Between this and the stellar WSJ story about Polymarket's fake bettors, it really feels like we have completely given up on requiring influencers to disclose paid partnerships. It only hurts consumers.
For @aftermath.site, I reviewed the Steam Machine. It costs $1049 base. It is beautifully designed. It might be one of the most important computers ever made, launched at the worst time imaginable.
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Steam Machine is here, and you can sign up now:
Steam Machine 512GB
Steam Machine 2TB
Plus bundled versions with Steam Controller.
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reservation sign up link is here to be notified when stock is available
We gotta print out this guy's face and plaster it all over Chicago until he can't leave the house anymore
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stop asking me if I will bring this back
it's here now.
I replaced the yellow with offwhite though
last week i wrote up a sort of explainer breaking down 1) why video game consoles are so expensive (it's not just RAM/storage), 2) the likelihood of price reductions (0% through 2027), and 3) second order effects (console shortages/zero stock/grey market gouging). www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...
those are big price tags but they’ll still sell out at that sticker for the next year+
obviously not ideal, but wait until you see where console prices go in the next few months
the big thing imo is how well SteamOS is adopted, not the machine itself
Valve has released a tiny, silent, entry level PC that does important work bringing PCs gaming to the living room and desktop Linux to the masses. The timing could not be worse.
A Wicker Park man accused of killing and torturing a series of kittens, then replacing each one with a look-alike purchased through Craigslist, avoided prison Monday by accepting a resurrected plea de...
Video game consoles are more expensive than ever, right as they should be getting cheaper. AI and tariffs are partly to blame.
www.nytimes.com
caylen
This weekend DoorDash tweeted about the World Cup but repeatedly tagged T-Pain, as if they were mixing him up with NZ soccer player Tim Payne. T-Pain got in on it too, acting confused.
Turns out it was all a "partnership." No ad disclosure on any of the posts.
www.theverge.com/news/954145/...
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Chi-Chi's Mexican Restaurant
y2k
Rory Blank
Arthur Gies (he/him)
Steam Machine 512GB is $1,049.00 buff.ly/L2QgLVy
2TB with Controller $1,428 buff.ly/TW3rHgW
Mia Sato
Most of the shirt designs I have done are and will remain single, limited run. That's what's what I like to do.
But some designs I've done have been so popular that people never stop bugging me about them, and they've been bootlegged 100s of times. So
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