Yup. 1440p @ 30fps, with most effects on low settings. It’s an amazing game, but will run better on a PC with a 2060

It literally is. He wants to watch Twitch, he doesn’t want to pay money, and he’s annoyed that this requires him to watch ads. Sorry, the “incessant ad breaks” that fire once an hour.

I’m curious what you mean when you say Twitch “ makes money from their ‘free’ userbase.”

So what you’re saying is that you subscribed to Amazon Prime because for a brief period of time they also gave you a benefit for Twitch, another service they own? It wasn’t for the 2day shipping or the video, it was for the other service? I do not, in any way, believe that. I mean, you’re still paying for it, and you…

There...has never BEEN a free experience though. They have always subsidized with ads. It’s just that now they’re being more aggressive in stopping people from working around that.

Afraid not. No one pays me to point out nonsense arguments online.

There are ads on the page, so whatever that “costs.”

It seems like a really bad move that just angers people with no real solid “reason” behind it. Making money for a service is “fair” but getting grumpy that people might not click around your homepage? That’s just greedy nonsense.

It’s worth mentioning that Twitch is NOT the one implementing DMCA strikes. Rather, that is music labels making claims on infringement and streamers overreacting because they don’t know how to use non-copyrighted music (Twitch should, however, be more heavy-handedly ushering streamers to that, as most of them are…

But that is, arguably, good. If you aren’t willing to pay for a sub to avoid ads, or watch a minute or two of ads every hour, you get shut down. It’s not fun for grumpy freeloaders, but it supports the whole ecosystem.

While I feel your frustration, your argument is: it isn’t worth it to use Twitch for free because they are trying to make money. At best, sadly, it’s an argument of whining. How DARE the ads get through the ad blocker. 

I hope this doesn’t sound dismissive, but holy crap, how does this happen? The game does not even make it subtle what the “right” choices are. Yes, the lone wolf assassin’s (Thane and Samara) should not lead fireteams. Only the strongest biotics should do the biotic task. Etc. The “loyal” to you bit is dumb, but ends…

Are you kidding me, $250 in a day for the lulz isn’t much? It’s a really solid return AND they had fun.

You’re still missing it. The only way it is a pump in dump is if the pumping is done for the purpose of dumping. This is, in fact, the unquoted part of what you just cited:

Releasing true information and that driving up the price is not illegal in any way. Encouraging people to buy a stock for a true reason is not illegal. This is, by the way HOW stock prices go up. Tesla is an example of this. The company is not even worth half of what their stock price is, but when they release good…

Short-term capital gains are taxed at your current rate. This means that it will be taxed at either 12% or 22% (journalism has terrible pay, but I don’t know what Kotaku pays). In addition, if you lose any money in stocks, that would be deducted from any profits. People need to quit with the nonsense about how you…

Basically any of them are fine. The Vangard Index Fund is the gold standard, but there are LOTS of them. Ultimately, choose the one that has solid returns (they should all be essentially the same) but also the lowest fees—fees are what kills your profit on this stuff.

That’s not what pump and dump is. In a pump and dump, people are lying about the merits of the stock with the purpose of driving up the price so that they can sell it. Here, the point was to drive up the price of the stock, not to sell it, and not through lies, but to specifically fight a hedgefund that was trying to…

Hey, I know you’re just being a troll, but the game has been excellent on PC since launch (it has bugs, certainly, but works very well despite them), and has only gotten better with each hotfix. 

I haven’t used my xbox one for a few weeks, but opening up Gamepass on PC, they had big splash screens for for, and a popup from the taskbar inviting me to pre-load The Medium.