It's part of the algorhithm rewarding short content cuz of ad spacing: lots of vids became 10 minutes exactly, cuz that's the sweet spot for ad maximizing.
Add dopaminergic clicking to that (socials, doomscrolling, tiktok/IG) and you have several generations with manufactured short attention spans.

Who even thinks this feature is useful? If you want to know what happened in a passage, just read the fucking passage.

A *very* thinly veiled attempt at harvesting data. God I hate this tech inbreeding timeline

dude, that mesh shaping x_x

Mostly used for text-to-speech to aid those with visual impairment.

"shift spending to AI wearables"

So he's just using the money to dig an even deeper hole, no wonder he can stay at the Hole Digging Company

Not interested in that kind of heat, but there's gotta be a way to safeguard these livelihoods while circumventing the establishment. I'll keep looking into it, nothing worth doing is ever easy anyway. Cheers and good night

If it was as great and powerful as they say it is, they'd be hoarding that tech under lock and key like it was the golden goose.

Instead, they're trying to convince us our own goose is gonna come out of these rotten eggs, for sure you guys.

That gassy bubble is gonna burst stinking of sulfur

So when are we gonna start our own paypro, with blackjack and hookers?

(No seriously I'm looking into that part of the industry right now, that's the unstable part and I want to put a new table leg under there)

This is boring. I am bored. Even the guy looks bored of his WOW TBC optional raid boss aesthetic.

But they forget that every scene is better with a narrative arc of calm, rising tension, release.
Loops of chars we love because we spent narrative time with them, like OW and BG3, also do much better than chars nobody knows. With those chars, the anticipation and sensual arc is pre-existing.

In my experience what you're describing is the difference between porn and erotica, and is exactly a writing issue. More 'good parts' equals more better, right? That's what you focus your project time on, people wanna see tab A inserted into slot B. Nobody wants to see a rug or hear a wren.

Bonobo's Black Sands and Migration albums are *so good* but his Late Night Tales mixtape is an underrated gem as well. Exquisitely mixed and great for a rainy day with a cup of tea and a decent equalizer on the headphones.
Please don't let memory deter you from music. Good music is felt, not named

Thanks, this advice is well-timed. I've been thinking I'm alone in my creative fascinations but as long as I'm 150% about it, someone else can get at least 75% about it and that would be awesome.

Express delivery to the pearly gates.
Appearently, in Dutch this is called 'peerikelen'.
Will they be holding a press Conference?

preach 🙌

Congratulations! A spot well-deserved, and I'm eager to see that yonic shield in print.

I don't get cat people. Whenever I talk about just (gently) removing their animal from their personal seating arrangement, I get hissed at by both the animal *and* the human.
smh