Seems like this steam ban in China was more hoax than government intervention.
https://www.geekwire.com/2021/steam-outage-in-china-raises-more-questions-about-a-potential-ban/

Regardless of the cause, it seemed that it restricted Chinese players to only the 103 games available on Steam China vs the 6000+ on the global client. Would be a great advertisement opportunity for GOG (you can still play our games even if we get banned)
https://screenrant.com/steam-china-ban-report-dns-attack/

"Tiktok generation" is a myth. Young people aren't more retarded, but the places where you can meet normal people have been systemically destroyed and pushed out of sight. If all you see is tiktok, then all you see is retards, big surprise here. You might as well go to the zoo and complain the monkeys are uncivilized.

Youtube and tiktok specifically metastasize because they're mobile, because typing on a phone is ass. What killed the internets as you knew them is the iPhone, and it cost $499 on release. It wasn't for kids. Adults were the culprits.

A number of them list their sources.....also many of them don't have bosses who order/pay them to push a specific message.

And most importantly: a number of them say to question everything.....even their own content....and don't just ask their viewers to believe them without question

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Studies/etc have shown many people's brains "turn off" at some point when reading long walls of text....videos make the content "more digestible" for a number of people(meaning the information imparted is more likely to be seen/heard by those viewing).

And yeah, some of em make some money doing such videos.....but (from what i've found out and heard) it's not as much as one thinks for amateur YTers doing "news style content".
(more money goes to those who make the flashy normie style content, like PewDiePie and Mr Beast and others)

Clownfish.tv is now covering this.

And they cover nearly everything that has some interest to em and they don't even try to make money from this stuff .. just tossing that out there as many people believe they often try to and has harassed am for that and other far less intelligent reasons .. far less intelligent for rather odd accusations from things they said twisted far out of context by people

I also grew up pre mobile phones and internet. There was an old saying all children used to get taught:

Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear.

Most popular media outlets are propaganda machines. But it's not government propaganda they're pushing, or even idealistic propaganda. The messages they put out are designed to increase the share prices in their current investment portfolios.

And this is where all conspiracy theorists get tripped up - there is no conspiracy. They do not conspire. They all just naturally head in the same direction because that is their nature.

Being involved with programming (in a small way) I associate with a couple of US programmers. I'm in Australia. One of these chaps questioned me about some of the supposed covid atrocities my government was committing. He gave me some examples of the stories he'd seen and I was flabbergasted. I asked him where he was seeing such rubbish.

Sky News. Murdoch. Who also owns a very large portion of all the media in Australia.

A lesson for all. Don't trust any media. If you want to know what's going on ask the people directly involved.

Cheers,

Andrew.

Well like Tim Pool, they cover a wide range of details and news, and seem down to earth with appropriate bias and not affected by group-think; Usually they do Disney, comics, and entertainment related, and far less the daily political stuff.

Accurate or not, throwing all your values out the window just to invest in a market where the ill-conceived opinion of a single person is enough to tank an entire industry is a risky proposition.

For someone who claims to not be Chinese, you sure do come across as being Chinese -- and oh-so-political, which is a huge Bozo no-no!

That said, if GOG removes Inmost, I become dedicated pirate.

Well yeah.....ever see people watching a commercial for something, and then they really want that thing being advertised? Beyond that, some people just get really bored reading long bits of text.....well unless it(the topic) is interesting to them, maybe.

Well some do offer links in the vid descriptions to their sources and etc, or show/mention the article/source titles/links in the videos.

As for faster: yeah, it may be faster to read an article sometimes, but I (and others too, i'd imagine) have time to spare and watch for the "entertainment value"(how they talk/etc) as well :)