No, not at all. Sure the rich want to be richer, but hurting the poor is a goal in and of itself in our world.

Sounds like you’re the one winning here

It’s just the spellslinger wizard archetype

Obviously not. hurting bad people is morally neutral at worst.

I build up a (in)tolerance for ads even from creative YouTubers. I watched Internet historian ads like twice, i watched Some More News ads for a single episode. Even creative ads subtract from the quality of something better.

Nothing and everyone all at once

They say Nethys became the god of magic when he learned everything in the universe, but that was just a side effect. The real apotheosis happened when he cast bajablast for the first, and final, time.

Now they have to listen to me whine

No retail worker cares if their slave master gets robbed, try again

You realize you could watch every ad on every video a creator puts out for a year and generate them less than a coffee, yeah? If you care go give them 5 dollars.

Fuck, an integrated donation/payment thing on YouTube would go so much farther for Google’s profit than ads ever would as well!

Not scam ads, intrusive ads. A decade ago i read cracked and the only ads were non intrusive sidebar ads or a banner at the top. They didn’t play music, they didn’t interrupt what i was doing, they just existed. Google, being the near complete monopoly it is, could easily force the standard to return to that and many people would never even go looking for adblockers.

I’ll let the ublock team carve demonic sigils into me and sacrifice my grandma if that’s what it escalates to, I’d sooner lose YouTube entirely than sit through those ads

Can’t you block ads on twitch?

You aren’t an investor if you are planning to resell. Day trading and real investment are totally at odds. It’s far better (for retirement) to invest in a stable company and get a set return over time for it. We also don’t even need to do that for retirement, the fact that we do is fucking insane.

They could use their monopolies to force advertisers to pay a fair amount for a decent ad instead of taking pennies to ruin the Internet. I never even considered using an ad blocker back when it was just banner ads. Or maybe they could stop being a full decade behind the times and add donations to YouTubers for a cut. If they add value to premium instead of trying to remove value from the base experience they could even triple dip on these ideas.

End of the world party it is

Far too much responsibility for me

And it’s well known that Trump has a thing for Ivanka, he’s making an incest joke

The only time I’ve ever cared about someone shoplifting was when they stole from the store i was working at and, this is the important part here, tried to act like i was too stupid to get they were stealing. My dude, i don’t care if you are stealing, just walk out, i couldn’t stop you even if i cared, but please skip the stupid excuse making.

I bet its people trying to justify their veneration of the law, a major issue I’ve seen on the Internet in recent years. Most people shoplift for thrills (iirc), then it’s desperation. And even if someone steals to resell, they literally can’t do a mark up outside of specific, terrible, circumstances since the store (and hundreds of stores just like it) are right there.