It’s crypto-currencies’ version of diamonds: artificially generated scarcity with the goal of driving up value. It’s pretty hilarious with all things considering it’s virtual scarcity.

Are you saying Cardi is not focused on riches?

I mean, I do think there’s some room for an understanding, particularly around young, sheltered white men, that they’re going to get odd exposure to words and not really understand it properly. It could well be that he’s just not that sort of person, as there’s a drive into deep left field by Castellanos and that’ll…

I only had a vague awareness of it being inappropriate until I read this. I’m not sure if I’ve ever even heard the word out loud. I buy that he was ignorant, but “don’t expect to keep your job if you’re a public figure throwing slurs around” seems pretty reasonable.

“Hurt” does not equal “victim” or "weak". I get your point but it’s weirdly macho.

To be fair, I had no idea what it meant for 20+ years. It’s not one you hear much these days, luckily. I heard it once in a Stella sketch, said by Michael Ian Black, a jewish comedian (also the guy in my profile pic). And then quoted that sketch once, luckily in my own home around people who could tell me I fucked up…

Whales dude.  The same people who drop tons of cash in F2P.

Oh I don’t actively do it but its hard for things to not feel different and sometimes even childish. I don’t know if its experience or just the how the human brain gets old but the idea of a CGI anime girl convincing someone to share their eye brows off just doesn’t appeal to me.

Here’s the only part of the equation I don’t understand: Where the actual fuck are the people that give vTubers money getting that money in the first place?

Like, is this still “I don’t pay rent because I live in the parent’s basement at 28" or are people working actual jobs that take time and effort and then taking…

I mean... The edginess of it all was your first warning sign that you might be walking a tight rope on twitch. People shaving their eyebrows? ‘D-Pics’? the ability to temporarily kill the streamer? This is going to attract a very particular brand of twitch chat, and that chat is going to shape the community to one…

Based on the article and my limited viewing of Miko: I honestly don’t see this as the future of streaming or, really, an advancement. It’s just a slightly different flavor with the rigging that’s it.

Moderate Democrats are conservatives.

For many, he was an example of what more equitable storytelling might look like, a model for how to create compelling women protagonists who were also very, very fun to watch.

She is a grown woman who put gorilla glue in her hair. The fuck are you talking about?

Since the original video surfaced, Brown has set up a GoFundMe and there have been talks of her exploring legal options since Gorilla Glue doesn’t specifically warn against hair usage.

Agreed. This is a long-unequal dance that has required two partners. What’s different now is where much of society sees as an appropriate balance. Is now “equity”. Not IMO, but I think I’m in a minority position here. Is it better than before? Yes, but as this snippet illustrates the bar has been historically low, if…

As an old Potterhead I loved this skit back then and I do now. The sexism was the joke here and you laugh at the mens idiocy not at Lohan.

The two aren’t mutually exclusive. You put a statement of importance online for the world to see, maybe take a second and make sure it’s not open to people saying “was she high when she wrote this?”...It distracts from the point. 

“find joy in essentially providing free advertising” is different than running a for-profit business of it. The dude who makes a fancy costume “for the joy of it” and wanders around the con gathering “cool costume, dude!” comments; isn’t the same as the person selling their services consistently & repeatedly.