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Sure I can offer some advice. I'd definitely get your front page looking good. Most people find you through your videos, but the next thing they'll look at is your YouTube page. Working on that actually involves a bit of pre-planning. Looks like you have a logo, so the next thing I'd think about is a color scheme of some sort. Pick two to three colors and a font you'll use. These colors and font will be part of the branding and design look of your channel, and you'll want to use them in each video you produce as your sort of "signature". You can come up with other things as well get across branding (phrases or gimmicks), but those colors and the font are fundamental. So using that, I'd come up with a clean but attractive looking banner. Here's the resolution template you'll want to use to make it. Then in the YouTube Studio under Customization, you'll want to upload the banner and get your video watermark going. Fill out your "Basic info", link to whatever social media you have, and this is also where you'll want to link to that blog you were talking about. Looks like your channel is a Let's Play style channel. So with that you gotta upload frequently, and you'll also want to do lots of series as well. Make liberal use of Playlists when you do video series. You may even want to come up with creative ideas for these series. "Minecraft Played Entirely With Golden Tools" or some whacky shit like that. If people see a 32 video series on a concept, they're more likely (in my experience) to marathon and get hooked to what you do. I wouldn't worry about livestreaming until you build up a pretty decent size audience. You got a good attitude about it though. The people hoping to strike it big are the people that burn out. If you're doing it to enjoy it, you can have some fun with it. Work hard because you're making something you want to be proud of. Don't expect to be rewarded for your hard work. You gotta be almost entirely self-motivated. It's SO easy to get fixated on views, especially if a video randomly gets picked up by the almighty algorithm. That's addicting. You'll want to figure out how to trigger that... except you can't because it's almost entirely random. Reason it's random is because people are fickle. One week your video about videogame chickens is a huge success. Next week you make a part 2 on almost entirely the same premise and it gets a fraction of the views. YouTube's algorithm chases people's interests, and people's interests are always in flux. So don't try to please it. Just try to please yourself. Content creation is mostly a masturbatory exercise!

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OMG so that's what that was about!

POLYBIUS! Great episode. It will be interesting to see where the Loki character goes after this. A Loki that isn't a mischievous scamp? A more reliable, hero Loki? It could backfire but (perhaps due to Hiddleston's indelible charm) it's still hard not to find him likeable. Hopefully he doesn't just become a boring, less capable magic-wielder relative to Dr. Strange and Wanda.

Really? I think it's WAY more interesting that she changed her body shape to do the role. Anyone can just put on a costume.

"The cause of death has not yet been released." I'm not a coroner but let me give it a stab. HE WAS FUCKING OLD.

That I don't know, but it would be kinda weird to ignore her character I'd think, since the show continues directly off the 80s show and the two definitely had episodes together.

Kevin Smith teased that Teela has always been the lone person in He-Man's circle to be left out on his secret identity, and that the show explores the consequences of that, should she happen to find out. I'm guessing there's a falling out, and a time jump where Teela is on her own, changes her look, potentially gets herself a female bedfellow, etc.

Oh jesus it gets worse. Now they're forming clubs and organizing!

Seeing online the far-right manbabies are in an uproar because they believe Teela is going to upstage He-Man. Also that they think her new haircut is disgusting, Kevin Smith is "woke" because it appears Teela will have a girlfriend, and that Teela shouldn't have a better physique than Prince Adam (pre-transformation). More fish squirming as the ocean leaves them behind.

Uh yeah I think I need to watch this.

Man. For a Liefeld drawing, it's conservative. Definitely not the worse he's ever done. But, and I am not a professional artist, it still bothers me how he gets basic things wrong all over the place. Like why are these guys neck muscles attached solely to their left collar bone? Hell I'm pretty sure their whole spines are just completely off-center. Or why is it this lady's right shoulder is raised, and yet her right boob is severely drooped compared to her left? Which direction is her chest leaning? Rob can't decide. It's like even if you can't immediately tell what's wrong, something always looks off. Sometimes it takes a minute to figure out why. Are the heads too big? The chests too wide? It's hard to pin down, but subconsciously you know it's something.

I don't know, to me it makes perfect sense that he never hit it off with anyone else before until he met.... Well, himself. And he IS narcissistic, that much is very clear.

HOO BOY p.s. there's a post-credit scene

Mmm I love the old SGI look so damn much.

Oh dude I was blown away he agreed to do it! Hahaha

Personally I haven't played around with alternate taskbar placement since the XP days.

There's some confusion surrounding TPM 2.0 that I think needs to be cleared up. While some might need a header device, most modern systems can support TPM 2.0 through a firmware feature. Here's an article that explains more: Most Modern PCs Will Have No Issues Running Windows 11 - AMD & Intel CPUs With A Minimum of TPM 1.2 Required, TPM 2.0 Recommended WCCFTECH.COM Microsoft has announced a big change to the TPM requirements for Windows 11 OS running on AMD & Intel CPU based PC platforms. This tweet embedded in the Wccftech article from AMD's Robert Hallock explains this for Ryzen platforms. The BIOS firmware contains AGESA code (this is a section of code in the BIOS for running the CPU) which contains TPM 2.0 support. It may be disabled in the BIOS settings which you'd have to go in there and change. The article also notes that the final release will supposedly support TPM 1.2 as well for older platforms, opening up the OS to many more people, including first-gen Ryzen. This may actually be referring to a feature seen on backwards-compatible Xbox games where HDR has been added in, which may be added to Windows games (probably those running through Xbox Game Pass) though I'm not sure.

Windows 11 and 1 TB SSD Will Be Required for DirectStorage on PC WCCFTECH.COM Microsoft revealed today that the new DirectStorage API, which will aim to greatly improve load times, will only be available in Windows 11. Yep. This is a pretty stringent requirement. 1TB NVMe drives aren't exactly common. To get anything larger usually costs $300-400. I'd wager most people here, if they have an NVMe drive, probably have less than 1TB capacity.

I didn't want to make a new thread about this last night, but now that we have one, this seems like a good place to stick this: Gaetz the pedo got dunked on by an absolutely BRILLIANT response from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, four-star General Mark Milley.

It's summer as well. With heavy rains daily, the water table is high, and aside from weakening foundations, that rain may actually kill whoever may still be alive in the rubble as the days continue.

That's more than I know.