They changed their strategic direction for the show.

Go back and re-watch the first season, then try to watch the next two.

The first season is trying to compete with what HBO used to be known for: high-budget spectacles. It’s like a blockbuster movie stretched out into a series. The lighting, the costumes the editing, the special effects, the casting, the writing, the sound design. It’s comparable to Game of Thrones, Stranger Things, Band of Brothers, Wanda Vision, The Last of Us, Breaking Bad, the Walking Dead, the Mandalorian, American Horror Story, Westworld, etc. Of course, those shows aren’t all perfect but they have high production values (or at least started that way) and were meant to be premium technical showcases. Back before the days of streaming, this was the quality of show where you’d have to pay your cable company extra to get that channel.

Immediately with season 2 of the Witcher, everything feels worse. The most obvious to me is how Yennifer went from her ridiculous outfits to dresses that look like they’re on sale at Kohl’s today. The lighting, the makeup, everything. It’s the quality of basic daytime cable TV, the kind that is still broadcast over the air for free.

I still haven’t seen: have GN given any reasoning for why they didn’t reach out to LMG before releasing their video? If I remember even with other companies they’ve called out in the past they usually try to at least get a comment.

I’m not an LTT defender: their content has been cringe click-bait ever since they built a studio. But it seems odd both. Also it seems like a weird time to try to drive for change… Linus just acknowledged that he’s not great at running a large company and they are transitioning to a new CEO. It kind of feels like all this is criticizing a management structure that is already halfway gone anyways.

Misinformation that has since been debunked.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/24/23805783/ubisoft-delete-game-accounts

I don’t really care about a corporation that makes the epitome of mediocre games, but let’s criticize them for real things rather than fake things.

It seems like you are assuming that the only device that I want to use headphones with is my phone.

I’m a musician. I’ve got tons of audio equipment I’ve accumulated over decades, most of which use a typical analog headphone jack. So if I fully switched to USB-C or Bluetooth headphones, I would need to get a powered adapter of some kind that would then digitize what likely would have been a purely analog signal up until that point, just so it can be re-converted back to analog.

Or I could have sperate headphones just for my phone. Which seems silly.

So I took the 3rd option: got a phone with a headphone jack. The Xperia still has a micro SD card too.

Also I have dabbled in soldering circuits and doing basic repairs. I can easily replace most analog jacks and repair most cables. USB C… It’s possible, and I will try to learn to work with it eventually, but it’s always going to be more annoying to work with because it has many more, smaller pins.