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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
vanderlyon
milfy

Only 13 percent of video games are readily playable and accessible. No other form of media is as endangered as video games. There is no legal path to preserve or archive video games. You can go to libraries and archives for books years out of print. You can rent a movie or download a pdf. There is no legal equivalent for video games. Games companies do not double as archival organisations and they never will. They have never been about preserving. They are about selling. Which is not inherently evil compared to anyone else but they along with the law are directly preventing archivers and preservationists from doing their job and allowing this entire medium to be experienced in the future.

87% Missing: the Disappearance of Classic Video Games | Video Game History Foundation
New study reveals most classic video games are completely unavailable
Video Game History Foundation
milfy

Think of some of the most influential video games of all time. How many of them can you play right now. Without piracy. How many of these could your not very technology literate friend play. How do you think this is affecting not only the wider industry now but also people in the future. And for completely arbitrary meaningless reasons.

foone

And also think about the games that aren't the most influential ones, but are important to you. How many people have that one weird edutainment game/indie game/bootleg game that they played a ton as a kid, that they quote to this day?

Those are rarely the ones that are considered super-influential or super profitable. They don't get rereleases or remakes. They just... fade away. Many of them don't even get pirated, so you can't even find illegitimate copies!

We're never gonna lose Super Mario 64. But if you grew up playing Croc: Legend of the Gobbos instead, you may be in trouble.

(at least until the HD remake eventually comes out)

vanderlyon
wizardsisananimal

i'm making a brand new, unbearable wizard quiz

wizardsisananimal

trying to find out the maximum number of questions uquiz will let you have in a single quiz and so far it has not stopped me at 76 and i do not think it will stop me at 77

wizardsisananimal

🎉WELCOME TO MY WIZARD MAZE✨

wizardsisananimal

there is now a transcript/map of the wizard maze available to patrons of any tier over on patreon ! come get lost with us <|:•)

to celebrate, there’s some new stuff in the maze

podunderthehawthorn
thegirlmirage

My queers, we really need to put the "no men" thing away. Men are not inherently bad. There are queer men. There are questioning men. There's men that are just plain cool. Denying these men a space at our table is not helping - except the TERFs. I just came off the back of reading a transphobe gleeful rant about the need to have pride without men - They of course mean me. This kind of stuff is damaging to me and I really need us all to take a step back and maybe kill this "men dni, men not allowed" stuff. What you mean is "no men who are going to do mean stuff to me." And frankly those men won't give a shit about that kind of boundary.

But I promise you there's a fleet of good honest men who will see that and be sad they're not allowed in your version of queer spaces.

PATRIARCHY is what you hate. Dni Patriarchs.

ootron

wetpapert0wel asked:

wait- how do you make money on yt when ppl use adblockers ? i was always advised to turn my adblockers off when visiting a smaller creator's yt page bc, if the ads don't load, the person i'm watching "doesn't get paid." do you know if that's true ?

like, when i watch twitch, i'm forced to watch ads bc the ads help the streamers (i have 3 adblockers on at all times lmao). is it not the same w/ yt?

tbposting answered:

Well, I mean, basically for me it’s like this:

  1. I hate ads, they are a horrible part of the YouTube user experience, they are intrusive and annoying, and I block them all the time myself. It would be hypocritical in the extreme to demand that other people sit through them.
  2. If someone wants to support my work, I would much rather they donate a single dollar directly and ad-block all my videos forever, rather than have them sit through the literal thousands of ads they would have to watch to generate equivalent revenue for me.

Ad revenue only works at the scale of thousands and tens of thousands; any one person blocking my ads literally does not make any kind of difference. I earn a fraction of a fraction of a cent off of your view, at the cost of entire minutes of your finite time on Earth. I think that’s a shitty bargain, I don’t want my work to waste people’s time just to make money for fucking Google, that idea makes me feel pretty bad.

I don’t think I’ve ever spoken to a YouTuber who would not much, much rather make their money off direct support from the audience than from ads, we only rely on ad revenue because we’re stuck in the same capitalist hellhole everyone else is and we’ve got bills to pay.

So: If there’s a YouTuber whose work you enjoy, donate a single dollar to them directly through Patreon or ko-fi, or buy a single t-shirt or mug from their merch store, and then ad-block on literally a thousand of their videos with the clear conscience that you’ve done more to support them than ad revenue ever will.

ohnoitstbskyen

A single dollar direct donation to a content creator whose work you like is worth more than thousands (or sometimes tens of thousands) of monetized views under ad-revenue models.

Block the ads, donate directly.*

(*if you're in a position to comfortably be able to. We know what being broke is like, and we don't need money that you need to feed yourself. If a YouTuber ever tries to pressure you to donate money you can't afford to part with, throw their ass in a dumpster and set it on fire.)