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They didn't oversize the recommended video thumbnails in the old UI. Either they couldn't figure out what to do with the whitespace resulting from stacking recommended videos horizontally so they just made em bigger. Or they just want persistent ads in your peripheral vision (the first recommended video will always be an ad for users not blocking them)

Look for a dvdrip. At the time the episodes were originally aired they would pre on p2p sites as like 35mb .avi's in 240p, you don't want that

If you pirated the album, presumably it is free of any DRM. In this case the most that itunes could infer is that you didn't buy it from the itunes store, which isn't the same thing as inferring that you pirated it. So it's safe to assume whatever you're experiencing isn't an antipiracy measure, but either a bug or some issue with the album rip you downloaded. Without knowing the source I'd lean toward the latter, because lossy transcodes, bad rips and bad tags are commonplace in many places where pirated music is available.

I couldn't find it in my comment history, but I saw a thread months ago where someone was lamenting migrating from reddit where they used to just google "episode ### discussion" for the show they're watching and would find a corresponding reddit thread, but the same thing wasn't working for them with Lemmy. Someone else pointed out that it might be because Google personalises some of the search results now, so I tried their example query and the top link was to the post I was commenting on. It had already indexed to the most relevant result about an hour after the original post

For sure, she is still a media critic in public (following intially going into hiding), and has talked about it numerous times. Her historic stance hasn't really changed though, I'd imagine at a certain point you'd just want to move on to something else, in her case to pivot toward speaking on female empowerment etc indirectly related topics. Pretty sure she's not done any gaming-specific media work for a number of years now.

I was wrong to make the proposed exercise such a zero-sum game though, I just mean to highlight how ridiculous the opposing position (that any article quoting Hasan for any reason is auto trash) is, in this particular case.

Sorry for assuming, I'd encourage you to check Anita's own opinion about speaking on gamergate though. She doesn't want to.

He's grifting them into not listening when he says "I'm a socialist propagandist", I guess

This place has a lot of lib/leftist infighting, it's generally the most left social network in my experience though

Hasan was the biggest driving force behind anti-gamergate sentiment originally and that deserves to not be disrespected in the comments because of some unrelated gripe you have with him that is founded on a logical farce, that's it

I think in your rush to namedrop someone else involved you maybe neglected to consider whether that's actually the case. Anita went into hiding and gamers don't know who she is anymore

Hasan was quoted by this article because he was notably outspoken about the original gamergate, had the correct take on it, and the current trend is literally just an attempt at relitigating those same issues.

Here's an exercise for you: can you name a single person on the planet that would more appropriate to quote on this issue than Hasan, and why?

Even if I accept and agree with the position in your comment, there isn't.

Because socialism is when you're poor