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Jauwn

@Jauwnio

8 months

Two months ago, my fully remote job of 3 years began a campaign to bring all employees back to office. This confused me, as I was originally hired to be fully remote. I lost that status because we recently moved into a temporary apartment while we shop for our first home. 1/

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Time to become unsponsorable VPNs are useless for 99.9% of people and streaming services are starting to not allow you to use them. They do not make your connection more "secure", they only mask the IP address you're connecting from. And many of them keep logs anyway,

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How can Windows default search feature be so incompetent, but a random freeware program made by one person in their free time can find a file hidden 25 folders deep in an external drive in 4 seconds?

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8 months

It's 2024, this was the future at one point. Let's use all this cool tech we have to make people's lives easier, more fulfilling, and safer.

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@Jauwnio

8 months

No more YouTube, no more side hustles, nothing. Your life is about working for a company who will eliminate your role the second you start making too much money. Fuck that, I've only got one life, and this is NOT how I want to spend it.

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8 months

No one has been fired. The company silently walked back the return to office policy, and business continued as usual. "Let's pretend this didn't happen."

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@Jauwnio

8 months

But for those of us who can push back, I recommend doing so. Employers have been taking advantage of workers forever, but remote work is truly the great equalizer. Employee satisfaction increases, company spending goes down, and clients are happier.

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@Jauwnio

8 months

In my story, there is a happy ending, but not for everyone. Millions of remote workers are being forced to return to office for a litany of reasons. None of those reasons are for your benefit, although they may try and convince you otherwise.

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8 months

The response? Essentially, kick rocks. "This is the new rule. No exceptions." Of course, followed by the typical spread of corporate buzzwords. "We can collaborate and innovate better in office!" Important to note; I love my job.

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@Jauwnio

8 months

"Everyone else on my team is located hundreds of miles away from an office, with half of them being located in India. It makes no sense for us to come in, in fact, it would only make me work less as I'd now be commuting during the only overlap I have with my offshore team"

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@Jauwnio

8 months

My entire team is fully remote, and the nearest office to me is an hour and a half drive. This didn't make sense to me.

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@Jauwnio

8 months

There is no moral of this story; I simply wanted to share a recent experience and offer a word of encouragement to any other remote workers who are going through a similar situation. Not everyone has the safety cushion I have to be able to push back against these rules.

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@Jauwnio

8 months

Besides, wouldn't you rather be on a meeting with a guy who has an HD webcam and studio microphone? And selfishly, if I had to lose 3 hours a day to commuting, I would have to quit all of my hobbies. I'd have no time; get home, make dinner, work out, then go to sleep.

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@Jauwnio

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"Please let me know when my last day will be so I can inform my team" That wasn't what they wanted to hear. Within an hour, the message had been passed up the chain. Leadership was not happy. "What an asshole. This guy really thinks he's that special?"

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@Jauwnio

8 months

The entire company has been working remote for years now. We even won an award for "sustainability" thanks to our efforts to take thousands of commuters off the road, and we sold our high rise offices in expensive cities. We're a tech company, why not?

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@Jauwnio

8 months

EU-based staff who were contractually obligated to permanently work from home are threatening to sue for breach of contract. Eight weeks have passed since the return to office mandate was made.

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@Jauwnio

8 months

Apparently, the company determined which employees were to come back to office based on a circle drawn around each of our 10 offices. My new apartment is right on the edge of one circle, meaning I must now go into the office. Confused, I sent a message to HR.

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@Jauwnio

8 months

This sudden change is a patchwork fix to an overarching problem with the company. Bad decisions, clueless leadership, and acquisition after acquisition has left us reporting losses quarterly. In turn, the stock price has plummeted.

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@Jauwnio

8 months

Your employer is getting a tax benefit for bringing employees back into the city, and they likely have a vested interest in keeping the building they spent millions of $ on occupied.

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@Jauwnio

8 months

... and failure to comply will result in termination." Fine. I'm not going to drive an hour and a half each way, sit in mind-numbing traffic, contribute to pollution, and pay more in taxes. So like the smart-ass I am, I responded with a succinct message.

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@Jauwnio

8 months

And besides, if we take all of those people off the road, it makes a safer and more enjoyable commute for those who can't be remote. Moves money to small towns where otherwise nobody would live. Lots of stuff.

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@Jauwnio

8 months

HR actually never responded to my original message, and I had only heard about the fallout of my snarky reply through the grapevine. As I would soon learn, I was far from the only person refusing to return (or in my case, begin).

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@Jauwnio

8 months

I've been working with a small team that I've enjoyed leading through some very interesting situations in my time here. We're the underfunded, underpaid, middle children of the corporate conglomerate, but we get our jobs done and our clients are happy.

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@Jauwnio

8 months

Except now, these clients will be complaining they can't hear you 'cause Chatty Kathy one desk over is on the phone getting a quote for a new roof. This is obviously much better than the current state, where we can work comfortably from our own desk in our own home.

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Of course, this is all the fault of the employees. They aren't working hard enough, they need to be generating us more revenue... somehow? And apparently, being in the office is the solution. "This is the new policy, as dictated by the CEO...

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@Jauwnio

8 months

My "angry email" to HR made its way all the way up the chain. Others followed suit, independent of my efforts. Entire offices refused to come back to work.

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@Jauwnio

8 months

I wake up at 7AM so I can talk to my colleagues in India without forcing them to stay even later than they already do. I don't feel bad taking client calls after 5pm since I have no commute, I'm already home.

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@Jauwnio

8 months

Under these new rules, all employees must sit at a desk in an open floor plan office, surrounded by noise from 9-5. Performing our job which involves staring at a computer screen and talking to clients all day.

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@Jauwnio

8 months

Important note: this requirement only applies to remote workers within the circles. If you currently live outside one of the circles, you are grandfathered in; but you can not move without company approval. Unless, you live in India.

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@Jauwnio

8 months

Those team members are required to either relocate to one of the two major cities where they have offices, or get fired. Oh, and there will be no pay adjustment. Enjoy!

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@Jauwnio

8 months

And who doesn't want the added pollution and traffic from adding 15,000 cars back onto the road?

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@Jauwnio

8 months

As a final note, obviously this does not apply to everyone. Not every job can be done fully remote, or even partially remote. I get that. I am only talking about the jobs that truly can be done fully remote.

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@Jauwnio

8 months

Roles such as Tech support, QA analysts, software devs, HR, accountants, finance, and their respective managers.

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@Jauwnio

9 months

Betterhelp is very sketchy and has been embroiled in multiple controversies including misrepresenting the licensure of their professionals and selling consumer data

FTC says online counseling service BetterHelp pushed people into handing over health information –...

In the hierarchy of confidential data, health information ranks right up there.

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@Jauwnio

9 months

Opera is a terrible web browser that when installing it, automatically sets itself to launch at startup. This is my #1 pet peeve in any software and upon seeing this I instantly uninstalled it because I am that type of person. Just use FireFox

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@Jauwnio

9 months

Gamer Energy Drinks (all of them) are mostly disgusting and full of artificial flavors and misleading caffeine amounts thanks to prop blends, a huge plague on the general supplement industry.

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@Jauwnio

9 months

War Thunder / World of Tanks / Raid Shadow Legends are pay to win but not half bad mobile games that are immensely popular. They also make so much money that they can afford to offer a YouTuber with 50k subs $5,000 for a 60 second ad read, hence why so many take the offer

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@Jauwnio

9 months

Manscaped is overpriced and overcomplicated and for some reason YouTubers turn their ad reads into the cock-and-ball cringefests. The Philips Norelco OneBlade is the best rechargable razor for ALL body areas and it is $40 at WalMart

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@Jauwnio

9 months

Ridge Wallets and Raycons are two examples of products that offer the exact same quality as their competitors but through clever marketing and social media presence they have become ubiquitously "high quality", despite being mid-range at best.

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@Jauwnio

9 months

Accepting a sponsor is sometimes a necessary evil especially if you want to do content creation for a living. If I had accepted every sponsor I was offered this year, I would have EASILY made an additional $30k on YouTube.

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@Jauwnio

9 months

Filmora offers good money and a subscription to their service seems like a good deal as a creator, however many forget that they recently got rid of lifetime subscriptions, even if you had already paid for them, and DMCA tookdown YouTubers that talked about this

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However, I think it's important that YouTubers who don't need to rely on sponsorships to support themselves, like me, to honestly talk about how trash some of the most popular sponsors are. "Let them get the bag" is a fine excuse and I know most people skip the ad reads...

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@Jauwnio

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@PanfriedDilf Why's that?

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@Jauwnio

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@Ash_l337_ I’m proud of my coworkers for speaking up. It’s clear that they overwhelmingly like their work, but hate C suite leadership.

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@Jauwnio

9 months

...but I want to see good, underrated products taking risks on small channels. Small brands leveraging growing content creators to build a partnership. This absolutely exists but so far I haven't found an easy way to connect with these brands. Every influencer "agency" just...

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@Jauwnio

9 months

spams you with the same 10 sponsors on a loop. I do not have a solution to this problem and don't plan on coming up with one.

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@Jauwnio

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Oh, and FlexiSpot offers to pay creators with an affiliate code and one of their Chinesium desks valued at $100 for 60 seconds of your video time. And newbie content creators don't know better and think this is a good deal. You're getting played.

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@Jauwnio

8 months

This thread absolutely blew up and I have loved reading all of the thoughtful discussion in the replies. It's stuff like this that keeps me coming back to this site. Subscribe to my YouTube if you want. I review video scammy, cash-grab video games.

Jauwn

enjoyable content

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@Jauwnio

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@truth_soup_ @PanfriedDilf Sure, fair enough. But it seems like a free bonus in my case. Plus if everyone who could stop driving did, we'd see at least some sort of difference. Look at how global pollution rates decreased during the pandemic, nearly 20% decrease.

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@Jauwnio

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@DiscussKing Uncommon Mac W

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@Jauwnio

9 months

Since this thread popped off I will name one product I learned about through a YouTube ad that I really like. ’s virtual credit cards are awesome and free ways for me to buy sketchy games to review without worrying about my own card getting leaked

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The entire concept of a “gaming browser” would’ve been clowned on relentlessly 10 years ago. How this even became any sort of popular is mind boggling, just goes to show how powerful paid shills are

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@Jauwnio

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@RLeeAtwood I think it shows how lazy or uninterested HR or whoever came up with that idea is. There are plenty of ways to calculate driving time in bulk, that way they could say “30 minute radius” instead of “30 miles”. Google Maps Directions API, for example

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@Jauwnio

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@mommilph Don’t even get me started on that stuff. Consumerist garbage that inevitably ends up in a landfill is one of my least favorite developments of the internet age

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@Jauwnio

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@Crimson_Gaia Everything

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@Jauwnio

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@YugoEnjoyer An argument can be made that it forces you to put yourself in “work mode” where all your energy is going towards productivity, so employees go above and beyond. I can agree with this to an extent, and if the office was amazing and you felt rewarded by going in, I wouldn’t mind.

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@Jauwnio

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@ireowen @TrulyTafakari I don’t have any kids so I didn’t think of that but you’re totally right. My old manager (who got laid off last year) would always talk about how amazing it was for him and his wife to be always home with his young kids watching them grow up. That shit is priceless

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@Jauwnio

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Now, of course there’s no saying that they themselves won’t get breached but at least it’s nice to have some sort of barrier

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@Jauwnio

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@amanhasnoname54 @thepstall @truth_soup_ @PanfriedDilf Plus about $10 in tolls each way, as if I don't take the toll road I'd never make it to work in time. Then $13/day in parking. Additional city tax applied due to my work location being moved within city limits. It all adds up.

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@Jauwnio

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@youkaymelis I thought everyone knew that was a scam now

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@Jauwnio

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@Prowler1000 I should have specified this is a very USA-centric opinion. The case may be different elsewhere

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@SwitchSurcote Wow i didn't even know you could disable it i'm gonna do that

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@Jauwnio

8 months

Goodbye uncomfortable and obnoxiously large gamer chair, you’ve been replaced by a THRONE

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@Jauwnio

8 months

@YugoEnjoyer I’ve worked at places before where we had a free gym, lunches were made by professional chefs in-house (and were amazing) and most employees had semi-private offices shared between 1-6 people. Then, it felt like it made sense to go in. Even though I didn’t need to to do my job

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@Jauwnio

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@YugoEnjoyer It’s a tough line to walk as the employer; you kind of have to go all or nothing. Either everyone has to come in and we offer a truly amazing in office experience, or nobody should come in. Don’t half ass it and use “innovation” as an excuse

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@Jauwnio

8 months

@DerekDonough @Ash_l337_ Yes because I am working at 10pm when I posted this 🤣

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@Jauwnio

8 months

@andrealharrison Shame that the city has nothing to offer to bring people in organically. Crime rates are up, prices are insane, parking is impossible and public transit is nonexistent. I'd rather just support my local mom and pop businesses than one in a city an hour and a half away

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@Jauwnio

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@queenofswords28 The weirdest part in my company's case what that they sold their permanent office during the pandemic, and then only recently rented back the same exact office for this RTO policy. So they ADDED a cost that wasn't there for 3 years.

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@Jauwnio

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@imJustTheIdea @segnoforkibum And realistically, if you work with offshore teams, you really need to be online from 6am-6pm, just to accommodate for their schedules too. And if you're working in tech or finance, you'll know that the push to offshore as much as possible is HUGE right now

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@ObsidianDev Whatever. If they fire me the product I lead will die. There is no documentation and our team has already been reduced from 15 to 5. If I get fired, I’ll have an offer at one of our competitors before the week ends. But not everyone has such a luxury

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@Jauwnio

7 months

Sponsor requests never cease to entertain

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@Jauwnio

9 months

@Fizzhog1 I don’t believe that honey sells consumer data, and they said that they do not in the past. They make money because there is value in being a digital coupon book, it helps to sell products when Honey offers you a coupon code

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@Jauwnio

9 months

@maxjk0 I thought Proton VPN would be good but they have a fucked up billing system that made it difficult to figure out how to cancel. They did end up changing this at one point but I had cancelled my subscription far before that happened

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@Jauwnio

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As some additional content once you’ve finished watching @FoldableHuman ’s new documentary, I released my own piece on one specific character from this saga a few months ago. Check it out if you can handle more cringe

The Unhinged Meltdown of Reddit's Worst Meme Stock Influencer

This is the true story of Kais Maalej, a man who really, really, REALLY loves #bedbathandbeyond. So much so, that he will go to any length to disprove the fa...

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This *is* financial advice

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3 months

Vacation's over. Crypto games don't review themselves.

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@Jauwnio

8 months

@AletteTX Relocation packages are nice but they come with a lot of strings. They’re still taxable and if you quit within X years, you owe it all back. I ended up having to pay my last job’s relocation bonus back since I quit within 3 years of starting

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Not only is this NFT game terrible, they've been buying reviews in an attempt to recover from their previous "overwhelmingly negative" status. They can't even get the bots to play the game for more than a half hour before ragequitting!

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@Jauwnio

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Thanks Riot for making it an easy choice to finally kick this game after 14 long years

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@Jauwnio

9 months

@joseph011296 Based seed box enjoyer

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@Jauwnio

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@FoldableHuman It’s the same pattern you see with crypto games. They know WHAT a good game looks like, but they don’t understand WHY the game is good/popular. Same here. It looks like good art (not really but sorta) but it’s completely functionally useless and an utter waste of energy to make

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@Jauwnio

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i have been uncancelled.

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@Jauwnio

4 months

And to throw my opinion into the ring I think the best browser is Firefox with a custom user.js to remove the default bloat.

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@Jauwnio

8 months

@JayLey87 I don't want to touch you

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@Jauwnio

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I have to come clean. The reason I have been taking so long to release new videos is because I am addicted to bowling. I have gone bowling an average of 3 days a week for the past 5 weeks. I’m not too good yet but it’s quickly taken priority in my life 😂

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@Jauwnio

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@nullpointar We already get zero raises and promotions anyway 😂. I’m only here because the work life balance is fantastic and it allows me tremendous flexibility in my day to day life. As soon as that changes, I’m out of here

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The best part about researching for NFT games is seeing the genius people investing in them

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How can they keep making crypto games at this point? every time I say I’m done reviewing them, 5 more pop up that are such clown shows it’s a sin to not make fun of them Suffering from success

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"Steam reviews are a great way for players to rate games, and a transparent way for dishonest games to be rated as such" Least obvious scam developer reviewing their own games on Steam:

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@Jauwnio

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@SShylinCQ This is why I drew the line immediately. Give an inch, they’ll take a mile.

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@TForgery_ Lmao wtf happened

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This is my new favorite genre of memes

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@Jauwnio

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Wow so amazing it only took 34 seconds and the guy taking over and just doing it for him for it to work

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JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Donald Trump uses #Bitcoin to pay at a bar in New York.

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Got an invite to play a new crypto game (one that looks particularly bad and would make for a good video) but they want me to sign an NDA before even launching the game. Really starting to run out of stuff to talk about with these things, might be retiring earlier than planned

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@Jauwnio

8 months

New source of unlimited comedy: Reading Glassdoor reviews for Crypto companies

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3 months

Oh no way

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@Jauwnio

3 months

So has YouTube's attempts to stop adblockers started interfering with normal site use? I've noticed in the past week website performance has been ABYSMAL, even though I have YT premium. YT Music is just as bad as well when using FireFox, it loads and stutters constantly.

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@Jauwnio

9 months

RIP bozo

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@Jauwnio

9 months

I will never use AI for any of my art, and I recommend you don't either, if you can avoid it. 1. It's ethically dubious (training data is plagiarized) 2. It doesn't look that great 3. It encourages laziness and doesn't help you improve as an artist Emphasis on #3 , IMO.

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I guess the whole ad campaign was made with A/I generated imagery, then retouched to give it a semblance of man-made craft.

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5 months

Paying for an ad for patch notes is a new one for sure

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Jauwn always wins from the official Splinterlands Discord, 2022 vs 2024

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@Jauwnio

8 months

Still feels pretty unreal. This time last year I was celebrating 405 subscribers, and was paranoid that a lame crypto game would sue me for calling them out on their BS. One year later & half the games I've reviewed have shut down, the other half are dead, and I'm still right.🤣

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