I’m sure lottery winners are full of glowing feelings about the lottery scheme, but it’s still an exploitative scheme that takes advantage of poor and less educated people.

If he didn’t make the video he wouldn’t make money and he wouldn’t be able to do these types of things - charitable or otherwise - anymore.

Is there a name for the phenomenon when society takes someone who is very successful [...] and suddenly decides that they suck and don’t deserve their success?

No it hasn’t. For years he did Lets Plays, drama reactions, “channel earnings” videos about other channels, videos mocking other channels, and stunts. He had tens of thousands of subs and moved to content creation full time with a paid team of four long before his first stunt videos involving money.

I don’t get the impression he actually cares about helping people, and I’m not convinced he’d be doing nearly any of the charity he has been doing if he wasn’t able to brand it and milk it for clout. Instead he comes across as any other content creator looking at ways to spend money to make money and improve his brand,…

No psychic powers needed, just reading what you wrote. Not just at the top, but throughout the article.

I’m not sure the author realises that all this article really shows is a grifter using his charm to win over a doubter.

I suspect he’s got a more Ferengi regard for friends and family.

It’s disturbing that you don’t.

I’m not entirely sure what the community wants from Riddles, or top players in general, but asking that they be robots and show no emotion just ain’t it.

This is poor mental gymnastics. Forewarning of a price increase does not, by any reasonable intrepretation, translate to a sale. In fact, raising the normal price of a product to then claim the original price is now “on sale” is considered deceptive pricing by the FTC and prohibited in some jurisdictions.

It receives updates basically every month.

Kovarik reminds me of Cleveland Blakemore and Nicholas Gorissen - all three of them are right-wing psychos with awful opinions they seem insistent on voicing loudly. Two of them (Blakemore and Kovarik) follow the usual conservative hallmark of not having a clue how economics works and stubbornly insisting their game…

sinking vast oceans of money into a bunch of enormous, bloated billion dollar sequels to old franchises that “failed to perform”

I wonder how different (or not) a company of this size would be if the CEO was elected by the employees, instead of by the board.

Depends if you view a company as a vehicle for employment, or as a vehicle for production and profit. Do companies exist to employ people, and only make products so they can afford to employ them; or do companies exist to make products and profit, and only employ people to get those products made?

1. “More expensive” != “expensive”

For what it’s worth, I have a 3090 (non-Ti) that comfortably gets 70fps at 1440p with DLSS disabled, and closer to 90 with it on. The 3090 was expensive as fuck (until the 4000 series said “hold my beer”), but it’s still ranked about 40% weaker than the 4080, so it’s not quite that bad.

This. I haven’t worked on anything in the PS5 generation, but I’d be surprised if those numbers were actually benchmarked. It looks more like they took the 16GB baseline from the console specs and told the intern to “just make the number bigger for the other two columns”.

For those on AM5 CPUs, keep in mind you require DDR5 memory - the architecture doesn’t support DDR4.