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Mokinokaro posted:Fess up. We know you're also Ashens. No. However, I think you'll find that Ashens and Nostalgia Nerd are the same person. The Retro Future is their son, and RMC is their uncle.
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Feb 6, 2021 13:50
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How does Octavius King fit into all this? (I'll end this silly derail here)
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Feb 6, 2021 14:19
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No.1 Special posted:Filmjoy - Movies with Mikey - The Vision of Speed Racer I'll always recommend Speed Racer to someone. If they saw it and didn't care for it the first time I'd recommend a second viewing because, for me, that movie didn't click until the second viewing. It's such a phenomenal film that gets better with each viewing. Mikey is right in that the visual style of that film will most likely never appear in a studio film again. There are a few directors out there with enough pull and clout to make something similar but I don't know if they'll go as far as the Wachowskis did. Releasing it a week after Iron Man? WB's bad decision-making goes back nearly two decades I see.
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Feb 6, 2021 15:51
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Jamie Faith posted:New One Hit Wonderland! This was a tremendous episode. It's not one of those 'one hit wonder but the band was big elsewhere' types, Tag Team have exactly the one song that was exactly what was needed to stick around in a subsection of society (being sports fans) and that is the sum total of their catalog that's even remotely worth looking at. The greatest hits doesn't even have the original version of the song. 
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Feb 6, 2021 15:51
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCjmMef8BrE Unlearning Economics put his third video on how breadtube doesn't always understand economics and economic theories, or at least don't communicate their understanding of it well. Its a pretty educational listen, like his other 2 videos, going into depth on Capitalism, Piketty etc. Archer666 fucked around with this message at 19:15 on Feb 6, 2021 |
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Feb 6, 2021 19:11
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No one understands economics, especially people who specialize in it
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Feb 6, 2021 19:31
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Dawgstar posted:The greatest hits doesn't even have the original version of the song. The Greatest Hits really should've just been Whoomp and a collection of its various remixes and rerecordings. That would've been a hilarious and amazingly self-aware move..
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Feb 6, 2021 19:31
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CharlestheHammer posted:No one understands economics, especially people who specialize in it Economics, even moreso than math, just felt like a feverdream class with a weird abstract set of nonsense rules that I never got a grip on. I am so glad I could drop it after one year. DeafNote fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Feb 6, 2021 |
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Feb 6, 2021 20:26
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DeafNote posted:Economics, even moreso than math, just felt like a feverdream class with a weird abstract set of nonsense rules that I never got a grip on. Higher level accounting courses, more than anything, convinced me that value is arbitrary, money is just a number on a computer and the economy is a hologram.
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Feb 6, 2021 21:13
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Grunch Worldflower posted:Higher level accounting courses, more than anything, convinced me that value is arbitrary, money is just a number on a computer and the economy is a hologram. Even in my accounting 101 course, some of the valuations my teacher is mentioning are so loving insane. Like accounting for value of "goodwill". Insane.
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Feb 6, 2021 21:34
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Trying to apply rules to a system that revolves around loving over others and scamming people as hard as possible seems like a waste of effort to me.
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Feb 6, 2021 21:38
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Dawgstar posted:This was a tremendous episode. It's not one of those 'one hit wonder but the band was big elsewhere' types, Tag Team have exactly the one song that was exactly what was needed to stick around in a subsection of society (being sports fans) and that is the sum total of their catalog that's even remotely worth looking at. I can think of three possible reasons for this: 1) Their original label owns the recording and wants a stupid cut of the money for placement on the compilation 2) This is the best way they can think of to make sure all two of their die hard new fans buy two of their albums, not just one 3) This was a performance art project gone wrong all along.
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Feb 6, 2021 21:58
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Hell sometimes original (clean) recordings just get lost to time. Allthough I wouldn't be surprised if people in charge just thought the original version didnt sound good enough anymore.
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Feb 6, 2021 22:07
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Famethrowa posted:Even in my accounting 101 course, some of the valuations my teacher is mentioning are so loving insane. https://www.freshbooks.com/hub/accounting/calculate-goodwill quote:What Is Goodwill? It's the intangible part of a business' worth. Doesn't seem that insane to me, tbh 
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Feb 6, 2021 22:13
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I think the problem is economics try and value the subjective. If good will is a thing then a stable model is impossible
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Feb 6, 2021 22:29
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Archer666 posted:It's the intangible part of a business' worth. Doesn't seem that insane to me, tbh If it's intangible, how does it have a value?
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Feb 6, 2021 22:31
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That’s ultimately economics biggest issue. It needs predictability to create a model but that doesn’t happen. You can argue you can guess the market is going to be irrational in consistent ways but no models really do that
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Feb 6, 2021 22:35
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Archer666 posted:https://www.freshbooks.com/hub/accounting/calculate-goodwill I fully understand, it's just telling that the common example for brand goodwill is a brand like Coke. How do you measure the "goodwill" for the brand of a specialty hot air balloon manufacturer? It's mostly guesswork and opinion. Which is fine, but you can't have that and then pretend that the financial arts are mathematic and objective. Famethrowa fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Feb 6, 2021 |
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Feb 6, 2021 22:46
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Goodwill seemes like the busniess of buying an influcer ad.
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Feb 6, 2021 22:52
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Famethrowa posted:I fully understand, it's just telling that the common example for brand goodwill is a brand like Coke. How do you measure the "goodwill" for the brand of a specialty hot air balloon manufacturer? It's mostly guesswork and opinion. For a business it's generally used after it changes hands - It's a representation that, in financial terms, someone else made the place popular and that is providing some initial value to the business when it changes hands and it depreciates over time as your own quality of work is responsible for people still showing up.
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Feb 6, 2021 22:54
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Libluini posted:If it's intangible, how does it have a value? You can derive a certain value off of the things that page mentions, for example. A business that has a high customer royalty and retention is worth more than a similar sized business that has less of that, because it has a higher chance of generating a steady income. A business that has better worth of mouth has a higher chance of attracting new customers compared to a similar business that's scoring 1 stars on amazon, because of the same reason. CharlestheHammer posted:That’s ultimately economics biggest issue. It needs predictability to create a model but that doesn’t happen. From what I recall reading up on economics, you can set some parameters based on the predictability of humans and work with that but nothing really solid. I don't think you can make a model that fully predicts how the economy's gonna roll, like you said.
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Feb 6, 2021 22:58
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Yeah, you measure the goodwill by how much someone paid for it. So if someone pays $2 million extra then there was $2 million of goodwill. Was there more and they got a good deal? Was there less and it was a bad deal? Who knows  . Economics! In fairness, the people worth their salt note that predictions are mostly worthless as hard numbers. I've got a (worthless and mostly unused) Econ degree and the really bad thing is that so little of 100-level stuff is applicable beyond the barest bones. The next 3 years of it are all about understanding the billion ways that it doesn't work and then applying it to real-world stuff. Smarter people then me have raised the point that it's probably worse to teach 1 year and let people go than to teach none of it. Once you get into later level stuff it's a lot about allocating resources, sometimes some logistics stuff, etc. I had a genuinely interesting course about the Economics of Transportation and a lot of it was mapping out highway flows and discussing the problem of intersections and temporary rushes and the pros and cons of different policy options. I'll have to save the video to listen to later. I do appreciate somebody talking a little theory. I feel slightly bad when Econ gets dismissed just because all of the public pundits talking about it suck or push dumb centrist or right-wing points. Parakeet vs. Phone fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Feb 6, 2021 |
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Feb 6, 2021 23:02
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:I had a genuinely interesting course about the Economics of Transportation and a lot of it was mapping out highway flows and discussing the problem of intersections and temporary rushes and the pros and cons of different policy options. I feel like the devs of SimCity 4 could really have used that one 
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Feb 7, 2021 01:19
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Cities Skylines too, that game is one part city management and three parts trying to unfuck your traffic once your city reaches an appreciable size. Altough a lot of that is caused by industrial truck traffic, since apparently none of the devs even bothered to look into industrial supply chain logistics and just assumed trucks are used for every leg of transportation from extraction to consumer use, even for things like oil.
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Feb 7, 2021 01:45
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stillvisions posted:I can think of three possible reasons for this: Too be fair, if you bought like any soundtrack at all that year you probably got the song on it. I know I got it off the Mighty Ducks 2 soundtrack.
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Feb 7, 2021 02:06
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Famethrowa posted:Even in my accounting 101 course, some of the valuations my teacher is mentioning are so loving insane. I can understand things like goodwill. Concepts like "trustworthiness" and "customer satisfaction" do no physically exist. There is not a single atom of PR in the universe, but these are things that do have value. I meant more accounting concepts like depreciation. Where you arbitrarily decide that a piece of equipment no longer has monetary worth after 5 years and so you stop counting it as an asset even if your company ends up using it for 500 years and it therefore provided value that whole time.
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Feb 7, 2021 02:49
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Depreciation just recognises the fact that you can't sell something you've been using for the same monetary amount that you bought it for, and past a certain point you might not be able to sell it at all. It's not a financial asset if it can't be sold to meet the business' financial obligations regardless of what its concrete value is.
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Feb 7, 2021 04:05
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Ghostlight posted:Depreciation just recognises the fact that you can't sell something you've been using for the same monetary amount that you bought it for, and past a certain point you might not be able to sell it at all. It's not a financial asset if it can't be sold to meet the business' financial obligations regardless of what its concrete value is. Well yeah the concept of depreciation is very simple. The methods are the confusing part.
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Feb 7, 2021 04:11
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Turns out that Dragon Quest and the Legend of Zelda had more in common than I thought. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvhmljqyDms
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Feb 7, 2021 04:21
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RareAcumen posted:Turns out that Dragon Quest and the Legend of Zelda had more in common than I thought. Until dragon quest XI decided to go crazy the only games that were explicitly related to one another were the first like three, and 4, 5 and 6 as individual trilogies. Though there were always a ton of little hints and references that were, of course, hotly debated by fans as to whether they meant anything or not for years. But generally I'd take any kind of fan theorizing about timelines with a massive grain of salt. More importantly, however, I'd like to state that the sponsor, Square's Dragon Quest Tact is one of the worst mobile games I've played in literal years and it uses business models straight out of bad bamco mobile games from a decade ago that everyone had hoped would never see the light of day again.
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Feb 7, 2021 04:33
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Sarcopenia posted:Yeah, José gets into that in the video.
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Feb 7, 2021 05:31
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Jamie Faith posted:New One Hit Wonderland! I know this is about his previous video but I think Todd broke his record time from saying something to that something being proven wrong when he made a Morgan Wallen song his top track of the year He ought to go back to using his wrongness powers for good, like when he said Bruno Mars and The Weeknd weren’t very good and then they went out and got awesome
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Feb 7, 2021 10:40
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DC Murderverse posted:I know this is about his previous video but I think Todd broke his record time from saying something to that something being proven wrong when he made a Morgan Wallen song his top track of the year Have you considered that maybe he isn't wrong, but instead all those guys are watching his videos, and go do the opposite just out of spite? He could definitely make a killing on covering lovely musicians, though. Think about it: We pay him to cover someone who sucks rear end, and that one then goes gently caress you, Todd!  and becomes good
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Feb 7, 2021 11:23
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Nuebot posted:More importantly, however, I'd like to state that the sponsor, Square's Dragon Quest Tact is one of the worst mobile games I've played in literal years and it uses business models straight out of bad bamco mobile games from a decade ago that everyone had hoped would never see the light of day again. Yeah, I had no interest in mobile games at all personally and from the evaluations I was getting of it secondhand from the DQ thread in Games, it was somehow a bad one despite how many other previous games had been made.
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Feb 7, 2021 11:40
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DC Murderverse posted:I know this is about his previous video but I think Todd broke his record time from saying something to that something being proven wrong when he made a Morgan Wallen song his top track of the year I'll never forget the one prediction he got right. When he was reviewing "Fight Song" he said "If this is your fight song...YOU ARE GOING TO LOSE THE FIGHT" Cue Hillary Clinton playing it at one of her rallies later 
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Feb 7, 2021 12:11
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If you're not following Drawfee yet, you should be. I've been binging them to raise my spirits after a horrendous week and they are really doing that job wonderfully. I tend to put them on 1.25x or 1.5x speed, still mostly works fine. It's a group of artists who are given criteria to fill and they draw something in that style or whatever. One Piece character in the style of Mike Mignola, random shotgun of characters and given 30 seconds to draw each, etc. They're also just generally exceptionally good at playing off each other. Some choice videos I've watched so far: drawing popular characters without looking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc8UxLtdmeY&hd=1 30 second cartoon/whatever character challenges https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkbbKoAGcHc&hd=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXmq_JQD2Ic&hd=1 the blind drawing one is killing me.
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Feb 7, 2021 14:10
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Captain Invictus posted:If you're not following Drawfee yet, you should be. I've been binging them to raise my spirits after a horrendous week and they are really doing that job wonderfully. I tend to put them on 1.25x or 1.5x speed, still mostly works fine. It's a group of artists who are given criteria to fill and they draw something in that style or whatever. One Piece character in the style of Mike Mignola, random shotgun of characters and given 30 seconds to draw each, etc. They're also just generally exceptionally good at playing off each other. Some choice videos I've watched so far:  I just started watching them the other day.
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Feb 7, 2021 14:28
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What really sets Drawfee apart as a feel-good show is how all four of them are clearly fans of each other's work. You can especially see it in the speed drawing episodes where they all get a chance to really flex their skill and talk about process and stuff but every episode is a few talented friends genuinely having a good time together.
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Feb 7, 2021 14:38
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Grunch Worldflower posted:What really sets Drawfee apart as a feel-good show is how all four of them are clearly fans of each other's work. You can especially see it in the speed drawing episodes where they all get a chance to really flex their skill and talk about process and stuff but every episode is a few talented friends genuinely having a good time together. I watch them with a friend of mine and there's one artist on there who we were like "I can't shake it but their style seems super familiar..." And then in one episode they draw a handsome lion man and at the same time we linked one another the gay tumblr we recognized the art from. That was fun. Anyway my favorite drawfee episodes are still the pokemon ones and I love that Spheal still shows up on the top page for google results.
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Feb 7, 2021 14:57
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I've found them through this video, and yeah, they are a lot of fun to watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CHV5tFRmrs
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