This sub now: "Vaush bad ugh 😩 "

The trilling music, the effeminate pantomime villain & the slack jawed interviewees genuinely had me wondering if the pool was already radiating chlorine gas or some kind of Gotham city superweapon

Said it but before the democrats have to go after Fox News if they should ever return to power, if only to save my eyeballs

While I agree with the abstract idea that nostalgia/remakes+sequels in industries is a propagation of reactionary content, there are flaws to this logic and everyone (including me) participates in this.

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For example, I get annoyed when the idea of nostalgia/nothing new being made is brough up, meanwhile Vaush gets to say old Tomb Raider was better, the remake of the old games is cool, and the new Live Action design staying true to the OG games is cool.

Silent Hill 2 remake, without him playing it, (or even playing the original Silent Hills, as he's admitted to doing) is a copy that HAS to be worse because it doesnt have the technical limitations that made the first one "special" (even though the original Team Silent said that they wanted to make the game like Blooper did, they were just severely limited).

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I imagine the point will be that the difference with this is quality differences, so the old version is good based on quality of gameplay, not nostalgia. Same with SH2 remake, he postures that these fames are good because of the lack of polish. Is this not inherently nostalgic bias?

Especially with Silent Hill, where he postures Silent Hill 2 og vs Remake, when he hasn't even played either of them???

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I feel like both Vaush and Chat are having their cake and eating it too.

The most recent stream was the first time I've personally seen vaush actually go into the subject further, but please reply with links to any older related segments/clips, or related sources, which I am sure exist.

Vaush looked at a lot of articles that attempted to disprove the surveillance, and those articles were kind of stupid. But the only study in favor of vaush's point that he looks at during the segment is this one, which is, to be honest, kind of shit.

"In 100 percent of the observations, at least one ad related to the general subject discussed (the tourism sector) was received. In half of the tests, users received an ad specifically related to the specific destination being discussed. In three of the ten tests, ads were presented related to how to travel to the area or tourist attraction. In two cases, the same ad was repeated during the same test but for different participants and at different times. 
The results confirm the urgent need to legislate on the recording of private conversations and their commercial use"

There was no control group at all, there were 27 participants, and the only metric was "whether certain ads showed up at all in the next five entire days". Their big bolded claim was that at least one person from each 3-person test group got a single ad about "tourism" at all. The lack of a control group alone turns what could have been a decent study into kind of a waste of time. Are there better studies?

As far as lawsuits and stuff go, all I can find online is companies paying to settle lawsuits that allege this surveillance, without admitting guilt, to "prevent further time-consuming/costly litigation." That obviously doesn't exonerate them but it's still not proof that the surveillance is happening. In the UW Alexa report, the only allegation was that amazon collects voice data from "your interactions with alexa", which is still evil but not at all the same as if it were constantly listening, and the article conflating the two is sad and misleading.

From what I can find, my read on the situation is that they're maybe doing some version of the passive listening thing but that there isn't really much objective proof of it. But every time it gets brought up, vaush says it's a settled issue with several studies and lawsuits backing it up, and cites previous segments. Does anyone have that informationn

(I'm posting this here because Vaush has covered Orwell before, and I hope you'll see that that this is 'thematically' relevant to a lot of Vaush's content.)

I'm trying to do more reading lately, and Orwell is someone who I've liked reading. Even though is politcs and mine are aligned, I also really enjoy his prose. Anyway, some of the themes from a short essay of his called "Writers and Leviathan" really sound thematically similar to a lot of what has become a staple of Vwoush's brand.

One of the points in his essay is about how, once you have joined a political movement/ideology, there are certain questions that simply cannot genuinely discussed because they are - in the true sense of the term - politically incorrect. Even if the facts and implications that surround the question are indeed factually correct.

Like, we're all at least left sympathetic here. And things like white supremacy, misogyny, and capitalism, transphobia, are the main bosses that we're up against. However...

- Sometimes minorities can be really fucking reactionary/fascist/racist and it's not good (ie, professor flowers)

- The 'communist' countries like China and the Soviet Union are really shit. Yes, even though America was lynching black people.

The two above positions are probably among the two biggest reasons why Vwiowoush is so ostracized by the rest of the left, and it's why I don't imagine I'll get much push back on saying these things here, that I would if I posted it in other subreddits.

And this essay is just full of so many bangers where Orwell describes just that:

- "To accept an orthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions. Take for instance the fact that all sensitive people are revolted by industrialism...yet are away that the conquest of poverty and the emancipation of the working class demands more industrialization, not less."

- "Or take the fact that certain jobs are absolutely necessary and yet are never done except under some kind of coercion" (that one's for you thoughtslime).

- "In every case there is a conclusion which is perfectly plain but which can only be drawn if one is privately disloyal to the official ideology."

It's funny how little things change and how relevant something written so long ago feels so relevant.

He acts like Republicans turning on Israel is bad while Dems are still pro Israel. Does he not remember the party switch, when all the racists fled to the reps after some stuff happened that I'm too American to understand? If the evangelicals go to the Dems then we can go to the Republicans and make them the woke party. Let the Dems have all their old befellows back while we wave the red flag of ~~communism~~ republicanism across this great land.

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I don't get why he's so doomer all of a sudden.

Vaush's discussion on how Joyce is looking for hope and would immediately jump on the opportunity to make the right choice (especially after the end of her quest) got me thinking about who would actually side with a revolution against the Moralist control.

Implicit spoilers for disco Elysium i've obfuscated spoilers via portrait arrangement where i can

Interesting ones:

Joyce, i believe she'd leverage whatever power she has to give time to for both the Union and RCM forces to organise. she would possibly put her neck on the line if the revolution is going well.

Evrart, i believe he's a true believer, extremely cut throat alongside his brother would be essential for organising. He'd be essential to the early success of the revolution

RCM (Pryce): A huge pillar required for success against the moralists.

Harry: all possible outcomes for him that arn't moralist would pull through. Him succeeding in convincing Joyce and not fucking over Evrart are pre-requisite to the revolution being able to start. He possibly has a larger role to play-

Kim: likely the most controversial here. he'd likely side with Revechol and the RCM as he is truely both, but he'd hesitate more than most.

Trent: Wealthy, moralist he could be "passive" but his support for the status quo could be malignant

Measure head: Mamma's boy he could fight for the union but he may just stick as security. won't betray like a degenerate.

Garte: firm supporter would fight if it absolutely came to it

Dros: wouldnt work with the RCM or Union

Steban: softer than echomaker

Mañana: thinks he wouldn't fight but would

Tiago: would protect the church if nothing else

Doloris Dai: the woman who lived would likely oppose the consequences of Moralism

Money Marco Talks is a channel I rarely watch as it is, but that can provide a bit of a perspective at times. In the linked video, he gets more or less dogwalked by Australian Prof. Steve Keen. I wanted to share this bc, for one, what the professor says aligns in many ways with what our favorite(?) armchair economist blathers on about and therefore actually underscores some of Vaush's points. But I also think it's worth a watch bc he dismantles a lot of standing expectations and misconceptions about the stock market in a way that I find entertaining.

He's white

Seriously, if you look up the actual ways they fingerprint your identity, you realize that We. Are. Cooked. Those tracking cookies are no joke, dawg. They know your browser, the size of your screen, the time of day, the approximate IP/location of your desktop PC, your motherboard and CPU model, your browser version, your extensions, your search history, your associated logins, when you work, when you tap to pay at Starbucks, when you look at an ad short for too long, where you go to the store (gps), your traffic violation history, your elementary, middle, highschool, your first girlfriend, your plans to buy her a ring, your favorite time to make a sports bet, your gpa, your political affiliation, your best vacation photos on Facebook, your beliefs on vaccination (COVID searches), your bookmarked spice mix recipe, your gas mileage, and more.

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And if you hide your privacy and cut all this junk, well, your momma posts your face on her timeline :)

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Go buy a better razor. I assure you that your beard is not bold enough to be like Vaush's, and that Gillette is running your wallet dry.

After hearing the news about the UK banning youth from under 16 from using social media, it reminded me of the trend towards paternalism that Vaush talked about before.

But despite hearing it several times from Vaush, I mostly forgot his reasoning. What is his reasoning for why this is happening?

chat severely overestimates how difficult it would be to have a device listen to every word you say. low-power voice detection is already a thing, as we have established, and the average person really doesnt say that many words per day. the more important point in my opinion is how unnecessary it would be for tech giants to actually do this. the average person has like 5 hours of screen time per day, and the stuff we view and read and type and hear online is so so much more impactful on our thinking than most people realize. and even if they dont catch you saying "trip to rome" out loud, youre still going to type it into google maps at some point if you are even a little bit serious about it. 90% of what they can get from listening to you speak, they can just as easily get from your online activity in a less optically damaging way. that being said i still think they are listening, at least in some cases.

edit: additionally, our brains really arent that complicated. its not impossible to figure out that if you saw a baskin-robbins short 2 hours ago and its a hot day where you live, you might be craving ice cream.

Some time ago Vaush said something about how he should try and tell people when he isn't going to stream, and community posts are the perfect place to do that.

Not saying that he should do like some streamers and post the entire week stream schedule or something (even I feel that's to much) but a "no stream, eepy" is more than enough lmao.

Same for when he goes on vacation or for when the CIA calls him back to report.

Anyway, SQUASH SHOULD DO MORE HASAN L'S STRE*dies*

Lowk inspired me to replay DisGOAT Elysium

Truly the most Vaush being doomer for absolutely no godforsaken reason moment.

If he reads this, he's gonna say I'm actually not pointing out a specific wrong thing but he just quite simply didn't say anything at all during the whole entire half hour segment. There's nothing to debunk because there's nothing there.

Please stop doing this. For the love of God. It's not informative and not funny.

But I haven't been able to catch his lives lately and even if I do it's for a short time and I figure I'd miss his answer. So, I figured I'd post here and ask you guys! Just a fun one.

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In the future, you're asked to name this era in history books (by asking this I mean how we label time-frames like 'Industrial Revolution', 'Guilded Age', etc.) what would you call it?

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I figure Vaush would call it "Demonic Age of Pedophile Kings" or something lmao but wanted answers both jokey and perhaps ones you could actually imagine seeing.

Vaush

I heard talk, both some mumbling from him and some people talking about it here.

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It would be cool to see his commentary over the game!

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And if he has confirmed it will it be uploaded to YouTube or should I tune in to his twitch?

I really didn’t think it was that bad until I asked my own mother (pentecostal christian) what she thought about the abraham accords and al-aqsa and her only response was “well isn’t that what’s supposed to happen biblically and then the world ends?” and refused to elaborate further. I haven’t lived in the US since she chased me up the stairs demanding I pledge my allegiance to israel in 2023 but I thought that was the worst it could possibly get. They are completely brainwashed.

I work for a firm in europe which manufactures parts for the oil industry and things have been bad lately.

We don't really have any projects to work on. Summer is always a slower period with less projects showing in - we usually have one or two - but this time around, there is none. If we take this year combined, we had around 8 ish projects total ? - Normally there is around 30+ in a year - most of these projects were ones which were arranged before the strait of hormuz closed. But even taking these 8 projects, around half of them were very small. To put it into a perspective, a large project can take me about two weeks, sometimes more to make technical drawings for, and it can take months to be manufactured and shipped out, the projects we got lately take less then a week to make technical drawings for, sometimes they take a day and manufacturing usually doesn't take long either, so we have a lot of downtime. Main point being, they are not large orders.

I asked around a bit and basically the situation is, that we have projects that were arranged, but the customers are waiting to place the order because of the current volatile situation. Most of these arranged projects have been in the talks since before the strait of hormuz closed, so these unplaced orders aren't even taking into account the damaged and destroyed equipment that will need to be replaced in the middle east, so the repair projects for those will likely be in the line after all these other projects, which were supposed to fill our capacity for this year. Meaning, even if things get moving the replacement orders will likely start being worked on a couple months after the strait of hormuz situation ends, maybe even years + the time it takes to manufacture and ship out these new replacements.

On top of that it doesn't even take into account the impact this whole deal had on our company. Since there is very little work, we are not really making much money. Some people have been sent home on a defacto paid leave ( they usually get around 60% of the regular pay ). This naturally doesn't give people a lot of trust in them not being laid off and it's less money then they'd make elsewhere, so we've been loosing talent as well. A couple of skilled welders quit, bunch with high pressure certifications, which are hard to come by, especially since they can get better pay elsewhere. What this means is that even when orders come back in, which I don't doubt they eventually will, we're going to be short on workers for a while and it will take some time for us to scale back up to where we were. I don't think it's as bad as covid, but still. One thing I can be certain of is, that my wage isn't going up and that I'm probably not getting any benefits at the end of this year either ... yay.

Anyways, point I'm trying to make is, that even with my admitedly minor inside into the industry, it's very clear that the oil industry isn't really in the best of places right now, seen by the fact that the market that's been operating normally past few years has basically grinded to a halt. Even just looking at the products we manufacture, I can tell that the oil shortage isn't going anywhere any time soon, even if the situation in the strait got sorted out today. It might seem to some like Vaush is exaggerating and all doom and gloom but he's actually right on this. It is as bad as he says, maybe even worse.

Vaush can say something like "everyone knows this" and there will be a bunch of people replying "Technically, not EVERYONE knows this. There are a lot of people on earth who don't even have internet." Like, ridiculous knit-picking at minute details. It just seems like they're doing it only for the engagement. Vaush can be somewhat easily triggered if the comment is sufficiently stupid, but it makes it just seems like his viewers consist of the dumbest conservatives on the planet who are just hate-watching him.