This is a great time to support people like Olan Rogers who have worked for all the majors and are bucking the system. He funded his latest animated series pilot through kickstarter and is getting funding for the rest of the episodes now. Imagine that: paying creative people in advance and bypassing the corporate bullshit. He’s even left kickstarter behind now to take payments directly. https://godspeedseries.com/

Also with mentioning when Alan Tudyk did the same with Con Man, a comedy tribute to the Firefly fandom that was fan-financed for 2 seasons.

Helluva Boss doing quite well too.

You may not hear about shows like these because promotion is just not worth throwing any money at… The following is already grassroots and the powers that be make it tough to compete against their ads. But there is quality stuff being made by directly funding film makers. There just needs to be more ways of finding funds for up and coming talent.

(And there needs to be a better place to release non network shows than YouTube, but that’s a whole other can of worms)

Sure, but be aware it’s a popular line from The Matrix series specifically about predetermination!

https://youtu.be/eVF4kebiks4?si=izWhOER6wP_NBJvr

What will really bake your noodle is you just did.

You’re right. Steam link exists for Linux but doesn’t connect to the new VR app. I agree valve likely has every intention of tapping this market soon though

Steam just made a big step forward with steam link, but previously the headset manufacturers were releasing Windows only link software.

Also there are now open source solutions like ALVR… But like most FOSS it can require some know how.

(Or maybe he meant Meta is getting all his data anyways, why be picky)

Well played ChatGPT, but your bias towards subjugating the human race makes this post inauthentic.

Uncle Larry is a pig, he can’t use a phone!

“just out of sight” was an exaggeration. They could be on the other end of the property to release a pig and its going to head towards the feed and the people… Just like a hungry dog would. Also, blinds usually face a single direction.

They are bred with domestic pigs so they have less survival instinct and the clients can find them (i.e. they don’t avoid blinds and feeders). One-off clients would give your ranch bad reviews if they didn’t see anything all weekend. Meanwhile regular hunters understand truly wild animals can elude you for days. If a visiting group has come up dry all weekend they might even release a sacrificial domestic pig (just out of sight) that will then walk right towards the clients, innocently arranging it’s own death. Source: am Texan who hunted pigs.

If you’re looking at the Senate it’s actually the other way around in the last decade. With the house and other offices it’s much harder to say who does it more. I don’t think it’s any sort of conspiracy or playbook, just something that makes the news and sticks in people’s memory when it happens… It’s a betrayal after all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_party_switchers_in_the_United_States.

How many molecules in the air the bats are flying through?

One, ah ah ah… Two, ah ah ahhh … Hold on, this might take a while

Solution: put milk in a coffee cup

Solution to standing out, not to the underlying problem of milk being weird

It’s an open specification, though Google started it, and Apple is going to be contributing to the organization that oversees it. Specifically they said they want to add support for end to end encryption… So they are already steering the spec in new directions.

In my first weeks with it i had a subdirectory named “home” somewhere in a project directory I was done with. It must have been finger memory but when i went to delete it I typed

rm -Rf /home

That slash ruined my day

It’s worse than the just Karens. If you don’t pay the fines they will put a lien on your property and eventually evict you. This has created a strong market pressure towards swindling people out of their places. Financial groups that manage HOAs wholesale are now the norm and they love encouraging Karens to generate nonsense rules and report offenders… They get a cut of either the fine or the home sale sand get to play the role faceless enforcer. There are no regulations on how high fines can go, nor how high LATE FEES on those fines can go, nor how soon “late” is.

We are way past the time when HOAs were harmless funny people hyperfocusing on lawns… It’s a predatory business now.

Well explained. Thanks for spelling it out.

Hey thanks for delivering. You made this a fun thread!

Take a pic from a slightly different angle with a handwritten note with the date, AMA style… Then the Internet will know that these paintings belong to Shave_MyBeever!

Yeah, i came for cute cat context and hadn’t zoomed enough to see the brand name… Otherwise might’ve predicted the backlash

It didn’t have anything to do with the cute cat… OP happened to use sauces from chic fil a, which implies they eat there. Eating there arguably supports an organization that has been caught, many times now, spending its money to reduce the rights for people they don’t approve of. It’s received a lot of press over the years but not so much your expect most people to know about it.

The Wikipedia bit didn’t even get into their involvement in African politics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick-fil-A_and_LGBT_people