Even a crapshoot is better than the straight advertisements on Google.

Oh, I’ve seen this movie.

In the next 5 years?

I’m skeptical. In the next 20, sure.

So people are morons?

Serif (which owns Affinity) was just bought out by Canva, so it’s only a moment of time before they are enshittified unfortunately.

1×2=2

Wow. Much brain. Maths wow.

They released one on Egypt pretty recently.

It’s the mindflayer power upgrade tree from Baldur’s Gate 3.

Fall of Civilizations podcast.

Great insight it a number of civilisations that have collapsed throughout human history. Explains their rise, peak and of course collapse in great detail.

Fakespot add-on for Firefox for browsing Amazon.

If you look at ethnic ancestry maps, you’ll see there is a lot of German ancestry in the midwest.

Probably the ones outlined here, which you should be aware of, given there are statements from you included in the article: https://docs.beehaw.org/docs/important-questions-decisions-and-reflections/beehaw-lemmy-and-a-vision-of-the-fediverse/

Use the checkered deck lol it’s like cheat mode for the higher stakes.

They are probably using the default installed theme, which doesn’t have scalable icons so everything is horribly pixelated. Not sure why it’s still the default, but as you said it’s pretty easy to change.

I know I should, I’ve gotten a couple of chapters in, but I just started the First Law trilogy and it’s so good. Definitely after that though, definitely…

For Asimov, I’d recommend starting with his short story Nightfall. It’s magnificent.

Foundation is also incredible.

My current pile is somewhat small, as I’ve just culled it and also started to use my eReader more, but it currently is:

• The Gunslinger by Stephen King
• A few Wheel of Time books
• Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
• The Shadow of What Was Lost by James Islington
• The Anatomy of a Story by John Truby

Lovely story.

Because YouTube and Twitch are notorious for reducing ad payments or demontising creators. Have you forgotten about the adpocalypse already? Patreon also increased their fees with very little notice in 2019.

It’d honestly be an idiotic move to not take a video sponsor if they’re offered, because that is guaranteed and likely upfront, supplemental income to support the creation of videos.

Nebula is collectively creator owned, so it’s the only one of those that won’t fuck over creators for more money, but as I said, not a lot of people are paying for subscriptions. It’s small, the per-creator payouts are probably even less than Youtube.

And finally, the real answer: Man’s gotta eat. Simple.

All of that considered, I didn’t even see the sponsor ads you’re complaining about because I have Sponsorblock skip them automatically.

Well you can watch it ad free on Nebula, as linked in the video description. I honestly can’t hate on him for that decision, he needs to eat as much as the rest of us, and unless we’re paying for a Nebula subscription, video sponsors are the only way to do that.