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Post by scythe »

cblconfederate wrote: post #567
rootsudo wrote: post #36

My biggest shock was how much "PR" was generated on Reddit, and how many sexworkers really do use the platform. I knew it was a thing, I knew of the memes, but to see both sides in arms over a company vs branding, creating their own website and content - and vanity domain as well. People really do just want a one click solution for creating adult content, and consuming adult content. And the memes, I think they're pr…

Why do we call pornstars sex workers and not artists?

"Porn artist" might be taken to mean the people who make pornographic drawings/animations. Actors aren't colloquially referred to as "artists" most of the time; they're called actors.

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Post by dTal »

asdff wrote: post #594
Romulus968 wrote: post #497

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"ROM sites are still a ubiquitous problem for 20 year old consoles. Youtube, Spotify, Steam and Netflix made content easy to get. There's no equivalent for most ROMs, so they're still widely pirated." The only example I can think of is Nintendo Online. You can play select NES and SNES games on the Switch with a N.O. subscription. I collect ROMs, I've got damned near 4Tb worth. I collect for two reasons: 1. Archiving…

It's ridiculous that games like super smash bros are the same price whether you buy them new on a switch or used for a 25 year old n64. No clue why nintendo bothers ending production runs on games when they know people still buy sell and play 30 year old titles. They could just license the reruns to someone else to produce the cartriges and disks and make money hand over fist. It always seems like nintendo has blinde…

For that matter - why not sell N64-compatible consoles? You could make them incredibly cheaply now, and they're definitely still in demand. Are they scared of cannibalizing their "high end"?

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Post by PrincessJas »

throwawaylolx wrote: post #722
coderintherye wrote: post #575

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No. They call out the specific banks here: https://www.ft.com/content/7b8ce71c-a87a-440e-9f3d-58069ca04...

>OnlyFans declined to name its current banking partners, citing a desire to improve relations. Sounds like they requested a new deal in exchange for not naming them.

Oh no, the epic redditors will be angry at them!

Lol, like they care.

Worst. Blackmail. Ever.

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watwut wrote: post #583
acituan wrote: post #152

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> COVID hit recently graduated Gen-Z incredibly hard Aren’t women over-represented on the supply side while men on the demand side though? I don’t think gen-z as a wholesale cohort makes sense.

Women are also overrepresented on the side of loosing job. Mostly artly because women work in segments that were hit harder - services and the like. And partly because childcare is more on them, mothers were even more likely to loose jobs.

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Post by bcheung »

throwawaylolx wrote: post #721
bcheung wrote: post #692

The damage is already done. I was doing a photoshoot at my house with 2 models that have OnlyFans accounts. When the news hit they literally signed up for other platforms within an hour. The other platforms are capitalizing on the news and finding ways to make migration to their platform as easy as possible.

So now they'll come back because OF still has the larger community.

Just got this text from a model:

"I don't trust them at all and nor do the other girls. So diversifying is our best bet"

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Post by jandrese »

Mindwipe wrote: post #511
jandrese wrote: post #435

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The only thing that prevents this from existing is the licensing nightmare of trying to track down who still owns the rights to those old ROMs. So many defunct companies and cases where even the people who worked on it have no idea who currently owns the rights. Had we kept the 28 year copyright duration from 1831 almost all ROM images would be in the Public Domain now.

It's difficult in some cases but demand is absolutely the main driver. Much like Netflix, the reality is that people aren't actually very interested in old shows apart from a handful of super famous perennials which are already available anyway. They say they are in surveys, but consumer behaviour does not back that up. They just use newer content in practice.

There is always interest in old shows, but not enough to deal with the licensing issues. You could have much wider libraries if the licensing was less of a nightmare.

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Post by AlexCoventry »

e40 wrote: post #686
Sebb767 wrote: post #505

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I've actually heard that quite often and it seems anecdotally true to me, but is there actually any study to prove this?

I had completely stopped downloading movies in 2018, and even for that year, I downloaded very few. I had been tapering off since 2015. These are real numbers from my NAS. I got a seedbox 2 months ago. This was my last straw: trying to rent some movie on Amazon and was told I had to subscribe to some service to watch it--there was no price to watch it once. The other things I did recently: 1) paused Google YTTV becau…

> The Amazon app/UI is HORRIBLE, too.

Zero control over playback speed is the deal killer for me.

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Post by dumpsterdiver »

aidenn0 wrote: post #510
Romulus968 wrote: post #497

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"ROM sites are still a ubiquitous problem for 20 year old consoles. Youtube, Spotify, Steam and Netflix made content easy to get. There's no equivalent for most ROMs, so they're still widely pirated." The only example I can think of is Nintendo Online. You can play select NES and SNES games on the Switch with a N.O. subscription. I collect ROMs, I've got damned near 4Tb worth. I collect for two reasons: 1. Archiving…

I swapped my NES cart of Dragion Warrior IV with a friend for his copy of Dragon Warrior III in high school; it was supposed to be temporary but we both went off to college and never saw each other again. I looked into buying a copy of DW IV online and choked on the prices ($150 cart only). Apparently that game was a limited run though.

Yep, I recently bought Dragon Warrior 1, 2, and 3. I’ll buy 4 soon, but wow - it is not cheap. I play them on a Retron 5 which can play NES, SNES, GBA, Sega, and even Famicon cartridges. It also lets you set hot keys and toggle turbo mode. It’s pretty great.

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Post by dmarlow »

da_chicken wrote: post #405
rootsudo wrote: post #36

My biggest shock was how much "PR" was generated on Reddit, and how many sexworkers really do use the platform. I knew it was a thing, I knew of the memes, but to see both sides in arms over a company vs branding, creating their own website and content - and vanity domain as well. People really do just want a one click solution for creating adult content, and consuming adult content. And the memes, I think they're pr…

> People really do just want a one click solution for creating adult content, and consuming adult content. Once they know it's possible, people want a one click solution for anything. The subject being taboo has nothing to do with it. This is one reason why Youtube, Spotify, Steam and Netflix did such a good job combatting piracy for music, video games, and movies, while ROM sites are still a ubiquitous problem for 2…

It's funny how the wheel goes round and round. I loved it when Netflix had a lot more content, but now that each studio/production/company offers its own, it's ending up like nothing more than streaming a la carte and people are returning to piracy rather than spend hundreds across various streaming services (like cable/dish...).
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