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Good Vibes Villain.

@DJCasualties

Experienced Poetry Snapper. Walker Extraordinaire. Casual Reader.

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Good Vibes Villain.
Good Vibes Villain.@DJCasualties·
When I’m in my groove, get out the way. I’m activated.
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Kelski
Kelski@kelskiYT·
Literally all modern Halo games are products built to chase whatever trend is currently popular at the time Halo 4 - chased CoD at its peak, with more arcadey gameplay, custom loadouts, universal sprint, kill streaks etc. Halo 5 - chased the “advanced movement” trend after games like Titanfall, Black Ops 3, etc etc, deviating the furthest from Halo’s core Halo Infinite - chased the “open world” trend set after Breath of the Wild, resulting in a shallow, boring campaign. Also turned into a live service without the service. Bonus is that it experimented with being a hero shooter They just have absolutely no confidence or creativity to do something unique with this franchise, and I’m not sure if they ever will man
Kelski@kelskiYT

Remember when Halo used to forge its own path instead of chasing literally every single trend in existence

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Addisu Demissie
Addisu Demissie@ASDem·
I say this with love, I promise: college-educated (mostly but not exclusively white) liberals desires to win arguments instead of win power is one of the biggest barriers to Democratic Party ascent in this country. And it cuts across ideology!
Kevin Robillard 🇺🇸@Robillard

A huge part of the GOP campaign against the redistricting referendum was targeted at and intended to confuse Black voters, but Dems working on the race said it had very little impact -- the holdouts in their coalition were always white liberals in NoVa/Richmond.

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Nek
Nek@nekhoops·
Yep the NBA started phasing out and completely devaluing PGs. Remember to start the season, Flagg was gonna run the point for Dallas and Amen for Houston. Anyone can do it, right? It’s easy. OKC noticed this trend early and went out and got a bunch of dudes who are POA demons.
Sam Vecenie@Sam_Vecenie

I said this on the podcast last night, but tonight is a good example of "Dribbling is somehow now an underrated skill in the NBA." Like, being able to create and handle the ball is huge given how aggressive teams have gotten defensively to try to kill the shot clock.

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adri ♡
adri ♡@socialistadri·
THIS might be @hasanthehun's MOST VALID CRASH OUT 😭 THEY WILL NEVER MAKE ME HATE YOU
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fogbrain བདེ་འབྱུང😶‍🌫️
This is like a forlorn fantasy thinking about back in the olden times, you could get on Xbox Live and stream Netflix as a shared account with your friends to watch a movie together online, with full text and voice chat, emotes etc. -- and only 1 person had to have netflix for it to work iirc. It's crazy. 6th gen may well have been a hallucination considering how backwards we've gone.
Old Internet@OldInternetFeel

Xbox 360 Netflix Party Mode

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Daddy Warpig
Daddy Warpig@DaddyWarpig·
You have to make the penalties hurt. Force them to split apart their company. Force Bezos to spin off Audible, Kindle, groceries, and everything else. If it's a monopoly—or oligopoly—that sells everything, it's price fixing everything ONLINE AND IN PHYSICAL STORES. Break it up.
Ricardo@Ric_RTP

Amazon just got caught running a secret price manipulation operation with Levi's, Home Depot, Walmart, and many more. Every time you "comparison shopped" online, you were looking at prices that were already rigged. Here's what happened: Amazon would monitor prices on Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, and Chewy in real time. The second a competitor listed a product cheaper than Amazon, they'd contact the brand directly and tell them to "fix it." And the exact emails are now PUBLIC. Amazon sent Levi's links to two Walmart listings with the subject line "styles of concern." They basically said the prices on Walmart are too low and we have a problem. The next day, Levi's responded: "I talked to Walmart and they have partnered with us to take Easy Khaki Classic fit back up to ladder SPP price, $29.99 immediately." Levi's literally called Walmart and told them to raise the price. Because Amazon told Levi's to make the call. Walmart complied. Then Amazon matched the HIGHER price. Both retailers ended up charging more. The customer paid extra. Nobody competed. Same playbook with Hanes: Amazon sent them links showing Target and Walmart prices were lower. Hanes confirmed they "reached out to Target and Walmart to have the prices increased." Target increased the prices. Walmart increased the prices. Amazon kept their margins. But it gets even worse... Amazon told Allergan (the company that makes eye drops) that their product was "suppressed" on Amazon because it was cheaper on another site. Allergan responded: "Walmart got their price back up to $16.99." Amazon then unsuppressed the listing. They did this with pet treats on Chewy. Furniture on Home Depot. Products across dozens of categories spanning YEARS. The mechanism is simple but terrifying: If you're a brand and you sell cheaper on Walmart than on Amazon, Amazon suppresses your product, removes you from the Buy Box, buries you in search results, and effectively makes you invisible to 300 million customers. Brands can't afford that. So they call Walmart and Target and say "raise your prices or we'll lose our Amazon listings." Walmart and Target comply because they need the brand's products. Amazon captures 40 cents of every dollar spent online in America. That gives them the leverage to set prices across THE ENTIRE internet. Not just their own platform. So turns out, you were never comparison shopping. You were looking at a coordinated price floor set by Amazon through backroom phone calls between brands and their competitors. "Amazon is working to make your life more unaffordable." 3 separate antitrust trials are now scheduled for 2027. The FTC has its own case. 18 states plus the DOJ are piling on. This is literally happening during the WORST affordability crisis in a generation. Groceries up 25% since 2020. Housing unaffordable. Wages flat. And the largest ecommerce company on Earth has been secretly coordinating with brands to make sure you can't find a cheaper price ANYWHERE. "Competition" in retail is just a fantasy.

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Kyle Kushblasta
Kyle Kushblasta@SkinnyTuna·
people’s memories are so bad they can’t even remember the time before the trans culture war. literally no one cared. republicans didnt care. it wasn’t a concern until they had to make something up to make you angry and stupid. we have hard proof that it’s a hoax but no one cares
Ten Years Ago Today@tenyearsnow

Trump comes out in support of Transgender people being allowed to use the bathrooms of their choosing. He states Caitlyn Jenner would be allowed to use the woman restrooms in Trump Tower.

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Anish Moonka
Anish Moonka@anishmoonka·
Sony spent up to $400 million making a single video game. It sold 25,000 copies in 14 days before Sony pulled it from sale. Cost per copy sold: about $16,000. The studio shut down two months later. The executive who warned them had already been fired for saying no. The game was Concord. The executive was Shuhei Yoshida, who ran Sony's in-house game studios for 11 years and helped ship some of the biggest PlayStation hits ever: God of War, The Last of Us, Uncharted, Ghost of Tsushima. These are games you buy once and finish. Sony made billions on that model. Spider-Man alone generated $315 million in digital sales. The Last of Us 2 pulled nearly $250 million. God of War Ragnarok sold 15 million copies, with $279 million from digital downloads alone. Then in 2019, a new CEO took over PlayStation. Jim Ryan wanted Sony's studios to stop making those kinds of games and chase a different model: live service. Live service is Fortnite's model: games designed to keep you playing and paying forever, earning money through endless small purchases instead of one-time sales. Ryan told his team to ship 12 of these by 2025. Yoshida refused. Ryan removed him from running the studios and gave him a choice: take a smaller role working with indie developers or leave the company. Yoshida took the role and stayed at Sony for another six years. At an industry event in Australia last weekend, he finally said plainly that Ryan fired him from running the studios for refusing to do the 'ridiculous things' Ryan had demanded. Of those 12 live service games, 8 were cancelled before they ever came out. Naughty Dog killed a Last of Us multiplayer game in late 2023. Bend Studio's sci-fi game died in January 2025. Twisted Metal and a London fantasy game were both scrapped in early 2024, and the London studio was closed. Insomniac's Spider-Man multiplayer was abandoned. A God of War live service game was cancelled, then the studio making it (Bluepoint) was shut down this past February. A Destiny spin-off was scrapped. Deviation Games, a studio Sony had partnered with, was shut down before shipping anything. Only one of the 12 actually worked. Helldivers 2 was a big hit. But the studio that made it, Arrowhead, isn't owned by Sony, and they've already said they won't partner with Sony on their next game. The total damage under Ryan: $3.7 billion spent buying Bungie (the studio behind Destiny), up to $400 million written off on Concord, and roughly 1,500 jobs lost across studios that got shut down. The PS5 generation is now short on the kind of games that built PlayStation in the first place. Yoshida was pushed out in 2019 for saying no to one strategy. Five years and a few billion dollars later, Sony's current CEO says the new plan is to 'fail early and fail cheaply.'
Synth Potato🥔@SynthPotato

Shuhei Yoshida has revealed he was fired from PlayStation by Jim Ryan for not listening to him. Yoshida helped games like God of War and The Last of Us Meanwhile, Jim Ryan’s push to live services resulted in 8 cancelled games, handicapping the PS5 generation. What a sad mess.

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Josh Mound
Josh Mound@JoshTBVO·
The idea of “low-tax” red states is a myth. Lower-income and working-class people pay higher taxes in Texas than in California. Middle-class people pay about the same in both states. Rich people pay much lower taxes in Texas.
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Uzi@UziCryptoo

6 years of living in Texas and I've come to the conclusion that the no state income tax thing is basically a scam. The property taxes are so high that they negate any savings. We are still paying as many taxes in Texas as we would in California. You save on gas I guess.

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Zito
Zito@_Zeets·
So movie studios are abandoning the US completely and turning their full staff American workers into contractors to get out paying for healthcare which just makes those workers even vulnerable to the healthcare system. While the US loses one of its iconic industries.
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