Music is free with premium, and I watch videos everywhere

And can you play videos on your phone with the screen off?

How about when you cast to a smart TV? Does your browser based ad-block work then too?

What do you use for music? If it’s Spotify, why? YT premium costs just about as much.

This is one of those things that I go against the Lemmy hivemind on. I cut out pretty much every streaming service and sail the high seas for most of my media.But I consider YouTube Premium worth the cost.

I got grandfathered into it when Google Music shut down and I really haven’t felt the need to change anything. YouTube music is better than Spotify. I don’t have to constantly play the whack-a-mole game of ad blockers that will inevitably break during a YouTube update. I don’t have to rely on finicky software to get videos to play in the background with my phone screen off.

Look, I get it. All these features used to be offered for free without ads. I think that more than anything is why people are so rabidly against premium, because they feel like they had that stuff stolen from them. But YouTube is a service, not a right. You were never guaranteed those features permanently. The cost of Premium is miniscule compared to the benefits I get from it. I use YouTube a LOT. Weather for how to videos, or ASMR, or background music, or documentaries, or podcasts. I like knowing that no matter where I use it, from my computer to my phone to the random smart TV in a hotel that I cast to, I’m not going to see any ads.

All this is based on the current services offered at the current price. If and when they start making those services shittier or increase the cost, then I will seek alternatives; but not before.

There’s been an odd surge of frog stuff recently. There are a ton of frog based games that have either recently released or will release soon.

I’m not against it, I like frogs, but it is unusual.

The only award I think it didn’t deserve was Best RPG.

But, on the other hand, it should have gotten Best Sound Design over BF6; so it still would have gotten 9 awards.

Truly a masterpiece of a game. To those haters saying “But not even BG3 got that many awards!” it’s not a fair comparison. BG3 is a slightly better game IMO, but Expedition 33 is a work of art on top of being an amazing game and appeals to a much wider audience. Which isn’t to say games like BG3 aren’t beautiful, but I think anyone would agree that E33 is on a whole other level.

And do what exactly? They aren’t going to get punished for it, so what’s the fucking point?

The Earth will be fine. It’s humanity that’s fucked.

I’m not disagreeing with that, but saying they “wouldn’t lose much by switching” is laughably untrue.

I’m not on either of them, but I’m also not confused as to how a group that’s wanting to run ads might prefer an audience of hundreds of millions of people instead of tens of millions.

Happy 45991 everyone!

Revolution is in the air.

Sure, and any day now I’m going to lay a giant golden egg and fly away on my skydragon to never-never-land where I’ll live with elves.

Except, of course, for audience size. Which, if you are running ads, is sort of the main goal.

Just pile more blankets on

A couple of times, I have done my final load of laundry butt ass naked, just so I can have the feeling of knowing that ALL my clothes are clean.

That doesn’t make it a holiday… Nothing is closing, no one gets time off work. You can’t just use words when they don’t fit.

Jokes on you; I dislike everyone.

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Is the boat a submarine? No? Then it’s not a drug boat. Narcos have been using subs for years now, some of them autonomous.

If you ever hear that “science” says something, go digging for the source and make sure “science” is actually saying it and not just 1 dubious study that the internet has latched onto and continuously parrots while ignoring contradicting evidence.

Actual footage of where this hot take came from: