I think he means that for him you’re only a star if any random person off the street has a good chance of having heard of you, no matter how large your niche fanbase is. It’s the argument behind the ‘Tom cruise is the last true Hollywood star’ idea. I think that’s pretty true, the internet gives a whole lot more depth to communities, but they’re much more isolated from each other than before. In my opinion that’s a good thing, you get a lot more diversity.

Personally know a faculty member at Barnard who fled the Holocaust as a child. Sure he must just be delighted to witness such terrifying bullshit. Fuck these monsters.

With all the stuff about the ruthless efficiencies of multinational corporations, I took it more to mean ‘ill cough up the dough for a fairphone next time’. But maybe I’m projecting my own reaction to getting fucked by the 4a (all things considered, I’m actually kind of ok with the degraded battery life in the end, spent the 50 bucks on a couple external batteries and I rarely even need to use them).

I watched the first few episodes and he comes off as an entitled techbro moron. The last straw for me was when he went on a rant asking ‘what does NASA even do anyway, just let SpaceX take over’. Typical silicon valley bubble self-aggrandizing, thinking tech disruptors have anything to do with actual scientists, the worst kind of hypercapitalist obscurantist bullshit.

Damn. Well said.

It’s trump. There’s obviously no plan.

Lol, expecting words to mean something, how stupid.

It’s for the same reason he’s pretended to be a genius his entire career, he’s obsessed with his self image and being number one. He’s lied about being the best quake player in the world at some point. He’s like Billy Mitchell with more money.

Jesus, that guy has issues…

And mother 3. Dear God, mother 3.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M-0TB9JMpdE&t=64s

That’s actually not true, ‘ground apple’ is a common name for different sorts of tubers in a number of different languages, going back to the latin ‘malum terrae’.

Thankfully they only last 10 minutes

Huh weird, I guess remake must have messed with my memory

It’s at least disc 2, disc 1 ends when you leave midgar

Seems right up my alley but there’s a snowballs chance in hell of me coughing up that much dough for it. Good on the devs for finding their market though.

I think the blade runner sequel had something like this too.

In terms of nostalgia, ffvii, but the most moving experience I’ve ever had with a video game is mother 3.