He is, he is also a sloptuber. He runs a by the numbers commentary channel that mostly discusses whatever else everyone is discussing that day. Or does a stealth Linux installation tutorial when there is absolutely nothing to talk about.
His videos in regard to free software and online privacy have some merit, but for the most part there is no point to his channel at all. You’ve seen all these videos already.
I like them too but it’s just not worth it. In Western animation it takes forever for a show to air, there is very few to choose from and they are subject to corporate crap every step of the way. And most Japanese animation I’ve seen is cheap and / or tropey junk.
Making a book is cheap enough that the author has way more free rein to do what they want, even if they are dealing with a commerical genre. And there are so many books to choose from and more of them keep coming out so you’ll never run out of material, the worst that could happen is you get into an ongoing series and it doesn’t finish. To me that means the tradeoffs border on irrelevant.
Oh I watched the first three seasons of Infinity Train already, the whole shitshow that followed made me give up on animation entirely. And seeing the state of animation these days confirms that I’ve made the right call in my opinion.
Just read (comic)books people, books are just better.
No, he is fine as far as I’m aware. But he didn’t get to create anything after Gravity Falls, he was working on something with Netflix but nothing came of it. I’m not aware of anyone besides Dana Terrace who made a successful cartoon in recent memory and managed to move on to a new project. Western animation is cooked.
Lol, didn’t even notice that.
On a side note, imagine making Gravity Falls and never getting to work on another show again. We don’t push pro-comicbook propaganda to animation workers hard enough.
Liberalism is such a clownshow that even if Soviets did install listening devices to the homes of their citizens they would still end up looking better, because we still have those on capitalist states (internet of things), except they cost a boatload of money and sometimes companies decide they don’t want to operate the service anymore but still collect your data!
Numbers are most likely way lower among the youth, my brother went to Germany for work and apparently they consider owning a home completely impractical.
It was also a stupid thing to lie about, the guy complains about video games and Windows for a living, who cares if he is an engineer? I don’t know what he was thinking.
In regards to his technical advice, I remember it being fairly sound but it’s also stuff you can get from privacy communities on Reddit. You don’t need to be a software engineer or anything fancy to get this stuff, having a moderate understanding of technology is enough.
I learned about digital privacy from a DuckDuckGo ad and went further down the rabbithole by joining the privacytools subreddit (I think they are called PrivacyGuides now). It’s not hard, infact it’s very easy since people working on them are idealist so they made everything as easy to understand as possible.