Juneteenth celebrates the final end of American slavery, when the Union army finally liberated the slaves in the most remote region of Texas following the Civil War. I personally consider it a worthy holiday, celebrating Emancipation in the United States, probably the most important single thing to happen since the…

Yeah, it’s dirty through and through. The key points:

He’s a loss leader.

Yea so total effective hourly pay probably makes him a steal vs an NBA player.

Knowing little to nothing about either sports viewership or streaming viewership, maybe the answer lies in volume? NBA plays 82 games a season, average viewership about 560k people, about 2 hours a game. So 164 hours at 560k eyeballs is 91.8M eyeball hours a year. Twitch streamers are live 3-5 times a week, 3-4 hours…

oh man, the audio jump from NES to SNES was titanic. Chiptunes might all sound like a single genre to those who came afterward, but the audio differences between the NES, Master System, SNES, and Genesis were as different as black and white to color tv.

‘barely above NES’ graphics? How old are you? Because in 1991 it was a massive jump in graphics compared to NES.

Honestly, they’re more “great when they came out” than now.

The original was basic as hell as far as story and gameplay, but done well at a time when RPG games widely available had shitty visuals or were more complicated than most casual players wanted to deal with.

The sequels for SNES were absolutely amazing AT THE…

Ditto. Not only do they enforce stupid rules and fine the hell out of people, they also charge you monthly for that honor.

I was lucky enough to play FFV when it released. I used pliers to rip out the plastic blocks that prevented Super Famicom carts from fitting in US systems. At the time, it was incredible. And while narratively and technically, it was later eclipsed by FFVI and Chrono Trigger, at the time, it was absolutely exciting…

That segment was brutal.  Have never lived with an HOA, and never will.

Seriously - imagine being so unsympathetic that a towing company so instantly recognizes and does the right thing.

Last Week Tonight did a deep dive on HOAs recently. Besides obviously attracting the most Karen of Karens to run them, they are becoming very difficult to avoid because local governments are more than happy to hand power to the HOAs so that they don’t have to deal enforcing local laws and codes. This has resulted in…

When an HOA isn’t run by Karens and Willards they can be a decent forum for occasional neighborhood conflicts, collective bargaining for service prices, and lobbying state senators and city councillors. Let even a single Karen or a Willard on the board, and then suddenly you gotta worry about measuring the size of…

Sad story. Fuck that HOA bitch. But the last part where the towing company came through?  I could die now, because I think I’ve heard it all.  Kudos to them for doing the right thing.

It’s always good when a coporeal entity such as a holding company uses terms life “exploit” always makes people feel like throwing up.

Out of touch billionaire is out of touch indeed

Wait, I thought industry consolidation was a good thing though?!?!

So what I am getting is that they made a bunch of business plans around this mystery $2B deal and put those plans in motion (including the spending) before that deal was final. The deal fell apart and now they are screwed and having to do massive restructuring to avoid bankruptcy. Is that about the sum of it??