Neither the main tab nor subscriptions really gives me what I want. The main tab is good - I do discover good things there. I’m not one of those people who says “just give me my subscriptions in chronological order.” Because that actually sucks, and that’s kinda what you get on the subscription tab.
I want a smart algorithm, I just want it to pay more respect to my subscriptions and show more of them more often. “Home” gives you some but not enough.
I use YT daily, heavily.
It’s pretty well known that their feed is optimized for engagement above all else. They will show you videos they think you’ll like and NOT show you a new video from a channel you’re subscribed to.
It’s called an “algorithm.”
It’s so extreme at times that you can even not know that you’re subscribed to a channel, because you never see them.
This is what I mean by not respecting subscriptions. There’s no stronger explicit signal I can give YT when I want to see more of a creator. But they ignore that and decide for me what I’ll like.
Yeah I think it’s a quality channel but apparently there are just SO many people out there smarter than me that they are fine catering only to them. It sucks being left behind by a publicly funded channel :(
Only if you didn’t pay attention.
I just showed their Fentanyl video to my 13yo daughter over the weekend and it was incredibly effective as a parenting tool. We paused many times and discussed. But their presentation didn’t leave all that much for me to say.
Me: “Sam O… haha cute name. I’ve never heard of it. I’ll see if they have a YT channel. Oh they do! What?! I’m already subscribed??!”
I wish YT actually respected subscriptions. Here I am subscribed to someone and I’ve so thoroughly forgotten it that their name doesn’t even ring a bell.
Shyeah. These dudes tried to overthrow democracy by due process? Rubes!
Just sharing that sesame (including seeds, sesame oil and tahini) are an increasingly frequent allergen. Most bakeries now label if it is used anywhere in their facility.
Some tahini or oil would be well-hidden in a vinaigrette, so just be aware of who you’re serving it to, since they will have no way to detect it.
quickly
That’s the problem. It wasn’t quick. If it had been released quickly and been a failure, that would be one thing. But to hype it and hype it and pre-sell it into new devices for 9 months only THEN to release a failure… now that’s fucked up. Apple hardware has been crushing it for years. Software is a mess. Services couldn’t piss themselves if their pants were on fire.
That would be funny if someone had never seen Rogue One before and thought it was the pilot episode for Season 2. I mean… banger pilot but holy shit that ending!!
I’m finally reading The Expanse books and in the opening pages of the first book there’s a joke about how a freshly implanted prosthetic arm doesn’t quite feel like yours until you get used to it, and in that interim you can jerk off and it will feel like a hand job. And the book goes from there.
Dude there’s always been a ton of Star Wars content you didn’t know about, unless you read 2-3 Star Wars novels and comic titles per month.
It’s a GOOD THING to have niche content for niche audiences. Trying to make everything for the mass market is how we get brainless blockbusters.
They stock a lot of junk, which I don’t buy. And a lot of healthy, high quality items at unbeatable prices which I do buy. If you’re never coming back because of the junk, I guess 🤷♂️
Glad that didn’t go awry. Sometimes those knots come loose under the blade and it can get ugly.
Our mouths really want to flow vowel->>consonant->> vowel->>consonant->> and various languages all have their ways of helping that happen.
Eh, fair enough. It is retrospective so we’ll never know how much of that he was thinking about at the time. But he explains it convincingly enough. It’s still a mistake to have such a complicated notion of what goes into hyperspace travel and then not provide enough basis in that for the dialogue to make sense. That might be a worse error than just the simple mistake of using the wrong unit.
I’d love to see a primary source on what he said. I’m sure if he said it after years of people lampooning the line, his take was probably defensive and revisionist.
Yep I read the Han Solo trilogy where this is detailed. He cut the corners tighter and made a shortcut or two through this mazey route.
It’s a great attempt at covering a mistake in the movie. They are clearly discussing the ship’s speed in that scene, not its durability.
It bugged me to see the author bending over backwards to come up with an explanation retroactively. In the same novels we also learn that the stripe down Han’s pants is not just a wardrobe flair but it has a meaning like a family tartan in Scotland (or some shit).
Reading these books helped me realize how 50% of the whole Star Wars franchise is books and comics milking the movies, inventing whole stories to account for some throwaway line of dialogue or some creature that was on the screen for two seconds. The Rise and Fall of Sy Snootles and the Spiders from Mars. Shit like that. Dumb.
Star Wars has a million things like Bothans that are mentioned in passing or that flash across the screen for one second, which then get a whole elaborate back story treatment in the novels or comics or whatever. I’m sure there’s some trilogy of novels about the Bothans and their spy hyjinx and their profuse dying.
It is, until you realize wow I haven’t seen that subscribed channel in a frickin year