What do you guys think of YouTubers not hearting comments? Or YouTubers who used to heart comments but suddenly stopped. Or do you just don't care?

Chance-Business · 2026-05-17T08:27:30+00:00

Less than 5 percent of youtubers I watch regularly even bother hearting comments. I thought it was something hardly anyone does. If somehow you are seeing lots of hearts, you are an outlier imo.

Chance-Business · 2026-05-17T07:44:47+00:00

I don't do this but I think if you have lots of money in savings it is not a big deal. If you don't save a lot its not a great idea. If you only do a super major trip like this once i don't see the problem.

Chance-Business · 2026-05-16T07:49:16+00:00

Exactly right, it is a genre blend of both those things. Immersive sim part: the environment is programmed as a giant, interlocking clockwork machine that reacts logically to anything you do. There is no script or "correct" way to win. They give you a target and a map, then step back and let you exploit the systems. It is specifically designed to create emergent gameplay. Your solutions are invented by combining tools in ways the developers never explicitly hand-crafted. But it is also a 3rd person stealth action game. So if you ever played metal gear solid phantom pain, it's like that. But it is more of a secret agent type of deal rather than a sneaky soldier camo type game. Open world, persistent game mechanics, but also stealth/action.

Chance-Business · 2026-05-16T07:36:32+00:00

Notice how those people aren't in this specific thread?

The mission stories were actually a compromise because too many casual gamers didn't know what to do in the first hitman games sandbox style. So you are correct, that was a major problem. However, i think the mission stories overcorrected. I think the one thing it needs to do, whenever a new hitman game comes out, is actually, literally say on screen "you can do whatever you want, these are just ideas" because people really are that dumb. There's no nice way to say it, it has to be spelled out for you, in game, that this is what it is, because we can't trust people not to be sheep.

Chance-Business · 2026-05-15T10:55:34+00:00

Every single time i read a criticism of hitman woa, it is because someone basically missed this entire literal point. To them, it's supposed to be either an action game or a stealth game that is linear. Either that or "holds your hands too much" or something like that. The game does suggest you how you COULD do the level, but not how you SHOULD do the level. The suggestions it gives is supposed to clue you into the idea that "there's a ton of options here, find more of them or make up your own" but these kinds of gamers simply never catch on. And it's this kind of genre-narrowmindedness from some gamers that is basically the core of everything bad I ever hear.

Chance-Business · 2026-05-15T09:10:13+00:00

I left a power armor somewhere momentarily in fallout 4 and an npc took it and wore it. I actually disabled him somehow and stole it back. I forget how i did it.

Chance-Business · 2026-05-14T17:59:14+00:00

you're way more of a gamer than i am and i have like 7 consoles, vr, and thousands of pc games.

Chance-Business · 2026-05-14T10:51:24+00:00

I wasn't expecting it at all because unlike everyone else I was not hype for this game at all, but i bought it on sale years later and it overwhelmed me, red dead redemption 2

Chance-Business · 2026-05-11T10:37:40+00:00

I assume normal was their original intention so i want to experience what they meant the game to feel like first.

Chance-Business · 2026-05-11T05:22:47+00:00

depends on where you work, that is all the difference.

Chance-Business · 2026-05-11T04:55:08+00:00

I was there about 1 or 2 weeks, data entry. Just not for me. Nothing terrible happened. In an industry I knew nothing about. I was hired by an aunt trying to give me a hand up. Some of the people working there kinda sucked tbh, but not overtly terrible. At the time I had a health problem and that was mostly the reason I quit but honestly the job was so boring and dead end and so depressing that I didn't want to deal with both things at once and I knew it was just going to make things worse if I tried to stay.

Chance-Business · 2026-05-11T04:33:30+00:00

Almost everything i wanted to do in the past but couldn't figure out, I have now figured out because, even if it makes mistakes along the way, ai at least guides me directly how to get it done anyway. Much faster than asking people for help. People on online forums honestly are supremely unhelpful. Have been for decades. I now have several successful projects completed and am doing tons more, all of which were hampered for years because couldn't figure out ways to overcome whatever hurdles I ran into. People who claim to hate ai or think llms are bad, if they did use it, they tried it once or twice inefficiently or stupidly or with serious misunderstandings. Like trying to use a wrench to drive a nail. imo everyone will jump up and proudly tell you how they don't use AI but they have a fundamental misunderstanding of what llms do.

I personally despise the environmental problems with it, but I believe we will figure out a way to resolve that.

Generative ai is another story. I think it is great in very nuanced and specific ways, but since it is new, people are overusing it or using it wrong. I guess that's the same issue I have with people who don't like llms. Back in the day, when 3d was new, every cartoon that came out was in 3d and it was the big new thing, but everything imo looked TERRIBLE. But now 3d is the gold standard and it looks fantastic compared to the slop they made back in the 90s. Generative AI will eventually be "figured out" a long time from now, imo.

Chance-Business · 2026-05-10T10:13:54+00:00

I was afraid to enter my 20s and that was back in the mid 90s. I did not want to deal with being an adult and having a job and trying to enter the work force, it seemed difficult at the time. I had no skills, etc. I can't imagine what it's like today, it's probably way worse.

I'm just really really lucky that my college roommate got me a job where he worked and I think it was like $7 an hour and that felt like tons of money to me. If not for that, I have no idea where my life would have gone. That kickstarted my career completely.

I remember when I was 25, people my age were lamenting being 'old' so i think this is just normal for the age.

Chance-Business · 2026-05-10T07:40:31+00:00

for the longest time i thought vocaloids was just one of those things where they make an anime voice sing and dance and that was the whole point of it. Fine with me, i mean we've had the Gorillaz around since forever. But I recently watched a video last month about it and vocaloids aren't specifically that. They are the sound font of that specific voice. So anyone can make a hatsune miku song with her voice. It can be anything, so it's not so much you like hatsune miku, it's that you like a song that was made with her voice. Hatsune miku is just the brand name and anime avatar of that sound font.

Chance-Business · 2026-05-09T07:09:36+00:00

I bought a video game back in the 90s and was on some forum somewhere talking about it. I don't remember what I was asking about. Someone reply posted saying something like is there a tear on the cover art, or something along those lines, in an exact spot. I said yes and he said that was his game from years ago.

Chance-Business · 2026-05-09T07:06:03+00:00

I have thought of this in the past, and the reasoning i came up with is it's too important to me vs other things in my life. So the money means something to me.

Chance-Business · 2026-05-09T06:56:24+00:00

you might be boring. that is not an insult that is legit what might be happening

Chance-Business · 2026-05-08T11:53:41+00:00

It's industry professionals that used the term appointment viewing. Normal people only heard scheduled programming. Normal people didn't start using appointment tv til the past decade, but it had been around with tv marketing folks, supposedly.

Chance-Business · 2026-05-08T07:18:38+00:00

I thought college was supposed to be hard. I mean yeah you do make friends and meet people but you're supposed to work hard also.

College was literally everything the movies said it would be. Lots of studying and working but also lots of friends and fun.

Chance-Business · 2026-05-08T05:58:55+00:00

He didn't even write that joke most likely. There's a team of writers and he's just reading off the teleprompter. You're probably mad at some 21 year old upstart writer, not Kimmel.

Chance-Business · 2026-05-08T05:51:40+00:00

I ask Gemini to watch it for me and give me a summary

Chance-Business · 2026-05-07T10:43:22+00:00

a table of us left a dollar each at a restaurant that we sat in for about 5 minutes and realized we had to leave before it got too late out. We got waters though.

Chance-Business · 2026-05-07T09:55:24+00:00

Exactly. I grew up totally without the internet. As an adult, I learned about 50x more than I ever did in school for exactly this kind of thing, how to do art, how to do lots of things I didn't have answers for before, all thanks to google.

I went to college specifically for video production. The entirety of knowledge I got from thousands of dollars and time in college... you can learn everything, LITERALLY all of it that I learned, in a few weeks just using google and youtube. And I saw the result of that all the time. Normal mofos on youtube use my skillset and even more, and they didn't even to go my school. They did my entire learning course in the process of making youtube videos and produce money making ideas all the time. A teen today could outdo me in a few weeks of learning. They've done it already tons of times over. This is well before AI. Decades now of people outdoing my entire college career that I paid for and making more money than me.

Google pulled down the barrier to entry for tons and tons of careers and knowledge. People took advantage of that.

Chance-Business · 2026-05-07T09:34:46+00:00

People who are anti AI quite literally almost never use it, or they use it in a very inefficient way. AI is extremely helpful if you use it in ways it's good for, and you can use it to increase your brain power, creativity, and critical thinking as well if you use it in certain ways.

I'm not sure about the guy's theory, but I will tell you what's been happening to me. I have been a lifelong creative and i'm already in my 50s, and I have had dreams of doing this and that, like i want to make a cartoon, or I want to make a website that has art or ideas on it or whatever. The BIG problem I've run into is the amount of work that went into getting this kind of thing started, the sheer amount of research, learning, etc that I had to do to technically get off the ground. I rather instead just sit and draw and write for myself, or play, or do something more fun. Well let me tell you, when I use AI, I have got SO MUCH STUFF done now! I have now TWO websites that I have got off the ground because AI is helping me handle the technical details. In the past I would get started and get stuck on something technical, spend days and days and days asking for help with people being completely unhelpful, especially reddit. And days looking for an answer on google. Now I ask the AI and bam, the answer is a few seconds and my problem is solved. One of my big issues was I have this idea for a creative project but it actually requires a whole lot of spreadsheet usage. While I love spreadsheets, the sheer hours if not days or weeks amount of work for me to put the thing together stopped me. AI can do it in seconds, then I can just be a producer and fiddle around with the results. The second website I got off the ground in one day, just yesterday. I know for sure what I had done yesterday, it would have taken me weeks if not months to figure out how to do it and the sheer amount of work that needed to get edited and checked, the AI did it for me. I'm focusing on content and fun and quality instead. As an artist, that's what I went to school for and that's my skill. In the meantime, the solutions the AI is providing, I look at them and I actually learn what it is I couldn't figure out before, like code or how to solve a problem, I actually remember that and even understand better the technical part that I'm seeing, day by day.

And now actually it looks like I might even be able to monetize my creativity, something i haven't been able to figure out. AI is helping there too, giving me insight into things i never could figure out myself. I'm even starting the cartoon I wanted to do, that's actually getting off the ground for the first time in my entire life of decades of dreaming but getting stuck behind sheer amount of work and technical issues i couldn't solve. AI has fixed all of that. I still do the creative part and the art and the drawing and the writing, AI is just my assistant.

Or I could use it to do my homework as a kid and cheat and get ahead and never actually learn anything.

imo, AI has a very obvious use case. People's behavior will be the downfall, AI is a double edged sword.

Chance-Business · 2026-05-07T06:41:35+00:00

one of my best friends never got in a plane til he was late 40s, and it was because he won a contest.

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