But Fortnite has over 78 MILLION players (that's from late last year, more now).
What I am talking about is just from observation while playing the game, and knowing how much others play the game - and how they play.
If you think some aspect of what I am saying is incorrect, but there are tens of millions of people nodding their heads...
Seriously, spend some time in Fortnite on Squad mode and talk to the people playing there. Or just watch others play after dying in single player, sometimes they are trying to win but a lot of casual people are doing things for fun. There are countless videos of people building huge structures, or doing shopping cart rides, or stunts with the golf carts, all kinds of stuff that is just enjoying the fun of being there.
Except the movie in the theater is the entertainment "unit" you actually wanted to see. On Netflix you always have to settle for your second or third choice movie
The thing for me is, these days lots of stuff on Netflix are things I want to see way more than I want to see any movie coming to a theater. I am talking about across the whole of Netflix, not just movies...
I am for example looking forward to the next season of Stranger Things way more than I care about any movie coming out this year. And when it arrives there is more there to enjoy than any movie.
Even just considering Marvel stuff I enjoyed the Netflix Marvel shows as a whole way more than all of the Marvel movies put together. What a shame they are pretty much all cancelled because of the deal between Disney and Netflix fading out.
And on top of that any movie I care to see, I can get from Netflix on disc anyway. So it's the whole package where the theater is just a small part, and at this point never the appealing choice. If Star Wars movies streamed the same day of general movie release I'd probably never go to a theater again. Even Incredibles 2 was not enough to drag me into a theater, I waited to rent it.
Now if you say it's a book it's cheaper in general (usually) and would provide more entertainment (between 2 and 7 days).
I'm not going to cast shade on anyone's reading speed but I'm getting at most seven hours out of a book, and that's for a longer book...
That's still pretty good, but even though books can be cheaper than a month of Netflix (new ones are just barely cheaper than that at $10 even for a Kindle version, looking at you Three Body Problem), Netflix is still technically a better "value".
I say technically though because I am pretty sure I enjoy reading most good books more than I enjoy watching video. So video to me is a secondary form of entertainment on top of books.
It is entirely 100% clear that the "some already are" is in the context on actively calling others out
The narrative text is clear as I pointed out. I think it amazing you can rationalize your reading when it's 100000000009% obvious the "Some already are" is in relation to EVERYTHING BEING SAID. The calling out AND the chiding that men need to "act the right way and say the right thing" (by the way the interlude was an example of someone acting the wrong way and being forcefully corrected).
By saying "some already are (acting the right way, etc)", the message is also that MOST are NOT. I mean that is so crystal clear, how on earth can you not comprehend that basic point? The video made is clear for all to see, that's the point of the video.
Clearly you are too far gone to understand the message being transmitted here. But anyone who watches, can See...
I'll let you have the last response, because you can't understand the actual video itself so any further interpretation you have is sadly flawed beyond help...
Second life kind of succeeded for a smallish group...
But all of those things tried to create a virtual world and have people find reasons to exist within it.
Fortnite has a ready made virtual world that people already enjoy being inside, that manages really well to marry combat and creativity - the two things people seek most from entertainment.
Fortnite is already a way more popular variant of Second Life than Second life ever was, as there are a ton more people for who Fortnite is indeed a Second Life - not because they are amazingly good necessarily, but because they just enjoy spending time there messing around.
Fortnite likes to do events, would it not be awesome if they *did* in fact do a Bird Box session?
The idea would be you would have the ability to wear or remove a blindfold. You could at any time take the blindfold off but doing so for even a moment would yield a very high chance some kind of alien thing would spawn that only you could see and would be virtually impossible to kill...
For those running blind, you would be able to of course hear everything going on around you, and it would let you "feel" walls by showing line sketch outlines of structures or tress (or players!) you came in direct contact with.
FortniteOS could provide an API for application developers to plug in to. Maybe the environment would end up being like Ready Player One.
That seems like a really good point. When you read or watch Ready Player One you automatically end up thinking of someone like Microsoft or Apple or Google, maybe even Sony being the company that creates that world (Sony tried hard with Sony Home).
But really who else has figured out better than the Fortnite people how to craft a world that people enjoy spending a LOT Of time in, not even necessarily playing the main game? If we do see something like the Ready Player One world, it probably will evolve from some game like Fortnite where people would welcome a reason to spend even more time there.
Fortnite is already taking steps that way with things like the playground... it's obvious now they themselves think of it more as a platform than a single kind of game. And they are probably right to do so. Even though I absolutely suck in terms of winning Fortnite matches I still enjoy poking around in the game world from time to time.
Why does it have to break the bank for it to make sense? An extra $2 is past the threshold where it is worth it to this person.
Yes but on the face of it, that seems like a strange threshold - as I said you can get, if you will, one "unit" of entertainment from a theater for maybe $16-$20.
So for less than that you get as much video as you want to watch for a whole month from Netflix. The slight change in price seems meaningless compared to value, compared to almost any other form of entertainment. It's also way less than the internet bill alone would be for most people.
Thus to me, the line seems kind of strange, especially that small an increase. Doubling the price, there I could see per year maybe that starts to be too much, even though it's still providing a lot of value. But it's nothing like that.
No it did not. You haven't watched the ad. Yo've just jumped on the internet outrage machine.
Unlike you, I carefully watched the whole ad, because I don't believe in just reading reactions. I need to see the source.
So I watched the whole thing through, very carefully. I honestly don't feel the ad is as bad as some are saying - in fact I probably would just say it was preachy, but OK, if they had not included that "some" remark...
If you start the ad at 1:00 exactly, this is what you hear:
To say the right thing, to act the right way. SOME already are.
I don't expect a full apology from you for not even bothering to re-watch a two minute ad to verify facts. But I do think you should take a hard look at your own mind, what led to the blind spot that made you miss that distinctive part of the video, so prominently placed.
I didn't read the rest of what you wrote because if you didn't even have that right, obviously the rest of what you said was based on false assumption so is incorrect.
I would agree that pretty much no-one is going to go to Vimeo and search for content.
However what I have seen personally is that Google or Bing searches will find video content on Vimeo, that is what I meant. In terms of search rank Vimeo is going to be a lot higher up there in terms of trust and search placement than video hosted on some random blog with four readers with zero external links.
The benefit is most people don't know how to host anything,
That is true, but like I said even if you know how to host video Vimeo is still solving a lot of issues for you you may not want to take the time to address.
I know Netflix was talking in the abstract about competition for time, but it led to a thought...
You know what would be a really interesting deal, is for Netflix to be able to be played INSIDE Fortnight. Like you could literally have a wall material or a tag that was a Netflix stream of your favorite show, or moment in show...
Video tagging could be used to taught others just like the dances and tags now do, even better it could be used to distract the unwary.
Or you could simply wait out some dead stretches of time in-game enjoying a bit of some show you wanted to see.
The ad said directly that "some" men were OK. That implies the rest, or majority, are not... how is that not an attack on men generally?
The whole ad had a condescending tone of an educational film you were forced to watch in school. Even ignoring that aspect though, clearly the ad is claiming most men harass women, which is simply not the case.
Even if they are required to service areas they cannot make a profit on (which I question if it's actually all that true, but leave that to the side). Even if, there is no excuse for shoddy line work like this.
Electric companies in PLENTY of other states manage to run power lines to lots poorer areas than California has, in dry conditions without shoddy work like this and without causing fires.
Thanks for the link! It says exactly what I was saying, PG&E is responsible for the fires... like this sentence from your link:
A PG&E transmission tower in a burned-out forest in Butte County. PG&Eâ(TM)s lack of properly insulated power conductors â" and the threat of trees or limbs falling on distribution lines â" played a role in causing some of the disastrous and lethal wildfires of 2017 and 2018,
I'll save that one to point out to others, thanks man!
made PG&E liable if its equipment started a fire, regardless of whether it was negligent."
In that case, would not the wise company use equipment that did not start fires?
Is PG&E the only electric company on Earth who provides power in dry areas? No they are not. Lots of other companies seem manage this task just fine without countless fires sparked by electrical equipment.
Having the power company liable seems like a good idea, because any rational company would make extra sure crush clearing was done religiously, that equipment would not spark if at all possible.. despite that costing more.
California has some of the highest taxes in the U.S., what have the customers gained from it but pain and suffering?
It is real. But you are wholly in control of how much it affects you. That too is real. Words that you chose not to view have even less power over you. Do you claim otherwise?
Realize these simple truths, and you too will be free. The Haters may come, but they will be as the gentle rain to the duck upon the water. The harshest of online comments is truly a whisper compared to your own voice, when you chose to listen to yourself.
PG&E would not be liable for "Global Warming", the fact they are liable for damages is because they were the ones you irresponsibly cared for equipment and other things.
Nothing like using some mystical bogeyman to cast blame on and shift away from your own poor judgment and ability.
Interesting, I did not remember the video game ban at all.
As for the $240 thing... I think the benefit that would give you over hosting your own video is that your content would be more likely to be found in a search, and since that includes unlimited viewing of your content it means you are not on the hook if some jerk decides to send a massive bot army to repeatedly drive fake visitors to the site to try and DDOS you.
I actually kind of like the thought of paying some kind of fee to help offset the actual hosting costs because that also means they would pay more attention to me as a client. I would hope (I don't know this to be true) that the kind of bullshit copyright claims that get filed against people would not gain any traction against someone paying for the pro level of service on Vimeo because the fact your are paying them money means you are also paying for real service... at least that would be the theory.
Another advantage of Vimeo is they have a decent embedded player other sites can use to present your content. If you host your own stuff you also have to roll out all of the other conveniences people are used to on Mobile and so on.
But in the end these days I can see the point that it's strongly desirable to host as much as you possibly can yourself, because no company is going to truly care about your concerns the way you can yourself. Maybe hosting video yourself on a. reliable web host with a decent UI for playing is a reasonable proposition these days, I've not done it recently so I don't know how much that has improved (or regressed).
In other words, everyone should start writing inflammatory, divisive, polarizing texts
That would not inspire Love.
The fact that something may inspire Hate also, does not mean you should strive for Hate, you should always seek Love.
But in doing so, there will always be those moved the other way - what I am saying, is that one should realize that is OK as well, you should not seek polarization as a goal, it will happen regardless of intent if you have said anything interesting. You should always strive for clarity and purpose and strong intent, or why even write anything?
I mean, to flip what you are saying on its head - if people were to mellow writing as you seem to imply is desirable, they should write only the most bland inoffensive content. The should write so as to strip away all emotion until what was left was the thinnest of gruel that leaves the mind dissatisfied and ill-fed. What good is that to anyone? Most especially themselves...
You can stop right there: no excuse needed. The most trivial form of moderation is all that's needed.
That's trivial to say, but the reality is even the most trivial form of moderation is very hard to do - even simply getting rid of death threats which are super obviously useless. For any site with a lot of separate articles, that is WAY too much work for humans to do, and for some reason automation to date seems to not do a very good job catching anything that really should be blocked... it's true of any site that had a large number of readers and people commenting.
Can you name any large site that handles a lot of comments that is free of fairly noxious stuff much of the time?
I personally am perfectly OK with any site clamping down hard on speech that is worthless in terms of content - however a lot of the world seems to have confused that speech, with ideological views they disagree with and so they leave up many outright death threats while blocking others for simply saying they do not like someone else's views. There again, seemingly trivial moderation is utterly failing.
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Last year Second Life had around 600k users.
But Fortnite has over 78 MILLION players (that's from late last year, more now).
What I am talking about is just from observation while playing the game, and knowing how much others play the game - and how they play.
If you think some aspect of what I am saying is incorrect, but there are tens of millions of people nodding their heads...
Seriously, spend some time in Fortnite on Squad mode and talk to the people playing there. Or just watch others play after dying in single player, sometimes they are trying to win but a lot of casual people are doing things for fun. There are countless videos of people building huge structures, or doing shopping cart rides, or stunts with the golf carts, all kinds of stuff that is just enjoying the fun of being there.
Except the movie in the theater is the entertainment "unit" you actually wanted to see. On Netflix you always have to settle for your second or third choice movie
The thing for me is, these days lots of stuff on Netflix are things I want to see way more than I want to see any movie coming to a theater. I am talking about across the whole of Netflix, not just movies...
I am for example looking forward to the next season of Stranger Things way more than I care about any movie coming out this year. And when it arrives there is more there to enjoy than any movie.
Even just considering Marvel stuff I enjoyed the Netflix Marvel shows as a whole way more than all of the Marvel movies put together. What a shame they are pretty much all cancelled because of the deal between Disney and Netflix fading out.
And on top of that any movie I care to see, I can get from Netflix on disc anyway. So it's the whole package where the theater is just a small part, and at this point never the appealing choice. If Star Wars movies streamed the same day of general movie release I'd probably never go to a theater again. Even Incredibles 2 was not enough to drag me into a theater, I waited to rent it.
Now if you say it's a book it's cheaper in general (usually) and would provide more entertainment (between 2 and 7 days).
I'm not going to cast shade on anyone's reading speed but I'm getting at most seven hours out of a book, and that's for a longer book...
That's still pretty good, but even though books can be cheaper than a month of Netflix (new ones are just barely cheaper than that at $10 even for a Kindle version, looking at you Three Body Problem), Netflix is still technically a better "value".
I say technically though because I am pretty sure I enjoy reading most good books more than I enjoy watching video. So video to me is a secondary form of entertainment on top of books.
It is entirely 100% clear that the "some already are" is in the context on actively calling others out
The narrative text is clear as I pointed out. I think it amazing you can rationalize your reading when it's 100000000009% obvious the "Some already are" is in relation to EVERYTHING BEING SAID. The calling out AND the chiding that men need to "act the right way and say the right thing" (by the way the interlude was an example of someone acting the wrong way and being forcefully corrected).
By saying "some already are (acting the right way, etc)", the message is also that MOST are NOT. I mean that is so crystal clear, how on earth can you not comprehend that basic point? The video made is clear for all to see, that's the point of the video.
Clearly you are too far gone to understand the message being transmitted here. But anyone who watches, can See...
I'll let you have the last response, because you can't understand the actual video itself so any further interpretation you have is sadly flawed beyond help...
Second life kind of succeeded for a smallish group...
But all of those things tried to create a virtual world and have people find reasons to exist within it.
Fortnite has a ready made virtual world that people already enjoy being inside, that manages really well to marry combat and creativity - the two things people seek most from entertainment.
Fortnite is already a way more popular variant of Second Life than Second life ever was, as there are a ton more people for who Fortnite is indeed a Second Life - not because they are amazingly good necessarily, but because they just enjoy spending time there messing around.
Bird Box battle royale.
Fortnite likes to do events, would it not be awesome if they *did* in fact do a Bird Box session?
The idea would be you would have the ability to wear or remove a blindfold. You could at any time take the blindfold off but doing so for even a moment would yield a very high chance some kind of alien thing would spawn that only you could see and would be virtually impossible to kill...
For those running blind, you would be able to of course hear everything going on around you, and it would let you "feel" walls by showing line sketch outlines of structures or tress (or players!) you came in direct contact with.
That's a bizarre way of looking at things.
"Value for money" is a bizarre concept to you?
***backs away slowly***
FortniteOS could provide an API for application developers to plug in to. Maybe the environment would end up being like Ready Player One.
That seems like a really good point. When you read or watch Ready Player One you automatically end up thinking of someone like Microsoft or Apple or Google, maybe even Sony being the company that creates that world (Sony tried hard with Sony Home).
But really who else has figured out better than the Fortnite people how to craft a world that people enjoy spending a LOT Of time in, not even necessarily playing the main game? If we do see something like the Ready Player One world, it probably will evolve from some game like Fortnite where people would welcome a reason to spend even more time there.
Fortnite is already taking steps that way with things like the playground... it's obvious now they themselves think of it more as a platform than a single kind of game. And they are probably right to do so. Even though I absolutely suck in terms of winning Fortnite matches I still enjoy poking around in the game world from time to time.
Why does it have to break the bank for it to make sense? An extra $2 is past the threshold where it is worth it to this person.
Yes but on the face of it, that seems like a strange threshold - as I said you can get, if you will, one "unit" of entertainment from a theater for maybe $16-$20.
So for less than that you get as much video as you want to watch for a whole month from Netflix. The slight change in price seems meaningless compared to value, compared to almost any other form of entertainment. It's also way less than the internet bill alone would be for most people.
Thus to me, the line seems kind of strange, especially that small an increase. Doubling the price, there I could see per year maybe that starts to be too much, even though it's still providing a lot of value. But it's nothing like that.
No it did not. You haven't watched the ad. Yo've just jumped on the internet outrage machine.
Unlike you, I carefully watched the whole ad, because I don't believe in just reading reactions. I need to see the source.
So I watched the whole thing through, very carefully. I honestly don't feel the ad is as bad as some are saying - in fact I probably would just say it was preachy, but OK, if they had not included that "some" remark...
If you start the ad at 1:00 exactly, this is what you hear:
To say the right thing, to act the right way. SOME already are.
I don't expect a full apology from you for not even bothering to re-watch a two minute ad to verify facts. But I do think you should take a hard look at your own mind, what led to the blind spot that made you miss that distinctive part of the video, so prominently placed.
I didn't read the rest of what you wrote because if you didn't even have that right, obviously the rest of what you said was based on false assumption so is incorrect.
No one searches Vimeo for anything.
I would agree that pretty much no-one is going to go to Vimeo and search for content.
However what I have seen personally is that Google or Bing searches will find video content on Vimeo, that is what I meant. In terms of search rank Vimeo is going to be a lot higher up there in terms of trust and search placement than video hosted on some random blog with four readers with zero external links.
The benefit is most people don't know how to host anything,
That is true, but like I said even if you know how to host video Vimeo is still solving a lot of issues for you you may not want to take the time to address.
I know Netflix was talking in the abstract about competition for time, but it led to a thought...
You know what would be a really interesting deal, is for Netflix to be able to be played INSIDE Fortnight. Like you could literally have a wall material or a tag that was a Netflix stream of your favorite show, or moment in show...
Video tagging could be used to taught others just like the dances and tags now do, even better it could be used to distract the unwary.
Or you could simply wait out some dead stretches of time in-game enjoying a bit of some show you wanted to see.
Netflix per month is still cheaper than a single movie in most theaters.
Uninsulated power conductors, really?
Hey man, all I did was actually read the link I posted, and passed on what a federal judge learned as part of the trial..
from the link I posted:
The judge, however, also noted a lack of insulation for power conductors owned and operated by PG&E as a factor in the fatal wildfires
You are claiming the judge was incorrect? Presumably he was shown quite a lot of evidence.
Yes bad forest management was also to blame. But lots of other places have trees blow into lines without causing major fires.
YOU tried to make it about CA's taxes
Wrong number man, I never said a thing about taxes or profitability. I can honestly say I have no dog in the hunt you are trying to promote.
The ad said directly that "some" men were OK. That implies the rest, or majority, are not... how is that not an attack on men generally?
The whole ad had a condescending tone of an educational film you were forced to watch in school. Even ignoring that aspect though, clearly the ad is claiming most men harass women, which is simply not the case.
They're basically required to service areas that will never be profitable
Just take a look at this helpful link someone provided me, PG&E with uninsulated conductors in the middle of a forest!
Even if they are required to service areas they cannot make a profit on (which I question if it's actually all that true, but leave that to the side). Even if, there is no excuse for shoddy line work like this.
Electric companies in PLENTY of other states manage to run power lines to lots poorer areas than California has, in dry conditions without shoddy work like this and without causing fires.
Thanks for the link! It says exactly what I was saying, PG&E is responsible for the fires... like this sentence from your link:
A PG&E transmission tower in a burned-out forest in Butte County. PG&Eâ(TM)s lack of properly insulated power conductors â" and the threat of trees or limbs falling on distribution lines â" played a role in causing some of the disastrous and lethal wildfires of 2017 and 2018,
I'll save that one to point out to others, thanks man!
made PG&E liable if its equipment started a fire, regardless of whether it was negligent."
In that case, would not the wise company use equipment that did not start fires?
Is PG&E the only electric company on Earth who provides power in dry areas? No they are not. Lots of other companies seem manage this task just fine without countless fires sparked by electrical equipment.
Having the power company liable seems like a good idea, because any rational company would make extra sure crush clearing was done religiously, that equipment would not spark if at all possible.. despite that costing more.
California has some of the highest taxes in the U.S., what have the customers gained from it but pain and suffering?
How The Fuck Is Cyber Bullying Real
It is real. But you are wholly in control of how much it affects you. That too is real. Words that you chose not to view have even less power over you. Do you claim otherwise?
Realize these simple truths, and you too will be free. The Haters may come, but they will be as the gentle rain to the duck upon the water. The harshest of online comments is truly a whisper compared to your own voice, when you chose to listen to yourself.
PG&E would not be liable for "Global Warming", the fact they are liable for damages is because they were the ones you irresponsibly cared for equipment and other things.
Nothing like using some mystical bogeyman to cast blame on and shift away from your own poor judgment and ability.
Interesting, I did not remember the video game ban at all.
As for the $240 thing... I think the benefit that would give you over hosting your own video is that your content would be more likely to be found in a search, and since that includes unlimited viewing of your content it means you are not on the hook if some jerk decides to send a massive bot army to repeatedly drive fake visitors to the site to try and DDOS you.
I actually kind of like the thought of paying some kind of fee to help offset the actual hosting costs because that also means they would pay more attention to me as a client. I would hope (I don't know this to be true) that the kind of bullshit copyright claims that get filed against people would not gain any traction against someone paying for the pro level of service on Vimeo because the fact your are paying them money means you are also paying for real service... at least that would be the theory.
Another advantage of Vimeo is they have a decent embedded player other sites can use to present your content. If you host your own stuff you also have to roll out all of the other conveniences people are used to on Mobile and so on.
But in the end these days I can see the point that it's strongly desirable to host as much as you possibly can yourself, because no company is going to truly care about your concerns the way you can yourself. Maybe hosting video yourself on a. reliable web host with a decent UI for playing is a reasonable proposition these days, I've not done it recently so I don't know how much that has improved (or regressed).
In other words, everyone should start writing inflammatory, divisive, polarizing texts
That would not inspire Love.
The fact that something may inspire Hate also, does not mean you should strive for Hate, you should always seek Love.
But in doing so, there will always be those moved the other way - what I am saying, is that one should realize that is OK as well, you should not seek polarization as a goal, it will happen regardless of intent if you have said anything interesting. You should always strive for clarity and purpose and strong intent, or why even write anything?
I mean, to flip what you are saying on its head - if people were to mellow writing as you seem to imply is desirable, they should write only the most bland inoffensive content. The should write so as to strip away all emotion until what was left was the thinnest of gruel that leaves the mind dissatisfied and ill-fed. What good is that to anyone? Most especially themselves...
Yep, they were talking about something similar in the extras on Venom, that really Venom was Deadpool before Deadpool..
You can stop right there: no excuse needed. The most trivial form of moderation is all that's needed.
That's trivial to say, but the reality is even the most trivial form of moderation is very hard to do - even simply getting rid of death threats which are super obviously useless. For any site with a lot of separate articles, that is WAY too much work for humans to do, and for some reason automation to date seems to not do a very good job catching anything that really should be blocked... it's true of any site that had a large number of readers and people commenting.
Can you name any large site that handles a lot of comments that is free of fairly noxious stuff much of the time?
I personally am perfectly OK with any site clamping down hard on speech that is worthless in terms of content - however a lot of the world seems to have confused that speech, with ideological views they disagree with and so they leave up many outright death threats while blocking others for simply saying they do not like someone else's views. There again, seemingly trivial moderation is utterly failing.