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I know we've probably had this debate a million times, but I don't know why we're so adverse to paying for medical services we'd rather pay for insurance (either through an employer plan or via taxes) than just pay what the service is worth, when we need it

I'm not debating it, I'm stating why insurance companies don't cover it.

My opinion on whether or not they should is irrelevant.

Megan's not unique was more my point. "I don't want to see a dentist because it'll be expensive" coupled with "I'll see a doctor anytime I need to"

just because they don't think about that they're paying for the doctor in a roundabout and inefficient way

Sorry, it was my brain going full pragmatism. It was mostly in response to the "it sucks to drain my bank account just to fix my teeth" comment.

If you're paying higher insurance rates or higher taxes to cover it, your account would still be just as drained, just you would have less disposable income. Basically, don't waste your money and you won't be "draining" your bank account.

Ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure and all that jazz.

Rob question: So Rob privated all his videos for "mental health" reasons, but that's only on his BruceWillakers channel; he's done nothing with PkmnRob, TwoPlayer, Rurikar. Shouldn't he have made all of those private as well?

Or if the argument is that he doesn't even look at those channels so he wouldn't see any downvotes/comments he wouldn't like, then why doesn't he just... not look at his BruceWillakers channel the same way? Upload a video and just don't look at it again.

we've argued over and over again that if he really wanted to get rid of the things that make him sad, the best thing he could do is just delete all his shit and start over on a new channel, with a new community

Isn't that what the TILII TV channel was supposed to be for?

the truth is, he doesn't do these things because he doesn't actually believe any of the shit he says, he's just saying them to get pity points because that's what's popular nowadays

people will just give you money if you pretend to be depressed

yep, Fire's spot on

I think there may have also been that idea in his head, to do the YouTube paywall idea he's talked about

but he seems to have just given up on YT altogether at this point

your website really put a spanner in his works

that's so funny to think about

I just find it so stupid that he bitches about people being "entitled" to the videos, that he put them up, and he should be able to take them down and they should completely disappear from everywhere. Like, do you not know what VCRs were made for? Have you never heard of tape trading?

again, he doesn't believe that

he just hopes the people around him are docile enough to go along with it

And if he released any of the shit he did BEFORE it was easy to share shit like this on the internet, and had to release it physically, it's not like he'd be able to recall the physical products when he started alienating his audiences and then making dogshit and got butthurt because he doesn't get massive support for the dogshit he's making for like 100 people instead of thousands.

HiveQueen has fallen so far

her VTuber now "sleeps" on stream while YouTube videos play

I don't think I've ever seen this level of ethoting

also, there are 267 viewers but no messages in chat at all?

god, that really pisses me off

that's up there in scummy ways to be successful along with reggie's scalping and crypto mining

no, I'm actually wondering now how much of this is a scam?

this looks 100% botted

her socialblade looked kind of weird, but I figured she just popped off at some point

or is this just the VTuber meta, to have your fans idle the stream open 24/7?

I read this as etho-ting and was wondering what this has to do with Ethoslab

lol

FANS EXIST!

only took 10 minutes

lmao

ok, so she's just botting

got it

Are the gifts gift subs?

How the fuck does she have that many subs?

all gift subs

"if i gift enough subs, maybe one day she'll let me sleep with her!!!"

She is doing better than most streamers larger than her

yeah, by a lot

her numbers just seemed super weird

had plateaued then out of nowhere exploded

which were probably the bots

Xbrox is right moving into the vtuber game.

I hate Twitch

I was about to say this.

I don't know how Hivequeen got sponsored by several companies, including Alienware; she was getting a couple hundred views at most on Youtube videos, had virtually zero following, and this was before the Vtuber thing.

Call me a gatekeeper, because I miss when Twitch was, yknow, people streaming video games or shit about video games.

ehh

video games is one thing

the real problem is the death of original content

let's watching youtube videos on twitch is just sad

and i hate that it's working

lmfao, I got banned from the chat because I asked what the hell an "uncapped subathon" was

Someone said it was because otherwise this person would have to stream nonstop to keep it going

so I'm like, "So they go to sleep and leave the stream running for people to come in and sub while the channel is playing random videos you could just watch on Youtube, with no person even being active?"

Because this dumb fuck is trying to compare it to telethons that are for raising money for charities, but this is to support someone who's doing absolutely nothing on a stream.

tfw people act more obsessed with money than ever, are more critical than people with a lot of money than ever, but they'll toss their money every which way and what way and act like needing a reason to toss away money that you don't have a lot of for absolutely nothing is heresy.

I wasn't even being aggro in the slightest, I was asking a question because I legit didin't understand the concept.

what a weird exchange

the thing that gets me

is that

she's fucking sleeping

usually i expect the appeal of this kind of thing being the reactions from the streamer watching the videos

you don't even get that here

Its not even like the irl sleep streams people have done

where they have tts