I’m on the family plan, and it’s certainly expensive compared to other streaming services. But I use YouTube both personally and professionally. I teach, and whenever I need to show a video, having a work account with premium is invaluable since I can’t install ad blockers on campus. My wife and kids all have their own accounts under the family plan as well. We all use YouTube music as well.

Google pisses me off and I’ve been getting out from under their heel for a while, but YouTube premium is something that I genuinely find value in paying for. At the very least, I want to financially support the creators that I watch and this is the best way to do so while avoiding advertisements.

From a cis male’s perspective, I think you pass well! Both on initial impression and even critically.

Anyone trying to share an invite code? My gratefulness would know no bounds.

He could do for Jon Lovitz what he did for John Travolta! But better!

Same for me!

There’s nothing quite like making an emotional, incendiary response to a good faith comment and then blocking the person while acting as if you are morally superior.

Perhaps in the future, should you ever unblock me and see this comment, you’ll consider an alternative perspective as an opportunity to change your mind and not as some sort of conflict.

As far as I can tell, this doesn’t have anything to do with Epic Games, the developers. Shell was paying twitch streamers directly to promote their initiative through playing Fortnite.

If you like Game Grumps, maybe check out Oney Plays.

I know a few people who work for Epic games, and generally they are treated incredibly well. Good pay, good benefits, still able to work from home… Their experience has been pretty much all positive.

However, Epic has been hemorrhaging money for a few years now. As successful as the Unreal Engine and Fortnite are, they’ve aquired half a dozen companies over the last few years, and offer an insane amount of free content between the Epic Games Store and the Unreal marketplace. They they acquire exclusives for their platform, they host tournaments with prize pools in the millions, and they have been trying to build a strong reputation as a service for gamers and developers that treats them well. It never seemed to balance out though, probably because people just were never really into buying games from them.

I truly don’t get the people that outright hate them though, even for their exclusivity grabs. I also might be mildly biased since I know how much worse devs are treated at other companies.