Dylan Holmes

I really like Arnold Palmers.

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Don't look for reasons to deny people empathy.

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@Thirith_ch @mattzollerseitz That's exactly it - if it costs $100 to implement and makes them $0, they won't do it. The time when Netflix was a 'film enthusiast' company are long gone.

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@Thirith_ch @mattzollerseitz The fact that they haven't implemented it despite how trivial it would be, and repeated requets for it, proves that they genuinely believe doing so would lose them money.

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@Thirith_ch @mattzollerseitz Because there's no way to sell this to the executives. The entire point of the "forced next" is some percentage of people will watch the next thing and binge, you'd have to proove to them that somehow removing that option would increase viewership or retention.

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@Pentadact Wait - can you not get boosters in the UK? (just got my...fifth(?) one here in the US!)

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@Byrneinator Did you see the tree's shadow, at least?

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@jaytholen The trick is to start watching Angel alongside Buffy in airdate order and just...slowly transition away.

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@C_Cade_Mosley The thing I found absolutely flabbergasting was the argument that it wasn't judges' place to determine what cities should do in terms of dealing with homelessness, while simultaneously asserting that it was judges place to determine everything else.

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@Nuevebits @jordidepaco That is great to hear! Never thought it would have the lifespan it's had.

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@jordidepaco @Nuevebits I sure appreciate it :)

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@kezamacdonald It also seems like an own goal, because all the non-gamers I know who read the book thought that was an interesting hook!

(Also like four different people wrote me to let me know my book was in the acknowledgements, ha)

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@BillErak @jordidepaco You do you, but you pay regardless - in ads and having your attention misdirected to those who paid for it. There is no free lunch.

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@jordidepaco This is a good writeup: https://t.co/RfP9pee5nn

They have a free trial so you can see how it feels too! But it's less "oh my god this feels great" and more "I don't think about it, now my trial is over and suddenly search is awful"

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@RetroTechDreams A classic!

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@ben_304 (Sorry, wrote this before I saw Sam sent you the exact same link....)

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@ben_304 I think Amnesia is one of those absolutely fascinating concepts/bits-of-a-game that is ultimately not enjoyable to play at length. https://t.co/tp7IHOgjjg

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@ChineseRoom Does a single person who worked on this game still work there?

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@Rachel_Helps @byu_librarian This is entirely true for ebooks, for reasons that I don't fully understand (but is almost certainly downstream of libraries being local entities and there being no national consortium) libraries outsourced ebooks to for-profit companies rather than building their own system.

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@asponge p.p.s. Not sure if you have too much inside knowledge, but you are welcome to participate in the Advent Calendar Guessing Game this year :)

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@asponge (actually six days, because of WAWAPTW)