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ag_roberston_author , 15 hours ago

Don't want this to come across as defeatist, because the message is nice and Ursula K. Le Guin is a real one, but there's still 43 monarchies in existence in 2024.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_monarchies

ag_roberston_author , 15 days ago

Serif (which owns Affinity) was just bought out by Canva, so it's only a moment of time before they are enshittified unfortunately.

ag_roberston_author , 1 month ago

1×2=2

Wow. Much brain. Maths wow.

ag_roberston_author , 1 month ago

It's the mindflayer power upgrade tree from Baldur's Gate 3.

ag_roberston_author , 2 months ago

Probably the ones outlined here, which you should be aware of, given there are statements from you included in the article: https://docs.beehaw.org/docs/important-questions-decisions-and-reflections/beehaw-lemmy-and-a-vision-of-the-fediverse/

ag_roberston_author , 3 months ago

They are probably using the default installed theme, which doesn't have scalable icons so everything is horribly pixelated. Not sure why it's still the default, but as you said it's pretty easy to change.

ag_roberston_author , 3 months ago

It's number 2 for me, after Princess Mononoke.

ag_roberston_author , 3 months ago

Call

ag_roberston_author , 5 months ago

Well you can watch it ad free on Nebula, as linked in the video description.
I honestly can't hate on him for that decision, he needs to eat as much as the rest of us, and unless we're paying for a Nebula subscription, video sponsors are the only way to do that.

ag_roberston_author , 5 months ago

Because YouTube and Twitch are notorious for reducing ad payments or demontising creators. Have you forgotten about the adpocalypse already? Patreon also increased their fees with very little notice in 2019.

It'd honestly be an idiotic move to not take a video sponsor if they're offered, because that is guaranteed and likely upfront, supplemental income to support the creation of videos.

Nebula is collectively creator owned, so it's the only one of those that won't fuck over creators for more money, but as I said, not a lot of people are paying for subscriptions. It's small, the per-creator payouts are probably even less than Youtube.

And finally, the real answer: Man's gotta eat. Simple.

All of that considered, I didn't even see the sponsor ads you're complaining about because I have Sponsorblock skip them automatically.