What?? How are you getting that I am threatening people?? I was clearly saying that META people do not seem to take no for an answer even when NO is meant. I said I would keep this in mind the next time I am downtown and come across anyone from their staff. I live in San Francisco and pass by both Twitter and Google for that matter on a daily basis so I see people that work there all the time, at coffee shops in the morning, at lunch etc. As in TO AVOID THEM. Good grief.
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Maybe… I think there is an argument to be made for Vimeo
Yep. Obviously he can go ahead and claim now whatever he wants about this move being all about combating bots but it seems fairly obvious to me that this is not about that. Getting access to registered users payment info is just one more way to loop people into their system and keep track of who.what.where type of users they have. Charges and platform uses for buying marketed products on the platform is just a hop skip click away at that point.
Bots meanwhile will continue to do what they always do; $1 a year to register in is nothing. They will also most likely be able to do this via a one time only use type credit card where user info is irrelevant.
Some time ago, I basically relegated Amazon to nothing but a search engine.
Let’s say I want to buy a certain item; I do a general search online for what I want; inevitably the first 5-10 search results are a listing on Amazon. I go ahead and read reviews. I notice specs and branding info. That’s it.
From there, if the store isn’t near me physically (so I just go in person), I just go to the actual brand vendor and purchase directly from them instead.
May seem convoluted but I have been burned so many times with fake items, with used items when they were supposed to be new, with no real savings, constant shipping problems, etc. that Amazon as a vendor has become basically nothing but junk to me, compared to how they operated even 10 years ago.
Meantime, I spend some of my happy time back in brick and mortar bookstores, record shops, etc. and enjoy getting undamaged items to my heart’s desire. 😊
They also bought out ZeniMax in the same deal, which means they also have ESO under their rap sheet.
The only thing that effectively changed in ESO since the acquisition in 2020 is that they added the endeavor system to the game, so there was an excuse to sustain loot crates and give people a means to get the loot crate items in the game… though that system is frankly still BS since the amount of endeavor and gems needed for that fluff is in real world dollars ridiculous. As is, I dumped ESO completely after High Isle and went back to only playing GW2 (I have been in both games since beta), since the nonsense happening in ESO was enough for me to see that Microsoft running into the ground was not an issue - ZoS already managed that themselves…
I imagine it will be the same for WoW. Zero sum game.
Lovely! Thank you 😊
I agree about the “go big” signature of his scores. Some are just incredibly powerful and evocative.
My taste strays a bit from the “big” aspect since most of my favourite scores are a little more nuanced and in the softer/quieter range (Ryuichi Sakamoto for example, was (still is) one of my all time favourites), but I can definitely appreciate that many of William’s contributions are just brilliant.
Bear McCreary. I’ve been watching Outlander recently; he’s been scoring a lot of the music for the series; it’s brilliant. 😊
Yikes!! Sorry about that 😂
I guess he is kinda getting up there… bless him.
There is no better example of this that I can think of than the clothes sold under the Ralph Lauren labels. If you browse through their website you will see a plethora of labels all meant to cater to a certain price point, from Collection level down to retail store. A former work colleague who has enough money to buy collection wear, told me this year that after dropping over 5K on a supposedly 100% cashmere sweater and vest set (labeled as such on the site) when they received it they discovered blended materials listed on the inner tag of the garments, let alone that they began to pill and unravel after one wear. One.
Mind you I would never spend that kind of money on clothes so I don’t have too much sympathy, but share the story to say that Lauren is typical of a ton of “designer” labels now, throwing out tons of promotion for their supposedly high quality garments that are all just as crappy construction as Walmart clothes seem to be. It’s insane.
As a kid, my family always went to tailors for our clothes. We bought fabrics we liked, they measured us, made the garments, done deal. Same with knits. Suits always fit exactly, dressed were a snap, pants all flattered in all the right places. This was not considered “chique” or whatever. Everyone we knew did this. We did not pay a fortune. Buying clothes at department stores was considered far more expensive and a somewhat strange thing to do at the time.
I wish that the idea of supporting and nurturing real artisanship at the local level in all communities were more of a thing. Where I do find them, there seems to be way too much hipster/exploitation vibes around it which is completely counter to the idea of honing a craft and sharing that skill for not just a living but the betterment of people around you.
Maybe some effort at finding where these people still exist and supporting them would be a good way to turn some of the fast fashion (trash fashion) mindset and practices around.
While there are probably tons much more recent, here are some (old and non metal songs) that come to mind: Prince in The Beautiful Ones, Steven Tyler in Dream On, Roger Daltry, in Won’t Get Fooled Again.
Adore NiN and especially that song. Had the good fortune to see the Dissonance Tour and let me tell you hearing it sung with David Bowie was just otherworldly lol. Great video from one of the shows in on YT if you have not heard it. Seeing Trent smile like a nut while they sing it is alone is worth the click.
Haha… I am waiting for the Bohemian Rhapsody hate crowd to land on this question… 😂
And the “platform” thus charged, charged right off to another… 😂
Hehe. ES6 may become the longest/farthest postponed game since Beyond Good and Evil 2, the later now saying it will be released in 2025… maybe 😂
Merely using the term most often seen.
Apparently he cannot seem to accept the fact that he’s basically irrelevant at this point. There have been a few publications about him in recent years, including a biography by Joe Hagan, and then Wenner’s own follow up memoir on himself. That he allegedly spent half his life in the closet and kissing up (sometimes literally) to half of the rock world (if we are to believe Hagan on this…) seems to not have given him enough attention, so of course: here come the completely asinine/inappropriate/racist/sexist comments like these. I am not a fan of cancel culture, but in this case I am happy to indulge…
I have categorically zero issues with spending (or knowing how much I can afford to spend), whether I use plastic or not. Using plastic doesn’t change my spending habits. I know how much money I have at all times, and it is simple to stay within a budget that way. My “plastic,” by the way, is actually cash. I use a debit card, not a credit card. I basically just don’t buy things for which I don’t have the money. When I want something expensive (like my computer system or a car) I save so I can buy it outright - or in the case of my car, pay it off as fast as possible and be done.
I have two credit cards; both just sit in a drawer here and never see the light of day except maybe once a year when I get a notice that the accounts will be closed for lack of use. I then make a purchased on each, and immediately pay the balance in full as soon as it’s billed to me.
I realize these are “old school” habits most people don’t engage in, but for me has it worked well and helped me to maintain maximum credit rating. The American credit system is one of the biggest rackets I have ever seen and the last thing you want to deal with is bad credit because it’s impact follows you everywhere. Applying for a job, finding an apartment, getting a car, etc.
That is NOT what I said and NOT what I meant. The Mod removed this comment due to everyone saying I was somehow threatening everyone. They did not publish my response to the message they sent me, so this needs to be cleared up.
What I am saying is that clearly these people do not take NO for an answer, even when it’s clear NO means NO. They ignored it and did what they wanted anyway. I said I would keep this behaviour in mind whenever I am downtown because I live in SF and go by their headquarters literally every day and have already see a lot of their people, and in fact some awful behaviour from some that work there. Interacting with them is something a **WANT TO AVOID. ** I was not implying in ANY WAY that I intended to harm or threaten them.