Six of one, half a dozen of the other. The Secret Level episode is confirmed to be on, so I guess we'll get at least a peek at what they felt was there for us to enjoy in Concord.
I voted Harris in Utah. I had been trying to convince everyone I could that she was a better option than being complicit in Trump taking office again, and of roughly 12 people I was working on, I think I might have convinced a single person to swing to Harris, the rest went with Chase Oliver or wrote in someone they knew. ๐
has a working algorithm
I think the true genius of Bluesky is that it doesn't have A algorithm, it has a framework that allows users to build their own algorithms, share them with others, and subscribe to the algorithms from people whose tastes you trust. They did the same thing with moderation making it possible to build your own moderation tools, share them, and use those constructed by others you trust.
It'll be abused by the trolls who love the sound of their own voice and embrace the echo chamber of their choosing, but the flip side is that none of the rest of us have to suffer those idiots if we don't want to. It's not a perfect solution to the Paradox of Tolerance, but it's good enough.
I think it's too late for Amazon to be willing to take a bath on an episode of one of their new headline IPs. The show is coming December 10th. I'd be shocked if Amazon is going to be willing to just drop a whole episode of their show because the attached game launched flaccid. They're doing a New World episode for goodness sake, so it's clear that they're very willing to push this vehicle for promotion all the way to the finish line even if the engine has dropped out and the wheels have ground down to nothing.
Playtron is all in on Crypto nonsense, so of course SquareEnix is coming along for the ride. I wouldn't get too excited, like most "Web3" things, I expect that this too will flounder and die.
Concord will be back as a F2P, guarantee it. They've got Amazon churning out an episode of their Secret Level series for the game, they're not going to fully kill it here and now.
The feedback that I heard everywhere was that the game should have been F2P, so they'll make that happen.
https://www.theskepticsguide.org/
Generally a science education/communication podcast, but they're really good at teaching critical thinking skills and just talking about cool advances in science, technology, and everything in between.
I already had a fairly extensive take on this last night, but the team have put together a response to the video that I feel is worth sharing, and not just because it supports my prior post.
Meh. There's a fair amount here where it's people admitting they don't have the receipts and he still ran with it. It's all fine and well to say that you've got receipts that you can't share because they'd screw people, but you only get away with that if those withheld details are backing credible allegations where the quantities and people involved are known and there wasn't a lot (if any) of that here that hasn't already been acknowledged and remediated or resolved from the point of view of the people sticking with Second Wind if their statements on their Discord are to be believed. You don't get to claim you have receipts that prove a terrible situation is happening while everyone involved with the situation is standing there wishing you well and saying that it's not terrible.
At best you could charitably make a narrative out of Frost's "proof" that supports his claim that Nick is all of Second Wind's problems, but then you have to ask why nobody else is leaving like he has, or trying to force Nick out as he did. Frost claims that Nick is keeping everyone in the dark, but the Second Wind team have been pretty transparent on their Discord about acknowledging Nick's issues and have claimed that they're both aware of them and working on improving the situation, so I can't see where Frost's argument still has any gas after that? Hell, the Second Wind team saw Nick's social media presence as an issue and arranged a performance improvement plan around that for him which it seems he is adhering to, so clearly they have the ability to reign him in if they wish and have done so. Where again is the issue?
Nick does seem like an ass, I feel confident saying that because I too am an ass, but this video did nothing to make me think that Second Wind is suffering because of Nick. Meanwhile Frost claims that he only has beef with Nick and doesn't want to harm the remainder of the Second Wind crew, but that whole video is going to cause the whole Second Wind team a huge amount of damage over issues that they've already acknowledged and moved on from, so who is the larger ass here? These guys are both younger than I am by a fair amount and they've both seemingly made mistakes that I feel are on par with mistakes I have personally made in my life. I like to go with the Ted Lasso philosophy, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-udZZQB5OFU Clearly the Second Wind crew are taking a shot on giving Nick another chance, Frost should just accept that he wasn't a good fit there, move on, be successful, and hope and pray that the people he supposedly bears no ill will over at Second Wind experience a Nick who has learned from his mistakes and manages to provide the support and success they deserve.
Frost left while nobody else did, that was what was right for him. He's still trying to grind an axe while they're wishing him well and allowing him to make his case on a forum they control. He's made it clear on the Second Wind discord his leaving was because there was a disagreement about content (he thought that only larger shows should survive because it's algorithmically better) and monetization (I somewhat agree on his point here that they should do something about the Patreon credit rolls at the end, but mostly because I don't feel those are content, not because of what the advertisers want) and from everything he's said there I have to say that I find Nick's argument more compelling even if it does mean the eventual death of the endeavor as Frost seems to think it will.
I say this because the alternative is becoming the same thing that every "media company" these days ends up becoming. As a Patron of Second Wind I'd rather ride this current (maybe naive) attempt at being something not beholden to algorithms and content farming, and see it fail if it is indeed misguided, than have them become another something that can succeed by selling out like all the others have. Frost might not be wrong that they can't monetize like they're doing and survive, and he was definitely right to leave for his principles on that, but if the Second Wind team are happy while they're trying (and all indications outside of Frost's singular claims are that they're doing less than perfect but still alright) then we should enjoy the time afforded to them in the attempt. I only ever watched Yahtzee on The Escapist (as I had been watching him before ZP was a part of The Escapist) but I watch more than half of the Second Wind content now and and enjoy it all thoroughly. I watch every Bytesized Review (and have bought or have gotten my wife to buy a handful of the games they've covered), every Cold Take (while that was a SW thing), every Design Delve, every Backdrop, every Unpacked, and of course every Yahtzee Tries (the videos not the livestreams) and Fully/Semi Ramblomatic...
If what Second Wind is doing right now is wrong, I don't ever want them to be right. If Frost is right about Nick and for some reason nobody else is getting out despite that, I hope that they are at least finding joy and fulfillment in what they're doing and I hope that Nick gets fucked for as long as he chooses not to grow from any of this. That said, unless there are other people coming forward too or leaving, it really doesn't seem like Frost's take is the eloquent and passionate truth he usually brings to the table, it seems like his take isn't meshing at all with everyone else who is still a member of that going concern, and that's fine, it happens all the time that different people read the same reality differently, but this video ain't it if he actually cares about the Second Wind crew like he claims. That singular discordant note is enough to trash the whole of his credibility for now on this issue, because he is saying one thing and expecting me to look the other way as he's doing exactly the opposite in the same YouTube video. It seems like a Hot Take from the guy who I came to appreciate for the other sort. I'll probably give him another shot if he wants to keep making content, but I wish he was willing to extend the same courtesy to those he has perceived as wronging him instead of attempting to sharpen his axe on someone for their worst moments. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Regardless, the "pedantic" argument against the headline is only a thing if you're not allowing for the evolution of language, it's actually just being a snooty language snob given that language does evolve and the usage of the headline aligns with common standards these days:
Decimate strayed from its "tenth" meaning and nowadays refers to the act of destroying or hurting something in great numbers.
See also definition 3b of the same source.
Tap to pay was pretty well established when they went with scan to pay, they just hoped the Walmart name was large enough that they could cut out all the middlemen inherent with traditional payment processors and keep a bigger piece of the pie. Specifically they were in a spat with Visa over merchant fees at the time so they wanted an option that allowed them to cut Visa out of the picture. They thought that having their own scan to pay system would allow them to do that, but they eventually reconciled with Visa and got the merchant fees discount they wanted and that aspect of the scan to pay system sorta dropped out of focus.
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I'd have probably posted it more broadly, but I honestly suspect that most of the people who give a shit are probably working at Amazon and likely could be counted on a single set of human digits. ๐