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Peter Lam retweeted
Dear (allegedly) North Korean hacker,
I hope you step on a Lego barefoot.
I hope your pillow is useless so your neck hurts.
I also hope the money (you stole) makes your life a little easier, if you really did come from nothing. Though I wish you'd remembered that some of the people you stole from came from nothing, too. They just tried to make something of it the honest way.
I hope you find a better way to make a living, although I suppose you probably never have to work again.
I hope you develop a lifelong habit of biting the inside of your cheek.
And I hope you get food poisoning for a week, every month, for the rest of your life. Nothing life-threatening. Just deeply inconvenient.
I wish you a lifetime of the most minor inconveniences, occurring with remarkable consistency.
Respectfully,
Peter Lam retweeted
lowkey one of the biggest things that helped me escape depression was to stop thinking as much.
i really resonate with allen watts
"A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusions"
It was time for a PC upgrade since my current rig was from 2020. Parts are hella expensive now but thankfully I had @hytebrand help me out by sending me their new Y50 RGB case!
Never really had a case with windows like this before. Usually it would be all black with no windows, but you know... I thought it was time to show a little bit more personality with my gaming PC haha.
Thank you again HYTE for this awesome case! Super clean and super easy to build in.
Here's the link if you wanna check out the case:
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I think we're close to the snap back of the rubber band. We can see Dead Internet theory only as a negative,but I see the light at the end of the tunnel.
More people I talk to now are actively going out more. They're taking back control of their agency and deciding to doom scroll less. Some even getting off of social media platforms completely.
Even more so, I see more efforts to build and maintain community.
If social media is no longer the social place to be, people will naturally find ways around it to do what we were always meant to do. Connecting with others.
That's like saying remove movie posters and any covers for media (streaming services, music, etc)
Packaging has been a thing for a very long time now. YouTube is no different.
Peter Lam retweeted
Sometimes it's just embarrassing to be a professional "content creator". I hate the reputation that comes with this job.
I was at a dinner last night where I was invited as a creator to dine complimentary. No posting expectations, no required deliverables (shoutout Lyla in Toronto, the lobster agnolotti was incredible)
I asked my waiter at the end of the night how often creators are tipping on their comped meals. He told me fewer than 50% tip at all, and only about 5% tip "correctly" meaning 18-22% of what the bill would be.
WTF is wrong with people? The sense of entitlement is unreal. You know your server is doing the same work, IF NOT MORE because your "influencer" ass is probably making high maintenance requests. You do not get to STIFF THE STAFF just because your food is complimentary?!?
If you are blessed enough to be in this position TIP YOUR SERVERS on what the bill would have been. Be a better person.
Peter Lam retweeted
How is the internet less private than in 2006, when the whole family shared one computer?
Back then, the internet was weird, personal, and all of ours.
So, we got your favorite meme legends back together to say it louder: What happened to the internet? 1/3
I can't even begin to explain the excitement that I have with the power to edit a website, deploy it live, and editing videos all through my phone while waiting for my flight at the airport. 🤯
This is why branding is more important than ever.
Before the quantity era we had pillars of established trust based on the higher barrier to entry. Back then you HAD to have something good to be worth spending all that money to market your product.
Now that almost anyone can make anything (physical goods included) and the cost is relatively very low, the ones who actually make quality products and services have to differentieate themselves by having strong branding.
Strong branding draws the line between quality and slop.
This is a SKU swap, a known tactic with Amazon sellers (just update an old product and keep it rolling).
That said, most brands have the ability to spend 4 figures and get their item to 4.5. It's also easy to ask creators on Amazon to post videos for the potential revenue boost. Most of the time, it's a how-to video.
It's so hard to trust...anything.
AI is and should always be a tool.
Not a replacement for thinking and definitely not a replacement for vision.
Shigeru Miyamoto shared thoughts on generative AI and its meaning for creativity in game development.
He compared AI to the evolution of computers and design tools. As technology handles more technical work, human design sense and creative judgment grow more important.
Miyamoto distinguishes between “creating something” and “doing the work.”
Creating starts with deciding what to make, building the overall structure, and having clear intention. The work that follows fills in details, polishes, and executes the idea.
“People can become so satisfied with the work itself that they start mistaking that satisfaction for having created something good.”
Miyamoto believes AI taking over repetitive work could give people more chances to focus on what they truly want to create.
“The more AI takes care of all kinds of tasks for us, the more opportunities we all have to think seriously about what it really means to create something.”
He acknowledges AI could eventually handle almost everything in the creative process, but for now:
“I think there’s still plenty that we humans can do.”
With the amount of slop on the Internet increasing everyday, it's obviously horrible. But I do believe there's a bright side to this.
Because of slop, eventually new and higher standards will be put into place.
Things like game development, software, art, video production, etc will all have a higher barrier of entry into the market.
People already are raising their standards of acceptance and I can forsee marketplaces like Steam also doing the same.
It will be a few bad years of drowning and sifting through slop, but afterwards will come a new era of high quality output.
Everything in life rubber bands. This is just one of those moments in history.
Man I love this!
Real sets and real people with references to a time where the Internet was a simpler and silly place.
This is really good marketing that hits the right target audience.
When making your YouTube titles you have to be brave enough to stretch the truth.
Maybe the title doesn't represent the WHOLE video but it does represent a section and that's good enough.
Movie posters and trailers do it all the time. It's not deception. It's creating curiosity with the strongest thing you got.
I know too many people who want their titles to be straightforward and do well but unfortunately being straightforward rarely tells a good story.
