Comments by "Be N S O N" (@Colddirector) on "Upper Echelon" channel.

  1.  @brabhamF1  Oh yeah no i agree, this was just my mindset like 2019-2021 because i didn't know much about him, and didn't care to because his content is child-friendly slop.
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  2.  @IaintTheHerb  I know a little bit solely from watching Techmoan videos, though I didn't think to pay attention to the VU meter lol.
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  3. I love how it’s such an unforced error. He could just be open that he plays videogames but kinda sucks at them and that would probably be endearing to a lot of people.
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  4. Personally I think this AI craze is going to face a pretty serious crash before settling into some sort of normalcy.
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  5. Google docs is still pretty good for what I need it to do, probably because most of their efforts at squeezing consumers are focused on their high volume applications (ie: Youtube, Google Search, Lens)
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  6.  @windepoo  You don't get to abuse your kids just because you made them.
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  7. There's also the barrier to entry. It takes a lot of time and money to become a researcher, while any old shmuck can barge in and expose a speedrun cheater if they've got the receipts.
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  8.  @bigsyrup8567  I mean that still makes it a more toxic place to be. Doomscrolling is something that just didn’t exist in 2007 (even if Twitter did), and algorithms weren’t pushing mentally damaging crap in everyone’s faces.
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  9. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought of that listening to his story. It's like the Stanford Prison Experiment ordered from Temu
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  10. I mean he covers scammy youtubers a lot, I think this sort of thing is up his alley.
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  11. I got bored once I realised that it generally just agrees with anything you say. Its most coherent responses are clearly baked in, too so not much fun there. Beyond that the only fun I really had was learning to trigger its scripts and how to get it to say naughty things. Basically do what the internet did to Tay lol. You'd have to be really lonely and desperate for approval for this thing to work on you I think.
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  12.  @evanvalenta1898  Its not so much being outdone as it is a complete lack of incentive to pursue fraud. When someone finds fraud in the gaming community, they get 5 minutes of fame and the peanut gallery gets some drama. When someone finds fraud in the research field, everybody loses.
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  13. I think pretty much everyone agrees it does, the main argument is over whether more capitalism or less is the solution.
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  14. The modern internet is way more functional than old internet. You don’t have to deal with dialup, everything runs faster and you can do a lot more with web pages. However it’s certainly become much more centralized, more toxic and less free than it once was. I grew up on 2000s internet, but I try not to let nostalgia cloud my judgement. I suspect that a lot of people, if transported back to the 2000s internet would find themselves yearning for the speed and functionality of the modern web before long. And I say this as someone who often pines for the days of web forums and YTMND Also the ceiling for the quality of web content has dramatically improved. A channel like UEG would probably be unheard of in 2007, as well as like 12 hour reviews of Oblivion lol
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  15.  @AnthonyCheeseborough  The “job market” is usually defined by those that are hiring. And guess what? CEOs run the corporations that hire most people, and guess what? CEOs think CEOs should be paid handsomely for their “service”. If you don’t see something wrong with this system, then I genuinely don’t know what to say.
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  16. “Fraud is okay if it triggers the libs”
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  17. I want to say I've made it a point to immediately stop following anyone who shills an NFT, but that principles yet to be tested with anyone or anything I really like.
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  18. The funny thing is if that laptop belonged to the trumps and that Ukrainian gas company employed don jr, you wouldn’t care.
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  19. I kinda suspect that stuff about Gen Z letting AI think for them is either based on heavily massaged data or no data at all. I remember during the Web3 thing where big metaverse spokespeople were insisting that young people were living inside the metaverse. Most young people I know seem either ambivalent about AI or outright hate it. That’s also not real data so take that for what you will
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  20. Keanu Reeves is one of the very few who I gained respect for from all this - him publicly mocking NFTs was hilarious
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  21.  @bertvanbeterbed9702  The Cybertruck's a terrible example because it's pretty much a flop and the vehicle equivalent of a lolcow.
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  22.  @bertvanbeterbed9702  IMO I think the "all press is good press" idea has a lot of asterisks attached to it. The Pontiak Aztek for example was pretty widely mocked in the car scene for similar reasons to the CT (difference being that from what I've read, the Aztek was actually a quite decent car) and it was a flop. I think it won't do that much positive or negative in Apple's case because there's nothing wrong with the product functionally or aesthetically and people are going to be buying iPads no matter what. People will just bicker about the ad for a while then forget about it when the next thing comes along.
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  23.  @6AxisSage  Real artists despise plagiarists as much as you do dude, it’s their work being lifted. And I’m pretty sure most of the plagiarists have since moved onto AI. It’s a lower effort scam
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  24.  @kennyfrompenny  I actually just heard about a plugin called Adnauseam that intentionally clicks random ad links to poison their traffic data if you're interested.
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  25. Well Mario did once say "Fuck you Luigi" on TV
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  26.  @desperado3236  VMs aren't completely safe. VM software has been known to have exploits. They're rare but I wouldn't be taking chances on something this suspect.
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  27. At this point, if any of them lose everything over this, I’ll laugh in their face. They want sociopathy, who am I to deny them what they crave?
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  28.  @helios4753  Very few people can make a living off painting. By obsolete, I mean it does not exist as a profession the way it used to even 100 years ago
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  29. You could always use an adblocker but if not consider it this way - they're wasting their advertising money on a completely unreceptive audience.
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  30.  @Dominion-Regalia  It might be my bias but I don't think the rich were always as despised as they are now. We've had at least two major economic disasters that ravaged the poor and middle classes (2008, COVID) while the rich either got off light or straight up flourished. That combined with rising costs and the internet has lead to multiple generations of people given basically every reason to hate them.
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  31.  @CherokeeBear  Mr Beast did say he wanted to run for president lol
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  32. AI art tends to be pretty tepid and stale, but it's functional and that's what most art jobs require. Human art will never go away, but it will only get even harder for artists to make a living.
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  33. Mario suing UE is more like a bleeding fish taking on a shark by trying to ram it.
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  34. "Moon boyz" sounds like a homebrew Orkish klan.
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  35. How could you even prove that though?
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  36. Your drawing of superman, unless you're tracing, is your own artistic interpretation of him. It may be in your own style or artistic skill level. AI doesn't really provide an "interpretation" of the images its trained on, it uses complex statistics to provide some average of those images. The only "original" input is the human prompt, and that is so limited as to be not much better than tracing.
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  37.  @ratel832  That’s just not how people work dude, I don’t know what to tell you. Call it sunk cost fallacy, call it whatever you want, powerful egotistical people with loose morals are more willing to cover up abuse than purge that sickness from their ranks. The Southern Baptist Convention is a great example of this off the top of my head.
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  38. He’s not going to bone you, dude.
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  39.  @AnthonyCheeseborough  I'm not saying there's literally no market forces at play, I'm saying the levers of that market are clearly in the hands of a relative minority and they're rigging the game in their favor where they can, at the expense of the poor.
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  40.  @grimgrahamch.4157  I had an immediate dislike of him because he looked like this really annoying manipulative guy back in high school. Considering what's come out, I'm almost tempted to think there's a dbag phrenology lol
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  41. While IMO phone improvement has effectively plateaued in the past 5-6 years, i don't think the iphone 1 is a fair comparison because it'd be pretty much incapable of doing most the things people expect of a phone these days, even if it was still supported. It's sort of like how you could use a 100 year old 1911 as an everyday carry, but realistically a glock does pretty much everything a normal person needs while being smaller, lighter, higher capacity and (usually) more reliable. Consumerism and planned obsolescence is a disease but sometimes the new things are just better at what they do.
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  42.  @StarFoxZX315  I searched recently, and there's a another twitter account named "a dying nobody" trying to peddle NFTs based off the origional tweets. Could just be somebody else but I have little enough respect for crypto people to believe its the same guy.
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  43.  @buckrodgers1162  I'm pretty sure Twitter supports TOR, so he could easily do that on a fresh laptop running Tails using a public wifi, which would be pretty much untraceable.
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  44. Its one of those situations where I hate everyone involved so i can just kick back and watch the dumpster fire.
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  45.  @kavinh10  Yeah that makes sense. Dudes slimy but he's a businessman through and through. Though that kind of makes me hate him more, he's like a perfectly concocted blend of stupid belligerence and insincere grifting. Also Mr Beast and co supported shadman by having his shit up in their house, and he's still doing this shit, even for him it's an unbelievable lack of morals.
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  46.  @Vherstinae  Most ordinary people don't know or care about GG, this grift is targeted at industry types and political organisations I think.
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  47. Unless you go the cheapest possible route, I seriously doubt you can get all those instruments for the price of an ipad lol.
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  48. Does it get more engaging if you take it seriously? I downloaded the app, quickly realised it generally agrees with anything you say then took to messing with it until I got bored.
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  49.  @shari9721  I would hazard to bet a lot of the more reprehensible stuff done on that platform wasn't out of desperation, but callous disregard.
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  50.  @nullifye7816  I don't know anything about the beer market, is it competitive? Since Apples got something of a monopoly, I think it's got more resistance to consumer backlash than Bud Lite.
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