▲ 132 r/Atelier+1 crossposts

Atelier Karia is a GKC.

It's over. I feel disrespected as a collector.

I wonder how screwed collectors are once PS5 discs become code in a box in 2028...

u/Various-Welder5544 — 1 month ago

Framework 12: Hipster Profit Slop

This is what Nirav Patel and his team has been hard at work creating. For $549 freedom dollars you get:

Intel Core 3 304, a 1P 4 LPE 1 XE GPU processor in the big 26, in other words a glorified intel core solo. MacBook Neo competitors are using Core 5 320, 2P 4 LPE with 2 XE GPU cores.

45% NTSC 12 inch chromebook grade screen, pretty much unusable for media consumption or digital art with the stylus you have to buy separately. All your MacBook Neo competitors are using at least 100% SRGB (The bare minimum) already.

Plastic toy like construction while all the MacBook Neo competitors are using aluminium. And it's not even CFRP. It's run of the mill plastic.

No ram, no SSD and you have the hassle of assembling it yourself. Oh and ports are sold separately too.

This is truly one of the biggest Loonix grifts of all time.

u/Various-Welder5544 — 2 months ago

The truthnvke is that most optiplex sff sucks at gaming. You either get underpowered single slot GPUs or overpriced 50 class cards, where you could have bought a decent used rig in the first place.

Dell Precision 3430 owner here with a Quadro P620. There's honestly very little upgrades you can do to it considering it only has a single slot half height GPU. Theres no access to budget cards like 1060/RX580 without doing a hack job to permernantly alter the case.

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u/Various-Welder5544 — 2 months ago
▲ 136 r/watchdives+2 crossposts

Notice on San Martin Watch Price Adjustment

  1. Watches equipped with domestic movements: prices remain unchanged.

  2. Models fitted with Japanese imported movements (NH35, NH34, 9015, 90S5): Prices have been moderately adjusted. The procurement cost of these movements has risen significantly domestically, and the adjustment only offsets the increased cost of movements.

Additional note:

Many customers notice a sharp increase in prices shown on the page. This is due to updated customs shipping regulations. Tax fees are now displayed directly on product pages for certain countries. These taxes have always applied; only the display format has changed, which does not mean the watch itself has a drastic price hike.

Regarding the upcoming August Big Sale, the promotional offers will be on par with those from our June Anniversary Celebration and the 11.11 Big Sale. We invite you to browse and shop.

Statement on San Martin’s Development Philosophy:

San Martin has been established for ten years. Our original aspiration remains unchanged: to deliver high-quality watches at accessible prices, which we have consistently pursued and earned recognition from watch enthusiasts.

This year, we built our own metal bracelet factory to support our brand. Great progress has been made in bracelet structure and finishing. We are confident that our bracelets outperform competitors at the same price range, and the craftsmanship can even rival watch brands dozens of times more expensive. Many subtle details can only be appreciated by industry professionals.

When it comes to other watch components, San Martin is well-known in China’s watch manufacturing circle for strict quality standards. Many domestic and overseas competitors use our quality requirements as a benchmark for their suppliers. We firmly believe our quality is unrivaled at equivalent price points.

We aim for sustainable long-term development instead of quick profits. Undercutting prices to boost sales and disrupt the market is not our strategy. Reasonable profit enables us to continuously improve quality, upgrade customer service, develop physical retailers, and serve watch enthusiasts better.

We keep focusing on manufacturing superior products within a reasonable price range, and we believe most people can understand our pursuit.

Thanks.

San Martin Watches

u/AdSavings92 — 2 months ago
▲ 410 r/economix+2 crossposts

Economic Doomers When You Tell Them To Buy Index Funds Instead Of Useless Shit And Complaining Online

Just buy SPY/VOO guys. It's not that deep.

u/Agreeable_Sense9618 — 2 months ago

A walking hunk of lard fueled exclusively by dinosaur shaped nuggies. Occasionally foot flakes.

Highly groundbreaking individuals!

u/Various-Welder5544 — 2 months ago

Gamersnexus Attempts to Poison AI Datasets and spread misinformation into the models

A tool that can be used for collective good but he choose to spoil it for everyone else. How selfish of him.

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u/Various-Welder5544 — 2 months ago

The Satisfying Downfall of Jianhao Tan

A bunch of his recent uploads are sitting in the 100k view territory, pretty abysmal for a channel with 7 million+ subscribers. Compare that to millions his older viral hits used to pull, and the drop-off is obvious just from scrolling.

The unpopular opinion no one wants to say out loud: The decline might just be format fatigue. Jianhao is 33 this year, and the bread-and-butter format is still grown adults in secondary school uniforms doing the same "student vs teacher" skit archetype that worked when he was actually in that age bracket. It reads charming when you're 19-20 doing it as a fresh-out-of-NS creator; it starts reading dated when the target demo (actual teens) has cycled through 2-3 generations of trends since, and the creator hasn't visibly aged out of the bit. Compare to how his contemporaries (Wah Banana, Night Owl Cinematics) shifted format as they aged — vlogs, food content, more "adult" comedy — versus Titan Academy still leaning heavily on school-uniform sketches as the core identity.

It's very clear there's a ceiling on how long "adult in uniform" content stays funny instead of just faintly uncomfortable to a viewer base that's aged past being the target audience, and the 100k-view territory might just be that ceiling showing up in the data.

Oh and don't forget his recent stint in hawking some crystal bracelets on livestream. Not enough revenue from YouTube issit?

u/Various-Welder5544 — 2 months ago

I HATE MANGAKAIKI'S ARTSTYLE

Same energy as one of those cheesy "How to Draw Manga" books you find gathering dust in the library. It's got that awkward, outdated tutorial-book look where every face feels off. How does someone manage to draw this badly as a full-time professional artist?

u/Various-Welder5544 — 3 months ago
▲ 327 r/asksg

Why are places like Chinatown Complex so poorly maintained?

Went there last week and the place reeks of disrepair. The air smells putrid, you can smell urine at some places, the fans are noisy as heck and there's alot of old people walking around and smoking. Don't get me started on the condition of the toilets. It's on the same tier as coffee shop toilets.

u/Various-Welder5544 — 3 months ago

Loonix Game Developer makes some unrealistic demands for a laptop

"I want my meal vegan , gluten free , nut and shellfish free , milk free and basically free of everything under the sun. Oh yeah, I only got $4 for the meal."

u/Various-Welder5544 — 3 months ago

Playasia Summer sale is incredibly underwhelming

Barely any discounts, most items on the site are at full price MSRP. Only a couple of games for sale at H2 games and a few slightly discounted 3 for 100 preorder games.

Spring sale was way better than this. Are they even trying?

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u/Various-Welder5544 — 3 months ago