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- Comment on Temu and Shein to hike prices 1 week ago:
The other reply is correct, they get crazy cheap shipping rates by sending small things. Like every Temu package costs taxpayers money to subsidize it
- Comment on Temu and Shein to hike prices 1 week ago:
Should have accomplished it the right way by getting rid of the loophole that makes those sites so profitable instead
- Comment on $666 edition of Doom includes game box that, itself, plays Doom 1 week ago:
Limited edition stuff like this is never priced for the masses
- Comment on How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows 3 weeks ago:
Shill has primarily been used as an insult for the past 50 years in the way I’m defining it here. I don’t believe you’ve never heard it used to mean that.
one who acts as a decoy (as for a pitchman or gambler)
Literally on that same page.
a person who poses as a customer in order to decoy others into participating, as at a gambling house, auction, confidence game, etc.
www.dictionary.com/browse/shill
a person who publicizes or praises something or someone for reasons of self-interest, personal profit, or friendship or loyalty
www.dictionary.com/browse/shill
someone who helps another person to persuade people to buy something, especially by pretending to be a satisfied customer
dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/…/shill?q=…
shill n informal, US (person planted to lure customers)
- Comment on How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows 3 weeks ago:
A shill, also called a plant or a stooge, is a person who publicly helps or gives credibility to a person or organization without disclosing that they have a close relationship with said person or organization, or have been paid to do so.
- Comment on How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows 3 weeks ago:
If someone starts off saying “this is a sponsores stream” then yes, that is correct. It’s illegal to not disclose when media is an advertisement in most of the world. I’m pretty sure it’s against the TOS of most streaming sites, too.
- Comment on How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows 3 weeks ago:
A shill doesn’t disclose that they’re being paid to promote a product. The secrecy is what makes them a shill
- Comment on How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows 3 weeks ago:
Yes, someone who promotes a product while hiding the fact that they’ve been paid to promote the product. Streamers generally say “this is a sponsored stream” to avoid lawsuits.
- Comment on How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows 3 weeks ago:
Plenty do, yeah. Though to the marketing team, all streamers are influencers
- Comment on How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows 3 weeks ago:
Sponsoring streams isn’t even close to the same thing as hiring shills
- Comment on Tourists and locals enjoy 'ephemeral' Tokyo cherry blossoms 3 weeks ago:
I was in Japan while the cherry blossoms were blooming and it was absolutely beautiful
- Comment on Another 122.88TB SSD just launched and this one comes from an obscure Chinese startup you've probably never encountered 3 weeks ago:
It doesn’t say the bitrate of said movies so it is indeed useless
- Comment on Please let Pillars Of Eternity's surprise turn-based mode spark a wave of turn-based updates for all other games 4 weeks ago:
Turn-based games are incredible when you frequently have to pause. When it’s slow at work I’ll occasionally play a turn-based game (Cobalt Core most recently) because I can walk away any time if I get a call. It also makes me feel so bad when I’m playing an unpausable game and my dog waddles up looking for attention. Not a parent myself but my dad friends had to put real time games down for awhile when their kids were born.
- Comment on Sometimes, it’s the little tech annoyances that sting the most 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know who that is but maybe the full set will help you confirm
- Comment on Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year 4 weeks ago:
“doesn’t have to be downloaded” is a basic requirement of a game for you in 2025?
- Comment on Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback 4 weeks ago:
I don’t want kids of my own but being an uncle definitely rocks
- Comment on Good to exercise at home instead of gym? 4 weeks ago:
I have a friend who got VERY fit mainly with Beat Saber.
I have another friend who did the same with Supernatural (the game, not the show)
Weirdly, they’re the only two people I know who got in shape with VR…and they have the same first name.
- Comment on Why do we even do mens vs womens sizes for clothes? 4 weeks ago:
Are women who fit into the clothes you describe not women?
- Comment on Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback 5 weeks ago:
My nephew has one and I kind of love getting random “have you seen cheetozard” messages from him.
- Comment on Tools to migrate from Plex to Jellyfin? 5 weeks ago:
Not the answer to your question but thanks for the reminder to cancel
- Comment on Day 246 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots 5 weeks ago:
Shit like this is why people pirate. Not saying you should do that but IMO it’s a legitimate reason.
I’m already paying you money for a SINGLE PLAYER game and you want me to pay MORE with my data? Fuck off, Ubisoft
- Comment on Palworld Update 0.5.0 Adds Crossplay Across All Platforms, Blueprint Upgrading, Photo Mode and More 5 weeks ago:
You can absolutely make amazing builds but pretty much everything is rectangular. I am NOT knocking Satisfactory at all, it’s one of my favorite games… Valheim is just way more flexible
- Comment on Palworld Update 0.5.0 Adds Crossplay Across All Platforms, Blueprint Upgrading, Photo Mode and More 5 weeks ago:
Satisfactory building didn’t frustrate me by any means but it’s a far cry from Valheim in terms of flexibility.
That said, I don’t think it needs to be. You’re building rigid, utilitarian factories and can basically fly - no need for fancy staircases or angled walls!
Man now I just really want to play Valheim again
- Comment on Palworld Update 0.5.0 Adds Crossplay Across All Platforms, Blueprint Upgrading, Photo Mode and More 5 weeks ago:
After valheim, every base building game I’ve played feels so bad and limiting!
- Comment on Starlink is now accessible across the White House campus, which was already served by fiber cable, after service was “donated”, as some cite security concerns. 5 weeks ago:
Network infrastructure is a science and we don’t need no damn science in this country!
- Comment on Google Chrome is killing more extensions than you think - is your old favorite on the list? 1 month ago:
Brave is a Chromium browser.
- Comment on What’s an acceptable gender neutral replacement for “techbro”? 1 month ago:
Literally the only one I could come up with, though, so it doesn’t take away from your point
- Comment on What’s an acceptable gender neutral replacement for “techbro”? 1 month ago:
Elizabeth Holmes
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 1 month ago:
Ah, my favorite kind of poster.
One who posts a self-congratulatory “question” to a group who obviously isn’t going to read it and then never replies to any of the comments.