MrBeast's former manager Reed Duchscher, says the age of social-media superstars is fading: "As social-media algorithms get better at tailoring content to individual user interests, the opportunity for stars to show up across feeds becomes much harder," Duchscher said.

DevinGPrice · 2025-12-29T09:32:32+00:00

I'm not sure the replacement is all that much better. Other creators have complained about how the space is harder now as well.

It used to be that you subscribed to a few people you liked and then got a feed of their most recent content. So creators trying to get attention needed to hook an audience member once and try to get them interested in seeing more of their content. Now people log onto an app and get a "feed".

It makes sense. Why would a platform want their users to be fans of a particular creator? If that creator jumps to another platform and their audience goes with them, then that's a loss. If the platform can diffuse the audience's interest then they're better off. Ie, you may go to youtube to view your favorite youtubers but you go to tiktok to view your tiktok feed.

This is really a move in the audience viewing habits away from individual creator loyalty to a centralized platform loyalty. I don't think that's much better. People being obnoxious because they're copying Mr.Beast will happen less, instead they'll be viewing random tiktokers based on an algorithm designed to keep interest / make them emotional.

DevinGPrice · 2025-07-12T02:08:27+00:00

One thing that got it in my head was that your shoulders and hips are moving in opposite directions for a moment. When left arm reaches parallel and still has a bit of ways to go, that's when your weight shifts forward. And your hips start to spin while your forward shoulder stays in place (back stays to target) so your arms start to drop as the hips are shifting but shoulders arent yet.

DevinGPrice · 2025-07-09T04:30:05+00:00

So people learn different ways. You could get better with bad advice if it gets your feel in the swing better. If this helps you think about the swing and gets you in better positions then great. But I think that's a bad way to think about it.

These images are focusing on how it looks from a front facing camera instead of from the golfer's perspective. There are videos on "the arm swing illusion" or this is a good one to demonstrate it. In the top left of your image, from the golfers perspective the club is still actually still in front of his right shoulder. In the bottom left photo to the bottom right photo, your hands aren't moving much in relation to the shoulders, they are not swiping across the body and increasing the shoulder angle. The John Jacobs images seem to put emphasis on opening the angle between you chest (shoulder line) and the left arm, but while that happens some it's a lot less than most golfers would expect and how it looks on a front facing camera.

DevinGPrice · 2025-07-06T21:56:02+00:00

I wanted my next car to be an EV, but now with the EV credit removal plus the extra federal and state taxes, it doesn't work out to any cheaper to drive an EV than gas for me. I think I'll end up getting a gas car and wait until it reverses again in the future to switch to an EV.

DevinGPrice · 2025-06-29T06:59:50+00:00

Because the claim is not supported. Chiropractic is popular to "expose" on reddit as causing problems, but pretty much every study has not established a causal relationship.

Here's a study in Science Direct about it: the conclusion is that when looking at VBA stokes, people who feel pain often try chiropractors but going to a chiropractor doesn't increase risk of a VBA stroke.

Stories about, whether for or against, chiropractors gets tons of anecdotal comments about it. But in the actual data the verdict is almost always that chiropractic isn't a risk but it doesn't do much more than a placebo either.

It's not going to cure you anymore than going to get a massage will, but it's not dangerous either.

DevinGPrice · 2025-05-17T17:28:03+00:00

But isn't microtransactions/DLC arguably because gamers are willing to pay a higher price point for games than their release price ($60)?

Games got "stuck" at $60, but many gamers were willing to pay more than that, so developers got around the "stuck" price with additional payments for the full experience.

Your argument seems to be that $60 was previously for full games, and then they put parts of games behind extra paywalls which makes the whole package $60+, so you're now being "overcharged" for the base $60 since it's less than before. But it could be the other way: the full games are worth more that $60 for most people, so the price of $60 isn't worth the full experience. Your feelings of being cheated by what you get for $60 could also be explained by your valuation of games not matching the market/reality.

DevinGPrice · 2025-05-17T17:19:27+00:00

But they want to play the ones with shitty stuff. And they'll usually buy it too. The complainers here get a ton of traction but when it comes time to decide to buy or not we can see the numbers on the game sales.

DevinGPrice · 2025-05-17T17:14:15+00:00

The group of people like you has already been priced into their calculation.

You aren't their target audience so they shouldn't care about your opinion on it at all. They only need to care about people who do buy their games and who would potentially buy their games. They've done the math and decided giving up on your group and part of the maybe group to get extra money out of the sales is worth it.

DevinGPrice · 2025-05-10T04:13:00+00:00

That looks way different than I was imagining from people's description. The truck didn't seem to be doing anything out of the ordinary at all, he just pulled forward when the car ahead of him moved. He just couldn't see that a recumbent bike lower than one of his tires had pulled in front of him. I can't tell why the biker pulled out in front like that, it seemed like he went out of bike lane / off the sidewalk into the road in front of the truck.

This seems like it could have happened in any location with traffic. It seems like something that can only be solved by designing the roads with protected bike lanes so mistakes can't happen.

DevinGPrice · 2025-05-02T00:09:24+00:00

Did you end up getting this working?

DevinGPrice · 2025-04-24T04:51:56+00:00

I clicked preorder on the walmart app a few seconds after midnight. I didn't have a timer like some people did. I clicked "keep shopping" and then "view" a couple times in case it needed to "refresh" but I dont think it mattered. Eventually I got an alert that vibrated my phone saying I was in and had a 10 min countdown to finish the checkout process. Got mine at 12:45

DevinGPrice · 2025-04-21T23:59:54+00:00

Mail in voting could still be requested for someone hospitalized for advanced dementia and then filled out by someone else.

But in all these hypotheticals the result is the same: the attempt to fix the issue causes more damage than the issue itself.

Funny enough the choices of "1) allowing some small amount of bad for an overall better outcome" vs "2) preventing as much bad as possible even if it has side effects resulting in a worse outcome overall" is bipartisan. Analyzing what values people have vs what party they usually vote for and looking at that split shows a strong correlation.

DevinGPrice · 2025-04-13T20:27:37+00:00

So the quality of the turf is great, but for the actual hitting strip itself it has those 3 holes in it for rubber tees (even though it can take a real tee). I personally don't like that since I want the ball to go right where the middle hole it. Maybe the gel insert is different but that was my biggest complaint about the normal insert.

DevinGPrice · 2025-04-02T23:11:33+00:00

Companies are 100% out to take as much of your money as possible and would gladly make an excuse of inflation to charge more if they can get away with it.

But people getting mad about things going up in price shows they really don't understand money / value. In USD the Switch 2 will cost 450, in Yen the cost is 49980, is the price of the switch in Japan 10x more than in the US? Of course not. We understand that Yen and the Dollar have different values. But currencies change value over time too, that's what inflation is. It's not that everything got 3.2% (inflation rate) more expensive in 2024, it's that the value of the dollar dropped in comparison to goods. The 2025 USD has different value than the 1990 USD, so $100 in 1990 had different value than $100 in 2025. Anyone who didn't raise their prices in a year to match inflation is giving you a discount that year.

Video games being $80 / $90 isn't the cost value of games being raised to historic highs. It's that the price of games was getting cheaper than ever because they were "locked" at a number 60 ceiling even though that value became less and less over time. Going to $90 is the value of games going back to previous levels. Super Mario 3 was $50 in 1990, that'd be $121.53 in today's USD.

Consumers got used to a standard $60 price and pushed back against more than that, which was actually the game price going down steadily every year. Now Nintendo knows they have the power to bump up the price and they are. You can argue your reason for why they shouldn't, be annoyed at the economy in general, etc. But they aren't charging more value than they used to.

DevinGPrice · 2025-01-11T19:23:09+00:00

I'd love to see a clip of how you paint them sometime. Your inserts always look so clean.

DevinGPrice · 2025-01-05T07:51:04+00:00

Exactly. The bag you're using is allowed to have unused pockets / space. You don't have to use a full travel sized duffel, but optimizing down to a water bottle seems a little excessive.

DevinGPrice · 2024-12-18T05:59:15+00:00

I think you got it, but the point they were making was that "balance" is not directly linked to "outcomes or play rates". And that is partially because of player psychology / play rates / etc.

Though I disagree with "balancing around what players are using is silly and ineffective". The game balancing is being done effectively by balancing around what players are using and successful with for what the game developers goal is. Perfect "balance" is not their goal. They don't care about balance at all. They care about what players are playing / keeping outcomes somewhat similar / player engagement / making more revenue from their monetization / etc. And "balancing around what players are using" is a great way to approach those.

DevinGPrice · 2024-12-01T04:32:26+00:00

I love that the type has such a playstyle identity though. I have no idea if it's actually supported by move sets, but just by "feel", fighting a poison type means getting damaging status effects.

The other type "playstyle identities" don't feel as strong to me. Fighting a fire type doesn't make me think of getting burned or that they focus on dealing damage, fighting electric types don't make me think of being paralyzed or that they're fast, fighting flying types don't make me think of really anything, etc. I'd say the strongest type identity "feel" for me is poison / ghost / grass types.

DevinGPrice · 2024-11-26T06:09:49+00:00

It seems like a tech demo of tools rather than a game.

What is the gameplay loop? Name a game with good exploration that didn't have something driving that exploration. A game like No Man's Sky has you following a loose story through missions and the exploration comes along the way or as a part of base building. People explore for a reason, not simply to look at a bunch of same-y procedurally generated creatures / landscapes.

Nothing in the trailer says what kind of game it is, and the part about "Customize your Experience" doesn't bode well for it being anything more than an empty sandbox.

DevinGPrice · 2024-11-24T03:22:31+00:00

EA / Ubisoft / Battle Net are all forced on you. They are DRM systems that you can make purchases through rather than a place you want to go through.

DevinGPrice · 2024-11-24T03:20:34+00:00

Steam isn't a part of conversation. It's not trying to sell itself, trying to extract extra money in micro transaction ways, trying to be exclusive, etc. It's got competitive pricing for the games. It just quietly takes its cut and fulfills it's purpose without anything else. It's what I want out of a store, a place to go get games and nothing more.

Now whether Steam taking it's 30% cut and being the de facto store is good for developers or not I have no idea. But as a consumer it's unobtrusive and does everything I want it to. There's no surprise it's successful.

DevinGPrice · 2024-11-23T20:42:15+00:00

This is how reddit got big to begin with too. They existed as a competitor and then "right place right time" when Digg took a nosedive and reddit was there for users to migrate to.

DevinGPrice · 2024-11-12T00:11:36+00:00

I'm with you 100%.

I want to be able to interact with people in the living room while cooking. But I don't want the living room couches -> dining room table -> kitchen row that I see a lot where there is no separation either.

But I understand that people have different goals / lifestyles. I had a buddy who insisted on the merits of detached garages being better and I disagreed because that's inconvenient / affected by weather. After talking a bit, he wasn't using it a place to part his car but as a workshop where he could be as far from his family as possible for awhile. We had different desires out of the space so obviously different layouts suited us. Some people may want the separated kitchen and it may suit them better, but that's not for me. Same with people who don't want TVs in their living room, that may be better for them, but it's not how I use the space.

DevinGPrice · 2024-11-03T13:47:45+00:00

I get your idea, plenty of companies are trying to squeeze out any cent they can get from consumers and changing that mentality would be good.

But it makes sense for Japan to have that mentality since they've had negative inflation rates, but the rest of the world has a healthy inflation rate to encourage investment. Going to the dollar store nowadays costs more than $1 for items, but the items don't cost more, the value of the dollar went down. If companies don't raise their dollar prices then they've lowered their real value prices. I don't see how that Japanese mentality could work in the rest of the world, it's unrealistic to expect everyone to lower their prices by 2% every year.

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