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THE MACHO MAN
Nov 15, 2007

...Carey...

draw me like one of your French Canadian girls

AndrewP posted:

I think they should charge more when they offer a month-to-month. Right now access is priced at $6 a month. This seems so cheap compared to magazine and newspaper subscriptions pre-internet, but subscription prices for everything are so low these days and also everyone thinks that because you're not getting a physical thing delivered to your house it's not worth as much.

Prices of everything have gone down while cost of living has gone up.

Also RIP Kotaku. Imagine doing a worse job taking over a company.

Yeah if the goal is to be completely free of VC and ad money, that is kinda what is needed. I just don't think most people will want to pay that much. Like even at the current price point, I would be genuinely surprised if they surpassed 50,000 subscribers.

the gawker sites were hilariously bad for years, but it's impressive that the new leadership has found so many creative ways to make the UX worse

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Bip Roberts
Mar 29, 2005

skaboomizzy posted:

I went to Kotaku this afternoon and read their updated "Best games for PS4" article and it nearly melted down my iPhone and took my battery from 33% to 19% in 3 minutes before the page poo poo itself and tried to reload.

But think of all the bitcoins you phone mined for those nice people.

skaboomizzy
Nov 12, 2003

There is nothing I want to be. There is nothing I want to do.
I don't even have an image of what I want to be. I have nothing. All that exists is zero.

Bip Roberts posted:

But think of all the bitcoins you phone mined for those nice people.

That was literally my first thought, "what lovely spyware / mineware are they running on this site now"

Luckily I have figured out that I'm an old filthy casual gamer now so I never have to read another 4000-word article about The Last Of Us 2 again.

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

#1 Pelican Fan
Just making me more and more happy I installed a pi-hole on my local network.

Need to learn how to run a VPN on it at the same time so I can get all that ad blocking while away from home, too...

Declan MacManus
Sep 1, 2011

damn i'm really in this bitch

THE MACHO MAN posted:

Yeah if the goal is to be completely free of VC and ad money, that is kinda what is needed. I just don't think most people will want to pay that much. Like even at the current price point, I would be genuinely surprised if they surpassed 50,000 subscribers.

the gawker sites were hilariously bad for years, but it's impressive that the new leadership has found so many creative ways to make the UX worse

i mean 50k even at the lowest tier of 69 (nice) a year is about 3.5 million annually, even with expenses and 20 writers to pay that’s not chump change

Doctor Teeth
Sep 12, 2008


i will pay 6 united states dollars per month to read blogs where burneko describes wizards players as diarrhea geysers

Vertical Lime
Dec 11, 2004

https://twitter.com/GrantWahl/status/1292625839574712320

General Dog
Apr 26, 2008

Everybody's working for the weekend
I have no idea who either of these people are, but it doesn’t seem like the post has anything to do with the wife.

Nybble
Jun 28, 2008

praise chuck, raise heck
For context: Atlanta United announced an interview with Barstool Sam, people called out the team, they deleted the tweet and the podcast episode. Sam got mad and wrote a screed about being "canceled" and I have no interest in reading it, but it apparently mentioned a bunch of soccer writers with a bunch of whataboutism. Grant might just not like that photoshop (it's gone around before) but whatever, screw barstool and anyone who works for them.

--

A glorious story in 4 acts:
https://twitter.com/justnfields/status/1292618070545108992
https://twitter.com/dannykanell/status/1292624533292298241
https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1292567458231005185
https://twitter.com/edsbs/status/1292676856483926016?s=20

Spoeank
Jul 16, 2003

That's a nice set of 11 dynasty points there, it would be a shame if 3 rings were to happen with it
I want Clay Travis to fall feet first into a wheat thresher

BWV
Feb 24, 2005


That Clay Travis take is one of the dumbest things ever written on the internet and yes I've read my post history

LionYeti
Oct 12, 2008


I wish I had even an ounce of Clay Travis' self confidence. It's the most unearned dumbass white dude confidence and its honestly amazing.

Metapod
Mar 18, 2012

BWV posted:

That Clay Travis take is one of the dumbest things ever written on the internet and yes I've read my post history

What is it

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually

BWV posted:

That Clay Travis take is one of the dumbest things ever written on the internet and yes I've read my post history
"Coronabro media" is just an amazing turn of phrase.

NickRoweFillea
Sep 27, 2012

doin thangs
I’m a coronabro

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


mods make a CLAY'S CORONABROS tag pls and thx

MourningView
Sep 2, 2006


Is this Heaven?

Metapod posted:

What is it

I mean he is generally a covid-truther but also he was gloating about players tweeting #WeWantToPlay because he assumed that meant they agreed with him that it was a media creation, and then players actually turned it into an attempt to organize and demand consistent safety standards and other things. As best I can tell Clay is just ignoring that part of it, and other people Kannell who were praising the players for making their voices heard are now suddenly like "wait not like that"

MourningView fucked around with this message at 17:54 on Aug 10, 2020

habeasdorkus
Nov 3, 2013

Royalty is a continuous shitposting motion.

Grant Wahl is to my knowledge pretty cool and good, and if he wants to be a wife guy and poo poo on barstool at the same time I'm OK with that.

LionYeti
Oct 12, 2008


habeasdorkus posted:

Grant Wahl is to my knowledge pretty cool and good, and if he wants to be a wife guy and poo poo on barstool at the same time I'm OK with that.

Yeah Grants a bit of a Wife Guy, I mean I get it when shes by all accounts a boss doctor during a pandemic and yeah its good to poo poo on Barstool regardless. SI also fired him over some complete BS and I'm hoping he can find a place to write for. He's a pretty awesome soccer mind with a ton of connections in the US game, apparently he's doing a deep dive podcast about Freddy Adu.

Vertical Lime
Dec 11, 2004

how bad is it at sports illustrated

https://twitter.com/maxwelltani/status/1292923247596654598

Troy Queef
Jan 12, 2013




Doctor Teeth posted:

i will pay 6 united states dollars per month to read blogs where burneko describes wizards players as diarrhea geysers

between that and Magary being the standard for new-Deadspin's humor, i'll just stick with the relaunched Fullcast thanks.

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



I will be surprised if they last much longer. Working there sounds like hell

MourningView
Sep 2, 2006


Is this Heaven?
I have been been exposed to this unbelievably cursed sentence and you must now all share my pain

https://twitter.com/charliespiering/status/1293161832065228800?s=19

morestuff
Aug 2, 2008

You can't stop what's coming

MourningView posted:

I have been been exposed to this unbelievably cursed sentence and you must now all share my pain

https://twitter.com/charliespiering/status/1293161832065228800?s=19

https://twitter.com/thesteinline/status/1293180863652360194?s=21

Metapod
Mar 18, 2012
Make it stop

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



Does Trump know Jordan is a Republican

harperdc
Jul 24, 2007


That sound is Adam Silver's platoon of lawyers prepared to ask why the president was threatening a private business.

also, this needs to be in more threads

https://twitter.com/billbarnwell/status/1292873567693090816

Declan MacManus
Sep 1, 2011

damn i'm really in this bitch


the cia is gonna declare it a communist dictatorship and overthrow it in a coup

General Dog
Apr 26, 2008

Everybody's working for the weekend

That’s a weird one to start with.

Or is that the joke?

edit: oh it’s a rap thing

General Dog fucked around with this message at 16:15 on Aug 11, 2020

Kalli
Jun 2, 2001



General Dog posted:

That’s a weird one to start with.

Or is that the joke?

I was gonna say that's a reference to this generation's Tommy Tutone, but this song's 15 years old now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd0S0LwhEDU

Spoeank
Jul 16, 2003

That's a nice set of 11 dynasty points there, it would be a shame if 3 rings were to happen with it

harperdc posted:

That sound is Adam Silver's platoon of lawyers prepared to ask why the president was threatening a private business.

It'll just be time number 5000 that he said vague mafia threat-sounding thing that don't actually have any meaning because he speaks mostly in nonsensical phrases that are strung together by his brain doing the equivalent if mashing the middle option on autofill and letting the chips fall where they may.

Spoeank fucked around with this message at 16:33 on Aug 11, 2020

General Dog
Apr 26, 2008

Everybody's working for the weekend
He’s going to extradite Daryl Morey to Red China and let them throw him in jail along with Jimmy Lai

Troy Queef
Jan 12, 2013




Kalli posted:

I was gonna say that's a reference to this generation's Tommy Tutone, but this song's 15 years old now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd0S0LwhEDU

half the people in the replies don't get it either, but i DID learn that Mike Jones did indeed get his phone number back earlier this year and yes, lots of people still hit him up on the low

MourningView
Sep 2, 2006


Is this Heaven?
If you listened to rap around 2004-2005 that number is permanently seared into your brain and you got the joke and if you didn't you have no idea what he's talking about and are baffled why a reporter would ask people to harass the president of a AAC school.

I did call it back in the day and iirc you just got a voicemail or something.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007



hahahahaha tremendous

GoutPatrol
Oct 17, 2009

*Stupid Babby*

Troy Queef posted:

Mike Jones

who

Doloen
Dec 18, 2004

FlamingLiberal posted:

Does Trump know Jordan is a Republican

Replace 'political' with 'uppity'. He's dog whistling.

Bjay9
May 3, 2011

Kid, touch is for video games and gynecologists

This is a quality reply

MIKE JONES

Mr. Funny Pants
Apr 9, 2001

Perfect. Primetime comes to Barstool.
https://awfulannouncing.com/barstoo..._medium=twitter

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Sudden Loud Noise
Feb 18, 2007

And people say soul mates don't exist.

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