The point of modern “customer service” is to NOT provide customer service. If you can drag out the conversation to the point where the caller rage-quits in frustration, then the company can avoid spending any money on fixing any problems they’ve caused.
I’m seeing this on YouTube, as well. I’m interested in gaming and entertainment, but in the last couple of months, I’ve been getting absolute right-wing dipsh*ttery in my “Recommended” list.
It feels to me like YouTube is trying to rage-bait users into engaging in this trash, even when those users have shown no interest in it.
I already ditched Windows for Linux a month ago because of spyware. Everything Google-related is next. My phone is going to be the hardest thing to de-infest.
LISTER: What makes you think these aliens exist?
RIMMER: They must do, Lister! There’s so many things that are strange and odd. So many things we don’t have any explanation for.
LISTER: Like, um, why do intelligent people buy cinema hot dogs? Do you mean that sort of weird and mysterious thing?
RIMMER: No, Lister, I mean like the pyramids. How did they move such massive pieces of stone without the aid of modern technology?
LISTER: They had massive whips, Rimmer. Massive, massive whips.
Yup. Every time there’s a feel-good story like, “a corporate donor spent $20,000 so a dozen orphans didn’t have to be fed into the Orphan Crushing Machine” the media never questions why the Orphan Crushing Machine needs to exist in the first place.
Oscar the Grouch is a scavenger.
There’s definitely a YouTube algorithm thing going on, too. I’ve had a lot of these right-wing dipsh*t maga channels pop up on my YouTube home screen, recently. As in, more of them showing up in the last 6-8 months than I’ve seen in years.
Good. Flash storage is everywhere now. Why go through an extra layer of proprietary hardware and DRM when you can have direct access to the video files which can be read on any platform?
Are hyper-expensive running shoes STILL a thing? Damn, people need to grow up.
The Appalachian mountains are full of hillbillies. THAT’S the scary part.
And the mysterious deaths of the whistleblowers? Did they get to plead that away too?
You can’t call yourselves a “think tank” if all your ideas are stupid.
A good game will stand on its own merits. It will be complete and self-contained at launch. And any DLC released later will have been planned from the very start.
Endless updates is just another word for cosmetic micro-transactions and an excuse to make you keep the game online all the time.
More people should know what’s in Project 2025. It’s a guide to creating a Judge Dredd universe, where the only people living in it will be the Super Rich and the Super F*cking Poor.
They’re not even trying to hide it.
If you want to see a truly horrific English dub, check out “Chaos Wars” on YouTube.
Naming your child is serious business and both parents need to be fully informed.
Sign: “You must be this ($$$) rich to ride this ride.”
Yup. Especially apps that are pushing the wonders of cloud services to share that data everywhere.
“But the planet is still there.”
Check and mate! I feel so PWN3D. You see? If you don’t mind not breathing, carbon dioxide isn’t so bad after all!
Who would have guessed that a social media platform owned by an apartheid-loving fascist would trend conservative?