1 profit minmaxing douchebag away from ruining its reputation with one bad price raise, and trust is easier to gain the first time.

    Their reputation is already in the shitter for helping the Trump campaign team get him reelected.


  • So they invite a select group of artists from the platform who made big gains that year to be a part of something like a YouTube holiday special.

    The problem with it is corporate is so out of touch that in 2018 they invited mid-controversy Will Smith and a bunch of K-Pop stars to do the video, almost plays like their target audience is barely pubescent boys and girls. It became less about the community and more about promoting content for monetary purposes.

    The YouTube Rewind videos are in the list of the most disliked videos of all time, with the 2018 Rewind being at 20 Million dislikes, surpassing “Baby Shark Dance” at just under 15 Million and “Justin Beiber - Baby” at 12 Million.




  • NMS is fine today, but before release Sony and the NMS authors put out this crazy unrealistically ambitious demo video none of which made it into the game, and then on release the game was like a couple of hours of highly repetitive gameplay without any multiplayer and then you beat the whole thing in a single sitting.

    Mark was one of those day 1 streamers hyping the fraud up.

    And that’s not the first or last time he did this. He also promoted games like World War Z and Back 4 Blood as 1 off videos and never came back to them afterwards. Sometimes he is at least honest about being sponsored for the games but thats more the exception than the rule.


  • They did take an AI Doomerism approach. They said “AI, the last thing humanity ever makes”

    What they conveinently don’t talk about is all the ongoing harm AI is doing. Namely, the Red Line statement from the UN General Assembly. https://red-lines.ai/

    Thats where the overlap is between Kurzegast and the PR group signed by Sam Altman, “Control AI”, is. It also only talks about the scifi future doomerism without mentioning widespread misinformation, systemic human rights violations, national and international security concerns, or in any way accountability.



  • I saw Markiplier do a lets play for some indie roomba game many many years ago, he proceeded to have an almost religious experience, and I was like “fuck yeah, this guy gets it”

    Fast forward and he promotes shit like No Mans Sky and TikTok, I automatically unsubscribe from anyone and everyone who promotes TikTok, and he’s got this whole survivorship bias like “ANYONE can make a successful movie or webseries. Anyone! A Heist with Markiplier was only like $30,000 dollars production value… well, okay, thats a lot of money, but still!”

    He’s lost touch with reality and now he’s just another salesperson.

    Another one that’s kind of downhill is Kurzegast, their recent AI video was really hollow and vacant of all the reasonable criticisms about AI and its immediate effects, some people have theorized that channels like theirs are being sponsored by a company called “Control AI” to muddy the waters and move the discussion away from things like holding companies accountable.