I really wonder how long they’ll be able to enforce high credit scores once everyone doesn’t have good credit anymore

I’m a bit older than this and I’ve been feeling this too. Getting older is weird.

I think you’re right. The text isn’t consistent enough to be a font, but it’s not a real woodcut since the wood grain is just following the contours of the shapes (instead of you know… Following the grain of the wood).

It could be artistic filter on another image, but the lack of a font makes that unlikely I’d say.

I’m from this area originally, and photos of new Zealand always look kind of like home 🙂

+1 for Peter’s videos. I went down such a YouTube hole with that guy for a while. I’m from the PNW, so about as far from the south as you can get, and it’s really fascinating to listen to such candid conversations with people.

I was about to say that’s a bagel, but I’m realizing the “hole” might be butter

Glad to see someone mentioning this. I see a disturbing number of people on here saying nothing is happening and it’s not true at all. Many, many people are angry, doing things, and more are getting involved with each new horrible thing that happens. It takes time for movements to reach critical mass. Especially in a country this big as you point out.

It’s also critical to understand that he isn’t supposed to have the ability to do all these things. He’s ignoring law and due process completely at this point, but his party controls all three pillars of government and no one is stopping him at the governmental level.

To be honest, though, the main thing the past decade has revealed is that our government’s supposedly robust set of checks and balances collapse completely as soon as people just stop being honorable and following the rules voluntarily. It’s a paper thin system it turns out.

I’ve always taken it to imply that at a certain number of differences, the comparison isn’t useful anymore, not that there are no avenues of comparison at all.

I’m of the same opinion that AI won’t be able to adequately replace many jobs, but only in the long term. In the short term I think it’s going to be a bit of a bloodbath with a lot of companies drinking the kool aid until they realize it’s not working.

A lot of apps start on iOS because they have the majority of the mobile market in the US.

Is there a way to migrate a Lemmy account to it?

That does sound quite nice actually

I second this. I discovered it right before it got insanely expensive and only made it like a couple times.

Ah got it!

Felt. Keep your head up 👊

Oh, that kind of RP stream? 😅 I was thinking of something else lol

Thanks! I think you’re right that there could definitely be more granularity to what I said. I was trying to go as broad as I could, which of course leaves out a lot of detail. Good thoughts about other possible categories. I don’t disagree with any of it.

I actually haven’t ever seen the roleplayer category you’re talking about, but I’m intrigued. Is there anyone you’d recommend?

If I had to give a name to the joke streamers you mentioned, I’d probably go with challenge streamers. I think that definitely falls outside of the categories I said, but I also see a lot of streamers that do fall into the three I made up dabbling with that kind of content here and there, so there’s probably some crossover too.

Tell that to Marilyn Monroe and her potato sack 😉

It works on this person but I don’t know how many could pull it off

I think there are broadly speaking three main categories of let’s players: hypemen, analysts, and tryhards.

Hypemen focus on being boisterous, high energy, and fast paced. They focus on entertainment value above all else, even above the game itself.

Analysts take things a bit slower. They aren’t trying to be the best at the game, but instead like to play a variety of things and talk about their experience playing or insights related to the game.

Tryhards are usually either pro gamers or very close to it. They usually play a smaller number of competitive games trying to be very skilled at them. The enjoyment of these streamers comes more from seeing someone excel, and potentially learning from them if you play the same game.

My point with this is all of these routes are proven ways to engage an audience, so having interesting things to say isn’t a necessity.

That being said, this is an entertainment medium we’re talking about. If you aren’t entertaining in some form then I don’t think you’ll find much success. It’s a learnable skill, so don’t be discouraged if it doesn’t come without practice