tf2 mvm posters assume a completely new context nowadays

portal 2 wasn't joking either

finding out just now that a lot of youtube channels around me have been literally bought by private equity (including some i follow since forever and like a lot)

so i am making this post as a digital equivalent of shooting at the sky to keep the rent in your neighbourhood low to confirm that i am independent/this is not the case for me/i would not really tolerate compromising my freedom in what i can do creatively even if it meant making bank

also to clarify: i won't judge who does this and i am not saying that this is bad/they will inevitably make bad videos

i just do not personally trust private equity enough to have any say on what i would make since they are by definition only focused on making money

doing youtube as a job is hard, extremely risky and dependent on a lot of stuff that you quite literally can't control since the platform is a black box, so i don't judge them for wanting to play it safe

it's not just for me personally, while i am totally ok with taking sponsors (and even there i don't let them control what i say) or working with/for companies i want and need a space for my own creative projects to be free from these kinds of constraints or pushes toward potential enshittification

i know this seems like i wanted to make it about me out of nowhere lmao

no, i just wanted to make this clear since i am myself doing some creative work for one company in particular that is one of the few players in hardware that i trust rn (some of you already managed to figure out who they are and it's not that hard i think hahaha)

BUT that's going to be done for their channel and not only i do have complete creative control on it, it's not going to affect my personal channel or projects at all

so yeah idk live free or die i guess

(unfortunately this is not a joke, famously the ex italian pm had an epstein-like scandal and pretty much the whole thing hinged on whether he paid for it or not since the girl being a minor would not have been illegal in of itself)

just wanted to send some solidarity to “once were nerd” (who in italy is being charged with distributing pirated software just for reviewing android game handhelds on youtube and risks 3 years in jail for it)

the italian legal system truly is a fucking clown show at times, jesus christ

i think that if you honestly love something you should not just defend it at any turn regardless (that’s called being in a cult) but actually call out when something is wrong with it/you don’t like something about it/something worries you

this is mostly about me posting more stuff about america or europe lately (both of which are places i genuinely like) but it’s also true about idk video game icons i used to love and now are going to shit (xbox, unfortunately, you are destroying your brand)

this is something that i stumbled upon a few days ago while i was looking at why nuclear is still seen quite badly in southern europe but it’s actually something that involves pretty much the whole world and idk how to introduce it so

in case you were feeling like not sleeping tonight i want to remind you that around the world (mostly in the mediterranean, but this has been done everywhere by different criminal and not criminal entities) there are (allegedly, according to confessions by turncoats) several deliberately sunken ships containing extremely toxic waste (including nuclear one) waiting to fuck up everything like timebombs

and if that wasn’t enough third world countries like somalia were used as open dumping grounds for the worst kind of nuclear toxic shit leading to the local population suffering some of the worst generational pain imaginable

and that in the same year (1994) 2 journalists (ilaria alpi and her cameraman moran hrovatin) and 2 “guardia di finanza” investigators (volpe 132 helicopters) were killed trying to figure out more about these (and more) cases and pin down who was behind all of this, with their details about their deaths being covered up by people high up in the government of several countries

anyway, here is a cool map about this shit, focused on the mediterranean

https://www.infondoalmar.info

edit: just wanted to clarify something: the deaths themselves were not covered up (and except for ilaria alpi and her cameraman who were literally in somalia investigating on this when they were killed) AND the connections of some mysterious deaths to this whole thing are often alleged


but every single investigation about what happened/who could possibly be behind them was either derailed or the details were sealed for "security reasons" whiiiiiich has made it pretty much impossible to figure anything out

just wanted to make sure i actually talked about this properly sry

tldr: there are actual nuclear waste sunken ship timebombs around the world that at any moment for any reason could become a huge issue and we often either have no idea where to find them precisely or how to recover them

can i say, as a euro, that (in general) letting foreign payment processors regulate what we can buy and cannot is extremely cucked on our part and we should not let this be possible lol

context but this is not the first time/not the only reason this happens since they can decide pretty much on a whim and probably won't be the last:
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/itch-io-latest-in-platforms-pressured-by-credit-card-companies-as-well-as-activist-group-collective-shout-which-has-successfully-caught-an-award-winning-indie-and-more-in-the-crossfire/

sometimes i think about how sharp for a few years somehow ended up making the coolest microwaves i have ever seen and then stopped

thinking about when LIDL released sneakers and for some reason they went so viral people started reselling them on stockx and grailed for 10x retail price

windmills are cool

bro thinks he's a renault espace f1

this is a close tie ngl

Windows hasn’t been halfway decent since around when it stopped using progression bars as the boot animation

i have been using endeavouros on my laptop for the past 3 months for everything except video editing and music making and honestly the experience has been such a breeze compared to windows i can definitely see how desktop linux will probably take over in the next few years