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Cosmik Slop posted:"Breaking the Waves" by Von Trier, I think Breaking Away is still good tho. And not a huge rear end bummer.
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They still sell special raw ground beef for cannibal sandwiches in eastern Wisconsin and across the northern Midwest/Great Plains. It’s also called “tiger meat” and a bunch of other things I’m sure. A very tasty holiday snack.
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The Kingfish posted:They still sell special raw ground beef for cannibal sandwiches in eastern Wisconsin and across the northern Midwest/Great Plains. the real reason Hillary didn't campaign in Wisconsin is that she'll never forgive them for the disappointment she felt the first time she bit into one of these
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Mar 14, 2023 15:53
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Love hearing three dudes whose entire lifestyle is supported by Silicon Valley developments and websites talk about fake piles of money. It u bro.
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Mar 14, 2023 18:13
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Proust Malone posted:Love hearing three dudes whose entire lifestyle is supported by Silicon Valley developments and websites talk about fake piles of money. It u bro. They critique society yet continue to participate in it as well very interesting
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Mar 14, 2023 18:25
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Marx and Lenin didn't even have calluses on their hands, loving fake communists.
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Proust Malone posted:Love hearing three dudes whose entire lifestyle is supported by Silicon Valley developments and websites talk about fake piles of money. It u bro. Ah yes I forgot that Silicon Valley tech bros invented satire, political commentary, and radio shows respectively. I’ll be sure to inform Aristophanes and Jonathan Swift to thank Bitcoin and Steve Jobs for their fortunes and lifestyles.
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Mar 14, 2023 19:07
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It's a dumb comment but I don't much care if the tea cookie guy wants to make fun of my imaginary Internet friends.
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space uncle posted:Ah yes I forgot that Silicon Valley tech bros invented satire, political commentary, and radio shows respectively. Three dudes who met on twitter, doing a podcast, getting paid on patreon. Cmon dude, the goal posts are back over here. Proust Malone fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Mar 14, 2023 |
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Mar 14, 2023 19:44
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I, too, remember basing my entire worldview on which Bush-hating rock bands have sold out.
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Proust Malone posted:Three dudes who met on twitter, doing a podcast, getting paid on patreon. Cmon dude, the goal posts are back over here. You’re just describing them using the services of these tech companies, they’re not shareholders.
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Proust Malone posted:Three dudes who met on twitter, doing a podcast, getting paid on patreon. Cmon dude, the goal posts are back over here. Yeah you’re not wrong, they’re using all those platforms. The whole point is that the platforms don’t matter. They’re just repackaging and digitizing existing ideas. Yes they’re making them more convenient and more accessible by putting them on the internet, but they don’t need a pat on the back or a major chunk of the global economy to do so. Twitter - not much different from shouting in a public square or a letter to the editor, both time honored traditions Podcast - radio show or once again shouting in a public square Patreon - Latin root patron, deriving from Ancient Rome The model of 1-3 cranks making fun of popular politics and culture and the public adoring them despite their disgusting hygiene and character flaws is so incredibly ancient. It might be the oldest profession other than prostitute. Like the first prostitute started working and then the first crank started a “podcast” in their tribe to complain about the quality of hand jobs. Even the old timey episodes where they speak with a Mid Atlantic accent and talk about being addicted to heroin and laudanum - you can fully imagine that these three misfit useless men would either be doing this exact same thing in 1933 or perhaps dying of consumption. Might as well say the Chapo Trap House boys owe all their success to Jonas Salk because they have the lung capacity to blow hard rather than die of polio.
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This thread has a remarkable capacity to give license to the most tedious mother fuckers to think they've got some kind of punching insight
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space uncle posted:Might as well say the Chapo Trap House boys owe all their success to Jonas Salk because they have the lung capacity to blow hard rather than die of polio. they do
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Mar 14, 2023 21:07
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The correct argument anyway is that Patreon is a symptom of Silicon Valley rent-seeking who always need more somehow. Patreon as a service works. There are things to improve, to scale, etc. but I can’t imagine the costs aren’t relatively static. And every dollar that goes to a Patreon, they get SOME kind of cut. It’s like a casino. How do you gently caress that up!? But they’ve had moments where they try to do something because clearly it isn’t enough for the VC ghouls.
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The fact is that all of the internet platform backbone stuff that runs everything and makes modern ‘creativity’ (I.e podcasts) possible is really just something that should be a public utility. Taxpayer funded posting platforms, taxi dispatch apps, food delivery apps, webhosting, etc etc is really where it should go. It’s just infrastructure now, and should be publicly owned. Trying to shoehorn some kind of angle for profit making is pointless.
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Mar 14, 2023 22:39
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Proust Malone posted:Love hearing three dudes whose entire lifestyle is supported by Silicon Valley developments and websites talk about fake piles of money. It u bro. Is this where I’m supposed to post the “I’m very intelligent” meme?
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I will say that I'm surprised the Patreon industry as a whole hasn't taken more of a hit with the price of groceries being what it is but I guess when you're looking for places to cut, $5 a month doesn't seem like the most obvious place to start
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Mar 15, 2023 12:24
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You could say Jake Sully was a hypocrite for traveling the stars to pandora and using the cutting edge of technology to walk around in his avatar. The important thing was he recognized the errors of his ways and led a successful insurgency against the American empire.
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Mar 15, 2023 13:05
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The entire Tech economy is just sad little middle men squatting on everything and demanding their cut while also wanting to be praised as saviours if the universe, as if there was no way to order a takeaway before they existed.
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:I will say that I'm surprised the Patreon industry as a whole hasn't taken more of a hit with the price of groceries being what it is but I guess when you're looking for places to cut, $5 a month doesn't seem like the most obvious place to start Or the people that subscribe to patreons are just rich liberals.
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Mr Hootington posted:Or the people that subscribe to patreons are just rich liberals. drat I hope my money comes soon I guess. ZenMasterBullshit fucked around with this message at 18:12 on Mar 15, 2023 |
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Gonzo McFee posted:The entire Tech economy is just sad little middle men squatting on everything and demanding their cut while also wanting to be praised as saviours if the universe, as if there was no way to order a takeaway before they existed. https://twitter.com/SxarletRed/status/1635821808543825921?s=20
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Yeah, I used to love comicbookdb.com. Someone bought them out and then, instead of updating it like they promised, just shuttered the site. And in the process they bought up a lot of people's free labour in cataloguing old books and just took it off the Internet.
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Boywhiz88 posted:The correct argument anyway is that Patreon is a symptom of Silicon Valley rent-seeking who always need more somehow. The Patreon guy taking a bunch of money from Jared Kushner's brother was such a stupid unforced error. Finding out he was one half of one of the most obnoxious twee bands made it even funnier.
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Mr Hootington posted:Or the people that subscribe to patreons are just rich liberals. Subscribing to E1 to support the boys and listen to their funny D&D sessions very rich liberally
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:I will say that I'm surprised the Patreon industry as a whole hasn't taken more of a hit with the price of groceries being what it is but I guess when you're looking for places to cut, $5 a month doesn't seem like the most obvious place to start Yeah, I assume that's a big part of it. When I'm looking to cut back, a few bucks for a lot of content to make work suck less isn't where I start. Although I haven't shelled out for Chapo yet, just one or two others. Plus it's easy to forget, and on top of that most people donating probably feel invested/connected. Unless it's changed I think most Patreons see about 10-20% attrition at the end of each month from credit cards being declined. Then some of them filter back in after payday and they have a chance to sort out the card. So some number of Patreon subscribers aren't rich. No idea if it's gone up recently, I'd assume so. I saw a couple of very different Twitch streamers explaining that while January usually sees them lose a lot of paid subscribers it was really bad this year.
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am i missing something the dude has 16 pages of posts in this thread
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:Yeah, I assume that's a big part of it. When I'm looking to cut back, a few bucks for a lot of content to make work suck less isn't where I start. Although I haven't shelled out for Chapo yet, just one or two others. Plus it's easy to forget, and on top of that most people donating probably feel invested/connected.
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:Yeah, I assume that's a big part of it. When I'm looking to cut back, a few bucks for a lot of content to make work suck less isn't where I start. Although I haven't shelled out for Chapo yet, just one or two others. Plus it's easy to forget, and on top of that most people donating probably feel invested/connected. Credit cards will still work indefinitely even if you have $0, as long as you haven’t started missing payments, and most debit cards probably still allow overdrafts. I’d guess that normal card expirations and number changes due to fraud drive more of the churn/resub activity.
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Cspam posters should be barred from saying liberal, it's clearly too much responsibility for them
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shut up lib
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crepeface posted:shut up lib
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Cspam posters should be barred from being liberal
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A hit liberal will tut-tut
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None of you are free of sin.
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I'm a liberal. I am a lib.
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Heath posted:I'm a liberal. I am a lib. As a New Yorker, I am a Muslim. I am a Jew. I am Black. I am gay. I am a woman seeking to control her body.
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