TeaHands @ TeaHands @lemmy.world

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I'm a small-time YouTuber who relies on the ad money to an extent.

My take is that if you like what I do, can't afford a donation, but don't want to sit through ads, first of all I'm still happy you're there and enjoying the content. Even the view itself is valuable in a small way, algorithm-wise.

Secondly though there are plenty of other things you can do that help bring in more viewers who might be able and willing to support monetarily. Sharing videos, commenting and liking on new videos to give them that initial bump, recommending the channel when it's relevant to a conversation. In my case, taking a free pattern I've made available for you to follow along with a tutorial video, and making sure to give credit when you make the project. Etc etc.

It genuinely all helps and although my YT friends are all small-time like me, there's not a single one of us that doesn't appreciate our regular viewers regardless of whether they actually earn us money.

!imadethis@lemm.ee

!hydrohomies@lemmy.ml

I was 100% braced for a deluge of downvotes so thank you for standing with me on this one 😅

Enjoyable episode, down a bit from the last few but at least we're staying well ahead of ep1 in terms of quality. I am getting a bit of Kirk fatigue though, they have him technically meeting people for the first time in this episode but it feels like there's no impact because we've seen them together in alternate timelines already.

Also, did I miss something or did they gather no proof whatsoever of the nebula aliens? I'm fine with Pike taking Uhura's word for it in the climax but it just felt like there was a bit missing in between "taking the hallucinating person's word for it" and "we now all accept that this was definitely happening and are writing scientific papers on it".

Anyway now for my truly controversial opinion: I don't like Pelia. The character is a great idea, but the execution is terrible.

I was excited at first, Carol Kane is great, but she just doesn't work here imo. She's hard to understand, every line seems to be delivered exactly the same, I don't know she just seems like a joke character but without many jokes. It's a little uncomfortable to watch.

Fully accept I am the only one who thinks this, though!

One of my favourite things about the Pike-light episodes we've been getting is Mount's ability to still do all the acting he needs to do just with these little background reactions. Last week was a great example, this scene was another one. Such a charismatic actor.

...does it?!

Congrats on your truly unpopular opinion, OP. And thank you everyone in the comments for turning this into a list of basically all the simple things us devs can do to improve accessibility. Crossposted it to !gamedev@lemmy.blahaj.zone for reference haha.

I'm a professional dev, but I'm also mostly shite with technology. So whether that counts is up to you I guess.

Were you by any chance high while responding to this?

Swear nobody ever understands when I do this and they look at me with even more confusion than people usually look at me. Which is a fair bit of confusion, to be clear.

Yeah I was more the high effort goth type back in the day but am way too lazy for that now. I got to where you are now, looking at my uninspiring wardrobe full of things you could wear to work, the occasional unobjectionable dress for a night out, and plain jeans and vest tops and I just thought enough is enough.

Literally, as someone who knows nothing about fashion, sat down with my laptop and spent a night searching for the words for different styles so I could articulate my thoughts. Picked things I liked and didn't. Let myself judge based on what felt "me" rather than what felt my age (am nearly 40). Apparently I gravitate to something called "dark bohemian", which does check out but I'd never heard the actual term before!

I've since defined my style goal as "casual witch on a cruise ship" and am rolling with that as my guide for everything that gets made or bought.

I kinda like it actually. Disclaimer to go with that though is that I knit and crochet and sew my own clothes so if there's something I can't find in a shop I can make it, and I can also do basic alterations.

High-waisted is life for us big-hipped ladies. Wide-necked boxy-cut layering pieces speak to my casual goth heart. Baggy jeans take me back to my teens and are a welcome relief from the skinny jean tyranny that lasted up until a few years ago. Of all the cool things I've learned how to sew, my absolute favourite is a "potato sack" dress that I cinch in at the waist with a matching belt and go about my day in being comfy af.

Now if we could just get the pocket situation sorted out.

On the website if you hover ago the "X minutes ago" text on a post or comment you do actually get both timestamps, so they're being saved somewhere and the backend should know it was an edit rather than a new post. But who knows how these things work. Certainly not me 🤷‍♀️

Lemmings when someone mentions cake day: Stop trying to make it like Reddit!

Lemmings at all other times: Why is this not more like Reddit?

I know there's a Lemmy bug where people editing their comment (not sure if it's every time, but often enough) makes the counter go up. So a thread with just one comment that was edited after posting will show as having two comments, if you see what I mean.

It's a bit annoying, not sure how high it is on the bugfix priority list though.

Hmm yeah a little bit!

As a lifelong Pratchett fan I do think he teaches a lot of good lessons! They're just slipped in among the endless punes so's you don't always notice.

GNU Sir Pterry.

Screw you, now I'm thinking about the sad horse 😭

Younger brother. Haven't spoken in about 17ish years. About sums it up.