I guess that’s the difference in our thinking - I don’t think anyone should be rich. No one deserves millions when others are starving and homeless. There’s massive poverty in the US and it is directly due (in part) to the extreme wealth of others. I have a HUGE issue (as do pretty much all leftists) with the, I…

I am from America - that Cobra cost sounds insane, I live in NYC and Cobra is half that. Maybe you have kids? Or maybe it’s just different were you live? I dunno, I find that number to be extremely different from my own experience.

My guess would be the highest paid employees are part of the “skeleton crew” being left behind to finish games. Even if they’re not....well, they have a lot of money. What you’re saying is definitely true, but there’s definitely a line people pass between paying a mortgage on a nice house and having to miss a yacht…

that is true! But I think when things are personalized, like in their love of games, politics like that quickly don’t offer answers. I think there’s a cognitive dissonance there: what happened to the thing I like is unfair but what happened to the thing you like is just life. It’s like people on food stamps who say…

truth! It’s depressing how many people are deluded by the dream of bossing around other people. 1) you shouldn’t want to boss around others and 2) there’s not enough room for that many bosses

This was a great podcast! Every topic had me super interested and I wanna comment on all of it but....that’s a lotta writing so I’ll just talk about security. The world is not safe. It’s good to give people the education and tools to keep themselves safe, but no laws or security actually addresses WHY violence…

According to Comparably, a salary comparison website: “At Telltale Games, the most compensated executive makes $720,000, annually” how about you pay for your employees insurance out of your own pocket to at least buy them a month of safety?

this looks awesome and i looooooooves a good city builder!

stuff like this is so interesting - it brings into question the very nature of what we think work is, what we’ve been told work is, and what we’ve been told the compensation for our time to be. I love that he’s doing this! Really interesting article.

damn that is really sad! Telltale has had some of the best, most intelligent and meaningful writing of any video games I’ve ever played. It’s a shame that, once again, art gets messed up by capitalism and greed and power hungry people at the top.

“Each line indicates that two connected influencers appeared in the same Youtube video during the period of January 1, 2017 and April 1, 2018, serving as guests, hosts, or collaborators.”

ya, i just wrote my last response because they are incapable of logic.

hey did you read the paper? it specifically states it is tracking people who appear on videos together, whether they talk together is irrelevant.

“That’s the association?”
yes - as it clearly states in the image

“But your instinct is to fact-check the guy in the comment section instead of the report”
I did fact check that part of the report. The graphic in report stated he did a youtube video with “Blonde in the Belly of the Beast” and the report was correct.

literally took me under a minute to prove you wrong. Here’s Tim Pool with Blonde in the Belly of the Beast on a conservative youtuber channel together within the time frame indicated on the graph:

I actually thought their user name looked familiar from seeing them say something extremely offensive before but I wasn’t sure and I figure I still might as well give a reasonable answer cuz....why not. If they say something bigoted I can just not respond any more and go back to playing my video games :)

As previously stated they happen in academic arenas. I don’t want to state the obvious but....television and the internet are not academic, they’re media/entertainment. Confusing these two totally different things is part of the problem.

yea - I starred your comment, it was dead on :)

I’m not meaning this to be sarcastic at all FYI but my answer is: the progressive equivalents are virtually all of academia, college, and books. Anyone can make a youtube channel and get followers by stating outlandish opinions in an outlandish way. Anyone can NOT become an expert in their field over decades and write…

Great interview! I wanted to read more! I downloaded her report and will check it out later.